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SEA IS FOR COOKIE!
please leave
what perfection this is
banner hung on the statue of liberty this afternoon by activists
Dumbledore: After all this time?
Snape: Always
Dumbledore: Yikes..
when you shake laminated paper and it does the thing
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the US is unreal like girls cant wear shorts to school, you can literally lose your job for being gay, and unarmed black children are brutally murdered on the regular but old white ppl r still like āwhat a beautiful country. i can freely carry a gun for no reason and some of our mountains look like presidents. god blessā
THIS IS LITERALLY IT. THIS IS WHAT ITS LIKE
Got back to the hotel more than 13 hours after we left at 6:30am this morning. We were tired, hungry, sick, dizzy with fatigue... and we'd do it all again in a heartbeat. I'm so glad and proud to have marched with these two beautiful ladies, along with the 500,000+ others in D.C. today. ā #WomensMarch #feminism #WEthepeople #bethechange
make your own foot scrub
feet are pretty hard to make
dont call me a scrub ever again
please stop making me read this
It doesnāt even make sense. You didnāt separate the āfootā and āscrubā with a comma which would have validated that comment.
@anti-bright-places congrats youre smarter than everybody else
I tend to. I watch Sherlock, you know⦠š
god I wish this was sarcasm
My fellow Americans, it has been the honor of my life to serve you. I wonāt stop; in fact, I will be right there with you, as a citizen, for all my days that remain. For now, whether youāre young or young at heart, I do have one final ask of you as your President - the same thing I asked when you took a chance on me eight years ago. I am asking you to believe. Not in my ability to bring about change - but in yours. I am asking you to hold fast to that faith written into our founding documents; that idea whispered by slaves and abolitionists; that spirit sung by immigrants and homesteaders and those who marched for justice; that creed reaffirmed by those who planted flags from foreign battlefields to the surface of the moon; a creed at the core of every American whose story is not yet written: Yes We Can. Yes We Did. Yes We Can. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA FOR EIGHT AMAZING YEARS [2008-2016]
āRemember that you were art long before he came to admire you, and youāll continue to be art even when heās gone.ā
a masterpiece is still a masterpiece when the lights are off and the room is empty
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Anthony Ramos as Julio on Younger
#congratulations on your face and your hair and your general angelic vibe sir
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remind anyone else of rowena ravenclaw?
When you try to talk about the importance of safe spaces with your mom and you get two sentences in before she goes off on a rant about how safe spaces are bullshit and you don't need a safe space unless you force yourself on people and mlk jr didn't have a safe space and sandy hook and the pulse nightclub shootings were fake and I'm šš

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i hate when people are like āi hate musicals! bursting into song randomly makes no sense!ā such ignoranceā¦some musicals are sung straight through
Hamilton and TURN treat Washington as a person to look up too. But in the TV show SLEEPY HOLLOW & Assassins Creed 3, they say he was pretty much a coward. Do you think he was both, or people glorify him to much? (Love you work btw šš)
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So the easiest answer to your question is yes, people glorify him too much. Done.
Although even that can be spun in two different directions, as in 1) heās glorified too much allowing people to ignore that he was a poor general and slave owner, or 2) heās glorified too much that people donāt see him as a actual person.Ā
I do think most Americans probably donāt have a clear idea of just how many times he lost battles, or at least every single Washington historian Iāve ever read has to spend several paragraphs belaboring the point that he lost all the time, and was not really a grand strategist. Ultimately he won the war through effective image management, pragmatism, and just being willing to suffer from crippling stress for 6 years.Ā
I mean, I think it would do him some favors if people understood that the question of Georgeās life is not āhow did a great man become a great general and then a great presidentā but āhow did a Virginian farmer without the colonial equivalent of a high school diploma and very little military experience win a revolution against a major world and then go on to participate in a government that somehow manages to have one of the longest peaceful transfers of power in Western history?ā That kind of makes you sit up and go,Ā āWait, what?ā
And by the way I donāt think he was in general a coward per se, in the ābravery in warā sense. And Iām assuming that was the sort of cowardice shown in AC:3 and Sleepy Hollow? Like, was he goodĀ at being a general? Nope. Not really! But there are some good examples of cowardly behavior in the AmRev and he never got anywhere close to that kind of thing. The two best are American general Charles Lee sketching out a plan to defeat the Continental Army while he was captured by the British, Horatio Gates essentially abandoning a retreat and running 170 miles away. All of the things Iāve read about the (many) retreats Washington was a part of generally indicate that he made sure they were orderly and he was usually among the last people to board a boat across a river. And I think that if Washington had ever been captured he was the kind of person to insist on having a sort of famously honorable death. If he was going to lose, he just seems like the sort that would want to lose in a way where you couldnāt say one bad thing about how he handled it.Ā
(That said, he didnāt seem to think about getting captured very much, and his plan for if the war went South was just to retreat into the frontier and live like an outlaw. So please take a moment to consider that as an alternate universe: George Washington, Fugitive Frontiersman. Hunting bears! Punching redcoat bounty hunters! Itās gold!)
So maybe he wasnāt a coward in war, but I do think he was a coward morally in how he handled the issue of slavery. He didnāt seem to have much illusion about slavery, when you start digging in to what he actually wrote about it. He knew it slavery was arbitrary (said so in a letter), he knew it was economically unwise (bitched about it a lot), and he knew it shouldnāt last much longer (so he had to understand that it was morally repugnant). Yet he stayed mum on the subject accept in letters and conversations among friends because he didnāt know how to deal with the political fall out. And thatās not even the clearest example of his cowardice. That would be that he drafted the will which would free all the slaves that were considered to be under his ownership upon Marthaās death in secret. As in, even Martha didnāt know. And I assume he never sat her down and said,Ā āIām freeing the slaves upon your deathā because he didnāt want to argue with her. (Martha, while nice in a lot of ways, was not at all troubled by slavery.) Thatās really pretty cowardly.Ā
I enjoy thinking about how bad Washington was at being a general in the sort of commonly understood way of winning battles, and I enjoy that in contrast to how he was actually good at being a general, which was that he showed up everyday, listened to advice, and just faked it till he somehow made it. But itās pretty horrible at all to read about how he dropped the ball on slavery. Iām grateful for Chris Jacksonās clarity of thought on the subject, Washingtonās failure there is not something to forgive or make peace with, but it doesnāt preclude him from being worthy of discussion.