Listen, if a Bad President can come in and take away our rights and we're dependent on a Good President replacing them in four years to give us back our rights, then we do not have any rights.
If politicians can take or distribute them, then they're not "inalienable" and they're not "rights."
We don't have inalienable rights we have conditional privileges, divvied out according to the whims of whoever currently holds the reins.
And if we want to have actual rights, then we must build a system in which no one has the power to take them away to begin with.
A road sign flashed this on a highway in Seattle days after the shooting death of the UnitedHealthcare CEO
📸: KOMO
I think we owe an apology to the Americans, looks like at least some of the issues with their healthcare system can be addressed with guns
Britain is already one-upping the Wonka scam by making the LEGO Dashcon ballpit real
an extra hour in the brick pit
save the environment, LGBTQ rights too. commit to artist unions. How about a moat? Or iron gate? a goon? How about all that. think it over sire.
you’re laughing. everybody has come back to tumblr bc every other social media site is breaking just as homestuck comes back, david tennant comes back to doctor who, news is conveyed via canon destiel meme, and a show about MCU loki is airing, in a full revival of the 2012 tumblr era, and you’re laughing.
Yesterday my conservative parents were Shocked and Horrified that the UHC CEO was murdered. Thoughts and prayers etc. I couldn’t make a single joke. It wouldn’t have gone over well. Tragic
Tonight my folks were ranting about how their new insurance denied my dad one medication unless he tried another medication first, then denied that medication because his recent blood tests indicated he didn’t need any medication, never mind that this a direct result of my dad being on the original medication for years
So I chimed in “kinda makes sense that someone went and 86’d the United guy, huh”
And I got to watch the wheels spin in his head for a few seconds before scoffing and saying “yeah. Guess it does”
Seeds are being planted!
for reasons i shall not discuss, a tweet
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