#oh how literally nothing has changed

[shinobicyrus]

After the mass shooting at a Nashville elementary school that killed three nine-year old children and three staff, Tennessee Rep Tim Burchett said of the tragedy, “It’s a horrible, horrible situation, and we’re not gonna fix it. Criminals are gonna be criminals.”

He went on to say: “My daddy fought in the Second World War, fought in the Pacific, fought the Japanese, and he told me … ‘Buddy, if somebody wants to take you out and doesn’t mind losing their life, there’s not a whole heck of a lot you can do about it.”

It’s striking how mass murderers with a gun is the sole thing that Conservatives are perfectly okay feigning powerlessness about. Imagine if this same principle was applied to other Conservative bugbears:

“Listen I know we’re all concerned about the gay agenda but there’s just no way to fix it. Gays are gonna be gay.”

“Abortion is a horrible, horrible thing, but if somebody wants to end a pregnancy there’s not a whole heck of a lot you can do to stop them.”

“We can’t really stop illegal immigrants coming over the border. Criminals are gonna be criminals!”

"If a jihadist wants to take you out and doesn’t mind losing their life, there’s not a whole heck of a lot you can do about it.”

But of course, they have no issue at all passing laws restricting bodily autonomy, forcing victims of sexual violence to remain pregnant, persecuting queer people, banning books, enacting draconian restrictions of free speech at schools and sending undercover cops to drag shows. Nor do they have any qualms about mass surveillance on US Citizens and immigrant communities, illegal incarceration and child separation of asylum seekers. Border walls and ICE raids and bans on people from Muslim-majority countries.

They will trample and restrict on every right except guns, because it’s the perfect fusion of violent American machismo, the profits of the Arms Industry, and their secret, romantic belief that someday they’re going to be Noble Revolutionaries fighting a Tyrannical government.

The tyranny, of course, not being all the things I mentioned above, but the government suggesting that maybe, just maybe, you shouldn’t be allowed to own a weapon that can kill a dozen people in a matter of seconds. That’s real tyranny.

[emdotcom]

My'eah, some Sonic stuff I drew, playing with a different style!

Last 3 pages feature Terios, & the last page features Violet -- both are characters co-adored by @carnation-damnation !

[undefeatablesin]

You know what? Fuck you. *Bloodbornes your Pinnochio again*

[da-proti-toku-grem]

why can't anyone understand that everyone is different and not everyone likes the same things and that it's completely okay AND normal for someone not to like going out and preferring to stay at home :/

[bugsbenefit]

scary that there's still Will bowlcut haters around. like... that's his core character design, it looks nice too. sorry to all the different hairstyle enjoyers out there but Will without a bowlcut simply wouldn't be Will to me. that's the side effect of them doubling down on that one single hairstyle for 8 years. they can style it different or make it messier sure, but he needs Some version of a bowlcut otherwise who is that

[infizero]

every time i so much as think about that scene where light looks at porn magazines while scowling i go into hysterics its genuinely the funniest thing i've ever seen

[hnrye]

zero fics on ao3 about a girls favorite movie 15 dead 600 injured

[elysianrey]

Sometimes, in the middle of the night I can feel you again But I just miss you And I just wish you were a better man

[thehardkandy]

Travelling back home tomorrow hoping for a smooth groove

[everyasukaren]

068

[dadbots]

cold as shit & freezing my ass off in this winter (But at least we made it to December.)

[coquelicoq]

Au cinquième ou sixième coup de pioche, le fer résonna sur du fer. Jamais tocsin funèbre, jamais glas frémissant ne produisit pareil effet sur celui qui l'entendit. Dantès n'aurait rien rencontré qu'il ne fût certes pas devenu plus pâle.

i know what this means but i feel like i had to do math to get there and i could definitely not show my work if asked. we've got normal conditionnel passé ("n'aurait rien rencontré", formed by conditionnel présent de l'auxiliare + participe passé) and then imparfait du subjonctif + participe passé ("ne fût certes pas devenu") , which could be acting either as the other kind of conditionnel passé (imparfait du subjonctif de l'auxiliare + participe passé; if it used the same kind of conditionnel passé as the main clause, it would be "serait devenu" instead of "fût devenu") or as the plus-que-parfait du subjonctif. i don't see how it would make sense to use both kinds of conditionnel passé in the same sentence, so the "que" (in "qu'il") must be acting as the introduction to a subjunctive clause? or some other kind of literary construction??

the good thing about dumas being long-winded is that he basically already said the same thing in the previous sentence using only the passé simple ("Jamais...ne produisit pareil effet sur celui qui l'entendit"), so i can just sort of plug in the variables. okay, so "pareil effet" = "deven[ir] pâle." got it. i can't support that leap because there are no theorems that i know of where passé simple ≈ plus-que-parfait du subjonctif, but it feels right. it's a good thing french is not a geometry quiz or i would be failing right now.

[pepprs]

omg i was feeling better for like 2 hrs but then i saw a post on here that is like maybe the worst thing ive read all day. and now i am feeling despair again

[silverislander]

have discovered a new enemy while doing research for the honours essay. why are you pretending to understand psychology and BLATANTLY misinterpreting actual terms and concepts in order to tear down a movie aimed at teenage girls, my good bitch. i'm going to start biting