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Landsknecht costume by Hafty Dla Szlachty.
God, I love landsknecht fashion...
oh this is top tier
The indoctrination never stops.
Conservatives need a minority target to keep their followers focused/unified on hate. As the followers obsess on hate, their lives/emotions are much easier to manipulate.
Conservatives always vow to restore the country to some distant past that never existed.
It's an endless loop of failure.
I've been reading facts on Wikipedia again, and i'm overcome with the need to terrify non-Americans with the most underrated Terrifying American Thing: TORNADOES
Due to a quirk of mountain and ocean placement, the east-central United States has a higher number of tornadoes (particularly exceptionally strong tornadoes) than any other place on Earth.
And they're so fucking scary oh my God
Reasons tornadoes are So Fucking Scary:
- they can form really suddenly and move really fast, so you have like a few minutes of warning when one happens
- their behavior is arbitrary and unpredictable. They can obliterate your house and leave your neighbor's house untouched
- the most powerful tornadoes are so strong that it's nearly impossible to even measure them because measuring equipment is straight up obliterated in those conditions, but they've been known to exceed 480 km/h wind speeds.
- please just read this wiki article it's the scariest fucking thing ever
- like with F5 tornadoes you'll see a lot of stuff about trucks, SUVs, furniture, appliances from homes like refrigerators etc being "lost/missing" and you may think to yourself "how does something that large just get 'lost' surely there's a better description of what happened"
- and well. the above article does provide the 'better' description. And it's "granulated."
- As in, "debris from many of the obliterated homes was finely granulated."
As a born and bred Alabamian, reading this is very funny when you're so desensitized to them that when you're woken up at 3 am by the sirens theres a very good chance you'll be like "if its my time its my time" and go right tf back to sleep
I mean I've been there but I contain multitudes okay
Tornados can put a 4x4 through concrete but also that siren going off right when my muffins come out of the oven is annoyingly inconvenient…
Reading this as an American who has lived in the Tornado Zone most of their life is kind of hilarious/bizarre also in the sense that I had no idea this was literally the only region in the world where they’re this common.
Fun history facts: One of the 31 people arrested at Stonewall on June 28th 1969 was American folk singer Dave Van Ronk, who was not at the Stonewall Inn at the time and was cis & straight as far as I'm aware. He'd been eating dinner at a nearby restaurant when he noticed a riot happening, said "Well I suppose I should go see what the fuss is about," stepped outside, and immediately started throwing bricks at the cops.
Ol' Davey really just saw people rioting in the streets and went "Sweet! ACAB!"
bring this energy back
no cishets at pride! *spin kicks a grandma with a “I love my gay son” tshirt*
Yes, @passionpeachy illustrates a great point!
The first pride my mother attended, she marched with me alongside the PFLAG float, holding a sign that read "I'm Proud of My Gay Child".
I noticed she kept falling behind and running to catch up, nearly a whole float behind us. So finally, I stopped to see what was going on.
People kept pointing at her sign and cheering and then she'd proudly point at me, saying "they're here!"
That was usually the point where at least one person burst into tears. And this is where my mom started lagging - because she'd stop, reach over the barrier, and hug them. Teenagers, twenty-somethings, thirty-somethings... they'd break down crying at the sight of a cishet woman proudly marching with her child in Texas, of all places. That she'd claim me and be proud of me. Because they couldn't imagine their own family doing the same.
So she stopped and hugged them and told them she was proud of them, even though she had to race to catch up in the heat, even though they were strangers. And i like to think she made those young people's lives a bit better.
So yes, cishets at pride.
I'd rather have a cishet grandma there than a gay cop.