vicemag:

People are understandably upset after video emerged of what appears to be U.S. Marines urinating on Afghan corpses. If they’re surprised, however, they need to pick up a history book. Soldiers piss on corpses in every war. On both sides. Soldiers rape civilians, as a rule, in every war that has ever taken place since time immemorial. Rape is a weapon of war. Piss, some people are now learning, is a weapon of war. Some fucked-up, disgusting combination of the two, plus shit and dismemberment, is a weapon of war. Bad guys do it. “Good” guys do it. When a country’s government decides to wage war, they are deciding to sanction piss, rape, and the torture and murder of women and children who had the colossally bad fortune to be in the midst of the war. When the U.S. decided to enter into Afghanistan and then Iraq, they (i.e. Congress and the president, and the myriad companies that profit from war) knew this. I’m not singling out the U.S. here; while we’re as good at implementing the more horrific, soul-erasing weapons as anyone, we’re not alone. Does your country have a military? In times of war, they kill people, and sometimes they piss on them.

If it isn’t clear why I’m detailing this, it is because I want to express an old thought: war is the very worst thing there is. And if you command an army, you better the fuck understand, in your probably cowardly, definitely privileged, likely draft-dodging bones, that when you send soldiers out to fight and die, they are going to do some unconscionable, irreversible things. And they are doing it in your name. Because you told them to.  And pissing on a corpse is a FUCKING POEM compared to issuing an order for beautiful young people to go and kill other beautiful young people in a land far away, because you, in essence, “felt like it.”

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thefrogman:

5 out of 7 corgis receive coal in their stocking. They then bury that coal in the backyard. There it stays for millions of years. Heat and pressure smoosh the carbon until it finally becomes a lovely diamond. Then the bionic future space corgis dig up the diamond, sell it, and then buy all kinds of awesome future doggie toys and a time machine.

They take the cool doggie toys, wrap them in shiny paper, head back in time, and deliver them under the tree for the corgis who buried their coal. The naughty corgis get their cool future space toys from the bionic future space Santacorgis and the derpy corgi gets to play with the shiny paper. 

And they all live happily ever after. 

animalstalkinginallcaps:

WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY “TAKE A BREAK” EXACTLY? JUST TAKE A LITTLE REST? BECAUSE DATING ME IS SO MUCH WORK AND YOU’RE TIRED?

JUST SAY YOU WANT TO BREAK UP YOU PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE PIECE OF SHIT. NOBODY “TAKES A BREAK”. YOU DON’T LOVE ME? FINE. YOU CAN’T KEEP IT IN YOUR PANTS? FINE. BUT TAKE SOME PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THOSE FEELINGS AND RESPECT ME ENOUGH NOT TO ASK ME TO AGREE TO LET YOU GO SLEEP AROUND WHILE I SIT AT HOME AND WATCH TV OR WHATEVER. WHAT ARE YOU, SIXTEEN? DID YOU THINK I’D JUST SAY “SURE”? 

GET OFF MY BEACH, AND DON’T CALL ME IN A MONTH WITH SOME HALFASSED APOLOGY. AND PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DON’T FORGET TO TAKE YOUR SHITTY DUBSTEP RECORDS WITH YOU.

Slow day in the office, so I made y’all this for Thanksgiving. (With some help from NatalieDee, obvs.)

laurenashleybishop:

this is a thing that is perfect

from @kyletezak’s “Four Icon Challenge”

The Four Icon Challenge is my attempt at visually summarizing my favorite books and movies using only, that’s right, four icons. Boiling a story down to four elements gave me a surprising amount of insight into the author’s message and intentions, as well as the role recurring objects play in storytelling.

I’m sorry, are these teddy bears with tits?

Work it, girl

animalsbeingdicks:

In observation of Atlanta Pride this weekend.

(Source: wearethe99percent)