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Shout out to all the Megans out there haha
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And this is the true measure of how far we’ve come as a nation: in like five years, the prime talking point from Republicans about people who support gay marriage has gone from ‘It will destroy society via turtle-fucking’ to ‘Oh, of COURSE you’re for it! You’ll say anything popular to get re-elected!’
JON STEWART, on criticism by Republicans that President Obama announced his support for marriage equality simply because he wants another term in office, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
[insert incoherent angry-sounding noises]
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Legalizing Hate in America
In which Hank discusses marriage equality, which isn’t actually an issue of marriage equality, it’s an issue of human equality, and the fact that we’re still struggling with it is very disappointing.
Britain’s Got Talent (made of awesome) finalist Jon Antoine identifies as a nerdfighter. A British tabloid explains that nerdfighteria is “a bizarre Internet cult.”
WELL THIS BIZARRE INTERNET CULT IS GOING TO HELP JONATHAN ANTOINE WIN BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT.
I probably should have tumbled this when the British people were awake.
Oh, who am I kidding. Tumblypoos don’t sleep at night.
don’t sleep at night.
According to Wikipedia, studies have identified a number of key steps in how cults use coercive persuasion (mind control):
1. People are put in physically or emotionally distressing situations.
- i.e. “People don’t understand why I like things and now I am being bullied!”
2. Their problems are reduced to one simple explanation, which is repeatedly emphasized.
- i. e. “They bully you because you are too awesome!”
3. They receive what seems to be unconditional love, acceptance, and attention from a charismatic leader or group.
- i.e. “You and your nerdiness are always accepted in Nerdfighteria!”
4. They get a new identity based on the group.
- i.e. “I am a Nerdfighter now! I am no longer made of flesh and bone, but of awesome!”
5. They are subject to entrapment (isolation from friends, relatives and the mainstream culture).
- (see: the Internet)
Guys… are we a cult?
President Obama Becomes the First American President to Back Same-Sex Marriage
“I’ve just concluded, for me, personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married,” Obama said in an interview with ABC News.
Obama, who had previously backed strong protections for gay and lesbian couples, said his position had evolved partly after talking to his two daughters Malia and Sasha who had some friends who had same-sex parents.
“It wouldn’t dawn on them that somehow their friends’ parents would be treated differently. It doesn’t make sense to them and frankly, that’s the kind of thing that prompts a change in perspective,” Obama said in the interview.
TAKE ALL OF MY VOTES
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Floaters are deposits of various size, shape, consistency, refractive index, and motility within the eye’s vitreous humour, which is normally transparent. At a young age the vitreous is perfectly transparent but, during life, imperfections gradually develop. The common type of floater, which is present in most people’s eyes, is due to degenerative changes of the vitreous humour. The perception of floaters is known as myodesopsia. Floaters are visible because of the shadows they cast on the retina or their refraction of the light that passes through them, and can appear alone or together with several others in one’s field of vision. They may appear as spots, threads, or fragments of cobwebs, which float slowly before the observer’s eyes. Since these objects exist within the eye itself, they are not optical illusions but are entoptic phenomena.
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Don’t forget to be awesome, nerdfighters.
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