So listen, Mandalorian & Grogu is going to make bank opening weekend no matter what AND most theaters are going to still show it the following weekend in premium formats-
-so spend the weekend of the 22nd seeing ❤️ I LOVE BOOSTERS ❤️ instead. Support independent cinema.
You see this kind of thing in struggling lower-income Southern households, and it tells a very specific story.
When life hasn't delivered much.... no wealth, no power, no real social standing.... some folks discover that white supremacy is basically a free membership card to a club that makes them feel superior without requiring any actual achievement.
It's the world's laziest status symbol.
The starter kit is always the same:
*A Confederate flag honoring a war their ancestors lost badly 160 years ago.
*A gun they'll never actually need.
*A Bible they've never actually read.
*And Fox News running 24/7 telling them they're REAL Americans.... unlike those fancy elitist Democrats who are secretly importing an army of replacement voters to steal their....
Their what exactly? Their Dollar General? Their 1987 Camaro on cinder blocks in the yard?
FOX found the formula, and they never let go of it: Take a man who has nothing, tell him the reason he has nothing is because those people are taking it.... and suddenly he's not a struggling nobody.
He's a soldier in a cultural war. He matters. He's relevant. He becomes a MAGA Warrior!
And THAT.... ladies and gentlemen.... is precisely how a twice-impeached, four-times-indicted, 34-time felon, bankrupt New York con man who golfs at his own resorts became the hero of the working man.
You genuinely cannot make this stuff up.
And I write this so that hopefully they will recognize what they have done and what they are doing and snap out of it.....
I was born and raised in Appalachia ... These very people could be my relatives ..... but ... I .... got common sense from my granny ----- "question everything". VIA~Lee Murphy
The Civil Rights Movement has now been repealed by Confederate traitors. I want the people responsible for doing it replaced by any means necessary. I really don’t care how it happens and neither should anyone anymore.
Women are out here sharing live locations, checking the backseats of cars, and holding their hands over their drinks. Men are doing 3 hour podcasts about how unfair it is that we don't smile at them. The disconnect is fatal.
Brionna Johnson was told she would have to end her pregnancy and undergo a hysterectomy. Instead, a 27-pound fibroid was removed while preserving her pregnancy and her ability to have children. Too often, Black women face limited options or are not heard. This outcome shows what is possible when patients are listened to and given real care. Equity in maternal care is not a luxury, it is a necessity.
We turned a holiday that was supposed to be anti-war into a celebration of bloodlust.
We heckle and taunt people who devote to service just because they're black.
We cheer and worship a man just because he murdered and tortured Muslims.
Such a civilised society.
The thing is, when people say men are “naturally” more violent, it’s never used to actually question anything. We’d be having serious conversations about why men dominate positions of power, why they have such easy access to weapons, why they commit the majority of violent crime, sexual violence, domestic abuse, and why they’re responsible for most wars and large-scale harm globally.
Boys are raised in environments that reward control, entitlement, emotional suppression, and aggression, and then those same traits show up in violence, abuse, exploitation, and whether it’s in homes, relationships, or entire systems. And as long as people keep saying it as “just how men are,” it removes responsibility. Because if it’s learned, it can be unlearned but that would require men, collectively, to actually confront what’s being normalized instead of defending it.
Men: "I wouldn't date a woman who's ever been a stripper”
In that case, I wouldn't date a man who's ever been to a strip club.
Men: “I wouldn't date a woman who's ever done porn”
In that case too, I wouldn't date a man who's ever watched porn.
You're the reason sex workers and porn exist. Porn exists because men are the demand to the supply.
If you disdain sex workers, you don’t get to consume their labour.
As they say in the industry, "Men jack off with the left hand and point with the right."
@DrCaseyBabb Just to put things in perspective: the entire mess in the Middle East, from Lebanon to Iran, and the majority of antisemitism in the West, is the direct result of millions of people unwilling to accept genocide, ethnic cleansing, and a settler-colonial apartheid ethnostate.
Israel killed every single person in this photo in Lebanon.
Every. Single. One.
All journalists.
Targeted and assassinated intentionally.
For reporting the truth from the frontlines.