#i believe him

[correctopinionhaver]

#bears #i believe him #top

[brltpop]

#i believe him #rambless

[jdmara]

#i believe him #text.dee #anthony green

[nayru-s-clay-tablet]

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#oh yes definitely no hard feelings #I believe him #link #zelda #legend of zelda #triforce of power #zelda comic #legend of zelda fanart #legend of zelda comic #triforce of power webcomic #loz comic #link loz #loz link #loz

[ghost-bleus]

#i believe him #my art #fnaf #five nights at freddy’s #fnaf 2 #fnaf 2 fanart #toy bonnie #toy freddy #shitpost

[statementlou]

Ok have been digging a bit and indeed people seem to ship them. Kinda get it now where to comes from seeing the pics from twitter and this guys obsession with having his shirt off and doing his Little Rock star thing. Kind of makes me sad. Would be such a massive step down from well certain other curly haired boys. But hey would not be the first time someone’s dick takes over the thinking

I mean.... I would be very surprised is all I'm saying, and I do agree that if Louis is in fact out there looking he very much can do better. But whether or not Louis is fucking that man, sending messages like this to him is terrible, can people NOT:

#brothers?! #lmao #but actually #I believe him #stone liverpool #fin power #Louis treating him like a little brother the same way he treats the female fans like little sisters seems completely consistent and likely #ie making him feel special while keeping him at an arms length and nodding and smiling at him being starstruck and wanting selfies for sm #thx calordelverano for the twit link: I hate it😭

[batbabydaily]

detective comics #64: the joker walks the last mile

#i believe him #he gave the lad a quarter its time to trust the guy #detective comics 64 #batman #dick grayson #robin #joker #golden age batman

[grison-in-space]

Via a conversation on Metafilter about the state of Florida's decision to crush its public institutions, a person I think is particularly wise left a comment about the state of the legislature on higher education in Wisconsin.

The situation in Florida is atrocious, but it's important to be aware of how widespread this movement on the part of MAGA politicians to ban all academic and support programs related to gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality is. I'm a professor in the Wisconsin state university system, where, in addition to my regular fulltime work in my home department I direct the LGBTQ+ Studies Program (a more-than-halftime job I have done for many years in return for zero additional salary, or summer funds, or course buyout, or any other compensation...).

This summer, the Wisconsin state legislature, gerrymandered into permanent Republican control, voted to ban all DEI programs in the state university system, and cut $32 million from the university budget, which it stated was amount of "taxpayer money being wasted on divisive indoctrination efforts" (to paraphrase Assembly Speaker Robin Vos). This comes after years of successive budget cuts and a ten-year tuition freeze and years of faculty and staff taking pay cuts in the form of "furloughs" through which we were expected to just keep working. The situation is now somewhat improved in that Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, vetoed the DEI ban, but he cannot restore the funding. Anyway: a few days after the legislative vote to ban DEI , I was giving a talk about the range of state bills attacking trans youth and adults, and there was a Democratic state legislator on the panel. When we were introducing ourselves and I told her I directed the LGBTQ+ Studies Program, she said, "Oh, but that's no longer legal. Well, unless Evers vetoes the ban; we'll see."

After doing some blinking, I responded by explaining the difference between DEI programs and academic programs. DEI programs provide student support services, which is deemed administrative work, in contrast to academic programs. The LGBTQ+ Resource Center and the LGBTQ+ Studies Program at my university are both vital and important. But the resource center organizes support groups and social activities for students, while the academic program teaches classes and sponsors academic talks. Academic programs are not part of the DEI system--and the very same legislature that voted for the DEI ban had spent years prior threatening sanctions against students and faculty for supposedly not sufficiently respecting the absolute value of free speech in academia. Legislators presented instructors as censorious ideologues, students as snowflakes in love with a victim narrative, and the legislature as the champion of teaching and discussing all ideas freely.

The image of DEI programs presented by Republican legislators is some kind of kink fantasy, in which cis straight white men are forced to prostrate themselves, declare themselves to be bad and deserving of punishment, and lick the boots of students who are trans and queer, of color and feminist. The reality is that university DEI programs are providing mental health services and tutoring and social support to college students, at a time when their levels of mental health challenges are very high. They have zero to do with the kink humiliation fantasy, they really are about inclusion, and it is ludicrous and cruel to cut social support to marginalized college students.

But even if the state ban were not vetoed, a DEI ban does not dismantle programs like Gender Studies or African and African Diaspora Studies or LGBTQ+ Studies, because they are academic programs, I explained to the Democratic legislator. But from her response, it was clear that not only did Republican Wisconsin legislators think they'd banned all academic programs examining race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and who knows what else (disability studies? Jewish studies and Islamic studies?), but that the Democratic legislators seemed to believe so as well.

