@silent-calling / silent-calling.tumblr.com
When did I break 800 followers? Also, why do y'all follow me?!
We're at 944 by the way. What is wrong with you people?
Okay, I have a request. Drop in the replies what, if you remember, drew you to my page and why you followed.
hi! felix here. i have very important things to talk about todayyy
as many of u probs know i am not an adult. i am under 16, i am not eligible to vote, and i wont be for quite some time. and so those of you who are eligible to vote in the united states i am BEGGING YOU: please vote for biden.
i dont' care if you think he sucks. i don't care if you think he's ruining the country. trump is worse.
you hear that?
TRUMP IS WORSE.
this isn't about "lesser of two evils". this isn't about that. cos at the end of the day: u want a president who's pretty shit, or u want a president who is actively trying to dismantle the last semblances of democracy we have in this country, demonize being queer, remove all resources that have to do with sex health, put women's rights back as far as he can get them, make it more dangerous than ever for poc, and probably fund israel even more than the money that's already going into it?
yeah. yeah, that's what i thought.
vote biden, because otherwise the entire world fucking ends. and no, that is not hyperbole. if the USA falls, i fear that britain is not far behind, and then every european republic falls, and just. think about it. do you want the shit president or the crazy bastard who wants to be a dictator?
if you are 18+ and in the united states of america i am begging you unironically:
vote biden.
please.
“16”
Cool story bro
Assuming that you actually ARE 16, you should know that this “THE WORLD WILL END IF OUR GUY DOESNT WIN” schtick has been pushed since before your parents were born.
Every election since I started voting has been "the last one we'll have if you don't vote for [my preferred candidate]," and yet we just keep having them. It's also amazing that Orangeman truly wants to destroy the whole world and put the LGTBQ in camps and hunt minorities for sport but just . . . . didn't do it when he had the opportunity his first go-round, but this time he totally will, guys. And last, "I don't care if this candidate is shit, I'm telling you have to vote for him, anyway" is exactly why we always have to pick between a giant douche and a turd sandwich, so to speak. If they know you're going to vote for them no matter what, they never have to do anything for you to keep your support.
16 and not American. Hmm. I think I can safely discard this opinion.
Anywho, choosing the "lesser" of the two evils is precisely why third party candidates have no real chance of running, and the two party system has been and continues to be a blight on American politics since it garnered popularity.
Vote third party if they more closely align with your interests. But more importantly, get involved in local and state elections. Don't just check boxes haphazardly, and make your voice heard to your elected representatives.
Well officialmacgyver is there, ain't he?
I'm sorry ma'am, he ain't my type. Maybe you should slide him an ask and try instead.
Such a strange ask. Nonnie must not be too familiar with you and Mac, huh?
I believe, from the bottom of my heart, if you abandon kittens who still need their mama(or any animals tbh, not just babies), you deserve to be brutally beaten with baseball bats in the middle of the street
I hate people and I hate that I can't help all the babies 😓
You sound like you need a cheering up.
Meet Gigi, our new adoptee. He literally walked up to me from the street, and now he's a terrorist munching on my toes when I'm trying to sleep.
He's even getting along with the others! Sort of.
Reblog this from anybody. literally. ANYBODY. even if you dont like them or even know them that well. YOU COULD SAVE THEIR LIFE.
Hey maybe when someone is explaining that their emotional needs are not being met by their family and trying to find a compromise the answer ISN'T "in the real world nobody gives a fuck"???
"In the real world nobody gives a fuck" is true, sure. But it doesn't have to be, and it only is because people perpetuate that shitty attitude.
Once again, you people have to ignore the actions of Hamas.
Who have been throwing unguided rockets at Israeli civilians for a quarter-century.
Sound logic. Do you think the child in OP's scenario would see things that way? I mean, do we think a Palestinian child in 2008 is aware of the history of the conflict and mature enough to develop your view of the situation surrounding them?
I don't know. And frankly, I think it's irrelevant.
