notyourkinddear:

apophysis:

notyourkinddear:

Are 100% “like that”.

are we done policing white people yet? if you really want progression then start trying to teach others, not condemn and fight with them over privilege. privilege clearly exists and we need to be aware of that. but we need to teach others to be aware of it instead of attacking them when they display it. in order to make progress in the struggle for equality we have to stop holding grudges towards, and ideals of, the way we wish we could make people see or act less ignorantly.

instead of attacking and feeling the need to offend, generalize, and diminish the weight of others’ words, thoughts, and feelings by dismissing them as privileged and thus blind to your struggles, please speak up and use your humanity to communicate in a way that can nurture and teach others about the world around them and the people in it whom they are not yet cognizant of.

Bullshit.

They are totally cognizant. No one owes them in education. And they don’t listen when it is offered.

How about you go educate everyone, and fuck off telling those of us who deal with the bullshit 24/7 how to cope with shit?

I’m not the one “attacking” anyone - white people fuck everything up but we gotta talk about how they feel attacked for being told so? I don’t give a fuck.

Are white people done running shit, invented a time machine, and gone back and corrected, at the least, a millennium of cultural and physical genocide?

Then perhaps they should sit down and educate themselves by listening to the POC meanies without opening their mouths to privilege their own feelings over other people’s humanity.

It’s not up to POC to forgive white folks first. We’ve got to stand down first and let go of the fear of retribution that we obviously think we’ve got coming to us.

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Rewatching Buffy has finally prodded me into reading Season 8.

I’m already spoiled on a major death (which was the final prodding point that I should either read them or just learn the canon in summary form) but otherwise I have no clue what is going to happen other than sadness… and a race fail or two.

The two things I expect from Joss Whedon.

Bush unveils vision for moon and beyond - CNN

Jan 15, 2004

Black Bush by Dave Chappelle

thingsihateaboutnewt:

Newt Gingrich proposed a US moon colony by 2020.

M-A-R-S MARS, BITCHES.

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buttsociety:

Simply lovely Jessica thank you

Oh gosh

I have found my tumblrhome

:3

Hey, liquidiousfleshbag, I found something that might cheer you up.

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daniellemertina:

Bullying and racism are often viewed as mutually exclusive. Which goes beyond me. Because in fact, racism (in microaggression form) is a specific type of bullying.

Take cyber bullying for example … a really big deal now since tons of…

It took me a second to process this image.

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GREAT episode. I mean, I loved the Buffy high school years and then was like eh. So I’m not the most die hard fan. But this is one of the best TV Drama episodes of all time I think. And I love that blue duster coat thing she wears. So of its time.

I agree. The Buffy/Angel plot arc is seriously spectacular television and they both totally stepped up into the roles. I definitely start criticizing Buffy more in the later seasons for being super grumpy all the time (mostly once Dawn appears and she’s extra harsh on her), but I’m seeing how she really starts retreating into herself over this season. In Becoming Part I you see her cry at her mirror (with Angel lurking outside!) and her parents are fighting about her…

while she processes that some dude with a bad mustache just showed her that she’s got superpowers and has to fight vampires or otherwise everybody dies. And she realizes that she has to pretend she’s sneaking out with boys and her whole life is going to be getting into trouble for no good reason because if she tells anybody the truth they’ll lock her away (annoyingly/wonderfully explored in a later season). So she’s learning right there that she needs to lock HERSELF away.

And then her super-hero identity becomes her main self-identity, no matter how hard she tries to believe the face she puts on for everybody else and she starts feeling every single death as a failure on her part. You can see her trying to cope with it by surrounding herself with friends who don’t feel the weight of being The Slayer, but she’s often stone-faced, thinking about the people she wasn’t able to save. She finds Angel and he helps her cope with the guilt because he’s got even more than she does.

When she loses him she really starts walling herself off as her last ditch coping mechanism. Not only was it her fault because she wasn’t able to save somebody in time, it’s her fault because she gave Angel his soul back. The death is just one step away from her direct cause. And then Joyce dies of a natural cause that she can’t control or fight and she’s left protecting her supernatural sister and the whole world when she sees an out in killing herself to save everything.

And it all leads up to that moment in Weight of the World where she gives up.

This got way long.

The Buffy and Angel Trivia Guide // Kendra’s accent

Bianca Lawson explaining why Kendra’s accent was so fucked.

