Artisan Scribbles

ladyshinga:

acquaintedwithrask:

im-a-deceptikhan:

prowl-great-cain:

howtobeafxxkinglady:

high-shawty:

howtobeafxxkinglady:

daneedelion:

howtobeafxxkinglady:

military worship in this country is out of fucking control

excuse me?

military worship in this country is out of fucking control 

Yea you’re right, we shouldn’t honor the people willing to risk their life to save ours and defend our country … oh

Military worship in this country is out of fucking control

I’m in the military and yes it’s out of fucking control. Most of the people I know in the military feel the same way. You civilians need to calm the fuck down. Most of us joined in our teens or early twenties. For a lot of us it was because we needed a job, and we didn’t see any other options, and this job has good benefits, especially for an uneducated young person in America. We get healthcare and education!! That’s some tempting fucking fruit. But this is a JOB. Some people in the military become heroes, that’s true. Jumping on grenades, defusing bombs, dragging a wounded person from the middle of a firefight. They usually end up dead in the process. Those people deserve respect, in my opinion. They give their lives for their friends, no matter whether or not you agree with the policies that put them there in the first place. But a lot of people in America reflexively claim that everyone in the military is a hero, full stop. This isn’t true and it lets people look the other way when something is actually wrong in the military, because it’s the military, they’re heroes, they can do no wrong.

We’re doing a job, and a lot of us are never really put in harm’s way. I work in a climate controlled lab for 8 hours a day, for instance. Really grueling. Such a hero. This fawning lip service of an infallible military doesn’t do us any good. I know people who have bought into it, who have heard so many people tell them that they’re heroes that they actually believe it, and they are the stupid and dangerous ones. Joining the military does not make you a hero, and calling us heroes might make you feel all warm and fluffy and red white and blue but it doesn’t do anything for the people that end up on the streets with PTSD or come home with life-changing injuries or in a box. We’re human beings, not some concept that you can just mindlessly adulate and then feel better about yourself.

☝️🏽☝️🏽☝️🏽☝️🏽

oh boy just in time for the 4th of July

Speaking as a disabled veteran: it’d be one thing if the fucking hero worship MEANT ANYTHING. But it’s a bunch of empty loud words about how Brave and Noble everyone in the military is (nah some of us are assholes) and then when it comes to, oh I don’t know, paying a soldier enough to feed their family without food stamps, or giving disability compensation without a NIGHTMARE fight with the country that claims to “care” so much. Plus the whole “sending us off to kill other people to make rich men richer while innocents die for it” thing. It’s not “defending freedom” to shove our troops into everyone’s business in countries that happen to have oil and such

Military worship isn’t only annoying, it’s a hollow lie that’s basically dangerous to everyone

naamahdarling:

jheselbraum:

jheselbraum:

I want to be rich enough to leave $100 tips

I want to be rich enough to solve my friends life problems.

“Money doesn’t fix everything” but it can pay off my coworkers car so she can leave her abusive husband. It can buy gas money and bus tickets and pay rent and cover medical expenses and just.

It wouldn’t fix everything but it would provide a great first step and it’s so frustrating when the solution is so plain to see but completely unattainable and maybe I’m being naive but that’s just the mood for today lads.

Money doesn’t fix everything but being poor sure can fucking BREAK a lot of shit.

headspacedad:

ptw30:

I’ve seen a few posts about “people are mad that the narrative isn’t going in the way they want.”

Nope. Those posts are missing the point completely. It’s not wanting the narrative to go in a certain direction – it’s the narrative has set a foundation and a plot – and the showrunners and writers themselves ignore what has come before.

Seriously – if you are okay – at this moment – with Shiro not being the Black Paladin, then you are watching a different Voltron series than VLD.

Because that’s the narrative has shown.

Anything else – and I’m not bashing on Keith; seriously he’s just not Black’s paladin, ask Red – is not a plot twist. It’s literally ignoring the story’s very plot.

also everyone can stop with the ‘he finally gets a rest’.  Kiddo, he’s had four seasons to rest.  One does not get much more rested than ‘dead’.  You’re not talking about him having some time to recover and build himself back up and then take his spot back.  You just want him benched so he’s out of the way so whatever character you stan can shine not in their own spot and with their own spotlight but in his.  So go with that and don’t think your ‘he can finally rest’ actually fools any of the rest of us.  Every single time Shiro’s position even looks open y’all might as well be piranha with the way you close in on him.

truth-has-a-liberal-bias:

“We must never forget that the court that keeps delivering these 5-to-4 decisions in favor of Republican efforts to rig the electoral system was itself rigged in favor of Republicans. When Justice Antonin Scalia died in February 2016, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) — with the support of every single Republican in the Senate — simply declared that he would not permit President Barack Obama’s appointed replacement to even get a hearing, let alone a vote, for no real reason other than that Obama was a Democrat. It was unprecedented and indefensible, and it’s the reason the court is now divided 5 to 4 in favor of conservatives instead of 5 to 4 in favor of liberals.”

— Rigged Supreme Court upholds rigged Republican electoral maps (via wilwheaton)