Musings of the Easily Amused

The books have me surrounded

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paxamericana:

my one superpower is that i can instantly tell when someone who doesn’t use the word “ya’ll” in their day-to-day speech starts using it to be sanctimonious and folksy on the internet

i can tell you don’t either OP or you’d put the apostrophe in “y'all” where it fucking belongs

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ralfmaximus:
“afloweroutofstone:
“contemplatingoutlander:
“This is truly frightening. GQP Big Brother is trying to control the thoughts and speech at universities in Florida. They are horribly twisting the idea of “diversity” to try to force...

ralfmaximus:

afloweroutofstone:

contemplatingoutlander:

This is truly frightening. GQP Big Brother is trying to control the thoughts and speech at universities in Florida. They are horribly twisting the idea of “diversity” to try to force universities to hire more conservative thinking faculty and staff. 

Who else knows what the GQP will do with those lists. Will they try to blackball progressive faculty, staff and students?

This feels like the McCarthy era all over again. The courts must strike this down. 

If you’re a student in Florida, your obvious response should be to lie to them. Don’t do it in a predictable way either: the more confusing responses to a survey are, the harder it is to do anything with the survey

Precisely this. 

Flood the system with subtle, conflicting garbage. Change & re-file your political views weekly. Talk about how the Whigs are making a comeback and you hope they nationalize the banking system.

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thethief1996:

In the last weeks in Palestine

Don’t look away from Palestine. Israel will keep on doing these crimes if they think they can get away with it. The best we can do is to clog zionist propaganda. Palestinians have been systemically silenced on social media and news outlets, and Muna El Kurd, one of the leaders of the Save Sheikh Jarrah movement, has already said that spreading the word is very important to fight zionism.

Be angry and amplify Palestinian voices. The above links go back to activist accounts, follow them and share their updates. Attend protests (here’s a constantly updating list of pro Palestine protests) and follow organizations to know when the next ones will be held. Some of them: USCPR, Palestinian Youth Movement, Within our Lifetime, Arab Resource and Organizing Center, and Mohammed El Kurd (he often posts calls for action from all over the world on his stories).

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momowho34:

Here are some jewish myths you might still believe!!!!

(Pls read and reblog I’m tired of people echoing shit like this)

