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The Vietnam War was wrong and cruel

The Iraq War was wrong and creul

And this war shall be shown by history to have been wrong and cruel as well

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fatphobia and ableism is so insidious. You can look up like, food, and it'll say "eating a lot of food causes diabetes" and you're like oh dang what? I thought we didn't know the cause of diabetes. So you look up what causes diabetes and it says "we still don't know what causes diabetes" bruh they're just making shit up to give people eating disorders

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Ok, loves, so we've all got the message that joking about suicide is bad for your mental health. Now we need to get on "joking that the planet/all of humanity has no future" is bad for societal health/encouraging resistance to bad shit."

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every time i go outside i am astounded by the power of sun and air

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early screening color script selections - my favorite part of working on this movie was helping establish the colors with these thumbnail paintings before production started. Most are painted over early storyboards, but some I didn't have boards or designs and had to go off vibes alone. Its cool to see how some of these ideas still made it into the final film. A lot of artists down the line definitely pushed and plussed the colors, and I love how it turned out.

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happy juneteenth but dont forget that prisoners are legally allowed to be subject to slave labor and also black people are disproportionately arrested and subjected to that legality. happy juneteenth but slavery still lives in america. america is still dependant on slave labor.

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If you start digging into it you’ll notice that regions worldwide with more immigrants tend to have more positive or neutral views towards immigrants. Even if you’re just looking at current citizens.

Like areas in Germany with more migrants are less likely to vote for anti-immigrant politicians. In parts of the US with more immigrants people are far more likely to say that immigration strengthens our country. And even in these areas immigrants are still usually a minority of the population. Less than 15%. Rarely more than 10%.

This is because if you live in an area with a lot of immigrants you’re likely to notice that they’re just like. People. And also not causing a lot of problems at all. They also probably increase the types of food and products you can get locally. Variety is fun. Variety keeps things interesting. It’s easy to make friends with people who are different from you actually. It’s also often very interesting and fun.

A lot of anti-immigration people live in areas with a small percentage of immigrants though. Immigrants to them are some vague scary concept that you never come across.

That’s not what immigrants are though. They’re just people. People that are statistically less likely to do crime, actually. And yet this fear of the other persists. People need something or someone to blame for their problems, so they blame the group of people they don’t see much that they don’t really understand.

And if you have similar politics to me you’re probably like yeah no duh Roman we all know this but clearly. Clearly not everyone knows this because people living deep in the buttcrack of South Dakota that have never met an undocumented immigrant before are still comfortably sitting around in their assumption that immigrants are the reason that they aren’t getting paid enough.

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i bring a sort of "it doesnt matter if youre into porn or not, getting elitist and mad at people for being horny aligns you with the agenda of the alt right" vibe to the conversation that some ppl dont like

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My ethics professor once told our class that society justifies hating fat people by saying they overburden the healthcare system but no one uses that excuse to hate high level athletes who also disproportionately use the healthcare system

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THE ENTIRE WEST IS BEING PUT UP FOR SALE AND I AM BEGGING YOU TO CALL YOUR SENATORS

Trump’s budget bill has many, many things in it, but buried amongst it is the MILLIONS OF ACRES OF PUBLIC LAND FOR SALE.

This is the entirety of the Arizona state forests, the entire Cascades mountain range. Swathes of pristine desert around the national parks in Utah. On the doorstep of Jackson Hole.

THIS BILL IS BIG, BUT IT CAN BE AMENDED AND ABSOLUTELY MUST NOT PASS AS IS please.

If you have ever enjoyed the wilderness, we stand to lose it all forever.

CALLING your senators - NOT JUST IN THE WEST. ALL SENATORS, is CRUCIAL.

Outdoor alliance has a great resource for reaching out.

I don’t have a huge following but please, everywhere I have ever loved, the forests I grew up playing in, the land I got married on, is all at risk and I am begging.

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real talk like. YES many fat people eat a healthy diet! lots of fat people don't eat sweets! lots of fat people love veggies! there are fat vegans!

BUT sometimes I see this being used as a gotcha in a way that says "it's okay to be fat because it doesn't mean you're eating Immorally" and I resent that.

I am fat and today I ate three cookies for breakfast. big ones. and that doesn't change the fact that my fatness is amoral and my diet - while objectively not very healthy, this cookie thing is part of a pattern in my life as a stressed out grad student - is also amoral.

it's okay to be fat and love little debbies. and it's okay to be fat and eat little debbies more than you "should." you don't owe your health or nutrition to anyone. everyone should fuck off

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No children are allowed in the Library of Congress.

It's not that kind of library.

In other words...

You are being lied to

again

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