Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (via theliteraryjournals)

Cléo de Mérode, ca. 1890s

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Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (via theliteraryjournals)

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (via soracities)

Every 19th century novel ever:

*minor inconvenience happens*

Character: *falls ill for some reason and almost fucking dies*

This is horrifying and gross, because the list includes:

here’s the list, for anyone who’s skeptical like i am. it’s on a real-ass government-ass website. i am, tbh, disgusted.

Thanks for the link. That is horrifying and disgusting. 

The list is actually worse- no peanuts, SEASONINGS, SOUPS, any canned beans, WHITE RICE, anything organic or natural, and anything like lactose free/kosher milk, or anything that might be necessary to a religious group or someone with conditions such as celiac or lactose intolerance basically have to fill out forms which singles them out based on health/religious reasons. 

This is really, really gross. 

Is it just me or did they basically rule out basically all the cheapest and easiest to prepare food? Because that is bullshit.

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

I have food stamps in a different state and this list is essentially my grocery just when I go to the store. These are easy to prepare, quick, filling meals and most of them have a long shelf life and can be stored for emergencies or of you use up your food stamps before the end of the month. This is absolutely a blatant act of violence against poor families and I hope it continues to gain more national outrage.

Wait. What? How? Why? Huh?

They… They can’t buy potatoes?! Which has more potassium than a banana?! Or nuts?! Which are the best blend of magnesium, calcium, protein, and healthy fats that nature ever made?!

I don’t… I don’t understand. There is no way this is concerned with poor people’s nutrition at all.

So what are they allowed to buy on food stamps?  Boiled air?

Interesting fact number one: Wisconsin is a state with a large number of Hmong immigrants, or people of Hmong descent.  I believe that only Minnesota has a larger Hmong population.

Interesting fact number two: the first words that come up when I google for “Hmong cuisine” are these: “The Hmong staple food is white rice …”

How the fuck…can you deny the poor…rice and beans. Rice and beans are essential fucking staples for poor people. They can be bought in bulk. They are high in nutrition. They last a long fucking time. 

Oh, but wait…THEY DON’T ALLOW POOR PEOPLE TO BUY IN BULK.

What is their logic to this? Because all I see here is, “punishing poor people for being poor.” There is NO FUCKING REASON for this. Most of these items cannot remotely be considered ‘luxury.’ To ever deny the poor to buy CANNED or BULKED GOODS is just…mind-blowingly terrible. When I have money, I buy things in bulk for when I don’t…I just…what?!

How the hell do you make it illegal for poor people to buy food? This is so wrong and disgusting.

Given the number of extremely cheap items on the list it looks like a way to discourage people from even using food stamps and either scraping together money for food somehow, or relying on private charities.

Is there any single fund or movement to supply food banks in Wisconsin with food specifically from that list in large amounts?  

THIS IS BLATANT CLASS WARFARE AND EVERY DECENT HUMAN BEING SHOULD BE DISGUSTED BY IT.

if you think muslims are terrorists please unfollow me i got no time to deal with that shit

This is mesmerizing to watch.

actually physically painful to watch because you know months were spent masking all those frames for each of the kajillions of transitions in this

Holy………..shmokes…….

when you see ur squad while you out with your parents

— The correct way to refer to anyone younger than you (via guy)

@deathstiel

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When your sugar daddy gets into politics and you have to start making up speeches

honestly one of my favs so far

IF YOU WANNA BE MY LOVER

are u sure? like are u really sure? have u seen me? u did not think this through

story time: i taught my little cousin her first longer word when she was very young. i taught her to say “tax benefits”. and to this day my aunt still doesn’t know where she got it from, but it was a hilarious sight to see a little toddler waddling around the house, wearing a big diaper, all the while yelling “TAX BENEFITS!!!!”

My parents did this with me and “nuclear disarmament”.

I taught my little brother to say “micro-surgical vasectomy reversal” (saw it on a billboard) on a road trip, and he didn’t stop saying it for literal years.

My parents taught me to chant “Get your laws off our bodies!” for a pro-choice rally when I was like four and I went to preschool and taught all the other kids the chant and led them on a mini-parade around the playground and the teachers were like ?????????? ?????????? ????????????

whenever my brother threw a tantrum as a baby my parents would chant “live free or die” until he calmed down it was fuckin weird

when i was a kid whenever we got stuck in traffic my dad would say “what the fuck?!?” in a very comic voice and i would repeat it and then he would say it with a slightly different inflection and i would repeat that too and so forth and so basically my poor mother would be stuck in standstill traffic listening to her husband and 4 yr old daughter swearing at each other without end

i’m a preschool teacher and we like to joke around using radical vocabulary with the children, the other day i overheard one kid say ‘this is my truck’ and the other one said ‘no, this truck belongs to the collective’; they all say it now

That last one.

This is too good not to reblog.

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