La pomme d’eau. La pomme de terre. Le pomme de feu. La pomme d’air. Il y a très longtemps ces quatre patates vivaient en harmonie. Mais un jour, la pomme du feu décida de passer à l'attaque.
i don’t even fucking speak french but I fucking know what that last comment says
no human being on this planet needs a fucking assault rifle for any reason
when i posted this (in october, by the way, a couple days after the vegas shooting) it capped at 9k and fizzled out, gaining one or two notes every few days. then the stoneman douglas shooting happened on valentines day, and 2 weeks later it’s exploded to 30k.
the guns used in the vegas shooting were semi-automatic rifles modified–legally, in ways that are lawful–to fire like automatic rifles using something called a bump fire stock. the mod itself is illegal in a handful of states with unclear legal status in a few more, but it is legal in most states(including nevada) to use them to mod those semi-automatic rifles into automatic rifles.
AR-15′s, as i’ve been told eight million times by people who think they’re the first ever person to say this, are not considered assault rifles by legal definition. AR-15′s do not have selective fire–the ability to switch between automatic and semi-automatic fire– and for that reason do not classify by definition as “assault rifles” but by modding one with a bump stock, they can be fired like automatic weapons.
here’s the whole point of this reblog of my post:
i don’t give a shit that vanilla AR-15s aren’t ~technically~ assault rifles. I don’t give a shit that you passed your semantics class in ninth grade. i really dont give a shit about how desperately you want to own a practically useless rifle AND the tool that allows you to turn it into the same weapons that the most recent shooters have used. there are more appropriate tools for hunting and self defense.
you don’t need it. no one on the planet needs it. it’s not a difficult concept to absorb.
there’s nothing on this earth that needs doing by you that only an assault weapon can do, unless its murdering several people at once. and if you feel like you need to murder several people at once, call your therapist and get assistance working through your crisis plan.
today’s depressing sight on reddit: a woman being downvoted into oblivion for saying that there is, contrary to what the other posters claim, a vast array of books authored by women prior to 1950 and that, in fact, at one point in time in Western Europe, the novel was seen as an emasculating form and thus avoided by men.
how_to_suppress_womens_writing.txt
Had I expected this to get more than two notes, I would have linked a pdf of How To Suppress Women’s Writing by Joanna Russ instead of working under the assumption you all would know what I’m referencing, so here’s the text, belatedly.
Assume I’m dead and rotting when this isn’t reblogged from my dash.
Update from April 2017:
Source: CNN Money, http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/05/news/us-womens-soccer-equal-pay/index.html
“The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team is getting a raise, bigger bonuses and the same per diems as the men.
The women’s team announced Wednesday that it had struck a new labor deal with U.S. Soccer, the sport’s governing body. For months, the women have said that their pay and treatment is unequal to the men’s team.
The women will also get better hotel and travel accommodations and will be reimbursed for the years when their per diems were less than those of the men.”
Finally some good news for the USWNT!
I have decided on a new constellation. I call it The Bees. If you look up at the night sky and see all those sparkly dots, congratulations. You see The Bees. I have just made astrology 10000x easier, you’re welcome.
