As I gaze at the structural column in Copley Station, cracked nearly in two and held together with zip ties that have been carefully painted over to match the column underneath, I feel my soul intertwined with that of a small Italian boy of days gone by, who also stopped to look up at a large, groaning, newly painted tank full of molasses
I feel that some non-Boston people think I may have been exaggerating this. While I did not snap a photo as I was on the train, someone else did several months ago. I do want to stress that this column is now freshly painted and therefore completely structurally sound and in absolutely no danger of causing the entire tunnel to collapse. And yes, it did in fact never cross my mind that the original post was nearly 105 years to the day of the Molassacre
This is so safe this is the safest I’ve ever felt good job mbta gold star
Happy Molassacre Day everybody I’m still alive
Because it’s been a while, I must share with you the important update that the column is now hidden behind plywood, because the mbta believes in peekaboo rules of engineering
all these gay girls are like “wow i want a big lady to step on me” but where is the love for short girls stepping on you? short girl intimidating you with her presence and body language alone until you fall over and she steps on you?? short girl taking down a girl who’s much taller than her and making her submit??? where’s the love for my shadow of the colossus bitches???
WHERE’S THE LOVE FOR GIRLS LIKE THIS
op this is a very hot concept and your post is valid but did you HAVE to explain this with a gif from penguins of madagascar
When you point out to people who are against animal testing that there are potentially lifesaving medications that need to be tested on mammals before going to trials that could potentially harm human lives, they’ll say shit like “We should test on prisoners instead.” Bitch. Why are you working for PETA? The WW2-era Imperial Japanese Army needs you. There is suchhhhhhh a strong thread of fascism laced through the current animal rights movement and in so many animal rights spaces and they’re extremely transparent about it.
I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at animal cruelty
That scene from Community is so accurate, that is exactly how these people sound. Racism, ableism and classism often tangled with their crusade for ‘animal rights’ and their talking points often go against basic ethics and basic animal husbandry.
“You can’t vote out Capitalism” yeah but you can vote for Elizabeth Warren and her Consumer Financial Protection Bureau you can vote for not abolishing food stamp. You can vote for Biden’s millions of dollars in federal loan forgiveness. You can vote for Medicaid expansion to help those at the bottom rungs. You can vote for racial, gender, and sexuality protections in the workplace. You can vote for a million things that improve our life under Capitalism and saying “voting doesn’t change anything” only shows how much privilege you must have that you wouldn’t notice the difference.
“You can vote for Biden’s millions of dollars in federal loan forgiveness” We did that though, and he proceeded to quite immediately and explicitly Not make it happen.
He forgave $188.8 Billion USD in federal student loans. I’m sorry you weren’t one of the borrowers who qualified, but he forgave billions with a B
5.3 million borrowers had their loans forgiven and while, yes, that’s only a drop in the bucket, that’s still a 5.3 million Americans who had a financial burden taken off their back and acting like that didn’t happen when these numbers are a Google search away can only be explained by ignorance or malice.
It wasn’t Biden’s fault that he had his student loan forgiveness plans blocked. It was the fault of every Republican and, truly, every American who could have voted blue down-ballot in every election they were eligible to vote in since 2012 and chose not to. If you aren’t voting for dems in congressional and gubanatorial elections then you can’t blame the dems when they don’t have the power to implement the leftist policies you want to see. That’s on you.
As someone who did benefit from the student loan forgiveness (on loans that my mother’s second husband fraudulently took out using my information, no less), it absolutely provided immense relief. And I ONLY had less than $5k left to be paid back (although I never even received a dime of the loans.)
Reagan put the US on a path to destruction and every time anyone that isn’t a far-right lunatic tries to course-correct, the conservative dark money made sure they never succeeded.
Every nationally beneficial piece of legislation in the last fifty years was from the left. Saying otherwise is sheer ignorance.
