Mexican-American female college senior and Roller Derby Girl from Texas. This blog is a catch-all. So anything from current events, to fandom, to art, to music, to people, to personal things, sometimes NSFW as well.
“Never focus on on what you can subtract from- but what you can add to your meals.”
This video was very fast but… this is what made me reblog.
Very well said.
The reason SPAM has a negative view is quite simple. During WWII, it was the only protein that wasn’t rationed. This meant that most people ate more SPAM than they wanted to.
The culture around it has just remained.
It has a negative cultural view from white folks and mainland folks! If you’re from anywhere in the diaspora – places where American GIs were stationed, especially — you still eat a ton of SPAM and other things like that. Vienna sausages and stuff are normal and not generally seen as something gross or undesirable.
The Trini way is to put some ketchup in the frying pan with it. You need to learn the knack of frying-in-ketchup without splattering the hell out of everything lol but it’s so delicious. In a sandwich with egg and some peppersauce? BRILLIANT
After watching the Barbie trailer, my parents are arguing over whether, as a previous diplomat, Barbie should have diplomatic immunity in a foreign country (her home country being Barbieland) and thus whether her arrest by LAPD is unlawful.
Neither of my parents are lawyers or have studied international relations, they just got excited by the trailer
This pride month y’all have got to offset your doomposting with some gay fun you’ve had. And if you haven’t had any gay fun then you need to stop doomposting and work on that. I know we’re descending into fascism and there’s always kink at pride discourse and threats of violence and actual violence and hollow corporate allyship. But I only have so much room for that in my brain. I want to hear about the party you went to or the guy you met at the bar or the girl who strapped you within an inch of your life or hell the new clothes you bought. I as a gay person on the gay people website should NOT have to dread the gay month
1.) Your Reagan-era “trickle-down economics” strategy of tax breaks
for billionaires that you continue to employ to this day has widened the
gap between rich and poor so much that most of them will never be able
to own a home, much less earn a living wage.
2.) You refuse to increase the federal minimum wage, which is still
$7.25 an hour (since 2009). Even if it had just kept up with inflation,
it would be $27 now. You’re forcing people of all ages but especially
young people to work multiple jobs just to afford basic necessities.
3.) You fundamentally oppose and want to kill democracy; have done
everything in your power to restrict access to the ballot box,
particularly in areas with demographics that tend to vote Democratic
(like young people and POC). You staged a fucking coup the last time you
lost.
4.) You have abused your disproportionate senate control over the
last three decades to pack the courts with religious extremists and
idealogues, including SCOTUS—which has rolled back rights for women in
ways that do nothing but kill more women and children and expand
poverty.
5.) You refuse to enact common sense gun control laws to curb mass
shootings like universal background checks and banning assault weapons;
subjecting their entire generation to school shootings and drills that
are traumatizing in and of themselves. You are owned by the NRA.
6.) You are unequivocally against combatting climate change to the
extent that it’s as if you’ve made it your personal mission to ensure
they inherit a planet that is beyond the point of no return in terms of
remaining habitable for the human race beyond the next few generations.
7.) You oppose all programs that provide assistance to those who need
it most. Your governors refused to expand Medicaid even during A
PANDEMIC. You are against free school lunches, despite it being the only
meal that millions of children can count on to actually receive each
day
8.) You are banning books, defunding libraries, barring subject
matter, and whitewashing history even more in a fascistic attempt to
keep them ignorant of the systemic racism that this nation was literally
founded upon and continues to this day in every action your party
takes.
9.) You oppose universal healthcare and are still trying to repeal
the ACA and rip healthcare from tens of millions of Americans and
replace it with nothing. You are against lowering the cost of insulin
and prescription drugs that millions need simply to LIVE/FUNCTION in
society.
10.) You embrace white nationalists, Neo-Nazis, and other groups that
are defined by their intractable racism, xenophobia, bigotry, and
intolerance. You conspired with these groups on January 6th to try to
overthrow the U.S. government via domestic terrorism that KILLED PEOPLE.
11.) You oppose every bill aimed at making life better for our
nation’s youth; from education to extracurricular and
financial/nutritional assistance programs. You say you want to “protect
the children” while you elect/nominate pedophiles and attack trans youth
and drag queens.
12.) You pretend to be offended by “anti-semitism” while literally
supporting, electing, and speaking at events organized by Nazis. You
pretend to hate “cancel culture” despite the fact that you invented it
and it’s basically all you do.
13.) Every word you utter is a lie. You are the party of treason,
hypocrisy, crime, and authoritarianism. You want to entrench rule by
your aging minority because you know that you have nothing to offer
young voters and they will never support you for all these reasons and
more.
14.) You’re so hostile to even the notion of helping us overcome the
mountain of debt that millions of us are forced to take on just to pay
for our post K-12 education that you are suing to try to prevent a small
fraction of us from getting even $10,000 in loan forgiveness.
15.) You opened the floodgates of money into politics via Citizens
United; allowing our entire system of government to become a cesspool of
corruption, crime, and greed. You are supposed to represent the
American people whose taxes pay your salary but instead cater to rich
donors.
16.) You respond to elected representatives standing in solidarity
with their constituents to protest the ONGOING SLAUGHTER of children in
schools via shootings by EXPELLING THEM FROM OFFICE & respond to
your lack of popularity among young people by trying to raise the voting
age.
17.) You impeach Democratic presidents over lying about a BJ but
refuse to impeach (then vote twice to acquit) a guy whose entire
“administration” was an international crime syndicate being run out of
the WH who incited an insurrection to have you killed.
18.) You steal Supreme Court seats from democrats to prevent the only
black POTUS we’ve ever had from appointing one and invent fake
precedents that you later ignore all to take fundamental rights from
Americans; and even your “legitimate” appointments consist of people
like THIS (sub-thread refuting CJ Roberts criticisms of people attacking
SCOTUS’ legitimacy).
19.) You support mass incarceration even for innocuous offenses or
execution by cop for POC while doing nothing but protect rich white
criminals who engage in such things as tax fraud, money laundering, sex
trafficking, rape/sexual assault, falsifying business records, etc.
20.) You are the reason we can’t pass:—Universal background checks—An
assault weapons ban—The ‘For the People/Freedom to vote’ Act or John
Lewis Voting Rights Act—The ERA & Equality Act—The Climate Action
Now Act—The (Stopping) Violence Against Women Act—SCOTUS expansion.
21.) You do not seek office to govern, represent, or serve the
American people. You seek power solely for its own sake so you can
impose your narrow-minded puritanical will on others at the expense of
their most fundamental rights and freedoms like voting and bodily
autonomy.
22.) Ok, last one. You are trying to eliminate social security and
Medicare that tens of millions of our parents rely on and paid into
their entire lives. And you did everything to maximize preventable deaths from COVID leaving millions of us in mourning.
