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Just typed up 3 paragraphs filled with vitriol aimed at this country's diseased hero worship of our special forces stormtroopers who often operate as a cartel in the conflict zones we initiate or insert ourself into, but I think the most important takeaway is that everything that'll be revealed to have happened at Fort Bragg and wherever else these goons were fucking around is also happening on countless overseas US military base with 1/100th of the scrutiny shown here. This is the imperial frontier coming home, or as this one meathead without a trace of irony or self-awareness put it:

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beach up!! happy pride ☀️ 🌈 🏖️

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Literal TEARS in my eyes rn

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Those weird girls at that art club, characters by @shencomix

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I swear that i loved you

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giant redwood trees really are so cool, they just have something incredibly special going on. it's hard to describe if you haven't seen them

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"I do not think theft is a good idea. Especially dumb shit like makeup."

Expand on that, king. (asked sincerely)

Having been inundated with the "shoplifting is fucking awesome" attitude of Tumblr for so many years, I'd like to hear your perspective.

I’m in a pretty privileged situation in that very few of my necessities are so inaccessible that I HAVE to steal, but knowing how easy it is to get caught and not know it until it’s too late and knowing how goddamn hard it is to get a job with a criminal record in my part of the world, I genuinely do not think it is a good idea to risk a criminal record for, say, lip gloss, or Cheetos, or a bottle of Diet Coke.

If you’re literally starving, or have kids you’re raising without support, or are on disability, and you get caught stealing food or medicine or school supplies, AT LEAST if you get caught and get sent to court you can say “I needed these things, I was desperate” and, seeing that you have no history and otherwise abide by the law, the judge MAY choose not to go forwards and drop charges and let you go with a warning.

If you go to court and a judge reads the evidence and says “you repeatedly stole potato chips and mascara”, what are you gonna say? “I wanted it?” When they see homeless people and addicts and single parents and felons and abuse survivors all day? They’re going to think you’re a hooligan and an idiot and if you DON’T act remorseful there’s a good chance they’re going to think you need a lesson.

or- OR- say you have a record for stealing small shit. And you get a warning. And then one day you REALLY REALLY DO need something desperately and you break the law. You’ve used up your warning, and you’re fucked.

It just… forget big business, forget capitalism, and just look at how the system operates. Big stores spend MILLIONS OF DOLLARS to catch shoplifters. They WILL SPOT YOU EVENTUALLY, and they might not even arrest you straight away (see Target’s MO, Jesus Christ).

So yeah, no, from a purely practical perspective? It seems dumb as hell to pocket shit I do not need and risk my entire future on… what, $10?

It’s like going to a party in the peak of health and just choosing to do heroin for the fun of it.

like. WHY

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met a woman today whose original real actual given-at-birth first name is "Vendetta." ma'am are you aware you are a videogame protagonist and/or a character in a skullduggery pleasant novel. real quick sorry to bother you miss but who exactly were your parents expecting you to avenge in their name

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Jimmy is packing up his springs

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Jimmy is packing up his springs

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Jimmy is packing up his springs

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hey how did u find out u have snow vision? did u just reach that conclusion by urself or did a doctor tell u about it?

When I was a kid I could see dots buzzing around on my notebook and when I asked teachers what they were they just told me to drink water and sit down, like they didn’t know what I was talking about and thought I was passing out. So I just stopped mentioning it.

Then like a decade later when I had internet access I decided to do some research and found that it had only been proven to be a thing in like 2003, and every description matched my experience.

Then like a month ago I learned that other things I thought were normal are actually part of it, like “lag” around moving objects, light sensitivity, prolonged afterimages, bad night vision, etc

So like. It feels less like a self-diagnoses and more like looking at a red-green dot test and being like “oh neat I’m colourblind”

Doesn’t feel like it needs a professional confirmation

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diva

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