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REBLOG THIS TO GIVE THE PERSON YOU REBLOGGED THIS FROM A GOLD STAR BECAUSE THEY’VE BEEN STELLAR TODAY AND THEY DESERVE IT ⭐️

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this the only platform i have to post this joke

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Nah, it's meant to make online dating look scary, and it's intentionally misleading. Why do you think the graph stops at 2020 when they posted it in 2024? Is there something that happened in 2020 that caused people to do more of their socializing online?

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Y'all, when one of my closest friends and I first started talking, they asked to see my photography, so I sent her some frames. They started gushing over them; giving the kind of complements that seemed excited and genuine, but the self-defeating part of me whispered that they could just be being polite. Then, they sent a screenshot of their lock screen with one of my photos. It kinda stunned me, but now I just feel warm when I think about it.

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Man, I'm sure glad that there isn't a large group of people who think the left is immoral and untrustworthy because they were hesitant to vote for this administration.

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So do you stick it in and then take a puff? What are the logistics

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Tell me there was a puppet Joel and puppet bots in the audience.

A theater near me put on perhaps the most audacious puppet show this century.

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i hope im not just a mutual to you but also a really annoying stranger who is somehow always going through something

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I always think about the time that the BBC let the leader of a white supremacist party take part in an election debate. He was so humiliated by his opponents that he stormed off stage and everyone applauded in victory.

His party took home three times as many votes that election as the last one.

Me: *opens Tumblr dashboard*

Tumblr dash: It's misogynistic not to acknowledge that women are more susceptible to propaganda because our brains have more goo.

Me: *closes Tumblr dashboard*

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Not that anybody asked, but I think it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.

It's a necessary emotion. There are reasons we have it. It makes everything so. much. worse. when you use it wrong.

Shame and guilt are DE-motivators. They are meant to stop behavior, not promote it. You cannot, ever, in any meaningful way, guilt someone into doing good. You can only shame them into not doing bad.

Let's say you're a parent and your kid is having issues.

Swearing in class? Shame could work. You want them to stop it. Keep it in proportion*, and it might help. *(KEEP IT IN PROPORTION!!!)

Not doing their homework? NO! STOP! NO NOT DO THAT! EVER! EVER! EVER! You want them to start to do their homework. Shaming them will have to opposite effect! You have demotivated them! They will double down on NOT doing it. Not because they are being oppositional, but because that's what shame does!

You can't guilt people into building better habits, being more successful, or getting more involved. That requires encouragement. You need to motivate for that stuff!

If you want it in a simple phrase:

You can shame someone out of being a bad person, but you can't shame them into being a good person.

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Y'know. Can't remember the last time I saw a dickbutt.

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You can even turn this around on other Biden lies. He lied about not running for a second tern, which was second biggest blow to the democrats this election but no one said anything because it helped no one's natarive. And, of course, we can't forget about how his administration made a fake "leaked" memo claiming Biden had given Bibi an ultimatum to stop the genocide.

Trump lying about #Project2025 speaks to the absolute absence of character that a leader must have.

That manifest absense of character should be disqualifying and covered every day on page one.

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