justin mcelroy has said many powerful things but honestly no set of words in the english language conveys the same energy as “that’s a funny trick to play on god”
“you’re rearranging deck chairs on the titanic, my friend” is a very close second
Scientist bakes sourdough bread with yeast derived from 4500 year old Egyptian pottery
i'm losing my mind @ this thread......historie......
Hey American followers!
I know you don’t tend to reblog any politics of countries other than your own… but the Canadian Federal Election is going to be this year in October!
In Canada we don’t replace 1/3 of the government every couple of years, we replace every single seat. EVERYONE has to run for a seat all at the same time, through the whole nation. Party that gets the most votes? Their leader usually becomes the Prime Minister.
We need your help (And you can help by reblogging this too!)
Not enough information on Canadian politics and issues is circulated on tumblr. Despite there being a lot of Canadians, somehow most of us can go a whole year without seeing a post about Canada, even when we make a point about following Canadians.
The US election will be ramping up in the early primaries when Canada’s entire election happens (We don’t campaign very long and we have a LOT of rules about campaigning too).
Trudeau has failed us. Entirely. He is doing nothing about climate change, he’s chummy with Trump, he violates land treaties, he pushes pipelines through unceeded territory, he’s having our native peoples arrested for protesting this, he has not investigated the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, he’s been a HUGE fan of The Glass Cliff while calling himself a feminist, he has repeatedly broken promises including electoral reform (our system is actually not great! Maybe not as rigged as yours, but it badly favours the Liberal and Conservative parties!), and been over-all pretty bad for us. It’s especially infuriating that we see all of this and also you guys reblogging photo-op pieces of him going on about how great he is for going to pride and being cute (That’s actually not an indicator here when only one party leader hasn’t gone in like, 20 years).
We need the NDP or the Greens this year. We need them to have a loud voice at the very least. We need your help to do this. We need you to blog this time, for once, about an election that isn’t american. Our politics affect you too. We affect you as much as you affect us, we are neighbours and unless y’all invade us again some time soon, it’s not likely to change. Help us get someone better into office. Please, reblog posts about the Canadian Election when they start appearing in September/October.
Americans Can And Should Reblog This Post Please.
This is super important. The kind of nasty, bigoted populism that’s come to rise in the USA has leeched up here too and they’re only getting bolder. I’ve never been a fan of the Conservative party but they’ve become particularly embedded with these kind of alt-right populist scumbags and they’re heavily relying both on the general lack of coverage of Canadian politics and masquerading as the old-style Conservatives to get elected. People will vote for them because most people (especially the older, more reliable voting base) only see the Liberals and Conservatives as viable parties so they will only vote for one of them, and people are pissed at Trudeau.
It really, really doesn’t bode well if Scheer gets elected in the Fall. Not for immigrants, or other marginalized communities, or the climate. And I’m no fan of Trudeau but as far as things to with relations to Trump, I can only imagine that Scheer would be infinitely worse. Those two controlling all of North America would be scary. This is honestly a terrifying time to be having an election the way that politics is going and we have few good options and are struggling with our own populist movement and a rise in hate and politically-motivated disinformation.
DON’T IGNORE THIS.
Also if any of you (Canadian or not) are looking to see more about Canadian politics on your dash, I highly recommend starting by following @allthecanadianpolitics (they’re left-wing but if you agree with this post I don’t think that’ll be an issue for you). There are blogs out there that do post about Canadian politics, they just tend to require a lot more searching to track down because tumblr is very saturated with American topics.
VOTING CONSERVATIVE WILL MAKE IT WORSE
CANADA IS NOT A TWO PARTY SYSTEM.
THERE ARE OPTIONS.
Here in NS a really common argument not to vote NDP is “the one time they got in they did a bad job.” I’m sorry, how many tries are you going to give the Conservatives and Liberals to do a worse job over and over again?
And as for all my fellow Indigenous Canadians: Trudeau rode in on the backs of a lot of our peoples votes, because a lot of us believed in his lies, and because we were desperate to get Harper out and he seemed the most likely option. But we can’t let this discourage us from voting again. Our ancestors went too long without the right for us to waste it.
And most of all:
📢 VOTING CONSERVATIVE WILL MAKE IT WORSE
CANADA IS NOT A TWO PARTY SYSTEM.
What does “Canada is not a two party system” mean?
It means there’s no such thing as spoiling/wrecking the vote (like Nader to Al Gore).
In the US, you vote for the presidential candidates, which every party can only nominate one member, and where the simple majority winner in the electoral college gets the job. This typically results in two large parties getting most of the vote by the spoiler vote effect: voting third party hurts your 2nd choice candidate.
In Canada and other parliamentary systems, you vote to elect party members to seats as Members of Parliament (MPs), and the party with the majority of seats becomes the ruling party which then elects its leader as Prime Minister. If one party doesn’t get majority, they have to form a coalition with another party to form a majority, and that means compromising to the demands of that party, be if NDP or even Green. So there is no worry about promoting the ones you like leading to the election of those you do not, unlike in the US.
ever notice how men criticize games like animal crossing and stardew valley on the basis of “the entire game is just doing tasks” without recognizing that “kill bad guy” is also just a task but violent?