  • Jesus was not a rabbi. He lived a hundred years before rabbinic judaism even started to develop. Please stop saying this as if it lends him credence in our religion, because no. It doesn’t.
  • Yeah, Jesus was jewish, but he also rejected mainstream Judaism and hated it. Stop pretending he means anything to us. Idk if you guys have even read your own books, Matthew is like 60% about how the Pharisees are bad and wrong and evil for sticking to the traditions that have kept them alive for 100s of years. It’s also, y’know, historically inaccurate to the actual behavior of the Pharisees in that time period. Seriously man he is not ours and means nothing to us, keep your Jesus and stop trying to shoehorn him into judaism.
  • Our god is not yours “minus the Jesus.” In trinity terms; divide the Holy Spirit by the Father and then subtract the Son and that is a bare bones grasp of what god appears as for Jews.
  • Jews are not white as a whole. Are there white Jews? Yes. Are there jews who are literally every other skin tone? Also yes!! We are all over the place. India, numerous Middle Eastern countries, Morocco, Spain, and a lot more I can’t be bothered to list. You are actively hurting poc jews by pretending that all jews are European, holy shit stop doing that please!!! Most white jewish people are Ashkenazi, which is just one type of judaism.
  • Actually, the historical relationship between Jews and Muslims is a lot more complicated then you think it is. Sometimes we got along, sometimes we didn’t. Some would argue that Jews were treated better by Islamic caliphates in the Middle Ages then they were by Christian kingdoms. Stop trying to pretend we are and have always been “arch nemeses” or some fucking bullshit (that would be the Amalekites for us, actually, and not the Muslims) Also we’re honestly more similar to them when it comes to traditions then christians so like take that into account thanks
  • Hey guys listen to Romani when they talk about the Holocaust too!!!!! Please, they have a different experience/perspective and deserve to have their voices heard. Don’t pretend they don’t exist and that it didn’t effect them because uh…. it did. To a degree that I don’t think I can properly explain. Do not overlook them and then pretend it’s just because ur a “jewish ally” or whatever the fuck.
  • Stop pretending that we’re the same as Christianity. We aren’t. Stop stop stop holy shit stop. That’s not how any of this works at all. Christianity is so so so different, it takes like a handful of jewish beliefs and runs with them. Christianity is its own thing and so is Judaism, stoppp.
  • Not all Jews are zionists. some are explicitly anti-zionists. Not all zionists are anti-Semitic, but some of them are. Basically, jews aren’t inherently zionists and anti-Zionism isn’t inherently antisemitic. That being said, some people do use anti-Zionism as a cover for their anti-semitism. Watch out for those people, they’re not that hard to spot. That’s all I’m going to say about that, don’t want to start on this issue because it isn’t what this list is about.
  • Jews never actually lived by the literal laws of the Torah. We did not stone people. There is no archeological evidence of that and actually more evidence pointing to the opposite. jewish communities actually held capital punishment as being inherently immoral and was very very very rarely used in some communities. Understand that. Don’t ever say shit like “but the Jews used to live by the Bible too, and they stoned gay people!!!” No. No we didn’t. Ever. Nobody did that in ancient times.
  • Guess what, jews are not rich or greedy! what the fuck are you talking about??? Quit it please. This stereotype has literally been used since the Middle Ages to alienate Jews as a more privileged “other” that deserve their prosecution. Stop stop please stop, please!!!!! People actually believe this shit and commit hate crimes, stop, even as a sarcastic joke.
  • The Old Testament is not the same as the Torah/Tanakh. It’s just not? For one thing, the Old Testament is a translation of a cut down version of a translation of a different modified version, so no. Not the same. Also the books are ordered differently and the sections are mixed up.
  • God does not abandon the Jews in the Tanakh or the Old Testament for that matter. It’s like… sort of implicated to happen between the two testaments in Christianity. The Old Testament basically structured the books non-chronologically so that the last one would be Malachi because his prophecies are supposed to echo Jesus. We end the Tanakh on Nehemiah, and there is no “New Testament” for us because there’s only one and it ends at the end of the story.
  • Antisemitism is definitely still a thing. I don’t know who the fuck told you about this one? The Jews got treated like shit after the holocaust, and some of the few survivors 70 years later got reparations so now everybody’s acting like antisemitism doesn’t exist. It does. It really, really fucking does. Please listen to us.
  • Holocaust denial isn’t “a fringe conspiracy theory,” it’s genuinely awful and dangerous and hurts real people. I’m serious about this one, holocaust denial (and any genocide denial for that matter, whether it’s talking about the Armenian genocide or Holdomer or any others) is legit dangerous. Pay attention to it and have 0% tolerance for that shit
  • You are allowed to be invited to a jewish event if you’re not jewish! We literally do not care. Respectfully participating in traditions if you’re invited to is fine! The issue is when people take a jewish tradition and twist it into something for them. That’s a no-no, but getting invited to a seder/bar mitzvah/bris is fine. just show respect to traditions you see, even if you don’t entirely understand them. Do that and you’ll be fine.
  • Jews are a ridiculously diverse group of people with a lot of different beliefs! We all have vastly different ideas of fucking everything from god to the purpose of pomegranates (not a joke). Accept that we think differently form eachother and aren’t a monolith please

These are all the ones I could think of lol, jewish friends add more if you can think of some. Ok and encouraged to reblog for everyone.

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wilwheaton:
“Reagan was a piece of shit. His evil and destructive policies are still hurting innocent people. Fuck that guy, and fuck everyone who worships him.
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wilwheaton:

Reagan was a piece of shit. His evil and destructive policies are still hurting innocent people. Fuck that guy, and fuck everyone who worships him.

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spiritsflame:

tallahasseemp3:

the kind of gay representation i want from marvel is simple. i want to hear a grindr noise from bucky’s phone while he and sam are staking a place out and sam is like come ON dude

this and the stakeout is in the middle of absolutely nowhere. Bucky pulls out his phone like he’s about to swipe right on Greg-the-Henchman, mostly to fuck with Sam.

Meanwhile, Greg-the-Henchman, showing off this hot match he just made and his buddy Jake-the-Henchman, who is more up to date on the briefings, just “…Is that the winter soldier.’

and there is a single moment. before they both remember that grindr is proximity based. 

“Oh FUCK we gotta GO!” 

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leverage-ot3:

to my followers, have any of you seen white collar??? I’m only on season two but the ot3 energy of neal, peter, and elizabeth is divine

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also, because I can’t help myself-

bonus #1: neal has been drugged and says that out of anyone in his life, he trusts peter (HIS FBI FORMER NEMESIS TURNED BEST FRIEND) the most

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bonus #2: peter has been poisoned and neal will do anything to save him

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+ my sideblog is, of course, @bi-caffrey

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Anonymous asked:

What is the most 'florida man' weird shit you've ever seen/heard/encountered that just makes you go 'yup, its all true'?

anais-ninja-bitch:

ehhhm, so i was reading Florida Man headlines to my folks before work one morning, and me and my mom were laughing and my dad was half-asleep.

i got to “florida man charged with assault after fight over being denied entry to a strip club for carrying a kitten.” i paraphrase, but you get it.

and me and my mom were like, “why would you take a kitten to the strip club to begin with?”

still half-asleep, but not missing a beat, “so you can tell the strippers, ‘you can pet my pussy if i can pet yours,’” comes from the pile of blankets representing my father.

a man, born and raised in florida.