impalaanddemons:

Also: Whenever I hear a guy go “Oooh, but women don’t like porn” i think of the enormous amount of porn in fandom created by women for women and all I can think is: “Well, maybe we just don’t like your porn…”

politicalprof:

What problem is ending net neutrality trying to solve?

What failure of the current internet is ending net neutrality supposed to help us overcome? We’ve gone from no internet WHEN I STARTED GRADUATE SCHOOL to BILLIONS of interconnected devices, sites and pathways to information – a network that has revolutionized whole industries and spread opportunities for learning and commerce around the world.

How is this a problem? How is the current system going to forestall the next generation of developments, thereby justifying the shift to “not net neutrality”?

Of course, I know the answer to my question. From Trump and the Republicans’ point of view, the problem with net neutrality is that net neutrality requires internet providers to forego a revenue stream by preventing them for using their power as internet service providers to compel both internet users and internet content providers to pay to prioritize their activities on the web. In other words, net neutrality prevents what economists call “rent-seeking” behavior in which powerful corporations or entities to use their power to extract more than their market-negotiated share of your money and mine. 

Ending net neutrality is, in other words, yet another way to transfer wealth UP the social ladder, allowing the wealthy and powerful to use their wealth and power to increase their wealth and power … at your expense. 

And that problem – how to extract  ever more of your wealth for their benefit – is, from Trump and the Republicans’ twisted point of view, a problem worth solving.

pragnificent:

erikacpataki:

sumersprkl:

baku:

the worst memories of being bullied is when ppl would pretend not to be bullying you and ask you questions and u thought they were just asking u stuff but they were actually laughing at you the entire time and u had no idea bcos you were young and you didnt understand why people would be mean to you when you didnt do anything wrong. 

I spent a lot of my childhood in a constant state of “this is a trap but I don’t know how”

tbh I think if I had been less socially inept and/or had higher social self-esteem as a kid I would have noticed I was being bullied a lot more & been more affected by it….a blessing and a curse

What I took away from this is a tendency to distrust pretty much every social interaction.

And like, at least 80% or the time when I thought someone was trying to get under my skin and fuck with me, I know that I was right, but sometimes I wonder if I rejected people who might have really been interested in being friends.

diversetolkien:

Like it or not, Peter Jackson is just as guilty of racism in Tolkien’s fandom/works as Tolkien himself, and sometimes even worse.

pumpkinmcqueen:

delotha:

the-anarcho-raver:

alwaystruenorth:

rose-in-a-fisted-glove:

avienbgwp:

rose-in-a-fisted-glove:

lexluthor-is-bae:

destroy-the-fucking-patriarchy:

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THOSE WERE ONLY A COUPLE OF INCIDENTS YOU ASSHOLE! Compared to the MAAAANY terrorist attacks by radical muslims

Wow. Can we just appreciate this cognitive dissonance here.
“Only a couple of incidents” versus ‘many attacks by radical Muslims’

Like, they aren’t even denying that pro-lifers have blown up clinics but it’s different because it supposedly happened less times within the US than attacks by radical Muslim extremists.

I’m not sure why you said “supposedly” when it is less.

According to statistics gathered by the National Abortion Federation (NAF), an organization of abortion providers, since 1977 in the United States and Canada, there have been 17 attempted murders, 383 death threats, 153 incidents of assault or battery, 13 wounded,^[12] 100 butyric acid stink bomb attacks, 373 physical invasions, 41 bombings, 655 anthrax threats,^[13] and 3 kidnappings committed against abortion providers. 

Meanwhile, between 1970 and today there have been a grand total of 13 terrorist attacks by Muslim extremists within the US and 8 in Canada. 

So, even if you only count the terrorist attacks in which damage was done. You’re looking at 587 successful terrorist attacks from pro-lifers (not included death and anthrax threats) and 21 terrorist attacks from extreme Muslim fundamentalists. 

That is why supposedly is there. 

Pro-lifers are quantitatively, significantly, statistically, a larger threat to public peace than Muslim extremists. 

FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK:

Pro-lifers are quantitatively, significantly, statistically, a larger threat to public peace than Muslim extremists.

I couldn’t NOT share this..

I’m more scared of extremist white Christians than I’ll ever be of Muslim extremists.  

^^

adeptus-astarteej:

It’s really depressing how Labor Day has gone from “give laborers a day off” to “give white collar office workers and executives a day off but make retail laborers work so that executives can get a latte on their day off”

younhgyun:

are u: “sorry?” or “excuse me?” or “what?” when you dont hear/understand what someone says