I have found that the biggest deterrent to assholes is asking "why?" Over and over.
"We can't have universal healthcare!"
Why?
"Because I don't wanna pay for a strangers health!"
Why?
"Because if they can't afford their own health care that isn't my problem!"
Why?
And so on and so on. Keep making them dig. Keep making them explain until they can't anymore and are faced with nothing but the ugly mask of bias and prejudice. Only then can they truly see that taking it off is an option. Whether they do or not is up to them. And that choice tells you whether they deserve more of your energy or not.
Trans kids can't be trans. Why? Why not? Why?
Free food is bad for ppl. Why? Why? Why? Why is feeding ppl bad?
Why?
Why is helping one another bad?
Why is doing what humans are genetically designed to do, to help and care for one another to ensure survival, bad?
2013 bbc with D.C, lewis hamilton talks about karting with nico rosberg and how they used to dream about being teammates, having boats, and what they would call their boats
f2 engineers are the most humbling people on earth. brake bias at 97%? do we look like we can help you from here. something loose in the cockpit? cool keeping driving. losing time in sector two? find it.
holy shit! you should've seen the looks on your faces! and you? who screams like that? you sound like a little girl. hey, you guys coming or not? oh! i heard we should hit up loch nora, that's where the rich people live, right?
max mayfield: in every scene
— 2.02: trick or treat
barnes and noble has been raising the prices of everything and further pushing for their premium membership option (which they raised the price of by 60 percent this year!) and then when they have big sales events, they're less than what they used to be.
last year at this time you could get one of their leather-bound book annex tomes for $12.50 (without a member discount) because of the 50 percent off all hardcover sales. but they raised the price of those tomes from 25 bucks to 30, and they decreased the sale from 50 percent off all hardcovers to 1/3rd off. so that same book that was $12.50 at last year's end-of-year sale is now 20 bucks. and that's supposed to be savings enough to induce me to walk into one of their stores this week?
i'm sorry but b&n has just gotten so greedy, even though their business has only been doing better and better in previous years. they do not have to be raising prices like they have been, and they can damn well afford to have the same savings events they used to. if you went to one of those hardcover sales a year or two ago, even if you lived in a less populated area like i do, you had never seen a b&n so busy in your life. things were flying off the shelves. they WERE making bank.
and as a company they've only been growing and growing (as much as the publishing industry has been, in recent years). but there are so many other ways to buy books. CHEAPER ways to buy books. MORE SUSTAINABLE ways to buy books. and since books and booksellers are doing really well right now, i don't see why barnes and noble is getting so greedy when they don't have to be. i dont like new shiny books that much. people buy books for the content, ultimately. sometimes we as consumers might make the choice that a new shiny book is worth paying a bit more for, but not that much. barnes and noble has just been demanding more and more of their customers' money for less and less benefit.
every damn time gwynriel/elucien gets a heavy hit reminder on "your barely a ship chill the fuck out" from S*M herself they throw the biggest fucking tantrum and makes it everyones problem like...
sorry not even casual readers who dont care about elriel dont get on youre side since they know are the most likable couple to have their story told. go get youre shit together if a fictional gardener liking- being shackled, to your equally fictional book BF, gets you so fucking heated
me watching the gifs of neymar losing 1 million dollars gambling and then brushing it off like it's nothing while i drink my $3.46 ice cap that i saved for the end of the week as my treat for getting through my tests:
White leftists are so insufferable, racist, woman-hating, and unable to understand nuance that they think a little girl from a small island in the Caribbean who was born to a single mother who had to work 3 jobs to keep their family afloat, making her dreams come true and eventually becoming a billionaire by making the worlds most shade-inclusive makeup company is the same as some white dude inheriting his fathers slave-run blood diamond mine wealth and becoming the worlds richest man via his own greed and incapability to create anything that will actually help humanity. Really?
based on that post alone, any outfit he has on at any time would be worth about $7,000.
edit: for those who don't know, hannibal is technically a count in lithuania. he has a lot of money from his family name, and then he makes a ton as a psychatrist, too.
My support for my Eat The Rich comrades ends at “Celebs shouldn’t discuss anything that’s hurting them. They’re millionaires, I hOpE tHeY sUfFeR mOrE!!!”