Okay double reblogging because the source was leading me to a weird Instagram article? I don’t know if that’s an error on my side and if it is could someone please send me the correct link
I think this is the right petition though but I can’t find the links for anything else:
The Khans make and sell drugs in the bathrooms, the Followers have turned the optometrist place into a clinic, the Kings are in the shop with the most leather jackets, the NCR has taken over the food court and refuses to share their fries with anyone, the Legion crucifies people in Claires, House has locked himself in the security office, Benny has been trying to pick the lock for weeks, the Powder Gangers live in the Taco Bell and refuse to let the NCR have it back, the Boomers are completely self-sufficient in the dollar store, and the courier woke up in a Hot Topic.
Bugs Bunny could singlehandedly defeat Thanos by dressing up as a TSA agent and setting up a metal detector in the middle of the battlefield saying that all metal objects must be removed if you want to pass on through now stick around for my 2,000 word essay on just how effectively he would convince The Mad Titan to comply
“For shame, doc! Dontcha know we got other folks waiting?”
(Thanos looks behind him and sees dozens of Bugs Bunnies dressed as angry yelling travelers with huge bags of luggage. Thanos rubs his neck guiltily and begins sliding off the gauntlet)
I felt compelled
Nobody expected you to draw T. Hanos himself in the Looney Tunes artstyle but you absolutely fucking delivered
This is a good read. But in case you don’t want to click the link, here’s a few snippets that I think are the most important parts:
But any form of debate is inherently flawed. The aim of debate is not to
provide a detailed, cogent, well-sourced answer to the question at
hand. The aim of debate is to be the most convincing, not the smartest,
and anyone who’s good at debating knows this. This is how former Breitbart scribe Ben Shapiro has a reputation as an intellectual warrior
when his arguments mostly consist of saying incorrect things very fast.
This is why conservative political commentator Steven Crowder has a
series called “Change My Mind”
in which he ambushes random college kids with a big binder full of
pre-prepared talking points, and pulls the mic away from them anytime
they seem like they might actually change someone’s mind.
People — yes, even you — do not make decisions on an entirely
rational basis. An audience is more easily won over with a one-liner
that inspires applause or laughter than a five-minute explanation of a
complicated phenomenon. A false statistic repeated confidently will be
more convincing than a truth stated haltingly by some guy you’ve never
heard of, and who you’ve already decided you don’t like because he’s
arguing against the guy you came to see. Massively complex ideologies
with hundreds of years of scholarship behind them are reduced to a
couple of fast-talking egos in Dockers thinking about the best way to
make their opponent look like a dumbass. Debate is not politics. It’s
theater.
Real learning is hard. It’s a slow, confusing process
where you sometimes have to read long books with dreadful covers, and
look at footnotes and shit. It requires us to recognize and then
overcome our biases as best we can. It can take years to learn what we
really think and why, and then if we get a lingering feeling we might be
wrong, it can take years to un-learn and start all over.
Debate,
in contrast, offers an easy way out. Some dudes spouting their favorite
buzzwords in each other’s vicinity makes us feel smart and engaged,
like we’re in that fresco of the Greek men
they put on all the philosophy textbooks. (Small aside — have you ever
noticed how in this image, all the female figures look thoroughly sick
of these guys?) However, the format of debate, which is supposed to
represent the height of intellectual tradition, encourages us instead to
applaud the candidate who is best at using simple rhetoric, looking
suave, and machine-gunning irrelevant lines at their browbeaten
interlocutor. These are all things that real intellectual inquiry is
supposed to look beyond.
Do not be tempted by the promise of easy satisfaction. Watching a debate can make you actively worse
at understanding the nuances of a topic. If you want to really know
about a subject, here’s my advice: read widely and extensively (and not
just the books your favorite YouTuber recommends). Talk to people,
patiently and fairly, rejecting your instinctual desire to win. And
perhaps most importantly — take this from a veteran — do not reward
former debate team kids with your attention. They are the worst type of
nerds and they never share their snacks.
Today at my school we had an assembly about internet predators and when I had said that most of my true friends are over the internet and they gave me a lecture about how “I don’t know who I’m talking to” blah blah. So please, if you aren’t a predator in any way, please reblog so i can prove a point.
If you don’t reblog this, then I am honestly very concerned.
everytime i see this im gonna reblog it and weed out my pedo followers
I am a 19 year old girl, have made friends online with people of different teen ages, and have experienced being friends with a creepy older person online!
I would never put any of my friends and followers through that and I want you all to know this! If you’re experiencing a situation where you are friends with someone online who you feel might be a pedophile or at the very least have ill intentions, please please please talk to me!
I’ve lived through it and I promise with all my heart and soul I will help you remain safe in that situation!!!
My online friends have probably helped me a lot more then my real life friends with certain shit, don’t get me wrong they do help me but I just don’t feel like they really do… anything when it comes to certain stuff.. probs bc we all joke about it and it can be hard to tell who is actually going through it… Idk
I’m only online to make friends,post art, and make stupid memes. Nothing above that
The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.
To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.
On the 17th, dead silence.
People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.
But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.
What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’
A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.
If you want to join in, here’s what to do:
Do:
Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th
Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad
Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion
Come back on the 18th and check in
Don’t:
Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)
Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.
Open the app or website (including specific blogs)
Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)
Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.
Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.
Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.
