lucky star

2y

i am privileged

i was going to be happy if kamala won

i was going to be happy if trump won

i woke up this morning with a fully functional body in a country where there is no active threat to my survival.

PRAISE GOD.

orangetcovid

2y

lol lets not do backdoor racism
more jobs for american hard workers

Jim Napster

2y

You are so dense

orangetcovid

2y

please link

SegaDreamFlash

2y

Murphy Mccollough got me crying

Dawgsons cRXeek

2y

Mexico has a female president

orangetcovid

2y

well you didn't do enough to convince your people

WT777

2y

Perfect nickname

yasiin

2y

Nah Abercrombie not ours anymore

rustcohlestan

2y

i f***ing hate this patronizing ass “both sides are complicit in this genocide” voters. this s*** has been going on for DECADES and yall didn’t care about it until october 2023

Emotion

2y

Most Latino males are uneducated and fell into social media manipulation. I am certain there was an anti lgbt component that many Latinos assimilate with their catholic religion as well

John Mauve

2y

Jeff Daniels (written by Aaron Sorkin): 'America is not the greatest country in the world anymore', The Newsroom - 2012
Release date: 24 June 2012, HBO

Will
It's not the greatest country in the world, professor, that's my answer.

Moderator
pause You're saying—

Will
Yes.

Moderator
Let's talk about—

Will
Fine. to the liberal panelist Sharon, the NEA is a loser. Yeah, it accounts for a penny out of our paychecks, but he gesturing to the conservative panelist gets to hit you with it anytime he wants. It doesn't cost money, it costs votes. It costs airtime and column inches. You know why people don't like liberals? Because they lose. If liberals are so f***in' smart, how come they lose so GODDAM ALWAYS!

And to the conservative panelist with a straight face, you're going to tell students that America's so starspangled awesome that we're the only ones in the world who have freedom? Canada has freedom, Japan has freedom, the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, Belgium has freedom. Two hundred seven sovereign states in the world, like 180 of them have freedom.

And you—sorority girl—yeah—just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day, there are some things you should know, and one of them is that there is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we're the greatest country in the world. We're seventh in literacy, twenty-seventh in math, twenty-second in science, forty-ninth in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, third in median household income, number four in labor force, and number four in exports. We lead the world in only three categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next twenty-six countries combined, twenty-five of whom are allies. None of this is the fault of a 20-year-old college student, but you, nonetheless, are without a doubt, a member of the WORST-period-GENERATION-period-EVER-period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don't know what the f*** you're talking about?! Yosemite?!!!

We sure used to be. We stood up for what was right! We fought for moral reasons, we passed and struck down laws for moral reasons. We waged wars on poverty, not poor people. We sacrificed, we cared about our neighbors, we put our money where our mouths were, and we never beat our chest. We built great big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases, and cultivated the world's greatest artists and the world's greatest economy. We reached for the stars, and we acted like men. We aspired to intelligence; we didn't belittle it; it didn't make us feel inferior. We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election, and we didn't scare so easy. And we were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed. By great men, men who were revered. The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one—America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.

Will
to moderator Enough?

Related content: Aaron Sorkin, Syracuse commencement, 'Welcome to the NFL'

" There's a story about a man and a woman who have been married for 40 years. One evening at dinner the woman turns to her husband and says, "You know, 40 years ago on our wedding day you told me that you loved me and you haven't said those words since." They sit in silence for a long moment before the husband says "If I change my mind, I'll let you know." "

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yasiin

2y

Yep

WT777

2y

Just visit his page it's everywhere there, he has cracker of the day/week and thry love it lmaoooo

Valenciaisthebest

2y

On brand response

CutiePieHole

2y

Guys she can still win they are counting the mail in votes.

Bo Ceephus

2y

F*** do whites wear now? Trying to look less threatening when the police get full immunity and start laying into black people on the streets for literally no reason and Noone to stop them.

rustcohlestan

2y

i f***ing hate this patronizing ass “both sides are complicit in this genocide” voters. this s*** has been going on for DECADES and yall didn’t care about it until october 2023