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A lot of people are incorrectly stating that this was already ‘a rule.’ Replies are restricted; hope someone corrects them and they see it.

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Any MAGA person follow me that I haven’t blocked yet? Or maybe a fellow leftist understands:

If Republicans love symbols of the United States so much that it frankly feels like the very idolotry that the Christian Bible says is very much wrong, why is it that Republicans also love turning the symbol of the flag into anything but what it is? See below examples:

I’ve also often seen the flag, usually in dimmer colors, with Trump’s face or words supporting Trump, because what’s a little idolatry-with-a-flag when you can add the living Golden Calf to it too? Ironically, there’s even a flag that combines White Jesus - with crown of thorns! - with flag Imagery, likely alluding to the other complicated question of why Christian Americans think the country is somehow divinely ordained as if we were a Jewish tribe or something. There’s even a company that’ll just throw photos on top of the flag, because that’s the best way to show off your latest family picture apparently.

So… Why the fuck isn’t all this considered desecrating the flag?

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Hmm still concerned how many college-educated whites supposedly voted for Trump. But college can’t educate out all stupidity nor is it always able to make people less racist or less egocentric.

this is why you will never catch me in the anti-college movement

white people need it to know things

Anti-intellectualism will truly be the death of us

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It really doesn’t make any other sense why’d they do it. We bringing back lead paint too? What about talc?

Another Kremlin policy to kill Americans put in place by MAGA traitors.

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Dang that’s a nice spread. Very nice reward I’d say. I once enjoyed an anniversary dinner where the sushi ‘plate’ was presented to my wife and I on a wooden boat. Coolest plating ever.

Says my son, who enjoys sushi for the taste and because he loves the fame Sushi Go, ‘Is that salmon nigiri? That is totally salmon nigiri. That is a *lot* of nigiri!’

That goal though was for 10k reblog and notes and such and now this is over 70k, so I feel the guy deserves something more. Especially if we can boost this past 100k.

@wholesomepostarchive This certainly brought a smile to my face, especially if there’s a chance the guy gets an even bigger sushi reward now.

I took my little brother (autistic, mostly non verbal) out and he was using his voice keyboard to tell me something, and this little boy (maybe 4 or 5?) heard him and asked me "Is he a robot??" I tried to explain to him that no, he isn't a robot, he just communicates differently, but my darling brother was in the background max volume "I am robot I am robot I am robot I am robot"

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Thank you for this reminder. It is one of the great disasters of human thinking that we are so easy to ascribe ulterior motives to others’ behaviors even though we know we had legit excuses for our own. Sometimes brains suck.

i think one of the most important things you learn about making connections with others is that a significant portion of the time people just do not know theyre doing what theyre doing

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Damn that’s impressive

“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco

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Never thought about this until I saw this in writing but now I want a parody of Ride Wit Me but about how if you chose the FunVee you’d become a man-meets-machine superhero along with Tony.

"Next time you ride with me, okay?" IRON MAN (2008) dir. Jon Favreau

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It started off as a joke, but now I want this to be a thing so badly:

Ryan Reynolds staring in a comedy about Curling, a la Dodgeball or Happy Gilmore, written by him and another Canadian so it can make fun of Canada as much as possible but in the most loving way possible.

Ideally their team goes up against an American team with a Shooter McGavin like asshole as the American teams’ sponsor. And this asshole sponsor is someone who claims to be the richest person on Earth and to have the power to buy all of Canada, starting with Ryan Reynolds’ house or curling gym or something. Like with Rocky IV, the audience gets the vicarious thrill of the hero and their home country triumphing over this asshole (this was literally the last thing I thought up for the movie but it’s such a great cherry on top).

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Remove my nerd cred. I was explaining to my son WHs my favorite Star Trek vessel is, I thought it was the Miranda-class, but what I looked up did not resemble what I was thinking of; so I found this post, knowing I had included it in my list of favorite ships, and see that I mislabeled my favorite Star Trek ship: That’s a Nebula-class actually, not Miranda. Though I do enjoy Miranda-class vessels as well.

Here’s the actual Miranda-class:

Reality sucks so show me your favourite spaceships. Mine is above (the Enterprise D from Star Trek TNG).

Please fill my tumblr timeline with spaceship joy. Remember to tell us all what the ship is and from what source. Post as many as you like. This is about joy.

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Yes for the Star Wars fallout. I can’t believe Disney isn’t getting more shit for its storytelling lately:

Andor pretty clearly shows where we could be headed with the senate and using protestors to push for more fascist control

Captain America: Brave New World has a president commit a crime and then resign and go to jail. No question of whether he gets immunity or could pardon himself, he just does what he feels is right once his crimes got exposed

After all, I remember people complaining that Star Wars Revenge of the Sith was calling Bush the Emperor. But maybe Republicans can’t get more subtle storytelling like they used to.

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PBS interviewed the whistleblower? This wouldn’t happen to be the same PBS that Trump wants defunded would it? Because of ‘liberal bias’ as he has alleged.

