Joke: Bernie Sanders voted against “good bills” like the one that implemented the AMBER Alert because he’s a bad person who hates children.
Woke: Bernie Sanders was in FULL SUPPORT of implementing an AMBER Alert system, he voted against the bill because there were unrelated provisions snuck in relating to harsher mandatory minimum sentencing aka the “three strikes law.” At the time, the ACLU and HUNDREDS of legal experts and judges came out against the amendment.
Congress sneaks in controversial provisions (aka riders) all that time. For example, an upcoming “coronavirus spending bill” will likely have provisions that expands the Patriot Act. Provisions being snuck into huge or seemingly “good bills” is how we also passed anti-environment measures through and allowed for corporations to hide their political activity. Politicians do this specifically to pass “poison legislation” aka shit that people would be freaking outraged about if it was presented on it’s own.
The three strikes law is a perfect example of this - and either politicians are too lazy to read these bills and see what’s hidden inside them or they’re complicit in passing unfavorable amendments. And idk maybe it’s cool that Bernie doesn’t just vote in favor of a “good bill” when that bill includes shit that literally fucks over everybody esp. when it comes to our civil rights. idk idk
guys PLEASE do not start being like “fuck joe biden basically won the nomination” he LITERALLY did not. a candidate needs nearly two thousand delegates to win. biden currently has about 3 hundred and bernie has about 2 hundred. it’s literally still anyone’s game. the majority of states have yet to have their primary yet. chill
final super tuesday results and they’re literally 45 DELEGATES apart. not even 50. in a race where not even a quarter of the delegates have been pledged.
Role swap au where Zuko was the Avatar who got frozen for a hundred years, so when he’s rescued from the ice instead of a goofy twelve year old Katara catches this mysterious teenager with long hair and a cool scar and a fucking DRAGON
Katara: BOY???? HOT BOY?????? HOT TEENAGE BOY?????????
Zuko: *speaks*
Katara: nevermind I hate him
How does Aang factor into this? I ask because the more I think about it the more I want him to somehow be trying to capture the Avatar.
Aang is 112 years old, decided he was going to be Zuko’s airbending teacher, and refuses to take no for an answer
Aang: Aw, the new Avatar doesn’t want me. Aang: *gets out a weighted net* Time for Plan B then.
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Look, you know how you keep a net from falling on you? YOU AIRBEND IT, SUCKA. Air comes right after fire in the cycle so it’s not like the guy has any other options. Do you want a flaming net falling on you? No? Then learn to airbend. Or this tiny old man will cart you away like a trussed turkey and lecture you about the power of laughter, going with the flow, opening your chakras, and other hippie shit.
Sokka, slouching against a fence, not moving: Oh nooooooo, that creepy old man stole the Avataaaaaaaaaar. Sokka, sitting down on the ground: We should dooooo something. Sokka, pulling out his lunch: Otherwise he might actually learn something. That would be teeeerrible. Katara, indignant rage coursing through her body: Sokka!!!!!!!! We have to go look for him!!!! Sokka: Might! Actually! Learn! Something! Katara! Katara: *wavers* Katara, also sitting down: We have to go look for him…. *gets out her own sandwich* But, maybe after lunch.
I love that this transforms Aang’s role in the full Team Avatar familial situation from the baby of the family to the Grandpa with weird hobbies
My brain, immediately after the “Aang won’t take no for an answer” post:
Aang: I’m gonna ride him! *jumps on Zuko’s shoulders*
Actually, I thought a bit more about this: If Aang is “grandpa figure who won’t fucking stop teaching Zuko to be a better and more spiritually fulfilled person,” then what is Iroh doing?
And then it hit me.
Iroh: *sitting in a teahouse at a paisho table* Iroh, deadpan: I must capture the last airbender. Iroh: It is the only way to make sure the powe rof the Avatar won’t be turned on the Fire Nation. Iroh: Only then will I be redeemed in the eyes of the Fire Lord for my failure at Ba Sing Se. Iroh: … Iroh: Anyway, it’s your turn.
About half of the B plots are just Iroh finding new ways to feign incompetence and bad luck so that his political watchdog can’t prove that he’s letting Aang - and by extension Zuko - get away.
Sometimes Iroh plays paisho with Aang, whose entire disguise during these games consists of a painfully fake mustache.
AANG WAS THE OTHER PLAYER IN THAT SCENE OF COURSE IT’S PERFECT (the moustache is just a bit of Appa’s fur tied in a string)
heres the question…. since aang and zuko would be roughly the same age in this AU…. Would they have known each other as kids? and more importantly? would they have gotten into shenanigans with boomy?
2 questions: What happened to Avatar Roku and who becomes Avatar after Zuko dies?
consider this, there was no roku and the avatar before zuko was kyoshi
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AC the poss just strollin out of some echidna ruins trying on some jewelry she found in a trap filled temple.
