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Brown Eyed Dreamer

@kaitlinthedetroittigersfan / kaitlinthedetroittigersfan.tumblr.com

23, probably likes dogs too much. 2019 masters graduate in business. I like to post Detroit Tigers, dogs, quotes, politics, funny things, cute couple things, and others tossed in. Taken in 2015 and getting married in 2020 ❤
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sometimes i'm like 'jesus christ tumblr is awful' but i remember that at least it can't come close to comparing to the sad bitterness of the people who live on twitter. checked in on the site and currently there are thousands of people losing their minds yelling at some random woman on there because she made a tweet about how she likes to sit in her garden in the mornings and have long conversations with her husband. so you have people replying with stuff like 'UMMMM some people don't have gardens OP, this is a really tone deaf thing to post :/' yeah tumblr wins every time

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I learnt something today that I think is just beautiful. My grandmother was a very sick woman and pretty much housebound for the last of her life.  She derived great pleasure from watching her neighbour’s backyard chickens.  She adored these chickens.  Every time I called, she had new chicken drama to tell me—think Linda Belcher and the raccoons.   It turns out that at some point, their neighbour was no longer able to have chickens because due to a disability he could no longer afford to keep them.  My grandfather, upon learning this, immediately used his spending money to keep the neighbour in both chickens and chicken feed so that my grandmother would have chickens to watch since my grandfather didn’t have time to keep chickens at their home. He did this for ten years, guys.  TEN YEARS he secretly funded his neighbour’s backyard chickens so that my grandmother would have chickens to watch every day until the day she died.   That’s true love.

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We should be more pro-active or we’ll see more of such sad fates of honest people.

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And the utterly ironic thing is I’ve seen repeated tumblr posts of that iconic photo absolutely slagging the shit out of Peter Norman as “lol white guy so uncomfortable”   “Why the fuck isn’t he supporting them”, etc etc.

As an Australian this post surprised me. I knew none of the above.

People need to learn this shit so they can emulate it - this is what it means to stand in solidarity with people; it tends to be a difficult, quiet thing that costs you, and yet it’s the right thing to do. 

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Incredible a lot of people’s response to billion-dollar corporations using child slave labor is “remember to shop ethically” and not “corporations should not be doing this in the first place and need to be stopped”.

And the fact that basic human decency is the ethical option, not the norm...the bar for capitalism is literally underground.

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how can people be so rude and don’t feel bad afterwards… When I don’t say thank you or don’t smile back I’ll think about it for 3 months straight and have flashbacks

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