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Reminders:

1. Republicans under a previous administration forced them to fund retirement 80 years in advance for future workers who haven't been born yet in order to force it to run at a loss as an excuse to destroy it because it's cheaper and better for consumers than UPS and Fed Ex.

2. Ruining the post office harms small and micro-businesses that rely on cheap shipping, while helping UPS and Fed Ex , who are allowed to contribute to campaign coffers.

3. The USPS is a merit based diverse employers which still has excellent benefits, retirement, and decent pay. Republicans hate, hate, hate anything that is merit based and non-biased that also reminds workers in other fields they could have all those things.

4. It also proves how well the government can run things, so it's bad for their destroy the government and anything that is for the common good agenda.

5. The USPs is required to deliver to rural areas. Privatizing leaves elderly and disabled customers SOL for things they need like medications, etc.. Republicans would like elderly and disabled people to just die.

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The Six Triple Eight (2024) dir. Tyler Perry

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its christmas eve and look whos on tumblr

all of us

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KIM WOO BIN in OFFICER BLACK BELT (2024)

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Simon Pegg as Nandor Fodor in Nandor Fodor And The Talking Mongoose (2023)

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LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY | 1x07, "Book of Calvin"

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LEWIS PULLMAN & BRIE LARSON as CALVIN EVANS & ELIZABETH ZOTT | Lessons in Chemistry | 1.2 Her and Him

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I don't know what those '90s sci Fi TV writers were putting in their shows but I wish they'd start doing it again

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It’s almost time for the best Christmas tweet of all

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I love you PBS I love you NPR I love you public libraries I love you wikipedia I love you project gutenberg I love you librivox I love you libby I love you hoopla I love you openlibrary I love you internet archive I love you resources that make information free and accessible to the public

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I absolutely loved the first two episodes of Love in the Big City, and I thought all of the adaptation choices were brilliant, but the part that hit me most as I was watching and that my mind keeps circling back to relates to this question from @bengiyo:

In the novel, we see everything through Young's rather biting and cynical internal monologue, while in the drama we see other characters through a broader lens. With this different perspective, how does Mi Ae's outing of Go Yeong and the fallout change compared to the novel?

I think for me, this shift that allowed us to see Mi Ae outside of Yeong's perspective enhanced my empathy for her and for the choices she made. Because it all comes back to this quote, originally from the novel and used verbatim in the show:

"Through me, she learned that being a gay man sucks, and through her, I learned that being a woman equally sucks."

Yeong and Mi Ae connected with each other because they were both living outside the accepted norms and were isolated and lonely as a result. The forms of oppression they experienced were not the same, but it was a point of connection and the foundation of their deep bond. They fell in love with each other because of their shared choice to be themselves loudly, and fuck the social consequences. They were each other's most important person, regardless of who they were dating. And so when Mi Ae, shaken up after her abortion and exhausted by trying to fight the social tide, made the choice to stop being true to herself and conform, of course Yeong felt abandoned. And then when she outed him to protect her conformity, betrayed.

In the novel, we learn about Mi Ae (Jaehee) outing Yeong (Young) from him, and it's presented to us as a callous betrayal, because that's how it felt to him. But in the show, we get to see Mi Ae make that decision. We see how cornered she felt when her boyfriend confronted her about the lies she'd been telling, we see his genuine (justified) upset at learning she'd been living with a man he doesn't know, we see her panicking and reaching for something to smooth it over, and we can see that in the moment, it feels reasonable to her to tell her partner the truth. We can see that it wasn't malicious, and she did not intend to hurt Yeong.

But it still hurts, because in making that decision, she implicitly acknowledged that Yeong is no longer her most important person. Someone else, or at least the idea of what he represents, became her top priority, and she protected her romantic relationship rather than protecting Yeong. She still loved Yeong, but she wouldn't put him first any longer, and when she made that choice their relationship as they knew it was over. Mi Ae was ultimately captivated by the allure of social acceptance, and she chose a path of conformity that was not open to Yeong--she is, after all, a cishet woman and able to revert to societal expectations much more easily than Yeong ever could as a gay man who would struggle to pass even if he wanted to. Her choice was confirmation that, in fact, their situations do not equally suck, and she retreated to her privileged identity, leaving him behind.

And so we come to the scene that punched me in the heart more than any other in this first section: the two of them singing together at her wedding, taking one last glorious moment to be themselves again in front of people who would never understand them. In that moment I felt so sad for Yeong, that this relationship that meant so much to him was irrevocably changed, and for Mi Ae, that she abandoned these aspects of herself out of fear and committed herself to a man who looked stunned to see a glimpse of the real her. And more than anything, I felt sad about how isolating and alienating it feels to simply exist in the margins of what is socially acceptable, that conforming is always the easier choice for those who can hide, and that Yeong was once again left to struggle alone.

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winter wishes 🏠🌲🧦✨ | prints

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Back In My Day you could see gerard way straddle his guitarist onstage for $25. yeah the cost of several cartons of eggs. Drag Related Inflation