Blogging this tweet because this explains SO MUCH about the mindset of pretty much all the folks I’ve known who’re against single-payer, it’s not even funny…
This….
This never occurred to me. Not once. That Americans are against Health Care because they think it actually costs tens of thousands of dollars for a broken arm, hundreds of thousands for a complicated birth, millions for cancer treatment.
Because they’ve never known anything different. The idea that a broken arm is only a couple hundred bucks; a complicated birth a couple thousand; cancer treatment only tens of thousands; all easily covered by existing tax structures.
This explains a lot. And it’s a good example of what I was talking about in my post on scarcity being used to prop up ableism – always question the idea that a resource is genuinely scarce. Even if it seems obvious that it is, quite often that’s the result of careful manipulation and misconceptions that you’re not even aware of.
And never think you’re too smart to be fooled by that kind of thing, it doesn’t work like that. Similarly, don’t think people who are fooled by something are stupid. Nobody can have all the information about everything, and nobody has the time and energy to investigate and put together conscious conclusions about every piece of information they’re given. It doesn’t take being stupid, or even just gullible, to believe something like this.
I currently live in a country without free medical care and still, it’s enormously cheap compared to the USA. An American expat wrote a piece for our English language paper about how she paid more for parking at the hospital than giving birth to her baby that’s pretty interesting:
This goes to @battychow 🙂 Sorry for the stupid and long wait!!!
UGH I missed drawing these two.
I think Ratchet doesn’t say it but he likes to sleep over Drift’s windshield and hood (¬‿¬)
Hice ésto escuchando la de “Gracias a la vida” de Violeta Parra. Así que para mi es la canción que Drift en tfa cantaría. Imagínense cantándosela a Ratchet ;A; snif.
I did this while hearing Violeta Parra’s song “Thanks to life” and now it’s my theme song for tfa Drift. It’s perfect ;A; (to me).
I love the tenderness of Drift’s expression here, such love
My gf: mimes are to clowns as dogs are to wolves
Me, trembling: what
I love clown shitposting as much as the next person, but for once my weirdly specific college education of mimes has a chance to shine because the opposite is actually true. Modern western clowning is directly descendant from ancient greek pantomime. Clowns are actually the watered down, domesticated funny makers to the raw stylings of mimes.
…Man, I’d even make fun of myself for adding this comment on.
You look at a mime and tell me that doesn’t have the raw, untamed energy of a wolf. The clown is the tamed household one, colorful and designed to warm hearts and bring chuckles and entertain. But a mime…..that is something savage and unbridled from the wilderness. You ask a mime to make you laugh and it will go for the jugular. Not to say a clown is unable to go feral, just the opposite. It’s just that approaching a mime in its natural habitat without due respect, expecting it to be the same creature as your auntie’s pedigree purebred Bozo, will be the last mistake you ever make.
JESUS, how many times do I have to tell people this: neither mimes or clowns are tame. Comparing them with this “dogs vs. wolves” junk is just spreading misinformation! Just because a grizzly bear looks more cuddly than a shark does NOT mean you should give it a hug. People trying to get friendly with clowns, feeding them from campsites, etc. is dangerous and shouldn’t be encouraged.
Vos: “I could feel his hot ex-vents on me as he held me close, his optics focused on my scope as he began to take aim…” Tarn: *groans*
Vos: “His servos were so strong and firm, unyielding as he gripped me tightly…” Tarn: *quiet whimpering*
Vos: “Megatron fingered my trigger softly, gently, waiting for the right moment before roughly squeezing it tight to fire my–” Tarn: *garbled static wheezing noises* Vos: ♡
what the fuck. theres not even a fucking joke here. its just the fucking alphabet. i was expecting some kind of fucking meme like “gun” or “john cena” or something like that but no its just the fucking alphabet. here. on tumblr.com. 26 users just fucking banded together to write the alphabet. what the fuck, man.
I think the update broke them, and almost everyone else.
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Someone tag me for 187!
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BettSplendens Tumblr Evac 