madamethursday:

paci-fisticuffs:

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marsinlibra:

what men call “logic” is really just a lack of empathy

and what they call “objectivity” is really just subjectivity lacking in self awareness

And what they call “common sense” is usually just a series of social biases that they’ve never bothered to analyze or question.

The guys in comments are getting ultra bitter about this. Keep reblogging, y’all.

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drinkyourjuiceshelby:

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brigpirr:

Unrealistic.

There is no way Charlie “Let’s Talk About Dragons Every Second of Every Day” Weasley would be staring at a FAIRY when there is a DRAGON right behind him.

mydisneyphoto:

Goofy ❤️

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Unpopular opinion because I’m in an awful mood right now

probablyangypolitics:

I know media bias exists and is frustrating in the search for objective truth especially in politics where lies and obfuscation are a trick of the trade, but I find constant and largely directionless screaming about press conspiracies against political entities really fucking tiring whether it’s coming from the American pro-Trump right or the British pro-Corbyn left.

My Facebook timeline has been awash with this shit for days and it’s tap-dancing on my last good nerve right now.

Here’s the main reasons the BBC isn’t praising Labour as the second coming:

1. Most of the seats being defended were Labour’s already! So crowing about them winning thousands of council seats conveniently leaves out that a significant chunk of those defences were holding safe seats they already had.
   
2. The Conservative party is the party of government and is monumentally failing at basically everything, so Labour hyped the shit out of these elections promising to take Tory strongholds left right and centre, and they didn’t. They made too big a projection and fell short of it, failing to truly capitalise on the glaring failures of a hideous government and only making modest gains.
   
3. Yes they got a hell of a good vote share, but in the 2017 snap election the Conservatives got the same vote share as Thatcher did in the 1983 election (42.4%, where the Tories won 397 seats) but still lost Theresa May her majority. Because FPTP is the worst and means the exact popular vote doesn’t mean as much as it should in terms of measuring actual progress.
   
4. Their ‘historic best performance since 1971′ only really applies if you only count London councils, factoring in the rest of the UK they and the Tories both got 35% of the vote each so it’s not like being tied at the mid-30s with the Tories is some massive win.
5. If this was a general election they’d win more seats but still fall well clear of a majority, as mentioned, but this wasn’t a general election and any talk in that direction is purely hypothetical speculation because the next general election is both at most 4 years away and also fought on entirely different terms than local elections are.

Look, Labour did pretty good. 

I voted for them and I’m pleased with the results they achieved. But I am in no way breathlessly espousing this as some epic Labour landslide and it’s only the evil biased media that is refusing to talk about it because of some internal Tory conspiracy to sink Labour through lukewarm coverage of local election results.

They didn’t do shit, they just didn’t do as well as they themselves thought they would and how well they told everyone they would. That’s why the phrase of the evening on Thursday was ‘expectations management.’

And that’s what the coverage was. That they didn’t do terribly but they fell short of expectations.

The BBC wasn’t exactly showering the Tories with praise either, most of the coverage about their performance is “well they’re still alive and kept hold of some of their stuff” which isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement.

Hell the party with the most reason to complain about media bias is the Liberal Democrats who made council seats gains just shy of Labour’s but also managed to take control of 4 councils and the most the media’s giving them is a “yeah I guess they’re still technically alive after all” platitude.

I look forward to your angry responses, enjoy them before I ultimately decide this post isn’t worth the hassle it attracts and delete it to spare myself the bother.

sarahlovesharrypotter:

Conspiracy Theory: the real reason Harry never used any spells other than Expelliarmus is because he didn’t have the energy to learn any more.

parkway-nosedive:

trauntwave:

not every single long sentence is a song title by fall out boy 

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