#america is a sham

[a-sassy-bench]

spent the morning with my neurologist explaining to me how i might need brain surgery and now I have to pretend everything's cool and go to work or i won't have insurance for brain surgery

[maxwell-mtv]

About to stress learn a new language so I can just skip Canada and go straight to Norway or Germany...

I don't want to live here anymore dude

[royaltea000]

Fourth of July is so funny cuz it’s the one time every year that people decades past their hetalia phase will wake up in a cold sweat and go “there’s only one character I can draw for this day… 👁️👁️💦”

[mightybroncy]

Sham at Spendthrift farm in 1982 by Tom Brown

[ynwa4eva]

Ok we need to start a conversation about connections

[malhare-archive]

[wizardclown]

learning about henry kissinger death, and my own ignorance about the depth of this war criminal is alot

especially when hes responsible for 150,000~ Cambodian civilian deaths

Literally as the daughter of Cambodian refugees its really crazy to read this and see that America's red scare killed so many people. The "effort" to ensure communism doesnt spread in SE Asia, and made it worse and made tons of those countries anti-american

[dungeonmalcontent]

I've been thinking about something a lot lately. That games, all games, feel like a complete waste of time and energy.

But I love games. Not because they're wasteful, but because they're fun. Humans need to play. It is hard coded into us.

But I also hate the idea of wasting time and energy and resources. It is repulsive and it honestly makes me hate myself a little.

But rather than live a horrible, boring, efficient life I play games anyway. But I play horribly complicated and absurdly layered and time consuming games. I play games that take a million steps to do anything interesting or that are absurdly crunchy like D&D because the wasteful feeling takes longer to process that way. I don't feel like I'm wasting time when I'm pouring through rule books and wikis and watching gameplay to learn things. I don't feel wasteful until I hit the end game, and then I have to confront the reality of what I've done; when I have to acknowledge that I've spent 300 hours figuring out how to properly automate and mass produce a hamburger in a Minecraft mod pack or how to lose on purpose on the first turn in a game of M:tG or built my fifth stardew valley farm that is entirely full of big sheds with planter pots and pineapple seeds and perfect retaining soil. And then I feel a little repulsed by what I've done.

Bug the beauty of it is that I can start a new game and do the whole thing over again and have fun for a little while longer.

[obstinaterixatrix]

THE FUCKING NEW YORK POST????

[thequeenoffishburrito]

REBLOGGING THE FUCK OUT OF THIS CUZ MORE PEOPLE NEED TO HEAR IT AND IT NEEDS TO BE SAID

It is actually way better for 100 addicts to get their fix on pain pills than a single person in pain go without. I call this the "Torture is bad" principle. You should be able to get the good stuff forever after a single doctor's visit. If you're worried about addicts fund rehab centers and needle exchanges instead of torturing people.

[leahthedreamer]

Ilia please keep it together for my fantasy team 😭😭

[faith-in-democracy]

Vlad the Impotent

In a display of democratic prowess that would surely leave the Founding Fathers speechless, Vladimir Putin has once again "triumphed" in an election that was as competitive as a one-horse race. The sheer unpredictability of the outcome must have kept the Russian populace on the edge of their seats, in a state not unlike the fear experienced by American citizens who confront the rising tides of far-right rhetoric and policy within their own borders.

Let's take a moment to marvel at the robustness of Russian democracy, where the will of the people is so consistently aligned with just one man's vision. Indeed, the harmony between government action and public sentiment is so seamless that one might wonder if there's any need for opposition at all. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, Americans grapple with their own political spectacle, observing the flirtation between mainstream politics and far-right ideologies, a dance that stirs both fear and fascination in the heart of the democratic discourse.

In this grand theatre of the absurd, where autocrats are cloaked in the veneer of electoral legitimacy and democracies flirt dangerously with authoritarian tendencies, one can only stand back and applaud the performance. Bravo, Putin, for another masterful win in the great game of democratic charades, and hats off to America, for providing the perfect backdrop of far-right drama to complement this global narrative of power, fear, and irony.

[sonicandvisualsurprises]

1966 - Answer song to Lil' Red Riding Hood by Sam the Sham & the Pharaoh's.

Listen to my YouTube Answer Songs playlist here : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQtVu6v_mearJxrqAG6cwxMamQWmZ85Kd

Biography from : https://www.discogs.com/fr/artist/1546803-The-Sham-Ettes

US American female vocal trio, consisting of Fran Curcio, Loraine Genero and Jane Anderson.

Originally set up to perform backing vocals for Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs, they also released a couple of 7"s on their own.

[lapeaudelamemoire]

Oh. Fuck. The other thing that was really getting me while writing a report for the cognitive assessment I did for a kid client is that all the fucking pages I found on therapy blogs or sites recommending games for kids to improve skills in various areas were all fucking just full of Amazon product links and 'this post contains affiliate links' disclaimers. Capitalist therapy hell.

[ynwa4eva]

Checking the history and anglistics like semester overviews in german unis makes me genuinely nauseous....

[la7ma-mafrooma]

I don't trust a country that funds an apartheid illegitimate state, had people creating a petition in 2020 to officially declare the KKK as a terrorist organization, and considered Nelson Mandela a "terrorist" until 2008, to tell me who's a terrorist and who's not. I don't trust a country that's built on colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and slavery to tell me who's a terrorist and who's not. I don't trust a country that has bombed, still bombs, and SUPPORTS the bombing of innocent civilians to tell me who's a terrorist and who's not. The United States of America is a fascist, imperialist, and terrorist country and it has always been. May we see its downfall alongside Israel's.

Your "civilization" is a sham.