”it’s so boring all you do is talk to people and do tasks so you can buy new things” yeah and all you do is press a bunch of buttons to kill people so you can buy new things? perish
my activity page has not known peace since i made this post i have hundreds of insufferable gamers crawling up my pant legs now but luckily i have a secret up my sleeve… i too am a gamer man. im immune to the gamer venom
talking to my infant son like im a youtuber
Whats up baby. Father here bringing you another spoonful of Gerber ham and gravy baby food
i’ve been playing sims 4 because my sleep schedule got backwards and i need to loop and there’s no better way for it to suddenly be five hours later than playing the sims
(i prefer sims 3 but sims 3 is more engrossing and i want to catch up on podcasts instead of creating an interesting sims narrative so sims 4 it is)
i made a new game because i wanted to see how many gens deep i could get, and i realized that without the seamless neighborhood you basically need to have as few people in your household as possible if you ever want to go anywhere, otherwise one sim will go to the museum and they’ll come home and everyone is asleep in the yard for some reason and all the appliances are broken
so i get my sim a girlfriend but then when she finally seals the deal, this girl changes into this before getting into bed
and THAT’S when i discover that she doesn’t have the custom gender settings to get my sim knocked up. but by this point i’m invested and i don’t want my girl to have spent all this time seducing a furry for nothing, so i cheat and edit her gender and my sim is finally pregnant. her furry hookup keeps calling at three in the morning but my sim doesn’t answer.
my pregnant sim finds a nasty stray dog outside and ends up adopting it at which point i discover that you can’t control dogs anymore. remember when you could control your pets? get your pet a job and whatnot? yeah, none of that. that might have been sims 2, actually. anyway now there’s a dog, whatever, maybe her future daughter will like poor Mister Mojo.
except THEN she has TWINS and i did not!! do anything!!! to influence twins!!!! i wanted one girl! my sim is now a single mom with twins and a dog living in a one bedroom on an artist’s salary.
i don’t give a shit about the son because i want this line to be matrilineal so i give him the ‘angelic’ trait in the hopes that this will let me ignore him more. it backfires immediately and he is now my sim’s favorite because he never throws tantrums, unlike his sister, who wants to learn everything but also never be taught. boy baby spends a lot of time with the dog while his sister screams.
not long after they grow up into kids, the dog up and dies. i probably should have seen this coming. death shows up to claim mojo, and everyone comes together to witness the claiming of his dog soul, and the heir to the family line brings her salad with her.
for like ten minutes everyone stood in the front hall wailing while death claimed this dog, and she just stood there eating her salad, watching her brother lose his shit because this dog raised him
after the dog dies i take a minute to deal with everyone’s grief and find a nice place for the urn or whatever, and do you know what i saw in the kitchen when i was done
????
i don’t know what she said to him but he left a little while later. also she’s mastered the violin. i don’t know where this family can even go from here. i feel like we peaked at gen 2.
hey julianne? quick question
what the fuck
i mean i guess your brother is happy but like… what did you say to death
what did you do
julianne, eating her salad while the family cries over the dead dog: “dude. chill. I’ll have a talk with death see what we can do” *proceeds to have a fiddling battle with death where she gains mastery over the fiddle and her dog’s soul*
LOL THIS FUCKING EPISODE
Shoutout to the middle schooler who tripped on the way out of the school auditorium and yelled “Aw fuck! I’ve been nerfed!” I’ve been thinking about that for four hours now
Me, seeing one of those decorative stone garden animals: …….how did this happen to you……how can I turn you back………..
jeff bezos: now that i’m the richest man on the planet with a net worth of over 100 billion dollars
jeff bezos: how about i create new ways to fuck over my employees and underpay them
me:
Jeff Bezos currently has a net worth of $133.2 billion.
It’s remarkable to me that he could personally afford to fix Puerto Rico’s critical infrastructure, and still be among the top 10 billionaires in the USA afterwards. He could afford to completely repair Puerto Rico and still have enough money to be in the top 20.
Jeff Bezos could afford to personally end world hunger for a year and still be among the top 10 US billionaires. He could feed the entire planet for 3 years and still be in the top 20.
If you had $133.2 billion in a savings account with an interest rate of 0.06% (the average rate), you would receive $79.9 million in interest every year without having to do anything. All he needs to do is keep breathing, and he will make 57 times more this year than an average US citizen will make in their entire lifetime.
He could spend $80 million this year and would not even notice its absence.
It’s estimated that it would take $55 million and a year of work to fix Flint, MI’s water supply.
I’m just saying.
I can’t imagine having that kind of money and NOT trying to help others with it.
The struggle. The uneven tear. The cat fucking stomping the chocolate getting it everywhere. This video has it all.
Im fucking crying
anyway jeff bezos could eradicate homelessness. he could literally give each homeless person 100k and it would only take less than .5% of his entire wealth. what the actual god giving fuck
Why do you think they deserve it
Well shelter is a basic need, and would at the very least allow them a place where they can get back on their feet. Food water and shelter are necessary for a healthy body and psychology. There’s also the fact that they’re people too, and a little help goes a long way in making a decent community. There’s plenty of reasons
Yeah they need stuff, but why does every homeless person deserve 0.5% of someone’s income
You have five hundred apples, and just one day to eat them all.
You pass by a small crowd of hungry children, and decide you’d rather 455 apples go rotten than give them to some snotty brat who isn’t your problem.
It doesn’t matter how hard you’ve worked for your 500 apples, or that you aren’t the parent of any of those kids. in the moment you decide to walk away, it doesn’t matter why they’re hungry, or who owes who what.
You had the opportunity to help people, you had the ability to help people, you had the resources to help people. You had everything you needed to make a small, tiny little difference in someone’s life, and you decided not to.
What are you going to buy in your lifetime that’s worth more to you than your own humanity?
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What are you going to buy in your lifetime that’s worth more to you than your own humanity
Reblogging for the very, very important lesson
Sometimes I wish there were a Hell if only for the visuals of a bunch of rich shit heads wandering around on fire asking “Where’s my money?!”
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“Why do you think they deserve it[?]”
Why does no one ask why people think people like Bezos deserve over a hundred BILLION dollars?
Bezos makes that money sitting on his ass while loads of people work jobs, in shitty conditions with lousy pay, earning him those billions. Compost the rich.