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man lord of the rings just fills me with such profound sadness its a world that just…… makes me feel whole and hollow at the same time

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GEORGIA VOTERS, LISTEN TO ME.

Over 1,500 ballots in GA have been rejected and we are SO CLOSE to turning the state blue—every vote counts. If you did a mail-in or absentee ballot, go check that it was counted. If it’s been rejected, you can call the GA Voter Protection Hotline at 1-888-730-5816.

Right now, every single vote counts. Check on your ballot and make sure it was accepted.

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As if 2020 couldn't get worse, it appears Netflix has a new movie coming out based on billionaire JD Vance's book "Hillbilly Elegy" ( both book and movie having the same name). I can not stress this enough; do NOT watch it. Its incredibly offensive to the Appalachian region and one sided.

It's supposed to be based on Vance's life growing up in Appalachia, only hes never lived here and is using one of America's poorest communities to make more money! The book/movie also blames "social rot," or the culture of Appalachia, and a lack of personal responsibility for the region's conservative politics. (When in reality we aren't even that conservative!) He's basically implying that systemic poverty is because the people in the region are "lazy" and that this should be a wake up call for why government funded projects shouldn't be wasted in the region.

Its a complete waste of time. Appalachia is poor because we're built from coal mines and once the mines dry up so do the towns. It has nothing to do with being lazy. Also yes, there is a drug problem in the region but it isn't as bad as this movie/book makes it out to be.

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People really hate when I say that what the Inquisitor did at Redcliffe is exactly the same thematically and morally as what Solas is doing, so I’m just repeating it here because it’s the truth.

People literally just want to ignore that they already personally threw out an entire future THAT EXISTED in order to restore the world to it’s “rightful” state (without horrific magical enslavement and abominations and death), and it’s so fucking funny they don’t think it has any relevance to the story.

It doesn’t count when THEY do it because they’re the PLAYER.

It doesn’t count when THEY do it because THEIR Inquisitor can say they REGRETTED it (as if Solas isn’t saying the exact same fucking thing every time you talk to him.)

“it’s different because it’s time travel, not x y or z”—do you think the WAY you decide a reality arbitrarily “isn’t real” matters?? Solas made all those same kinds of “well, it doesn’t count because it wasn’t really real...” to himself too.

“It doesn’t count because the time travel was an arbitrary magical accident that changed the rightful state of the world” what do you think the veil is to Solas, huh?

“it’s different because they all agreed with me”—did you ask literally everyone in Thedas what they thought about it before you threw that version of reality in the garbage? Did you ask every spirit? you’re all hypocrites lol. Solas has found a small group of people who agree with him, too!

“It’s different because I’m the good guy and solas is the bad guy” LOL fuck off

Leliana can LECTURE you about how you don’t think future Redcliffe is real.

Do you know how RILED Solas is to save Redcliffe if you bring him? He sounds just like you, suddenly, and you sound just like him in Trespasser.

why the fuck else do you think that mission was in that game? For fun? Learn about how writing works, look up what a thematic parallel is, I’m deeply begging you

The next person who obviously hasn’t listened to all of Solas’ dialogue nor romanced him and still finds the gumption to say to me “you, Solas stan, don’t understand Solas—he’s just evil and he won’t listen, he’s too prideful, he just wants old empires back” (as if his real concern isn’t how the Veil is STILL to this day slaughtering elves, spirits and mages, the three groups he identifies with as his people, and how he could stop that slaughter if he did something) owes me $40. If you write me an essay on this post too you’re blocked, I’m beyond annoyed.

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Be careful that your anti-racism doesn’t turn into classism behind your back.

Making jokes about how “hicks” from Appalachia or “hillbillies” from the plains are all racist and uneducated and inbred is deeply classist and plays into yet another narrative run by those in power to keep us divided. Remember how many of those “rednecks” died in the coal mines and then died for workers’ rights, and how horrifyingly monopolies are destroying rural towns. Remember that these communities often have nearly as many people of color as the cities do, by ratio.

These people are poor and have limited opportunities, just like so many other minorities. Don’t throw them under the bus because it’s an easy way to shift blame from “all white people” to “just the white people I already look down on.”

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I don’t want to end Amazon, because it provides an incredibly useful service to the disabled community, the elderly, and those who simply don’t have time to go shopping due to working three jobs and the like. There currently isn’t a major alternative on the market that is the same level of cheap and accessible.

What I do want to do is enforce some goddamn antitrust laws on major web-based companies like Amazon and Google and Facebook, and roll back their attempts at monopolizing entire industries, and make them pay their lowest-rung workers a fair wage and stop running their warehouses like a scene from a dystopian nightmare.

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rather saddened to learn that the woman from the clip used in this meme

was actually in a heated discussion in that clip about the horrific domestic abuse she had endured at the hands of her husband.

I had no idea. it's a bummer to see someone's emotional rock bottom be shaped into a meme, all but erasing the original context.

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  Far too many people have short memories when it comes to the shit their side did.

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yall with adhd or autism or such ever just get…. bored. like so Painfully bored. like its not “oh hehe i was so bored and i made this” to flex or “oh im so bored bc i have nothing to do” but like a “i am physically incapable of ending this horrible understimulation with any activity i might attempt” and its genuinely fucking painful

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important!

I haven’t seen this on here so I thought I might share:

There isn’t a petition for this yet (as far as I know) but sign the #JunkTerrorBillNow petition

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I was getting a neck x-ray and the technician said I had a nice, long neck, which would make it easier to get a clear picture.

I also had a dentist that just announced, “she has a bifid uvula!” And prompted the student who was observing to come over and take a look and the nurse to say “I want to see, too!” and then go “Huh!” when she looked in my mouth.

quick, tell me the weirdest compliment you’ve ever gotten. my doctor told me i have impeccable eardrums 

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Faramir said fuck your storyline

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A general strike? On April 20th, 2020? To make an aid plan that would be permanent? To make healthcare a right? That’d be crazy to have happen on April 20th. Absolutely crazy for a general strike on April 20th. Nothing is going to happen on April 20th, 2020 in the form of a general strike. Nope, not on April 20th, 2020. 

This can’t happen. Nope. Nothing. Will. Happen. On. April 20th 2020.

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fucking freaks

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I am utterly heartbroken. We didn’t deserve her. But we are so lucky to have her fighting in the Senate.