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people being pretentious asking why the poor people of the USA aren’t doing a general strike or a revolt like other countries. ma’am our government has drones.

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Priorities

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I wonder if part of the reason so many gen x/millennials have time blindness with the early 2000s ('2007 was three years ago', etc) is because major moments from our childhood/young adulthood haven't resolved?

We're still venerating everything tied to 9/11

We're still in Afghanistan, still in Iraq

There's soldiers who are gonna get sent to Afghanistan that weren't even alive in 2001 for gods sake

We're all still in the Great Recession, we all are in a financial arrested development and won't get out of debt for years, if not our entire lives for some of us

We were the first generation of kids dying in school shootings, and nothing has changed there for our own children

On one level, the things around my life at 15 are the same things still in my life now as an adult

And the real kicker is, no one in charge seems to think these things are problems so they don't even get discussed much less addressed

We're just going to be in forever wars, and drowning in debt if we survive school

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“15 Men React To The Idea Of Taking Their Wife’s Last Name After Marriage”

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the stereotype that women talk more than men is infinitely amusing to me because men are literally incapable of shutting the fuck up

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really cool coincidence that every single latin american nation with a leader that attempts to nationalize an industry that is profitable to america just happens to have an american-supported right-wing politician come along and accuse them of election fraud before trying to start a coup

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“[I]t is actually more expensive to be poor than not poor. If you can’t afford the first month’s rent and security deposit you need in order to rent an apartment, you may get stuck in an overpriced residential motel. If you don’t have a kitchen or even a refrigerator and microwave, you will find yourself falling back on convenience store food, which — in addition to its nutritional deficits — is also alarmingly overpriced. If you need a loan, as most poor people eventually do, you will end up paying an interest rate many times more than what a more affluent borrower would be charged. To be poor — especially with children to support and care for — is a perpetual high-wire act.”

— It Is Expensive to Be Poor | The Atlantic

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Repeat after me: - Veganism is not affordable - Veganism is not cruelty free - Veganism is not the best choice for everyone

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Black-Asian animosity is an American tradition

Protesters call for boycott of Bronzeville store connected to viral video

Brooklyn Family Attacked With Acetone And Brooms By Nail Salon Workers

China has an irrational fear of a “black invasion” bringing drugs, crime, and interracial marriage

Japan’s blackface problem: the country’s bizarre, troubled relationship with race

Youngest black women to own Beauty Store in California went out of business, they say they were rejected by Korean manufacturers

Dramatic video shows Lafayette nail salon holding customer hostage

Asian store owner punched Black woman in the mouth as her kids watched 

Oklahoma court upholds sentence for ex-cop convicted of rape

Ashley said it all

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The Great Smudge - Table Cat

Via Lancelot Falk

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So proud of my mother for doing her own research after I sent her that meme. A sign she hung in her car window.

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*dry food crunches* Ridiculously small kitten: “Myam myam myam. Njam njam njam njam njam njam njam! Myam myam myam nyam nyam myam. Mmmam. Mrrrrram. Meep!”

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