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One thing you start to realize in adulthood in the U.S. is that most things that are obtuse and complex for a reason.

Taxes are obtuse so you hire a business to help you do them or do them for you. Insurance is obtuse so you pay for more things out of pocket than you need to. Bills and laws are obtuse so politicians can pretend to work for their voters while creating loopholes and giveaways for their donors.

And part of the reason it works is that, as an adult, it's often considered shameful to admit you don't understand something.

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As a wise woman once said, we have to #dosomething and it’s in the real world

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This but also the person who you forced to carry a fetus to full term could’ve cured cancer. Or you know if the government didn’t slash cancer research funding those people could’ve cured cancer.

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Remembering how recently we made these wins helps remind me how fragile they really are. How easily they can be repealed.

I remember Don't Ask Don't Tell. It was the COMPROMISE to allow gay people to serve in the military. Because before it, an out homosexual person wouldn't be allowed to enlist. And if they came out or were exposed once they were in the military, they would be dishonorably discharged.

A lot has changed. And it's our jobs to make sure we don't go back.

Sometimes you have to take a step back and remember that same-sex marriage has only been legal in America for ten years.

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A template for everyone to send to their states AG's

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The word you are looking for is “selfish.” Not narcissist, not sociopath, selfish.

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the secret to life is always having something to look forward to

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I count my spouse's breaths. They don't breathe all that fast, but it's noticeably faster than I do, so the dissonance seems to short circuit my brain lol

guys what's your methods? personally i think about doctors examining me, works like a charm

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this is almost certainly not a novel take but

i do wonder how much of the derisive language you hear toward "resistlib winemoms" or whatever is just "people who grew up in Safely Blue Coastal Enclaves rebelling against ppl who remind them of their mom b/c they are emotionally stunted adults"

like, as A Child Of A Very Conservative Area, i have a very vivid recollection of the first time i encountered this type of person, and my reaction was mostly baffled delight. wait you're telling me this PTA mom with unassailable Wholesome Americana credentials is gassing up the cause of trans rights at her book club. you're telling me she's batting her eyelashes and "think of the children"-ing, except instead of doing that to promote some obnoxious "ban this book from the school curriculum" agenda, she's shaming her state representative into actually funding the damn schools? i do not care how cringe her UV-bleached "i'm with her" bumper sticker is or whatever, she is working extremely hard & successfully on shit i care about and i will brook no slander against her

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chinese wushu performance (weapons: guan-gong-dao关公刀, named after weapon of Guan Yu, Green Dragon Crescent Blade）

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Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. It meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge.

Terry Pratchett