#the whiners

[zoe-oneesama]

A lack of confidence hits everyone a bit differently.

Episode 45 Part 11

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#she's always been a whiner after all #scarlet lady #scarlet lady au #scarlet lady comic #reverser #marc #marc anciel #episode 45 part 11

[shantechni]

This was such a little brother moment

#i can just imagine them as kids—raph is such a whiner and leo and splinter have to deal with it all the time💀 #tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt 2012 #tmnt 2k12 #tmnt raphael #tmnt michelangelo #tmnt leonardo #tmnt raph #tmnt mikey #tmnt leo #tmnt fugitoid #2012 raph #2012 mikey #2012 leo #2012 fugitoid

[mobileleprechaun]

Hey @photomatt half the site didn’t know who you were until a few hours ago and now they’ll forever know you as a sniveling pissbaby cunt who sics feds on defenseless girls for mocking him

#photomatt #tumblr #staff #transmisoginy #log off forever you insipid whiner

[bitchfitch]

After years and years of having a schedule that was more a halfhearted shrug than a neat itinerary, there was a certain peace to finally having a dinner time routine.

Rice in the cooker, wild game cuts in the oven with whatever vegetables hadn't gone off since his last trip into town. The timer set for ten minutes longer than the meal ever actually needed. His stomach couldn't handle meat still pink with a memory of life anymore.

While it cooked he'd place a tarp before the back door. The blue plastic wrinkled along the lines by which he always found it folded.

Then he'd step out into the cool evening to where his freshest trophy would be hanging just beyond the edge of the creaky porch. It a was a deer today, it's back hooves tied to the rafter so it's blood could drain from the dainty gash across it's throat. This wasn't a necessity, it just lessened the mess he would eventually have to deal with.

He untied it, and carried it to rest it in the center of the tarp before pulling the corners up to encase it in crinkly darkness. The bright green climbing rope being used to bind the package closed while he made a note to himself to dig out the hank of rope again so he could cut a new, less gnawed on, piece for tomorrow's meal time.

He could hear the thing coming up the staircase from the basement. Stairs were difficult for it, always had to crawl up them on its hands and knees. Stopping every few steps to gather itself against vertigo.

"What's cooking?" it called in a chipper voice, its bruise darkened fingers scrabling at the lower edge of the door. Its cracked nails adding to the deep gouges in the old wood. "What's cooking?" it repeated like a scratched record. Its clawing growing more frenzied as it got more and more excited at the prospect of meal time.

"Deer." he responded, dragging the bundle to the locked door.

"Einer!" it said, its voice being stolen from a long gone day at the lake, "Home," it whined with defeat borrowed from a day it never saw, then a garbled growl as it's limited repertoire of echos ran up against a concept it didn't have the words to express.

"You know that's not how it works," Einer sighs with some glimmer of fondness. "Who am I?"

"Einer!" a perfect echo of what it had said before.

"Where are we?"

"Home."

"Who are you?"

The growl came on its cue, exactly as it had every miserable day since Einer managed to trap it and establish this little test of whether or not it might be able to be reasoned with today.

"Good, good. To your spot please."

It scrambled back down the stairs, heavy thunks sounding as its excited crawling turned into more of a controlled series of falls.

Then a loud metallic racket bounded forth from the vent slats in the floor as it slapped at the ancient pipe that connected the furnace to the rest of the cabin's mostly defunct air ducts. Their way of signaling when it was well and clear away from the stairs where it might damn them both by attacking its caretaker.

He undid the bolts on the door quickly yanking it open before kicking the plastic wrapped deer down the stairs and slamming the door shut again. The unspoken race between them commencing as he rushed to get the bolts and locks latched once more before it could get up the stairs in an opportunity fueled bout of blood frenzy.

Einer won today. He's won every day so far.

Its fingers appear under the edge of the door again, its breath ragged and sounding wet with too much spit as it uselessly dug into the steel toe of his boot.

"You know where your dinner is," he took a step and waited to see if he'd be granted one moment of clarity as it came down from it's frenzy.

It churred, a soft animal sound he didn't think something so human looking should be able to make. Its fingers stilled, then disappeared back into the darkness beyond the door before returning. Its hand palm side up this time.

He was quick to crouch, carefully curling his fingers against it's. Its skin porcelain, smooth and cold against the callouses he had earned in his time caring for it.

"Einer," it said, this echo being taken from a gentle memory of two lovers in their wedding bed, before its touch disappeared and it began its clumzy trek back down the stairs.

He always stayed knelt there a little too long, wondering if it knew he lingered there. If it cared. Before standing and checking to see if his meal was over done to his liking.

