Because instantly alienating a huge chunk of your demographic through offensive humour is the best way to sell soda pop. (x)
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I gots a pool today! I loves my pool!
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Ashes: Holy shit. Tattoo-shaming is a thing. How did I just realize that?
Like, we mock people for having words in different languages tattooed on them. Or dolphins. Or flowers. Or hearts. And we make it so that people have to have a reason behind them or we…
i have struggled off and on with getting ALL OF THE TATTOOS because i am going to be a teacher, and tattoos are still so highly judged. but i have decided that i’m going to do what i want with my body, and deal with covering them or whatever when i have to. while right now i have gotten away with letting the few that i have show (wrist, foot), i know that i will most likely have to wear long-sleeves for the rest of my career once i start getting more and bigger tattoos. and for the most part, i’m okay with that; as i said, i’ll deal with what i have to do for five days of the week for my career. but another part of me is sad that it’s even an issue. that i can and will be judged as inferior, unprofessional, or maybe even not as intelligent because of my tattoos. if anything, i wish i could use my tattoos to show that i AM professional, intelligent, and valuable. maybe i will, inadvertently.
in terms of cultural appropriation, i think we still cannot judge people’s intent on sight. i plan on getting my name in katakana, cherry blossoms, and other japan-related tattoos because i lived in japan for 4 years, and it influenced my life in ways that i am forever grateful. ultimately, i can’t spend my time worrying if people think i’m “fake” or not, that my tattoos are “mainstream,” or that i’m being culturally insensitive — i can only serve myself, and i want my body art to represent my life and myself.
Personally, I think the voting age should be much, higher, not lower. I think it was a mistake to lower it to 18, to be brutally honest… [I]t is a simple fact of science that nothing correlates more with ignorance and stupidity than youth. We’re all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young. And yet there’s this thing in this culture where, ‘Oh, young people are for it so it must be special.’ No, the reason young people are for it because they don’t know better. That’s why we call them young people…
The fact that young people think socialism is better than capitalism. That’s proof of what social scientists call their stupidity and their ignorance. And that’s something that conservatives have to beat out of them. Either literally or figuratively as far as I’m concerned.
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Jonah Goldberg, suggesting conservatives should beat young people ‘til they think capitalism is cool.
There’s many problems with Goldberg’s statement, but this one is glaringly obvious: We don’t have capitalism in this country. The game is rigged. For example, we have a financial system that unfairly rewards undue risk by allowing “too big to fail” to become the standard for large financial institutions to receive government help, yet homeowners preyed upon by the same institutions are told “You KNEW the risk” and denied help outright or are given table scraps. And then no regulation is put in place to stop this because freedoms. That’s not capitalism, my friends.
If you want to pretend we have capitalism for a minute, fine – it’s only for the poor. We have capitalism for the poor and socialism for the rich. Remember the first round of bailouts under Bush? We socialized the risk and privatized the profit.
So Mr. Goldberg, if you really want to beat the socialism out of someone, find a Goldman Sachs or Bank of America exec.
(via cognitivedissonance)(via historicalslut)
Why can’t rappers rap about nice things?
- YEAH GIRL I’MMA TAKE YOUR CLOTHES OFF AND
- put them in a closet for you cause it’s polite
- YEAH BABY THAT’S RIGHT IMMA PICK YOU UP AND
- carry you to your bed cause baby I know you tired
- OH GIRL IMA SLAP DAT
- broom out of your hand because you’ve had a long day at work, and i can do it myself.
(Source: the-vashta-nerada, via scatteringashes)
That day, she was amazed to discover that when he was saying “As you wish”, what he meant was, “I love you.” And even more amazing was the day she realized she truly loved him back.
(Source: filmcrack, via scatteringashes)
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
