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This dialog is horse shit.

America in general knows very well why that war was started and executed.

Republicans needed a war to prop up flagging popularity. They didn't have a celebrity president at the time - GWB was essentially a goober all his life - and it was hurting them in polls to a huge extent.

It was a massive crime executed entirely and only for popularity points with the same people who now make up MAGA.

And the Democratic party has never had the leverage to take the Republican establishment to task for it since.

I missed most of the Iraq war due to being a baby, but every time I read about it I start wondering why we aren’t all talking about it all of the time

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Reblogging since this was reblogged to add that the reason that this is best effect is that 'Firstborn' as used in the prophecy can be singular or plural and doesn't indicate which it is. It always ment all of them.

Another fantasy trope story:

A story where a prominent prophesy very clearly states that this specific important thing Must Be Done by the firstborn of one specific guy. So three young heroes head out to fix this: This Guy's official firstborn heir, his bastard he didn't even know about before getting married, and his unofficially adopted orphan kid who just started living with him at some point, who is the oldest of the three so technically speaking is still the one who was born first. And all three must go because while the meaning of the prophesy itself is very clear, it's an utter mystery to everyone which one of them counts as their father's firstborn.

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This is also a misconception.

Midwest USA wizards do exist in profusion and do use their powers to make new and fucked up kinds of salad.

But not exclusively for that.

No.

Not exclusively.

It’s a common misconception that there are no wizards in the midwest USA. The truth is there are plenty, they just use their powers exclusively for making new and fucked up kinds of salad

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Remember, history was awful. Never trust the romantics.

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"So Kid, can you drink?" Luke looks up at Han and at the bottle in his hand and then kind of...he does that thing he calls a smile but is more of the lurking expression of delight in someones upcoming misfortune that is the advertisement that Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight, is in fact a /little shit/.

"Oh, only a little." He says, and Han has /two/ bad feelings. One says, 'Luke is lying his goddamn ass off' and the other says 'you picked this brat up on /Tatooine/, half that booze has a selection of hard drugs that can give a Wookie pause. You know, because you were the guy dragging Chewy back to the Falcon after someone called him a lightweight.'

But because Han is Han Solo, he's going forward with this stupid shit anyway, and Han drops the bottle of Corellian brandy on the table between them. "We both know I am no good at this talking about my emotions shit and I am not doing it in sober company, so drink up."

Luke raises only one eyebrow (brat) and picks up the bottle, bringing it to his lips. "What's the subject?" He asks right before he starts drinking, and Han says, with dignity and respect, "I asked you sister to marry me and she said yes, can you not kill me?"

Luke's eyes go ridiculously wide and then - instead of finishing a sip or something he proceeds to just suck down the /entire bottle/.

By the time it's half empty Han is staring as if the kid is - well, just inhaling an entire bottle of Corellian brandy, leaving /None/ for Han.

(Not drinking /before starting this conversation/ was definitely a mistake, but too late now.)

When it's /empty/ Luke thunks the empty bottle down on the table and says, "When you make Leia unhappy you'd better apologize properly. Also you just won me half a million credits in the Rogue One betting pool so thanks for that."

"What." Han says, hurt and entirely unsprised by Luke's complete lack of being tipsey at this point. "Not going to give me credit for not making her unhappy?"

"It's Leia." Luke points out reasonably, "Not being unhappy often enough also makes her unhappy. You're pretty much doomed."

"..and you drank all the booze. I'm too sober for this, Luke."

"I know you have more Corellian brandy than /that/ around here. This is Lando's place." Luke tells him and in fact, that's true. Han's halfway to the storage before he realizes he didn't get told off and whoops in victory.

There’s a good argument to be made that Tatooine probably has some of the strongest alcohol in the galaxy. The inhabitants are on a desert planet run by crime lords. Their lives suck, they’re too poor and too smart to get tangled up in spice, and they don’t have the water to waste on booze. Not only is there moonshine, the moonshine has had every drop of water extracted from it. Dilution? Who’s got the money for that? You put 3 drops of Granny Senga’s Medicine into whatever liquid you’ve got on hand and you’re good for a buzz, or, if you’re young and dumb, you take a shot on a dare and spend the next two days regretting being born.

