Tag: non spn

I’m one of those people who loooves debate. It’s sport to me. And, like, don’t get me wrong, I don’t do it for some kind of intellectual reason, I do it because I want to win. I love the mental challenge of agruements and the thrill of winning.

When I was in high school, (5 years ago now, which is strange to say) I was captain of the debate team, an award winning congressional debater, part of the Model UN, and I drafted legislation for Youth and Government (real legislation, too. Stuff my team argued in the State House in front of State Reps). So yeah, I fricken looove debate. I love fighting with words. It’s thrilling. I didn’t do much in college though, because the Mock Trial team was always at dumb times.

So given that it would make sense if I threw down on the internet all the time. But, I don’t. See, one of the things I was always guaranteed in debate matches was good faith arguements. No matter what side of an issue I was on or who I was debating, there was the pretense that no one was arguing to be a jackass. We debated for fun and sometimes we debated nonsense (my favorite was a Purge style piece of legislation that was just nuts) but we never really took much of it to heart. Outside of the matches and the floor meetings we hung out. We joked. We complainted about homework and got lunch and complimented each other on our skills. No one was there to be an ass.

But the internet is a strange beast. I can’t argue with people on the internet because there is no good faith. There is no changing of opinions. I can cite sources all day and I’m met with people who just don’t believe in survey data or certain sciences or like, facts. And trying to point out logical fallicies is a nightmare. It’s not about winning through intellect, it’s about winning through denial and name calling. And unfortunately it’s like that irl, too, anymore. It makes me sad, not just because I want a good word fight, but also because it’s clear too many people have just stopped caring about changing their opinions or listening.

onewordtest:

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butim-justharry:

household memes. memes that only make sense to the people you live with.

for example, in my house: saying ‘ew’ in a monotone voice, slapping your leg and saying “iiiiiii know it!” and the other person replies “well that’s just it.”

reblog with your household memes in the comments or tags

guys, if you ever need writing prompts, I encourage you to look at the tags on this post cuz I’ve never seen anything more strange and wonderful

cursing out the oatmeal

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endmerit:

Remember that time Daleks and Cybermen had sass-off?

THIS IS LITERALLY MY FAVE SCENE FROM DOCTOR WHO EVER I AM NOT EVEN JOKING I AM SO GLAD SOMEONE MADE A POST OF IT I THINK ABOUT THIS MORE OFTEN THAN IS NORMAL UGH IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY

No one sasses better than the Daleks and Cybermen. No one.

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I loved this ridiculous moment so much okay

ANGRY CYBORG SASS OFF

This was my favourite bit

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deaddboy:

no one wants to admit they shop at hot topic but we all do 

I love Hot Topic and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a black corset with matching lace around it and a black leather miniskirt, pink fishnets and black combat boots. I was wearing black lipstick, white foundation, black eyeliner and red eye shadow. I was walking outside Hogwarts. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of preps stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.

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Trump retweeted a 16-year-old Grand Theft Auto youtuber and this furthers my belief that gamergate was a precursor to Trumpism.

More specifically it was about the radicalization of young white men, which is both a cultural and security issue that goes largely unaddressed. Gamergate was Baby’s First Reactionary Movement. You take a group of boys, tell the, the world owes them everything, and watch what happens when they don’t get it. They’ll look to anyone who will  point to a group to blame. It’s pretty much the same formula whether it’s gamers, coal miners, or white-collar dickheads who are positive their black boss got the job through affirmative action. It all boils down to this cultural resentment of a privileged group realizing that their privileges are very slowly eroding. It is in no way an accident that gamergate’s biggest heroes, namely Milo Yiannopolis and Mike Cernovich, are Trump’s most enthusiastic boosters online. 

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God I wish some politician would come out and say it’s time to cut the umbilical cord to the founding fathers. We’re being crushed under our guns and our all-consuming free market ideology because some agrarian noblemen couldn’t imagine anything better. How much more do we owe these people, we keep trailing the world by more and more, because Germany doesn’t stop to think if Otto Von Bismark would approve of new legislation and Italian courts don’t dive into the writings of Julius Caesar to see if a new program is acceptable. America’s role in the world is something the founding fathers couldn’t have imagined. At some point you have to move on for the sake being a modern country.

But really our current concept of strict constitutional originalism is, like most of modern conservatism, a reaction to the civil rights era. There has always been debate over how literally the constitution should be taken, but only when the Warren court started declaring that the constitution held segregation to be illegal (among other things like Miranda rights) did conservatives come to the belief that not even the smallest implication could be extracted from the constitution. If you weren’t going by the direct words stated, you were a “judicial activist” and “legislating from the bench.” So we’re stuck forever with mediocrities like Antonin Scalia and Neil Gorsuch, who make sure we never do anything that would exceed the imagination of an 18th century slaveowner. They interpret the holy text as best they can, and by sheer luck, every single case leads them to the conclusion that best suits the needs of the modern corporate and religious interests of the Republican Party. Aren’t we lucky to have them and their wisdom that ensures we’ll always live in a world made by agrarian noblemen and never anything else.

I would just like to say that you guys are literally the best.

I was freaking out about posting about my gender issues and had been holding on to that post for about a week. But the amount of support and love and affirmation you all have given me has been amazing and it’s meant the world to me. Y’all are really special. So thank you, each and every one of you.

I’m going to identify as gender fluid from here on out. If that changes I’ll let you know, but I think trying to understand who I am and what makes me most comfortable is where I should go from here. I’m ordering a binder, too, so hopefully, that will help. Feel free to use she/her and he/him pronouns for me. I’m not sure how I feel about they/them for myself at this point, but I do know I like those two sets. When I have days where I just absolutely don’t want to be referred to as she/her I’ll let you guys know in a post and change my pronouns on my blog for however long that winds up being.

Again, thank you guys, so so much. You’re all wonderful and I love each any every one of you. 💖