1 like = one beer bottle thrown in a busy street

1 reblog = One cigarette given to a pregnant woman

it's really hard to tell people how this scene just plays like this. no editing or anything. the episode just plays out like nothing happened

Some context that doesn't help:

• Those are the clones of Abe Lincoln and Christopher Columbus
• Later in the episode "Topher" gets into an argument on TikTok
• Earlier in the episode Abe's best friend has a sex dream where he was a giant head that was also a lighthouse

As someone who took etiquette lessons, politeness is an incredibly effective tool for disarming bigots. You can either force them to reconsider their words/actions by directly and calmly confronting their behavior (by using the rules of society in your favor), or you can dip entirely while they appear to be in the wrong.

Both options are great.

Because the thing is, when bigots pick fights, they are 100% counting on you to get louder than them. Or meaner. They want you to react emotionally and provide fodder for their 'You're Too Emotionally Immature To Understand' cannon.

What they aren't expecting you to do is say one of the following phrases in a polite, concerned tone:

1. Are you okay?
2. That's not the kind of language I was raised to use with others.
3. Do you need a moment to think on why that wasn't acceptable?
4. This is no way to engage in intelligent conversation. Please try that again in a kinder tone if you'd like this to continue. (I really like this one because it lets you turn their public-shame rhetoric around)

For those of you who'd are spiteful and/or dealing with Fundamentalists/Evangelicals/generally shitty Christians:

1. What's happening in your life to cause you this much anger? I can't imagine hurting so badly that I need to hurt other people.
2. Who taught you it was acceptable to treat other people this way? Certainly not the Jesus I remember.
3. Whatever happened to 'judge not lest ye be judged'?
4. If I talked like that in front of my parents or grandparents I would be ashamed.
5. I think there's something you need to pray on before we try and have this conversation.

And my all time favorite:

"It sounds to me like there are some seriously dark and angry forces at work in your heart."

(Nothing stops a Christian bigot in their tracks faster than implying the Devil is causing their bigotry. But you MUST be calm, polite, and gentle with your tone and wording. It is absolutely fair to twist the rules and play them at their own game, but you gotta play hard.)

TLDR: It's much faster to use etiquette, politeness, and rhetoric reversal when eviscerating idiots online and in person, because they aren't expecting you to weaponize their behaviors back in their direction. Don't get angry, get spitefully polite! :)

I once witnessed a very soft-spoken young Southern man take a hateful older woman’s hands gently in his and say “Sister, I am so sorry that the Devil has carved a home for hatred in your heart. I’ll pray for you.”

It was glorious.

This works with all sorts of inappropriate behavior. I work as the archivist in a public library, so I end up on the reference desk a lot, and sometimes patrons will say or do things that aren't exactly appropriate. When patrons try to hit on me, I put on a teacher voice and calmly ask, "Is that an appropriate question to ask someone at work?" and it shuts them down immediately.

This sort of thing always does the trick.

Pokémon Human Character Tournament: THE FINAL SHOWDOWN

Who wants to help me burn the entire UPS to the fucking ground in a blaze of unrestrained violent glory

1. Day one. Arrive home to a UPS notice on the ground, face-down in the flower bed. "Sorry we missed you!". My first name is scrawled across the top. Half of today's date is in the "delivered to" section. Location name? "Pay cod en line".
2. Day two. Arrive home to a new UPS notice. My first name is, again, scribbled across the top outside of any box. It is spelled wrong and smeared in a way that, from a distance, looks like it says "Vagina". This time, it is in what appears to be bright purple gel pen. In a box below, "this was our final attempt"
3. Google UPS offices near me. The closest one us 2 hours by bus, 1 hour by car. One way.
4. Attempt to phone the number circles in pencil on my invoice. It is closed. Also in a different time zone.
5. Attempt to pay bill online. It prompts me to create an account. I do so.
6. To pay my bill, I must fill in my information from my invoice. This goes well, until it asks me for my "optional 4-digit control number".
7. The control number is said to be optional. I proceed without it and click "next".
8. Error: please enter 4-digit control number.
9. Maybe I read the invoice wrong. I read it again. Three times.
10. No.
11. There are no 4-digit numbers.
12. There are no mixed number-and-letter sequences in multiples of 4.
13. I check the other papers.
14. Bar code has the same 4-digit sequences on both.
15. Enter that.
16. Error: the information you have entered is incorrect.
17. Check website for how to read their invoices, because obviously I'm missing something obvious. No. There are no answers.
18. Google "UPS invoice". Only result for a UPS invoice that looks anything remotely like mine is from a registered complaint listed 4 years ago, photo taken on a cell phone and posted to reddit.
19. Read that invoice.
20. There is no 4-digit control number.
21. Punch desk.
22. Return to UPS online. Find an option for paying my bill that does not ask me for a 4-difit anything.
23. Error: the information you have entered is incorrect.
24. Check for typos.
25. No typos.
26. Information is exactly as I entered it the first time, when everything was accurate.
27. Punch desk.
28. Second Google dive. No new information. Dead ends everywhere.
29. Read invoice again.
30. Nothing.
31. Attempt to enter information online again.
32. Window has timed-out. Have to start over.
33. Error: information is incorrect.
34. Sent back to page 1.
35. Start again.
36. Error.
37. Automatic page refresh.
38. Back to page 1.
39. Start again.
40. Error.
41. Automatic page refresh.
42. Punch desk again.
43. Punch desk again.
44. Punch desk again.
45. Hand hurts.
46. Enter information.
47. Pop-up.
48. "Would you like to rate your experience with us today? How did you find your billing experience?"
49. 0/5. 'Extremely difficult'.
50. "Tell us how we can improve our service!"
51. Stare blankly at screen.
52. "I have been punching my desk for thirty minutes. I dont know what to say. My fear of being a shitty customer has been outstripped by my despair. This has broken me as a man."
53. Check clock.
54. It has been two hours.
55. I have spent two hours trying desperately to give someone my money.
56. I don't even know where my package is.
57. I can't even talk to a person about it for another nine hours.
58. Sit on the floor.
59. Remember groceries.
60. Frozen pierogi fucking thawed in my fucking backpack
61. My fucking pierogi
62. Soothe bruised knuckles with wet bag of pierog
63. Tumblr

Hey Op, guess what

GOOD

Good??! Based on your experience, I'm a bit confused why you think they deserve more money? Seems like none of them are actually doing their job.

Like, "We all spend 7 hours a day missing people we're supposed to make our deliveries to, then leaving shitty invoices with bad handwriting and missing information, but we think we deserve higher wages."

Oh yeah totally that was my first reaction too but also if the service is gonna be bad no matter what then I'd rather be getting bad service from a healthy stable employee that can support their family yunno

YOOOO! it’s dj yuri times! and if you want women to be kissing, HAVE SOME NOISE 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏳️‍🌈🙌

“ugh this character is so annoying and immature” this character is 14

"This teenage character is unsympathetic". So were you. Grow up.

Not me I was born an empath. I cried after being born bc the nurse was sad her husband left her. Maybe you should grow up instead.

also on that note weird teenagers empassioned about niche interests are the backbone of this website. stop being mean to them

a 15 year old video game kinnie who reblogs stimboards and fanart and gifsets has infinitely more coolness than a 26 year old who slings around the r slur at people ever will. post.

this is cringe

it’s called authenticity and it won’t kill you.