i'm just an old woman

Another example of America being quintessentially American and Americans being like "what is this?? China????"

I remember walking down the street and seeing a sign protesting George W. Bush’s war on Iraq, so I think that.

I don't know about a news story, but my first "political" memory was something about the torture memos

my first political memory is photographs from abu ghraib

Bill Clinton vs Bob Dole 1996 presidential election. I went to bed worried what would happen if he didn't win and my parents were like don't worry about it.

i love when museums have near exact replicas of their displayed objects for you to buy. haha 15th century ceramic cup you are in my possession

[ID: A terracotta statue of a piglet on display with the sign, "This is a replica of one of the piglet figures from Han Yangling. Please pat." /End ID]

Adding him to my toy story: night at the museum movie immediately

Louis and Armand in: Troy and Abed in the eeeeevening

& honestly there's no debate to be had the zendaya earrings are orders of magnitude worse than kim kardashian wearing that marilyn dress. yes that piece was a one of a kind unique textile made so specifically for marilyn monroe she had to be sewn into it. at the end of the day it was a ~70 year old usamerican cultural artefact being repurposed by an american for an american cultural event and everyone involved knows exactly where the dress came from + what happened to it + where it went afterwards. zendaya is wearing the looted (or forged) cultural heritage of a people her government is currently bombing & whose lives they have been deliberately making unliveable for decades to a movie premiere that has fuck all to do with iran. we don't know where those discs came from where they were found or by whom & we never will. AND the jeweller appears to have altered them substantially from their original condition. destroying a people's cultural heritage at the same time you destroy their country + their lives so you can look good on a red carpet One Time i want to fucking hurl

Also, I cannot emphasize enough, that an American actress wearing these while US is literally doing war crimes in Iran, is a bad look.

You rang?

what is THE worst thing you've ever drank. all liquids acceptable. please tell me what it was, bonus points for why