As I understand it, the Order of Operations is as follows:
1. Focus on the Tax Bill. That’s happening this week. Shoot it down.
2. Immediately afterward, start promoting Doug Jones in Alabama and reminding everyone of Roy Moore’s problems. That election is on December 12.
3. In the meantime, Net Neutrality. The FCC votes on December 14th. Protest, boost, research, do whatever you can.
I know #MeToo is important, I know Old Man Donald is still being a jerk, I know North Korea has a nuke, none of these are going to be dealt with before Christmas. There are three fronts to this fight: taxes, Alabama, FCC. These are the focal points. If we can win one of those, it’s going to have ramifications for the future. If we can win two, we’re in a pretty good place. We win all three, 2017 was a Good Year.
Taxes.
Doug Jones.
FCC.
Focus.
Millennials are Killing the Internet
I’ve already commented on one post, but I can’t with a clean conscience sit by without making my own.
I see so many posts about Net Neutrality, and while I think it’s tremendous how many of you are emailing the FCC, some of those emails aren’t going to change minds.
Some of you are emailing the chairman himself. Ajit Pai was a former Verison employee. It doesn’t matter how many emails you send to him. You could literally tell him that you depend on the Internet’s resources to live, and he would not bat an eye.
Many of you are putting in your emails that hospitals and schools will see troubles. I appreciate the effort, but when these men are the very same men who have already taken SO MUCH from hospitals and schools, will they?
What you NEED to do, is speak their language. That language is dollar signs. Make your voice sound like MONEY THEY WILL BE LOSING.
We live in a nation where restaurants are failing because no one can afford a $20 meal anymore. What makes the FCC think we can afford more than $60 Internet? E-commerce is essential to the US economy. If users are forced to go through paywall after paywall, they will STOP purchasing anything off the Internet. The nosedive in stocks will be the likes of nothing you’ve ever seen.
Without the freedom to choose which websites we visit, the internet, for many of you on Tumblr like me, will become virtually meaningless. Make THAT the message you spread to these two “Yes votes.” Tell them that if the Internet becomes just like cable TV, which none of us are able to afford, they will LOSE the few dollars we have.
They’ll be interested in hearing that.
These are the emails of the two FCC members voting “yes” on the repeal of NN. If anyone’s mind is going to be changed. It has to be one of these guys. And it has to be before December 14th.
Brendan.Carr@fcc.gov
Mike.O’Rielly@fcc.gov
If we speak their language, there may still be hope. Good luck, everyone.
I’ve been re-reading the HP books and I got to Prisoner of Azkaban (be still my beating heart, it is still the best one) and, at Christmas there’s only 12 people around the dinner table. Trelawny comes along and Dumbledore stands up to draw her a chair.
She freaks out, I must not! When 13 people dine together, the first to rise is the first to die!!!!!
Except.
Ron had Scabbers in his pocket.
Which means that there wasn’t 12 people when Trelawny arrived. There was already 13.
And Dumbledore stood up.
Every prophecy she makes comes true, but very few of them did in a way anybody expected or even recognized at the time.
Hence her name
Jesse has a nightmare about losing Gabe.
For the @blackwatchzine ♥
Check out the accompanying fic, And the Gunslinger Followed, when it uploads on the BWZ AO3 sometime today.
anyways look at this art project from when i was in grade two
reblog Don’t santa for a drama-free holiday
friendship
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So my cat pissed in my mom’s half-finished Christmas present
the half-finished box made of wood and fabric
>:(((((((
the smell and stain better come out of that wood or mom’s getting a cat-skin shawl for christmas this year
Ugly Privilege is being the ‘relationship expert’ when your friends are going through relationship issues and you got no experience with romantic relationships
Ugly Privilege is knowing your partner likes you cuz you goofy and your personality is a 10/10 and not for your looks
Ugly Privilege is being used to rejection because yo ugly ass aint surprised, given the odds
Ugly Privilege is not being hit on all the time and not having random people slide into your DMs while you tryna mind yo own business
Ugly Privilege is having a longer battery life, since ya know… nobody’s sliding into your DMs and blowin’ up your phone cuz you posted a selfie
Ugly Privilege is saving that money and spending that money on yourself and nobody else cuz yo ass forever single
Ugly Privilege is having your partner not worry about you cheatin’ because who else wants yo goofy ugly ass besides your partner?
half of yall pretty af and shouldnt be reblogging this.
for yall average-lookin folks, yall can reblog this but you on thin ice, ya hear me?? THIN. ICE.
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