I am implying out that if OP wants to imply "attacking X people justifies them attacking you in return", then Hamas itself has a long history of directly attacking Israeli civilians.
Also, the kid in 2008 is now an adult, because he's clearly more than 3 years old on the right. If he can't understand the nature of the conflict, that's not the fault of the people he's attacking for Hamas.
Heck, even the use of the term "resistance" implies scrappy, independent defense of their homeland, not militants working for Hamas and directly attacking Israelis, often in Israel.
"In Israel" is also "their homeland" so that's not really a distinction.
Also, if we're not ignoring the history of Hamas's attacks then there's no reason to ignore the history of Israel's attacks and the constant state of violence that is decades of occupation or siege.
Obviously Hamas is a terrorist group and should be condemned for their attacks on civilians. But so were many Israeli terrorist groups and so is their descendant the IDF. State action is no less terroristic or immoral just because it's stamped with an official seal. Most of the people they're attacking are not Hamas members and never will be. To a person who has never lived outside the prison, it doesn't really matter that the guards think the bad apples justify their violence. They don't and they never could.
>"In Israel" is also "their homeland" so that's not really a distinction.
I feel like you're nitpicking a sentence fragment without actually disputing the overall point.
>Also, if we're not ignoring the history of Hamas's attacks then there's no reason to ignore the history of Israel's attacks and the constant state of violence that is decades of occupation or siege.
I don't think you realize my first point was "both sides have killed innocent people on the other side, and that fact alone makes the relative morality a lot greyer than OP would like to pretend."
OP implies the attack that destroyed the area in the first picture came out of nowhere. Hamas regularly launches rockets at civilians from civilian areas.
Israels choices are a) ignore them and let Hamas kill their people to no productive end, or b) try and strike back, and risk civilian casualties.
OP is also implying any and all Palestinian actions as adults are justified because bad things happened to them as kids. You didn't address that point.
Not to mention the implication that Palestinian fighters are regularly dressed as soldiers, which isn't exactly the case.
>Obviously Hamas is a terrorist group and should be condemned for their attacks on civilians.
And yet many pro-Palestine people fail to do even that. I have literally asked many of them. Directly. They refused, stopped responding, or both.
Others did what I suspect you are about to, which is "NO U" at Israel.
>But so were many Israeli terrorist groups and so is their descendant the IDF. State action is no less terroristic or immoral just because it's stamped with an official seal.
Good thing I never said or implied otherwise! As you might've gleaned from the fact that I'm criticizing Hamas, a nominal government.
I'm going to stop now, because this post is already long enough.
The base premise assumes Palestinians have no agency of their own, which borders so close to racism they might as well be cohabitating - especially with how many times I've seen this entire debacle framed as "white European settler colonialists rape, pillage, and kill brown people for their land and homes."
Jews were pushed out of their native lands, Israel and Judea (the namesake of Judaism) several hundreds of years ago, scattered throughout Europe and forced to integrate with their new neighbors (who regularly harassed, suppressed, and oppressed them) until the culmination of events leading up to the Holocaust, where millions were displaced and/or killed.
Those Jews had to go somewhere, and the Ottoman Empire that ruled the territory had collapsed and left a vacuum largely filled by the Brits and French until the regional people could form their own governments with some help. Several thousand had already moved in (through a combination of land purchases and localized skirmishes) and just about everyone recognizes the ethnic Jews have some ancestral tracing back to the region. So, they got put back on a sliver of land, promptly mugged by Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
Then the nakba. Which happened as a direct response to these attacks, as did the mass removal, detention, and killing of Jews in neighboring countries.
Then the dozen or so wars took place over the next three or four decades happen, many after a peace proposal that Israel accepted, and most of which Israel won.
Israel has blood on their hands, sure, but the clearest constant in this entire time line has been Arab aggression over peace talks. It's no wonder Israel has up-armored and gotten good at winning.
