Silver Tongue

Aug 07

criminallynerdy:

justanewworldfool:

The whole reason so many people are coming to this whole “all lives matter” vibe from this episode is because they aren’t looking at it in context of the rest of the show. Steven is more than willing to fight his enemies when he has to. He’s had a whole character arc revolving on his desire to fight alongside the gems. What he’s condemning is the act of killing them when they have non lethal alternatives. They have a sword that can incapacitate a gem in one swipe. Why do you need a weapon that’ll straight up kill them? Even from the most practical standpoint, you can see its unnecessary to shatter a gem when you can ko them and bubble them for at least a long as 5000 years. The show isn’t saying that you shouldn’t defend yourself or that you shouldn’t fight your oppressors, its saying that its not right to kill them before they even get a chance to change. Especially when you don’t need to take it that far. And you don’t want 9 year old Devon who was learning karate to defend himself from a bully to say “shit why don’t i stab him to death instead”.

That aside though, ya’ll insist on putting this show and its creators on a pedestal and then get mad when their ideologies don’t match with yours. They are people just like you with their own opinions and beliefs. No matter how many things the show does right you lot still bitch and moan when things don’t go your way.

Finally, it’s a great kids show but it’s still a kids show. You cant turn an optimistic 14 year old pacifist into a jaded morally ambiguous freedom fighter in an American prime time children’s show. Besides. It’s a kid show. Ya’ll getting up in arms over a children’s show. Again. Aren’t you guys a little embarrassed??

Honestly this needed to be said.

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birdmother:

iguanamouth:

fingerpuppet:

i’ve been trying to construct a joke with naruto’s “believe it” and mulder’s “i want to believe” but thats about as far as i get…

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@sourtamarind

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quartz-poker:

visovari:

In a one-hour briefing with a foreign policy expert, Donald Trump asked three times why the US can’t just use nuclear weapons. Three. Times.

The presidency is set up in such a way that, during a crisis, the president is able to launch nuclear weapons without argument. Military officers directly under his command are sworn to do as he asks in these scenarios, and cannot decline. That would be a criminal offense. Treason.

The likelihood that Donald Trump will start a nuclear war if elected is fucking staggering and we AS A SPECIES cannot afford to let it happen. The Cold War only ended 25 years ago, we can’t go back to living in that state of fear. We can’t elect a literal, actual fascist who wants to do away with the Geneva Conventions, would forcibly seize land in the Middle East, has quoted Benito Mussolini along with his #MakeAmericaGreatAgain hashtag, has proposed numerous policies that go against the United States Constitution and threaten rule of law (and here’s a list), consistently encourages his supporters to commit violence (and EACH WORD of that is a separate link, and it’s not even the bulk of stories on the matter), and wants the world to prepare for nuclear war. I could list PLENTY MORE of these, but it’s making me feel physically ill to keep looking over these.

This is horrifying. Please, for the love of god, vote Clinton. Vote for the candidate who is not an aspiring fascist dictator with an itchy nuclear-launch finger. Do not waste your vote on a third party. Don’t let the next Ralph Nader effect occur. Don’t put this man in office, I am begging you.

Rebagel. I find this is the most important reason to not vote Trump, even if you hate Hillary with every fiber of your being.

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nithrarith:

ah yes the three pokemon go teams:

Valor

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Mystic

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and Instinct

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inkerton-kun:

tixerp:

inkerton-kun:

exeggutor used to creep me out as a kid but it’s alright now

how does exeggutor creep you out tho

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snorlaxatives:

my aesthetic is that one scene in holes where sigourney weaver paints her nails with rattlesnake venom infused nail polish and claws jon voight in the face

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