Complaining about incivility assumes a level playing field between individuals. That is not the case here. When most people say something negative to someone, it carries with it little consequence beyond briefly hurting that person’s feelings. That does not hold true when the supposed leader of the free world—or his agents—do it.
That outrage seems to ignore the fact that, for instance, calmly asking someone to leave your restaurant harms absolutely no one but Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a woman who, by her actions, has assisted in harming a great many.
Most of the ways that the GOP and its members are being protested aren’t remotely violent. We’re not talking about violent resistance. The debate has gone from “Can you punch Nazis?” to “Must you serve Nazis a lemon meringue pie with no objection?”
If you stand by and stay silent and civil in the face this kind of behavior, here is what will happen: people working for the opposing side will say you’re very polite. They will pat you on the head. Then they will, unopposed, go out and institute policies that will hurt thousands of people.
Not to mention the blazing hypocrisy of conservatives accusing anyone of being uncivil.
A new exposé published by Medium based on previously unpublished recordings of Philip Zimbardo, the Stanford psychologist who ran the study, and interviews with his participants, offers convincing evidence that the guards in the experiment were coached to be cruel. It also shows that the experiment’s most memorable moment — of a prisoner descending into a screaming fit, proclaiming, “I’m burning up inside!” — was the result of the prisoner acting. “I took it as a kind of an improv exercise,” one of the guards told reporter Ben Blum. “I believed that I was doing what the researchers wanted me to do.”
@cerulean-beekeeper ok but. More modern au where Elaine and RayV make Fraser a grindr account and that’s how he meets RayK. @jackymedan@wagnetic @ legit everyone else in this fandom pls fill in the details my shift is about to start.
RayK, drunk and freshly divorced, gets a Grindr to experience all the Queer Life he missed out on by getting married fresh out of highschool, because he is Over Stella and Embracing His Identity As A Bisexual Man and Thirty Six Isn’t Dead *sobs a bit into his whiskey*
He finds it… a bit of a disappointment.
*six different dick picks with just a ‘hey’ afterwards*
And when not disappointing, scarringnly bizarre
After about three months, the entire thing is a long learning experience in Men Are Scum (something he already knew because hello cop) but he keeps the app out of boredom, and it’s a welcome ego stroke when he’s especially depressed (Herself might not want me, but cchokemedady35 does! God he’s pathetic)
And then Ray finds… The Account.
oh my gosh….
keep going, please!
I know nothing about Grindr guys!
Buuut
***
It’s Ray Vecchio’s fault that Fraser has a phone in the first place.
“It’s 2018, Benny. The Pope has a Twitter now. You need a phone. You don’t want a gun? Fine. Stupid, but fine. But a phone is non-negotiable. If you’re my partner I need to be able to lay hands on you 24/7. I want know where you are at all times and the only way of doing that is a phone.”
They’re at the AT&T store.
“Well, if you insist Ray. These look acceptable and quite reasonably priced. And quite similar to my old one.”
“You’re looking at the flip-phones. The only people who use flip phones are drug dealers and hit men, Benny. No. Your old phone was an antique. It belonged in a museum. The purpose of today is to modernize you, Benny. No flip-phones. You my friend are getting a smartphone.”
“I don’t know about this, Ray. It seems… frivolous.”
“Are you the one paying for it? No, you are not. I am paying for this, therefore what you think does not matter here. And a smartphone is not frivolous, it’s a fundamental component of daily life.”
The clerk comes up to them with a customer-service smile that turns a bit more genuine when confronted with Ray’s Italian charm and Benny’s beautiful face.
“Hi, Leticia,” Ray says as Fraser hovers awkwardly in the background trying to erase his eyebrow with his knuckle. “I’m due for an upgrade, and I’d like to give my old phone to my friend here and add him to my family plan. Also, is there a way to activate that parental lo-jack? You know, that gps thing that’ll tell me where he is all the time? Also, is there a way to waterproof this? I mean, really waterproof. I’m talking a dive into Lake Michigan here, not I spilled some pop onto my screen.”
YAS QUEEN
There are a lot of things I love about this, but Fraser being on RayV’s family plan is actually taking the cake rn!
I saw this beautiful fanart by Matsuyama Miyabi of the Adams Family in kimono. But I was kinda sad that Thing didn’t get his own little kimono, so I drew him in one.
is the line of familial succession from the first black panther unbroken, or has it changed throughout history as various tribes challenged and succeeded at coronation days throughout the centuries? is t’challa a direct descendant of the first black panther, through either t’chaka or ramonda? if not, which of the tribes did either parent come from? does he have merchant tribe lineage? border tribe? river or mining? when a king is defeated on challenge day, what happens to the current members of the royal family? the king’s siblings, parents, even children depending on the age they take the throne? do they return to their parents’ tribe of origin?
have the jabari been completely genetically separated from the other tribes since the first black panther united wakanda or has there been cases of jabari tribesman deserting? or members of other wakandan tribes defecting to jabariland?
what are the marital traditions in wakanda? each tribe has gotta have their own, and there’s probably even more fancy/detailed ones for marrying into the ruling family. every character has only been shown with a first name, and introducing themselves as ‘son of __’ (but only the male characters introduced themselves as such). are there no surnames at all?
did the ancient egyptians of the mcu learn of bast via wakanda, or did the wakandans learn of bast from the egyptians to the north? if bast exists and the heart-shaped herb isn’t just a byproduct of the vibranium-infused land, then do the other deities in the pantheon of egyptian gods exist as well? we know the norse pantheon exists but as a separate species entirely. could others like anubis, isis, osiris, and so on also make changes to the world of humanity? do they exist as a separate species, in a separate realm like the aesir? hanuman is a hindu deity, so what about that set of gods?
does the vibranium-infused land have something to do with the creation of the ancestral plane? if it’s made of the memories of all wakandan people, do they count if they died outside the country as a war dog? are n’jobu and n’jadaka permanently exiled to the ancestral apartment, and are they exiled there for ‘betraying’ wakanda or is it simply because they were/became outsiders? can one only meet past kings on the ancestral plane or is there more to it?
tora42's nonsensne 