Dummies think that caring about butterflies is for romantics & bleeding hearts. It’s not. The larvae of butterflies are one of the primary paths by which solar radiation is converted into a living food web, i.e. the ecosystem upon which all life relies. Without them, we are gone
just for reference ... $880 billion is just about the entire medicaid budget, but the headline doesn't say "we are eliminating medicaid"
cruelty is the point here. people will die.
No offense but we watched South Korean parliament members climb walls and push past armed soldiers to stop their coup this year, I think they could try a little harder to defend our democracy
Right so, “resist” means *don’t* follow fascist orders.
Don’t take the art off the walls.
Don’t delete the website.
Don’t open the dams.
Play dumb. Ask for clarity, repeatedly. Lose the email. Misplace the keys. Stall. Ignore. Forget. Crawl.
You are the line, you hold it.
the acronym was changed once to put lesbians at the front after the aids epidemic to thank them for their solidarity and support. Sure, it's just an acronym, but i think a symbolic change like this would be beautiful.
It's crazy how even in modern day you can find people who wholeheartedly would've supported the Holocaust back in the 40s, genuinely evil people like this would argue that you can't hide Jews because it's a crime
Franco, Hitler, Mao, Pinochet, Pol Pot, Stalin, and countless other dictators said virtually the same thing as Vance does here.
To authoritarians, experts and academics are always the enemy
“That’s when they suspended the constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn’t any rioting in the streets. People stayed home, watching their televisions, looking for direction. There wasn’t even an enemy you could put a finger on.”
- Margaret Atwood, Handmaids Tale
a lot of people quoting this saying “you’re free to leave” like no i don’t think i am actually. i can’t just obtain visas to wherever i want. it costs money to move. leaving is actually fairly difficult.
Listen Disney getting rid of the muppet area to put in a new ride is insane, as if hollywood studios doesn't have entire cul de sacs full of abandoned buildings. Like consider having more than 5 things to do in the whole park before you tear anything out