Cabbages and Kings

are people that lazy to need this

This isn’t specualtion either; the majority of products from commericals that we think are funny or silly are autally MEANT for hte disabled.But they are marketed towards the abled because the disabled aren’t considered a viable enough demographic on their own. the Snuggie for example? Created for wheelchair users.

This is actually really nifty.

oh my god of course the snuggie was for wheelchair users

The fact that anyone buys these products besides disabled people drastically lowers the price of them. These would normally cost hundreds if not thousands if dollars. Because if spent time and money creating it, the company wants to get more than that back. And they can’t do that if they sell and market these primarily to disabled people for $20-$40 a piece or whatever. They’d lose money on production. If they can sell hundreds of them to everyone, they can lower the price drastically and therefore disabled people don’t die while trying to scrape up the money to buy these things and be a bit more independent.

I never considered that last part and that’s actually genius

I’m not defending her or anything but honestly, what do you expect? She’s a mainstream American politician. She might be better than most but if any politician at this point ran on a platform of not deporting anyone then they’d instantly be seen as too radical and “idealistic” by the media and the general public. I mean it took us a very long time before most people got on board with the idea that having a health care system similar to basically every other first world country wasn’t too radical. 

The context for this was that a 95-year old Nazi war-crime suspect who happened to live in the district for which she is running for Congress was finally deported (he was actually ordered to be deported 2004 but no country would accept him until now, when Germany finally agreed), and the GOP attacked her for it, and then when she clarified that yes, she still wants to abolish ICE but some deportation will be necessary, like the deportation of Nazis suspected of being war criminals, the left attacked her for that, because that makes her a cop.

If you’re opposed to all deportation, you don’t know enough to have an informed opinion on the subject and you need to educate yourself before you attack other people who are better informed than you and have a nuanced stance on a complex issue, especially if your attack is based on a total obliviousness to the context. And if you’re opposed to the very idea of a police force, again, you’re either an anarchist or a person who doesn’t know what they’re talking about. We’re striving for a world where ‘cop’ isn’t an insult, not a state of nature.

I thought it was the gays that couldn’t read. 

Don’t I, a woman, have the choice to be against abortion? Or do I only have a choice if it aligns with yours?

You can choose against abortion for yourself! That’s totally fine. What you don’t have is a right to choose against it for anybody else.

If you’re against abortion, okay, don’t get one. But you cannot make that decision for anyone else.

I tell you what, since Ao3 introduced excluding tags, I haven’t had to even look at so much as a summary of any of those a/b/o fics, and already my skin is clearer, I’ve gotten better at crosswords, and my bank account has a better interest rate.

reblog to make racists get over 7,500 spam emails and have a well known company make fun of them

I just want to make sure everyone realises that the email from ‘Netflix Executive’ was not from a Netflix Executive. Like, someone just set up a fake email and made that the name. Everyone realises that a real company did not send that email, right? Because there’s having a bad B.S. detector, and then there’s thinking for more than half a second that that wasn’t a joke. 

the THING IS: classic scifi (star trek, doctor who) is about love and kindness and acceptance and exploration, and when it’s not entirely about that, it’s about overcoming evil institutions (b5, star wars). so like. why do bigoted, hateful, disgusting people always state that they’re a scifi fan, when all of the media they consume goes strictly against their toxic beliefs? seriously, why

That’s incredible! I’m so happy for you and your newly-found extra family!

Lin-Manuel Miranda promised when it was filmed that it might take a few years, but it would be out eventually, and pleaded with people not to watch badly and illegally filmed bootlegs and just to wait. I want him to know that I trusted him and believed him and now my faith is being validated! I will see Hamilton for the first time the way that Lin-Manuel Miranda intended for people who couldn’t afford to see it live!

#destroy the idea that you’re not being social if you don’t drink

YOU DO NOT OWE ANYONE AN EXPLANATION FOR WHY YOU DON’T PARTAKE OF ANY “SOCIAL” ACTIVITY

Lie. Lie to everyone. Tell people that you can’t drink because of a medication you take. They ask what medication it is, or what it’s for? Tell them it’s personal and you aren’t comfortable talking about it. I have told this lie to everyone except my close family. My Mum is the only person who has tried to pull the sh*t shown in the comics, and it took at least 5 minutes with me, my sister and my Dad trying to explain to her why what she was doing was wrong before she would shut up about it, and even then she clearly still didn’t get it. But my friends, who I have lied to? They are happy to have me come out clubbing with them, they will order me water, and they will be glad that there is a sober person with them. Lie.

This is why I love The Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot so much. I’ve seen so many people dismiss it out of hand because the covers are girly and they’ve heard the basic premise of ‘girl suddenly finds out she’s a princess!’ and assume that it’s trash. But Mia’s father is really the ruler of a country (albeit a fictional one, Genovia), with all of the responsibility that represents, and when she becomes publicly known as the princess, she becomes a representative of Genovia and has to face everything that entails. Mia and her friends use her fame as a microphone to raise awareness of real issues, and several times something Mia does has a real impact on Genovia and its people.  Of course, it’s mixed with all the usual teen anxieties, so Mia is usually roughly equally worried about Genovia being kicked out of the EU as she is that the guy she likes might have a girlfriend. But I would definitely recommend the series to anybody.

It’s because there are two types of Judaism: the Mesianic, which believes Jesus came again and Sephartic doesn’t. At least from what I remember.

Not according to all the congregations we’ve been to. My family has always been Messianic Jews. I’ve never been told different. We celebrate all the same holidays and do the same things.

you grew up in a predatory Christian movement and your lack of actual Jewish education – to the point of not knowing what “sephardic” means – is very transparent.

But if there are people who consider themselves to be Jewish who also consider Jesus to be a prophet... regardless of how a division of a religion starts, there are clearly a decent proportion of Jewish people who believe this, so to say that ‘this is something that some Jewish people believe’ is still true. People can decide their beliefs for themselves, and nobody has to be a historian specialising in theology to be a part of a religious group.

i want a tattoo that just says “google the name of HP Lovecraft’s cat”

I just followed the directions on OP’s hypothetical future tattoo, and my the impact on my life was both positive and negative, in ways that cancel each other out.

@kaylin881 wrote their incredible dissertation on this very subject and I think that they should Weigh In.

I don’t have it totally figured out, but I know that there is DEFINITELY an Africa joke in here somewhere.