In case it wasn't clear: DOGE is working with Russia, providing a backdoor for SOMEONE in Russia to login to US systems. PBS Newshour interviewed the whistleblower and yeeeeeah it's pretty damning stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWpqJ8pD2Ng Basically the cybercriminal version of hiding a blood stain on the floor by ripping out the floor and leaving a gaping hole where floor used to be.... But leaving a great big bloodsmear from the hole in the floor all the way to a suspiciously stinky truck in the parking lot, that's owned by the known neighborhood hitman, which also happens to be piled high with blood-stained flooring.

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Those are all true. Well mostly. I’m conceding the argument, whereas I don’t think you’re ready to. Guns aren’t getting regulated anytime soon, especially with a Supreme Court willing to just make up law to get the results they want. And the argument that ‘a good guy with a gun’ just anywhere is not the solution is that there are other, safer ways to deal with a shooter before they get troubled enough to do that, before they buy a gun, and, yes, once an active shooting situation happens. But again, we are losing that argument. Republicans don’t want better social safety nets to reduce crime, they don’t want better healthcare to ensure people’s medical and mental health needs are met so they don’t feel pushed over the edge, and they don’t want the country to be safe for transgender people. So until we defeat gerrymandering so the majority voice is the one being heard in Congress, and until we take back the Supreme Court, nothing will change. Reasonable gun control measures and other needed reforms won’t become laws or, if they do, they will get struck down as being unconstititional by made-up principles like the Major Questions Doctrine and its related principle People Who are Mad About This are Loud About Being Mad About It, or the principle Our Rich White Founder Overlords Could Foresee These Problems and Wanted it to Be This. Meanwhile, unhinged white cis men are arguing that more unhinged white cis men should have access to guns, including ones found by a court to be a danger to their ex partners.

I hate guns mind you. I’ve been to a gun range and felt satisfaction at seeming to be an okay shot compares to my peers (to any alpha males out there, no need to puff up your chest, this was a long time ago and I am not saying I am a good shot at all today). I have no need to ever shoot one again. I would verbally throw down with my wife if she wanted one in the house, even if she followed all the safety measures. But I’m also a cis white male who generally feels safe as long as I keep my mouth shut about my liberal politics. That’s not true for everyone and while they wait for systemic change, they feel unsafe.

I’m also thinking of something much, much worse than those likelihoods: That the completely delusional Republican base that has time and again threatened to use weapons to maintain control - including entering the Michigan capitol with guns to intimidate lawmakers and storming the US capitol to attempt to overthrow the election - could one day actively decide to come for the oppressed in their homes. Lynching of transgender people may seem unlikely right now but *so much* of the last 10 years has seemed unlikely and sanity is not prevailing on the Right currently. So my thought is, if they refuse to let us moderate their gun ownership, then it’s understandable that transgender people would be joining the groups of people wanting to be able to defend themselves. Hopefully the fact that so many *gun groups* are being joined means these new gun owners will be smarter about it than somr gun owners have been in the past.

But absolutely right to point out all the ways they have to be *really fucking careful*, especially about the It Might Become A Cop’s Excuse to Kill You reason, as I don’t hear that one mentioned very much. I also wonder, if two people are carrying in an Active Shooter situation, and one is the Active Shooter, Will the cops have an accurate description to know that Good Person With a Gun who defends themselves from the Active Shooter isn’t the Active Shooter themselves, or are the cops now going to shoot and kill the Good Person With a Gun? Given so many active shooter crises in the past 30 years I’m surprised this hasn’t happened quite a bit. The most common cause for harm is the unlocked weapon in a home that you reference, and this remains an issue. As a former social worker, this was often an issue we were working with families because so many just had an unlocked case they was hard to get to and they thought that would be fine; this is not something to risk. Definitely make sure guns are locked up safely so kids cannot get to them and harm themselves - accidentally or on purpose, since younger kids don’t always understand how guns can kill and that death is permanent. So hopefully they do everything they can to make sure they are safe about their guns.

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If you’re at all skeptical of the ‘Just calling balls and strikes’ image of the Supreme Court, this book is for you. If you think the court really is ‘just calling balls and strikes’ and the Republicans do a plain reading of the law, constitution, and the facts of the case, this book is *definitely* for you. If you’re at all open to learn why non-MAGA folks have such bad things to say about the Supreme Court, get this book.

I’ve been listening to Professor Litman for over a year via her Strict Scrutiny podcast. She is intelligent and funny but also pulls very few punches. Be warned she’s probably not very nice to Republican justices; I’m sure the book goes into some detail as to why their actions eliminate any cause for respect to those justices being warranted.

Buy the book.

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What "Land Back" means:

In my tribe we believe medicine belongs to everyone and I want you to be well.

In my tribe we believe every hungry person is entitled to food and I want you to be fed.

In my tribe we believe trans and two spirit people are sacred and I want you to be safe.

In my tribe we believe that human beings are here to care for the land and keep it healthy and I want you to have clean water to drink.

In my tribe we believe in caring for and venerating elders and I want care for you as you grow old.

In my tribe we believe that children should be cared for by the community and I want your children to grow up loved and supported.

In my tribe we wear really cool earrings and you should totally buy some. Eeeeeeeee

Land Back isn't about revenge. It's an act of love.

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Toasters of Damacles TM.

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The ‘lesser weevil’ omg 😂

Sometimes being in environmental law means that your schedule for the afternoon gets completely thrown because a colleague standing the middle of some woods calls to tell you that there’s gunk in the stream and it smells bad.