#animal death #einers husband came back wrong and he Adapted instead of being a whiner about it #Get you a man on his level

[forestlion]

Reblog and add a picture of the Scout-Schulranzen you had in der Grundschule

#german stuff #deutsch #I think this was mine #I could've sworn it had cats on it #But apparently. Not #I do not recall the horses at all #The puppies and snails yes #But i swear i thought it had cats #Well #Also im gonna forcefully insert both of my fists into the asses of the whiners #Who will be like. Uwu u had a scout ranzen uwu richy rich 😔😔😔😔😔 i had to carry my school things in a paper bag ooohhhh #Sux to be you babe

[demovamp]

something abt a sub who doesn't fully moan. he lets out half moans before it turns into little whines. overstimulate him enough, and he can't make a single noise. he lets his mouth hang open as little choked gasps barely escape his throat. he's trembling, grabbing at what he can because he feels too good.

#— castiel thirsts #sub jjk #sub mha #sub bsd #sub choso #sub shigaraki #sub juno #dom reader #gn reader #sub character #mostly thinkin' abt choso and tomura for this #they are whiners #even when they're 'dominant'

[hadesoftheladies]

"we need more men in--"

no. no we do not. we do not need more fathers, we do not need more men in healthcare, we do not need more men in universities, or boys in school or whatever

we do not need more men PERIOD

what we actually need is more women in all these fields getting paid their fucking dues

the less men there are, the less war, the less violence, the less terrorism, the less economic collapses, the more we have a chance at fixing these worldwide catastrophes and healing the earth (this has the entirety of human history's worth of documented and observable evidence)

women and girls are not only healing society but the earth; the fact that boys and men hate that school is no longer boy's club, the fact that they have made themselves useless if not destructive without their precious fabricated masculinity, the fact that they keep expecting a parade in their name for doing the barest of minimums isn't our problem, it isn't a human crisis, it is a crisis of the male identity

no one needs to resuscitate it; let it die a natural, deserved, overdue death

#feminism #radfem #radblr #masculinity #women stop catering to men's self image look where it's gotten us #it is a waste of time and dehumanizing to you #how long will we put ourselves down where we do not belong #so they can feel good about themselves? #when they do not deserve to feel good about themselves? #why give authority to those that have repeatedly shown they are unfit and unqualified for it? #enough is enough #im not coddling these whiners #they can pull their fucking weight in becoming decent human beings #instead of expecting a reward for participation

[hyewka]

slowly taking in yeonjuns dick in your mouth, long sighs of pleasure as he relishes in the warmth, furrowing his brows every time the head hits the back of your throat, trying your best to deep throat his entire length, girth stretching your mouth wide the more you go down & i know for sure he’d give you some whines like hes not a groaner while getting head 😭😭😭 now if hes extra desperate with little self control, probably would lift his hips for some shallow thrusts before releasing his load, sooooo breathy, his chest heaving up and down

#im sorry idc ill forever be on the whiner yeonjun train #🌷. rana thoughts

[aromantic-diaries]

"people want to be oppressed so bad" says person talking about asexuals and 15 year olds with neopronouns rather than incels on 4chan who think women are evil for not sleeping with them

#i get called out for having a ''victim complex'' for pointing out general aphobia that exists #while there's cishet white guys who think liking video games is the reason why they can't get laid and that the world is to blame #when they're literally just unpleasant #but sure i'm the whiner for saying that by certain viewpoints i don't qualify as human #sure

[appolinyou]

Artemis:/drinking water with lemon and min,cleaning out a quiver of arrows/ ...and then I had to calm this whiner, otherwise he would have flooded the planet with tears🙄 Ares: / with a cucumber mask on his face, cleaning the blade of his daggers / he should have been prepared for the force of your blow after spying on your followers Other Olympians: /In a panic, they look for two warlike gods who are not in contact, imagining the chaos caused if these two friends joined forces /

#greek gods #greek mythology #ares #artemis #apollo #Most likely he's a whiner #incorrect greek gods #incorrect greek mythology #zeus #olympus #dionysus #aphrodite #Ares and Artemic Friends

[archonsabyss]

Gojo Satoru gets a little too excited for your first kiss that instead of it being slow, sweet, and blissful, he's leaning in too fast and eager that his nose ends up bumping against yours really painfully. And then you're caught between laughing and crying, hunched over pinching you're burning nose while Satoru's whining out of embarrassment... rather he just wants to hurriedly and "unashamedly" kiss you already! but that's not possible because you're stumbling back and forth laughing at his little mess up. You're never gona let him live it down

#˚ ⁀🜙˚ raie (j)jk #i wouldn't let him live it down #but it's kinda adorable #jjk satoru #one thing I love about satoru is that he's a whiner ✋🙄 #gojo satoru #gojo x reader #gojo drabbles #gojo fluff #jjk gojo #jujutsu gojo #gojo saturo #jjk x reader #jjk fluff #jjk drabbles #jujutsu kaisen fluff #jujutsu kaisen drabbles #gojou satoru x reader #gojou satoru x you

[spitblaze]

If you're calling people who are appalled that Biden is backing Israel's genocide 'shills and bots' because they're having trouble justifying voting for him despite the good legislative work his administration has done then like. I don't know. I genuinely do not know what I can say or do that will express how aiding and abetting genocide is not just 'whining and being negative, because negativity gets attention'. Tens of thousands of people are DEAD, hundreds of thousands hurt or abused, millions displaced. Israel has been very open about how they would not be able to do any of this without American assistance. Even if the weapon sales are not directly his doing, he hasn't lifted a finger to stop them. He hasn't even floated the suggestion of a ceasefire until the last week. I am well aware that the government is not as straightforward as 'the president is in charge of everything' but to dismiss people's disgust and horror over our country's involvement and his administration's active involvement in one of the most visible, most brutal acts in living memory is kinda vile