The flip from "we are the party of free speech!" to "we are the party that bans books and entire academic disciplines!" happened with dizzying speed. But take it from me as a trans person--these legislative attacks can burst across the country in the space of months, shifting the landscape radically. The thing about the MAGA movement is that it is made up of people who believe that the situation is desperate, the American project is on the verge of failure, and the time has come to destroy or be destroyed. Most Americans, including non-MAGA Republicans, want to see the culture war cool down and Americans get along, but MAGA-sorts want it to go hot. And I have to admit some despair about what to do about this, because of the unpersuadability of this group. Take a look at Question 39 from this CBS/YouGov poll of Iowa voters last week, and what percentage of Republican voters there believe they are being lied to by various parties. The percentage of MAGA voters who said they said they believed they were being told the truth by Trump was 71%, in comparison to 63% for friends and family, 56% for conservative news sources, and 42% for religious leaders. Only 32% of Iowa Republicans generally believed they were told the truth by medical scientists. (The figures for Joe Biden and "liberal media" were 10% and 8% respectively.)

It is hard to persuade people with facts and logic and calls for empathy when they think you are a liar attacking their great leader with whom 99% say they identify. What we have to do is persuade others to stand up. And I don't want to be doomy, but my experience with resisting transphobic legislation and action causes me a lot of concern. It's not just "the face-eating leopards won't eat my face" problem. The fact is, frankly, that a lot of institutions and people are craven. This past year I was in a working group with medical and social scientists advising the HHS about creating guidelines for research with intersex and transgender populations, and then Libs of TikTok spread lies about hospitals supposedly performing "sex changes" on little kids, and several children's hospitals received bomb threats--and suddenly most of the medical researchers working with trans youth were pulled from the working group by the hospitals they were affiliated with. Hospital administrators are shutting down research on trans youth and clinics serving trans youth, rather than having the backs of threatened doctors and patients, handing a victory to the face-eating leopards who growled at them.

My conclusion is that we need to focus energy on teaching people who have not dealt with serious bullying before how to stand up to bullies. For people like concerned parents considering attending school board meetings to oppose book bans, we could teach basic mutual aid strategies, like forming a supportive group to attend together. But what we are to do about people like college administrators and corporate executives who would like to do the right thing for students and employees, but not as much as they'd like to avoid offending a wealthy donor or receiving negative conservative media attention. . . that's a big question to me.

I have left my own longer comment in the wider thread.

(If you also like longform, thoughtful text conversation, this is my regular plug for Metafilter as a platform. If you DM me an email address, I can send you an invitation link for a free account.)

#metafilter #education #public education #colleges #legislators #cannot fucking believe the DEI thing #the thing is I have collaborated with this person in the past and he is a deeply sensible human being #so if he says this is what the legislators think #I believe him

[noemitenshi]

“This isn’t how I wanted this to go, Madison...”

TROY OTTO and MADISON CLARK in FTWD s08e08 'Iron Tiger' || s08e11 'Fighting Like You'.

#troy otto #madison clark #victor strand #ftwd #fear the walking dead #daniel sharman #kim dickens #Colman Domingo #danielsharmanedit #dsharmanedit #my gif #i believe him

[loevhyuck]

thinking of mark lee saying he wants to deliver music similar to frank ocean's when he's older

#what do you mean markie #it was 2019/20? but still #i believe him #im just a frank ocean fan #like he and new music? im tired #mark lee #mark

[ryujisakamotoheadcanons]

Headcanon

Ryuji’s top Spotify Wrapped ‘song,’ is 8hr Thunderstorm and Rain noises to sleep to

#he says it helps #I believe him #ryuji sakamoto #persona 5 #p5 #persona #spotify wrapped

[depphead4ever]

Feels strange to say it but probably at this point, no matter what the verdict will be, the truth and the court of public opinion is on his side. Johnny was able to finally tell his story to the world and with that he gave hope and voice to the ones who couldn't be heard and seen for so long. This trial was not "just" a usual celebrity divorce drama show, it was a lesson and something that could bring some drastic changes to a mindset led by the narrow guidelines of today's society.

YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD MAN DOWN.

JUSTICE FOR JOHNNY DEPP

#johnny depp #justice for johnny depp #johnny depp is innocent #i stand with johnny depp #i believe him #you can't keep a good man down

[corruptedforce]

A big thing that sidetracks me from anything productive, other than school, is baseball discourse. I take baseball very seriously.

#my man says he'll be fine for opening day #I believe him #but I'm stressing #(ooc)

[rodrickheffeley]

#i believe him #mads mikkleson

[in-death-we-fall]

Interviewer: what's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear "Kardashians"?

Wednesday: I don't know anything about them other than I probably can't spell their name

#i believe him

[undercooked-spaghetti]

"Oh nooooo, I sure hope Sugiura doesn't whine at me for using his gorgeous likeness and I need to remove his model's clothes. That'd be horrible!" - Tashiro, probably.

#Lost Judgment #Judge Eyes #Tashiro #Sugiura Fumiya #Yep he took pictures for reference #uh-huh #i believe him