Tag: america

liberalsarecool:

justinspoliticalcorner:

mediamattersforamerica:

Conservatives, especially on Fox News and other right-wing media outlets, have long framed George Soros as a “puppet master” and a “globalist” who controls the government with his “tentacles.” Sam Bee explains that type of language didn’t come out of nowhere. 

Samantha Bee’s 1st segment last night hit home the truth about the prevalence of antisemitism in America. 

Trump speaks in dog whistles and anti-semitic coded language with the greatest of ease. It is second nature for him. He sells white victimhood just as easy.

dabblingindissent:

kropotkhristian:

Particularly if you live in Texas, please vote, just for the schadenfreude. Can you even imagine if Texas goes blue. Can you even imagine Ted Cruz losing. I’m getting giddy just thinking about the conservative meltdown. There is literally zero path to the Presidency for Republicans that doesn’t include Texas. If they have to sweat bullets for the next forever thinking that Texas might be a left-leaning state… guys, this just sounds like a fun time.

Vote for Beto for the schadenfreude.

Native cultures are not interchangeable.

dragons-and-gays:

finding-my-culture:

Every single Native culture is distinct and unique, though many share similarities, and lumping them together is ridiculous. And while some practices are pan-Indian, the vast majority are not.

Kokopelli isn’t “Native American,” He’s Hopi.

Dreamcatchers aren’t “Native American,” they’re Ojibwe.

War bonnets aren’t “Native American,” they’re Plains Indian.

Wendigoag aren’t “Native American,” they’re Algonquian.

Totem poles aren’t “Native American,” they’re Northwest Coastal Indian.

Skinwalkers aren’t “Native American,” they’re Navajo.

Stop homogenizing our cultures. Every Native culture is beautiful and unique and deserves to be treated that way.

Don’t fall into the trope of “pan Indian”. Fucking teepees and totem poles never existed together. Totem poles are permanent structures, teepees are fucking tents for nomadic peoples. First Nations and indigenous cultures are all deep and uniquely complex, it would be like confusing England with Russia.

unconsciouscomplaining:

twodotsknowwhy:

adjectivebear:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

Do not just assume that the Democrats are going to win…the only way we can GUARANTEE that the Democrats make gains in these midterms is for people to go out and vote

Whatever the polls say, get out there and vote democrat, whereever you are

Do not just assume that they’ll “Definitely win” and so it doesn’t matter if you go out and vote or not

Remember how many people didn’t vote in 2016 because Hillary was “definitely going to win?”

Vote.

Vote like you will be the tie-breaker

VOTE LIKE YOU WILL BE THE TIE-BREAKER.

vaspider:

esser-z:

justsomeantifas:

I’d honestly rather millions of drug addicts get safe opiates from doctors, than a single person with chronic pain go without because of the drug addiction fear mongering in the medical community. 

Notwithstanding the fact that providing drug addicts with drugs actually decreases addiction rates. As well as saves lives on all ends, because drug addicts are less likely to overdose on unsafe street drugs cut with god knows what, and disabled people are less likely to die from self-medication. 

It also decreases the spread of STDs, and so on. There’s endless benefits to it. But uh I guess keep fucking punishing disabled people and addicts because it makes yall feel morally superior or some shit–getting people killed for ideological purity.

Portugal legalized everything, with a couple caveats. If you’re found with (large amounts of, IIRC) drugs multiple times, you get a panel. The panel consists of a lawyer, a judge, and a doctor. Their job is to help you deal with addiction–not PUNISH YOU for having drugs, but help you overcome addiction.

The results? Oh baby, the results are fantastic. Portugal has far less addiction and fewer overdoses than basically anyone else. They’re treating drug problems as medical problems instead of crimes, and it’s absolutely working!

Oh, and America’s opiod crisis? Basically entirely the fault of drug corporations pushing high power painkillers on doctors/patients, including selling oxycontin with a 12 hour dose regimen when studies showed it really didn’t work that long, and refusing to adjust to the science.

And since, oops, it’s highly addictive, people end up getting cut off and then going for street opiods to deal. Instead of, y’know, being properly aided by medical professionals.

America insists on treating drug addiction as a moral failing instead of a medical condition, and it’s killing people.

And now a lot of doctors won’t prescribe them, which fucks over people like me who can’t function without the pain control they provide. And since the pharmacy companies charge an assbutt for oxycontin and for abuse-resistant things like Xtampza, insurance companies won’t pay for them. 

Which leaves people like me taking … morphine.