Not a bad way to start off your afterlife, I have to say.

XANDER I will teach… zee Language of Love!
CORDELIA Don’t touch me! You have fish hands!
XANDER Come, let me caress you!
CORDELIA Stop it!
XANDER Let me in!
CORDELIA No! Don’t!
SNYDER That’s enough of that. And you! Are we having a chair shortage?
WILLOW I didn’t read anything about… Oh. I get it.
SNYDER These public displays of affection are not acceptable in my school. This isn’t an orgy, people. It’s a classroom.
BUFFY Yeah, where they teach lunch.

Cordelia likes him so much. Look at that face. That’s luuuuuuuuuuuuurve. And for all I knock Xander, his fish stick theater is a excellent example of why he’s (boy)friend material. If this wasn’t already so long I would have three caps from this scene. One of the fish sticks, one of Cordelia and Xander, and one of Oz, Willow, and Buffy. Poor Buffy. Surrounded by happy couples and all she can think about is how she has to kill the only person she has ever loved. Don’t worry, Buffy. This is the last time happiness makes an appearance for quite a while.

Well that was a short period of liking Xander.

SPIKE It’s a big rock. Can’t wait to tell my friends. They don’t have a rock this big.

Spike has all three of my favorite lines this episode. #2 is also from this scene.

SPIKE Let me guess. Someone pulls out the sword…
ANGEL Someone worthy…
SPIKE Mm. The demon wakes up, and wackiness ensues.

GILES OOH. May I? May I?

Giles is the cutest nerd.

Starting off your relationship with Buffy as a TOTAL creeper. Well done, Angel.

ANGEL I wanna learn from you.
WHISTLER Alright.
ANGEL But I don’t wanna dress like you.
WHISTLER Again, you’re annoying me. You’re lucky we need you on our side.

Whose side is Whistler on? duhn duhn duhnn!

SPIKE Someone wasn’t worthy.

I am on Spike’s side. (Favorite line #3)

KENDRA In case the curse does not succeed, this is my lucky stake. I have killed many vampires with it. I call it Mr. Pointy.

!!! Mr. Pointy !!!

ANGEL Hello, lover. I wasn’t sure you’d come.
BUFFY After your immolation-o-gram? Come on, I had to show. Shouldn’t you be out destroying the world right now, pulling the sword out of Al Franken or whatever his name is?

THAT’S SENATOR AL FRANKEN (DFL-MN) TO YOU!!!

Blocking the scene so the vamp steps over Kendra’s dead body is a really nice stake to the heart, Joss.

OH COME ONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN.

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Skinner and his steamed hams

As a dessert for making it through all that BLS data… here’s some classic Simpsons.

Here’s Obama’s total private sector job growth/losses since taking office.

He’s a little over 1 million jobs shy of net 0 change and that’s a pretty steady, though not very steep, trend.

So, my previous post makes a disingenuous point that Democrats are better at shrinking government than Republicans by including state and local government employees in the data. If you just look at federal numbers for 2001 - 2011 you get this… which shows a complete lack of less federal employment growth in the Bush era. (EDIT: there is a significant uptick at the end of his term… see addendum at bottom of post)

There are about 25,000 more federal employees now than there were when Obama took office and that number’s been pretty stable for the past four months.

Not exactly the MASSIVE GOVERNMENT GROWTH one hears about but he’s also not firing federal employees either. The plan for the next few years with regards to choking federal employment is to basically not fill positions as they become available… so I expect that number to slowly trickle down in Obama’s second term.

By the way, George W Bush’s net private sector job growth over his term was 188,000. Job creator extraordinaire.

ETA: Here’s the graph for total federal employees in 2007-08.

Make of it what you will.

Over his 8 years there was a net gain of 28,000 federal employees.

37% of The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was what Republicans like to call “tax relief.” Go fuck your “only supply-side” tax cuts count as tax cuts. 

The public sector (federal, state, and local) has lost 610,000 jobs from January 2009 to December 2011.

That constitutionally mandated census hiring sure is Obama’s fault. MASSIVE GOVERNMENT GROWTH. (You can make your own graphs from BLS data too!)

Mickey Kaus made a graph going back to 2000. Which, to me, looks like a pretty good argument that Republicans suck at shrinking government and Democrats are good at it, but what do I know?

Or maybe policies at the federal level have very little to do with what the economy does. HMMMMMMMMMMMM?