All I’m saying is that if the OT trio ever got into a drinking contest, Luke is the one most likely to do this:

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Im gonna be so real can yall actually talk about ways we can support trans women in the UK instead of giving all the attention to fucking JKR. I already know that Harry Poter sucks, I wanna know how to actually HELP people. Something something you have to love the oppressed more than you hate the oppressor

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UBI needs to happen. via antiwork

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REBLOG THIS TO GIVE THE PERSON YOU REBLOGGED THIS FROM A GOLD STAR BECAUSE THEY’VE BEEN STELLAR TODAY AND THEY DESERVE IT ⭐️

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This. Also, like.

I'm sorry.

You. All of you. No matter who you are, where you're from, how white bread boring regimented, follows your book of choice you are...

/nobody is normal/.

We are all excruciatingly weird.

Normal. Is. A. Lie.

The fraction of the universe we are able to exist in is so vanishingly small it can't be printed longhand in a normal book

There is no level of 'Normal' you can be that fascists will not murder.

i know that “don’t harass people for being weird, they might be autistic!” is a fairly popular take on here. but as a Certified Autist, i’d like to add that harassing allistic and/or neurotypical people for being weird is also bad, and should not be done

and before you come in with “yeah, you never know who is and isn’t autistic, and you shouldn’t force people to out themselves!” i want to say two things: one, i agree. and two, even if you could magically avoid ever harassing a single autistic person, it still wouldn’t be okay to go after NTs for being weird. they’re people, janice. they’re allowed to be really invested in naruto

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Vote in your state elections this year, and not just governor. Vote for state legislature.

Some of this $#@% can only be fixed/mitigated on the federal level, but most of the laws that Americans live under day to day are state laws. Who passes 'em? State legislatures.

All this "third term for Trump" talk might be a distraction but you know who'd have to approve the Constitutional amendment to make it happen? The states, as in state legislatures. Vote for state legislature.

Ballotpedia.org

Vote411.org

Google kind of sucks but it doesn't suck too much to be any use

Who enforces the laws? Sherrifs and local police chiefs. Vote. Who decides whether the school gets a book ban? School boards. Vote.

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i need to make a shoutout post for the ioway tribe's bee farm products right now

esp this:

THE LOTION BAR.

why do i love it so much? bc it repels mosquitos WAY BETTER THAN BUG SPRAY. Not only does it make ur skin smell like honey, it forms a waxy seal that buggy chompers cant bite through.

it also soothes bug bites, rashes, and itchy skin.

my partner has the Yummy Blood that mosquitos find irresistable. we tried so many repellents, the wristbands, the candles... nothing seemed to keep them away. out of curiosity and desperation, we tried this lotion bar and the results have been life-changing for us. it is EXCEPTIONAL.

if u or someone u know is bug bait, i cannot recommend this tribe's beeswax bar enough. please support native businesses, ditch the bug spray. this stuff works, and smells, way way way better than anything else.

Not to mention they have REALLY GOOD HONEY.

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unpopular opinion: Vimes is kind of drama queen

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Pensions sound so fake as a zillennial. You work for one place for decades (already sounds fake) and then afterwards you leave and they just. keep paying you. the same amount of money. to do nothing. for the rest of your life. if i wasn't already aware that this was something that readily and commonly existed during my grandparent's days then it would sound like some kind of socialist pipe dream

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I feel like tumblr should be bigger fans of The Blues Brothers. It's a movie that has everything we value as a community. Attention and respect to pioneering black musicians, open hostility to nazis, open defiance to police, Carrie Fisher with a rocket launcher and flamethrower, a soundtrack that goes hard as hell, John Belushi so blasted on cocaine that he continues to do somersaults despite having a broken ankle. It's got it all!