And as someone who would have qualified for 10K of forgiveness only for the GOP to launch a dozen legal challenges: I hold all of you “lol the dems are useless” people personally responsible.
I think we’ve turned incrementalism into some great evil that must be destroyed because passing imperfect solutions isn’t as sexy and fun as total reform. And I’m sick to my teeth about it.
Obamacare, the ACA, is an imperfect solution. It was not a universal option, and allowing the individual states to choose whether to take federal subsidies that were set aside for them regardless to expand Medicare created an enormous ironic hell. In red states, which refused the subsidies obvsly, you could be too poor for ACA coverage. I know because I lived in three such states. After Obamacare passed, I still was without insurance for years because I was too poor to be covered.
That, all of that? Is about as imperfect and fucked as a “solution” can be.
But then Obamacare literally saved my life. I would be dead without it. A few years ago, in Florida, I made barely enough money to qualify for ACA coverage. And then something went extremely wrong with my esophagus, and I had to get a magnetic ring surgically inserted around my throat or, y'all, I would have been dead in another month.
I’m sitting here alive because imperfect solutions. And when virtue-signaling cowards talk about how the Dems and GOP are the same, I want to scream, “The GOP would have let me fucking die! They have let so many others die! What the fuck is WRONG with you?”
You, all of you, are surrounded by people who are only here because imperfect Democratic solutions. And I think it’s hideously disrespectful to the people who aren’t here, who didn’t survive, who didn’t get the SNAP benefits they needed or didn’t get the insurance they needed or didn’t get the housing subsidy they needed, to pretend otherwise.
If that’s you, if you have ever sat there and gone “the dems do nothing, I’m not going to bother voting,” I want you to understand you were incorrect. And then I want you to do better.
“I didn’t get the perfect progressive Utopia I wanted with a single election so WHY BOTHER, the left is USELESS.”
–way too many fucking people
Oh I think it’s rather worse than people being mad they didn’t get a perfect utopia in one election cycle. I think the real problem is that these self declared leftists are basically motivated in the exact same way as your typical conservative blowhard. Which is if it doesn’t directly matter to them, then it doesn’t matter at all. “Biden didn’t forgive student loans!” actually means “Biden didn’t forgive my student loans!”. Because who gives a shit about all the good Biden’s loan forgiveness plans did? Who cares about those 5.3 million people that he helped? *They* didn’t get *their* loans forgiven, so it doesn’t count.
I genuinely think this is the primary motivation here. They didn’t get theirs and they are pissed about it. They never really cared about the good of the people at large.
AIPAC does not exist in New Zealand. It is an amercian lobby group which lobbies the U.S government.
AIPAC is not the largest pro israel lobby in the U.S. It is the largest *jewish* pro israel lobby in the U.S. Christians United for Israel is the largest pro israel lobby in the U.S and has 7 million members.
John Minto runs PSNA, one of the largest pro Palestine organizations in NZ. He has faced criticism from the Jewish Council of NZ, the NZ human rights commissioner and the NZ race relations commissioner.
You can be pro Palestine without being antisemitic. However, John Minto keeps failing to do so. He uses Israel as a cover for his antisemitism. He is alleging jewish influence over the NZ government.
This is not in defense of the current NZ government. I do hate the current government. That doesn’t not mean you can be antisemitic.
historical silence of an entire demographic should fill you with horror, fear, and dread, wondering “what happened here?”, and not blanket assumptions that nothing happened at all. there is no mass demographic of human beings who simply sit around and do nothing, have no history, have no stories. if an entire demographic has its history missing, there is a reason for that. and that reason is damn near always violent.
If this is accurate, holy shit. Is there anyone alive today who lived under an American government that would not only not spend every cent of that money if it was the one getting it, but also pay any of it back at all, let alone on time? Amazing what happens when a government realizes it isn’t entitled to the money it’s given.
It’s accurate, we gave them a $20 billion line of credit of which they only only accessed the $2.5 billion, which they’ve paid back.
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