Live by the sword, die by the sword. Put it down and come to the table, before the Palestinians in Gaza and the west bank are ejected because of their violent leaders.
cashiers should make 50 dollars an hour minimum, get comprehensive PTO + benefits packages, and get expensive top of the line chairs to sit in at the register. im not joking at all.
Or we could reduce how much cash we print so that their money retains its limited value.
OP doesn't know retailers already operate their storefronts on shoestring budgets, even the big box ones.
the waltons are living hand to mouth and I don't even care
The Waltons are living off residuals. The company has a profit margin of like 2-5%. Employee wages are factored into that as a business expense.
I don't care you don't care, though it does explain a fair bit. So, thank you for that.
cashiers should make 50 dollars an hour minimum, get comprehensive PTO + benefits packages, and get expensive top of the line chairs to sit in at the register. im not joking at all.
Or we could reduce how much cash we print so that their money retains its limited value.
OP doesn't know retailers already operate their storefronts on shoestring budgets, even the big box ones.
WONDER BAR (1934) | dir. Lloyd Bacon
“The other [scene that stands out above the rest] involved a handsome man, asking a dancing couple if he could cut in. The female partner, expecting his attention, agrees, only to see him dance with her male partner. Jolson then flaps his wrist and says, “Boys will be boys. Woo!”. This scene almost caused the Production Code to reject the film, and was featured in the opening scenes of the documentary film The Celluloid Closet (1996).”
Here is the actual clip, and let me tell you, Jolson’s delivery does not disappoint:
It my birthday
I told you @bwood171 , I don't turn tricks anymore! I paid off my debt! I got off the streets! Cleaned myself up! You're no longer my pimp! You can't tell me what to do like you used to! And you better believe I'm going to find a way to save Bambi, Cocoa Puffs, and Steve so they don't have to work for you either!
*ahem* Sorry about that, @lurker-lenore .
Happy Birthday!!! I hope you had an amazing day and the following year brings you only happiness, good health, wealth, and lots and lots of freaky sex! *great big squishy birthday suit hugs and kisses*
I love how @bwood171 pulled this for lurker, but I just got left in the dust. Smh smh
That's because @bwood171 wants you all to himself, @silent-calling. 😉
How rude! I enjoy your company just as much, you've got great... Personality!
It my birthday
I told you @bwood171 , I don't turn tricks anymore! I paid off my debt! I got off the streets! Cleaned myself up! You're no longer my pimp! You can't tell me what to do like you used to! And you better believe I'm going to find a way to save Bambi, Cocoa Puffs, and Steve so they don't have to work for you either!
*ahem* Sorry about that, @lurker-lenore .
Happy Birthday!!! I hope you had an amazing day and the following year brings you only happiness, good health, wealth, and lots and lots of freaky sex! *great big squishy birthday suit hugs and kisses*
I love how @bwood171 pulled this for lurker, but I just got left in the dust. Smh smh
one of the weird things i noticed watching the phantom menace yesterday is that when he first meets and fights darth maul, qui-gon and obi-wan both use it/its pronouns for maul. not sure what was going on there
the simplest explanation is the filmmakers want you conceive of maul as not-quite-human, some sort of demonic entity, being as he is an evil space wizard. the funnier answer is that the force gives jedi the ability to perceive people's pronouns and maul has some boydyke shit going on
the dark side of the force is a pathway to many genders some would consider.... unnatural
I mean, he did have bottom surgery. The entire bottom.
When I tell you I threw my phone...
Oh come on, that's funny! I mean, Maul himself is splitting at the sides!
Your mom finding her friend at a store is like unskippable cutscenes
The fucking worst is that as I get older i completly understand the interest to catch up an unreasonable long time because turns out adults just dont get enough time to hang with friends, so catch up next to the Aldi cheese aisle it is
you can see the increasing age of tumblr users, these posts are like tree rings.
…excuse me?! Why is this necessary?!
I have a nurse friend to send this to.
Hand drawing advice from Don Bluth
