casual friday at the Wright Anything Agency
STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND LOOK AT THIS PHOTO!!!!!!!
GUYS! WE DID IT!!!
YA YEEEEET!!
WAIT SO DID WE WIN!!
SERIOUSLY?! THATS AWESOME!!!
This is NOT a win!
This is just the next step in a long fight.
Even if the Senate passes the measure it must go to the House of Representatives. They might choose not to push the measure.
Even if the House then approves it, it has to go to Trump. Trump has already stated he sees Net Neutrality as “dumb” and would veto it. That doesn’t mean he wouldn’t change his mind, but it is more than likely the Republicans (or at the very least Trump) will continue to try and kill Net Neutrality.
This is going to end up being a Campaign Issue. If you want to make sure Net Neutrality remains, you are going to have to vote out Republicans, and vote to keep Democrats in the offices they currently have.
This is not the End. This is a step beyond the end of the beginning… but there is a long and hard fight ahead of us.
Time for a reality check, guys. (I’m all for good news, but lies and misinformation makes us as bad as Pai and Big Telecom.)
Remember back when the co-sponsors reached 30?
That’s what this news is tied to: enough to force a vote.
THAT’S ALL.
We are still lacking Co-sponsor #51, and without that, the CRA will fail.
We need to focus on the midterms instead. Who in your state is running? Who’s on the take with NRA, Big Telecom and Big Corporation?
Same questions with Congress. Get the answers, then vote out all those on the take.
Exactly. Call your senators and representatives, and make it plain as day that Net Neutrality is the issue that dictates how you will vote in November.
Tampons are a “luxury item”
Once I worked as an intern in the state capital. One of the representatives I worked for was this middle-aged guy. And he hated the tampon and napkin machines in the women’s bathrooms. Hated them. He insisted that they weren’t necessary.
I found out why after I’d been working there, oh, about a month. My period started suddenly, as it sometimes does, and I asked to excuse myself to go to the ladies’ room. He wanted to know why. I told him.
He started ranting about how lazy women were. How we wasted time. How we were so careless and unhygenic, and that there was no call for that. He finished by telling me that I certainly was NOT going to the ladies’ room and that I was just going to sit there and work. He finished this off with a decisive nod, as if I’d just been told and there could be no possible argument.
“If I don’t go,” I said in an overly patient tone, “the blood is going to soak through my pants, stain my new skirt that I just bought, and possibly get on this chair I’m sitting in. I need something to soak up the blood. That’s why I need to go to the bathroom.”
His face turned oatmeal-gray; an expression of pure horror spread across his face. He leaned forward and whispered, “Wait, you mean that if you don’t go, you’ll just keep on bleeding? I thought that women could turn it off any time that they wanted!”
I thought, You have got to be kidding.
Several horrified whispers later, I learned that he wasn’t. He actually thought a) that women could shut down the menstrual cycle at will, b) that we essentially picked a week per month to spend more time in the bathroom, i.e. to goof off, and c) that napkins and tampons were sex toys paid for by Health and Human Services. I didn’t know the term then, but he believed that tampons were dildos. Which was why he and a good number of his friends considered them luxuries.
And that’s how, at twenty, I had to give a talk on menstruation to a middle-aged married state representative who was one of my bosses. American politics, ladies and gentlemen.
That’s.., that’s insane.
what the fuck did i just read
The finale of Steven universe better have a war where all the characters we’ve grown to love (the crystal gems, the humans, the rubies, the amethysts, jasper and her small army, bismuth, the centepeedles, offcolors, topaz, maybe aquamarine???) Fight to defend earth. It would probably end in something really really really emotional (I will be disappointed if the ending doesn’t make me cry because i was fucking bawling with smaller episodes like mindful education) but knowing steven, it will probably end with him trying to convince the diamonds to leave earth alone, probably a sappy message about “We can all live here in peace!” And “I miss my mom too! But there’s nothing we can do to change the past. We have to remember and love her memory” or some shit like that. When the diamonds find out that steven has pink’s gem, the diamonds are going to try and kill him for it.
apotheoseity
