just-shower-thoughts:

Losing an argument when you’re right just because the other person is too stupid to understand what you’re saying is probably one of the most infuriating things in the entire fucking universe

boringangel:

jacquez45:

fluffmugger:

geoclaire:

theclassykindoftrasy:

sparrf:

i keep thinking about that tribe of baboons where all the alpha males died from eating poison garbage and then the baby boy monkeys were taken care of by the lady monkeys and never got socialized to be aggressive so they all just live peacefully and groom eachother instead of fighting and killing eachother and its been generations of that, it only took 1 wipeout of the aggressive males to change the whole social order of the species i am crying they must be so much happier

……….I have an idea.

don’t we all

You’re missing half the story.

When adolescent males from other groups came to join, they learned very rapidly that being an arsehole baboon was not fucking tolerated, and completely stopped the behaviour and integrated with the group.

Arseholes only thrive when you let them. 

Only the aggressive males died; the non-aggressive ones didn’t go on garbage dump raids and so they survived just fine. This was about half the adult males in the troop. The suddenly-without-mean-competition males didn’t get aggressive and take over and start being giant jerks; they stayed the same pleasant baboons they had always been.

The researcher studying this troop was asked what he had learned about stopping violence in society and he said “Kill all the aggressive young males” and I think about that a lot.

turtle-paced:

Because Catelyn’s treatment of Brienne went well beyond basic courtesy.

When Brienne was being outright attacked, suspected of murdering Renly, Catelyn stepped in on her behalf.

Her own voice sounded wild and crazed to her, but the words poured out in a rush as the blades continued to clash behind her. “A shadow with a sword, I swear it, I saw. Are you blind, the girl loved him! Help her!” She glanced back, saw the second guardsman fall, his blade dropping from limp fingers. Outside there was shouting. More angry men would be bursting in on them any instant, she knew. “She is innocent, Robar. You have my word, on my husband’s grave and my honor as a Stark!”

That resolved him. “I will hold them,” Ser Robar said. “Get her away.“ 

– Catelyn IV, ACoK

And then Catelyn actually does get Brienne away from the camp. Catelyn saved Brienne’s life. That’s a pretty good start in terms of Brienne feeling loyalty to her, yes?

Furthermore, Catelyn doesn’t treat Brienne like a joke. She takes Brienne seriously when Brienne says she wants revenge on Stannis – her objections to Brienne’s revenge plan are that it’s futile and she’ll only get herself killed, not that she should leave it to a man. She accepts Brienne’s oath of service to her as she would have accepted a man’s oath. Later, Catelyn makes active use of Brienne’s skills when Catelyn entrusts her with Jaime’s wellbeing on the trip to King’s Landing.

Catelyn wasn’t just saying please and thank you and refraining from laughing at Brienne. She saved Brienne’s life. She was told Brienne that her feelings were valid, she treated Brienne with respect as a warrior, and she backed up her words with actions in giving her important, worthy work to do. Given that people not laughing at Brienne is a social encounter of note for her, I think it’s easily understandable that Brienne’s so fiercely loyal to a woman who treated her as if her life meant something and her skills were valuable.

secondgenerationimmigrant:

cellistofthedead:

free-urself:

langsandlit:

I’m so sad about the Brazilian elections. This is tragic, why is nobody talking about it? Just bc it doesn’t happen in your country doesn’t mean it’s not going to affect our fellow LGBT+ community and women.

If WE aren’t talking about this as a massive universal defeat, how will newspapers will? 

This is a country that just 30 years ago was under a military dictatorship, where many people literally gave their blood in name of democracy. Now we are watching this country elect a man that not only is homophobic, racist and sexist, but who has also said that the mistake of the dictatorship was to torture people instead of killing them. This is a man who has exalted and complimented a dictator who has raped women and tortured people, including children. Brazil is electing a man who has said in front of the cameras that he would not rape a woman because she was too ugly.

I am a woman and I am terrified. I have many LGBT friends who are terrified. The minorities in Brazil fear for their lives. This is a terrible time for us.

#EleNão

#NotHim

A bit about the Brazilian Election:

It works in two rounds. The first round, all of the candidates are held to a national vote.

The second round features the top two contenders from the first round, also in a national vote. Simple majority. This is very similar to French presidential elections, if you’re familiar with them.

However, if a candidate gets the support of over 50% of the voters in the first round, they will skip the second round entirely, becoming president by default.

Bolsonaro, the “Brazilian Trump”, had a very good chance of winning a majority of the first round, becoming president, due largely in part to his unification of the right wing. But, GOOD NEWS! He only got 46% of the votes!

Now, it’s the second round: we will either have a racist, homophobic, sexist bastard who wants to become dictator (Bolsonaro) or we’ll have Fernando Haddad. It is IMPERATIVE that we do everything in our power to stop Bolsonaro! If you have Brazilian friends, please get them to vote for Haddad! The world is depending on them!

Vote Haddad at the second turn if you are eligible to vote in Brasil.

Get out there folks! My parents’ generation didn’t get beaten up at demos and rallies, or tortured and disappeared by the previous dictatorship for this.

We don’t deserve this, but they don’t either.

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Vote no Haddad no segundo turno das eleições presidenciais no Brasil.

Voçês tratem de ir votar porque a geração dos meus pais não foi batida, presa, torturada e desaparecida pela previa ditadura para que isto acontecesse.

Nos não merecemos isto, mas eles tambem não o merecem.