Icon by @ThatSpookyAgent. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. BlueSky: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. The X-Files. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
I get really confused when americans, when talking about universal health care are like ‘yeh but it’s not free sweaty :) :) you have to pay it through taxes :) so gotcha!!’
and I’m like ….???? That’s the whole point??? Everyone pays their fair share so that no one has to be turned away because they don’t have insurance??? And no one has to set up a Fundraiser page just so that they DONT DIE???? So people don’t put off going to the doctor because they’re scared of going bankrupt?? Because healthcare is a RIGHT and should be free at the point of access?!?
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
This is a view from the Clementine spacecraft of the full Earth over the north pole of the Moon. The crater with a central peak in the foreground is Plaskett (820N, 1740E; 110 kilometers in diameter). On Earth, Africa is clearly visible and nearly cloud free.
(I also considered Andrew Jackson, a Christian who was responsible for the Trail of Tears, which killed more non-Christian people than the 9/11 attacks, and yet gets to be on our $20 bill.)
(but, you know, iconographical brevity and all that)
Excuse me sir, may I have a moment to talk to you about Jesus?
It really just gets me when people forget about the fucking crusades.
nooooooooooooooooobody remembers the Spanish Inquisition!
Indian Boarding Schools, anyone?
Colonization of the Americas and the genocide of millions of Indigenous people in the name of “Manifest Destiny”?
….or what about the biggest forced migration in human history, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade? The enslavement of millions of Africans was all done in the name of Christianity, sooooooooo…..
Oh HEY, what about all those radical Christian bombings that happen, lik ethe Oklahoma City bombing, pictured above, or the bombing of Planned Parenthood and Abortion Clinics?
