#not been born in America

[vampyrluver]

Despite everything (and theres...a lot), i actually love being american. I love the culture of smiling at strangers, i love the cultural diversity, i love the willingness to be helpful, the openness we tend to exhibit, i love the american lean, i love how casual we are, i love saying "no problem!" Or "mhm!" When someone says thank you

Idk, i see a lot of europeans be like "ough americans are too happy too smiley they r too casual" nd like ........ womp womp sorry i have lust for life nd small things bring me joy why r u so mad

[bvckbiter]

me going into the rr crit tag lately: perhaps you would be happier writing your own books

[actual-corpse]

Im pretty sure I just overheard a girl who plans to vote for Trump say, "Trump's been president for 4 years and nothing happened....."

Girl... you do know that it takes a few YEARS for us to see the effects of policies put into place by a president like...

Trump started removing policies that helped guarantee consumer and worker safety, and we JUST NOW felt the effects through the listeria outbreak.

PLEASE DO SOME RESEARCH PLEASE.

I'm fucking terrified. We either get one of the biggest acts of domestic terrorism to date, or we get 4 years of what could become a tyrannical dictatorship, which removes ALL OF THE RIGHTS WE FOUGHT HARD TO GET!

[sophiethewitch1]

oh also guys i said that id have chapter 8 out by my birthday and like literally posted it a day before. i have not changed at all since my high school years but anyways happy 21st to me!!! toootoooo!!!

[emberwritesinsight]

I know we all kind of assume Anthy and Akio are Indian because of the brown skin and bindis (Google tells me that while it's less common, men do wear bindis sometimes), and I agree, but also. "Dios" is Spanish, "Anthy" is derived from a Greek word, "Himemiya" is Japanese (I would theorize that her name hasn't always been "Himemiya", though she does seem to have had the name "Anthy" as far back as we're allowed to see into her past), and Akio drives an American car and plays jazz (a style of music that developed in America) over the radio in said car. Also, despite bindis being a Hindu, Jain and Buddhist thing, all the religious shit the two of them have going on (the martyrdom, Akio drawing a comparison between himself and Satan, Ohtori looking like a fucked up Cathedral and Dios appearing to Utena in a church) is Pretty Christian.

I know all of this is probably just a product of the writers not having a concrete idea of where they wanted Akio and Anthy to be from other than "not here" but it implies a lot of travel, which does kind of fit with Dios' whole "trying to rescue Every Girl Ever" thing.

Where do their names come from, anyway? "Dios" sounds like it could have been a name given to him by the people he saved. We never hear hide nor hair of their parents, they're fully irrelevant even by the farthest flashback.

[aesthetics-over-ethics]

non-voters, third-party voters, this is what you wanted. I sincerely hope you carry shame about what you've done for the rest of your days.

[stlangels]

I am shaking with fucking rage listening to this state of the union i think maybe two other faces have made me instantly get this angry.

I am not your "fellow American." I refuse to be American if this is what it means to be American. I am human before I am an American.

I refuse to die before I see a free Palestine. I will see a free Palestine in my lifetime. I refuse to die before I can see a free world. I will see everyone free in my lifetime because I refuse to die without seeing it. It's probably impossible but I don't care because I have to see it. I'm sick of seeing anything else.

[kimsmingyu]

nonkorean kdrama watchers get too comfortable complaining because what do you mean you expect a korean speaking korean actor to speak english a certain way... aka they want them fluent...

[pickapea]

my absolutely biggest online pet peeve is US centric people projecting their rich sorority girl bully stereotype of nurses onto everyone else, as if nurses aren't working class and mostly immigrants of colour everywhere else. and when did it become cool to hate on underpaid and exploited workers anyway

[a9saga]

how many times do i have to say for now let's eavesdrop on the houseguests live from outside the big brother house i'm julie chen moonves love one another

[inkykeiji]

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[badolmen]

Everyone talking about adopting Palestinian kids needs to read Scott Carney’s The Red Market and a brief definition of genocide outside of the physical destruction of lives.

[iguanodonwildman]

If you’re shaming someone for voting for Harris because they’re hurting Palestine, please explain your logic. Should we have voted for trump, who wants to give Israel more weapons? Who is actively working to end this pitiful excuse of a ceasefire? Should we vote for trump and hurt all the marginalized groups in America? Should we vote against abortion rights and trans rights and food regulation?

Harris isn’t great for Palestine but i have two options and she’s the lesser of two evils. Third party candidates are a joke in America. It’s not going to happen anytime soon. Shaming people for making the only choice they can leads to non voters which leads to a trump win which leads to a lot more death, both in and out of Palestine.

Sincerely, we’re trying our best so fuck off.

[kellystar321]

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[an-incoherent-mess]

So I'm really into genealogy and have been for a few years now and I'm blessed with being really good with names and dates etc. So in conversation I can remember like a ridiculous amount of:

Jane Doe Smith Johnson

b. 1805 Tennessee d. 1879 Missouri

Married 1828 to John Patrick Johnson. Had five children. Died of TB

Etc etc

And that's cool enough apparently but I've mostly been using it for

A. Making up bullshit but real sounding names for stuff (i.e my name is Emily Stewart, Grace Kolár, etc). The point is that they're normal sounding and varied.

B. Having a bizarre frame of reference for historical events. Like "oh [small town],[state] 1942 had [random] event happen? My 1st cousin 4x removed got married there that year, small world!"

It's so dumb, like I'll read about some historical event from my area (where I've had family in the vicinity of since the 1840s) and I'll link up the time frame in my head and be like hmm... I wonder what 3rd great aunt Helen thought about that happening next door to her church.

[dromaeo-sauridae]

i think hector as a person died with antonio. he was his brother’s keeper all his life, when antonio fell in with the gang hector followed to keep him safe. when antonio left mexico hector left to live with him in texas. when antonio was caught by the law, hector broke him out of prison and they went on the run together. when antonio was cut loose by the gang hector followed him

but when it came down to it, he could not protect antonio. whatever survived was someone else