#spitblaze says things #let this radicalize you rather than lead you to despair #im not saying dont vote. im not saying trump would be better. #im saying that 'you guys are whiners about gaza look what hes done for US' is just......... #such a grossly myopic framing of the issue

[theopolis]

Unpopular take ig but TSSM Harry was not in fact a terrible person? Lol? Unlike the audience he has no idea why Peter keeps neglecting him, if anything it would be strange if that didn't affect their relationship. He is also a deeply insecure 16 year old, so having a phase where he selfishly places too much value on popularity is like. Par for the course. That's shit you'd find in any high school centric story. That's shit every other person has done irl at that age. The only actually heinous thing he's done was emotionally manipulating Gwen in that one scene at the end of S2 and that was literally part of the setup for his pending villain arc so uh. Moral decline was kind of the entire point there. People are pressed but he was serving the kind of complexity that originally made the supporting cast so memorable in the comics

#also I've seen some ppl list being on drugs during a sports competition in the list of reasons why he's apparently irredeemable lmao #you live like this?? #sorry but i like my characters fucking up. which Peter did plenty of times throughout the series as well btw #but he's a badass superhero unlike that whiner Harry so he's forgiven i suppose #harry osborn #the spectacular spider man #theopolispost #tssm #harry

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Capitalists hate capitalism

As the Marxist agitator Adam Smith once said, “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

Smith understood that capitalists hate capitalism. They don’t want to compete with one another, because that would interfere with their ability to raise the prices their customers pay and reduce the wages they pay their workers. Thus Peter Thiel’s anticapitalist rallying cry, “competition is for losers,” or Warren Buffett’s extreme horniness for businesses with “wide, sustainable moats.”

These anti-capitalist capitalists love big government. They love no-bid military contracts, they love ACA subsidies for health insurance companies, they love Farm Bill cash for Cargill and Monsanto. What they don’t love is markets.

Case in point: pharma giant Merck. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) includes a provision that allows Medicare to (finally) start (weakly) negotiating the prices it pays for (a tiny handful of) drugs. If you’re scratching your head and wondering if you understood that correctly, let me assure you, you did: the US government is currently prohibited from negotiating drug prices when it bargains with pharma companies.

In other words: Medicare simply pays a pharma companies — whose products build on billions in publicly funded basic research, whose taxes are reduced by billions in research credits, whose patents are backstopped by billions in enforcement — whatever it demands.

To do otherwise, you see, would be socialism. Markets are “efficient” because they “discover prices” through bidding and selling. In the case of publicly purchased drugs, the price that Uncle Sucker “discovers” is inevitably “a titanic sum” or possibly “add a couple more zeroes, wouldya?”

Enter the IRA. Starting in 2026, Medicare will be permitted to negotiate the price of ten (10) drugs. The negotiations will use the prices of other drugs from the dysfunctional, monopolized market as a starting point and go up from there. The negotiations go on for three years, and there are multiple stages where pharma companies can hit pause with court challenges:

https://prospect.org/health/2023-05-11-regulators-bungling-drug-price-reform/

The system will not consider the prices that Medicaid or the VA (which are allowed to bargain on prices) pay. Nor will it consider the prices that other governments pay — the US is alone in the wealthy world in offering the anticapitalist price-taking posture when dickering with the pharma companies.

But this isn’t enough for Merck. They are suing the Biden administration over the IRA’s drug pricing plan, arguing that it is an unconstitutional taking under the Fifth Amendment:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/06/merck-sues-biden-administration-over-medicare-drug-price-negotiations.html

Merck is represented by Big Law firm Jones Day, who made their bones by representing the RJ Reynolds from smokers with lung-cancer, arguing that the smoking/cancer link wasn’t scientifically sound. That’s not the only fanciful argument they put before a judge: Jones Day also represented Trump in his attempts to overturn the 2020 election (they also hired Trump’s counsel Don McGahn as he exited the White House’s revolving door).

As Ryan Cooper writes for The American Prospect, Merck’s argument is that the “fair market” value of its drugs can only be discovered if its single largest customer — Medicare — simply pays whatever Merck demands of it:

https://prospect.org/health/2023-06-08-merck-negotiating-drug-prices-unconstitutional/

They explicitly denounce the idea that a powerful buyer should use its market power to extract price concessions from sellers like Merck: “leveraging all federal insurance benefits (amounting to over half of the prescription drug market) to coerce companies to abandon their First and Fifth Amendment rights is a quintessential unconstitutional condition.”

Rebutting this argument, Health Secretary Xavier Becerra said, “negotiating for the best price is as American as apple pie. Since when is competition in this American system a bad thing? Why should we be the patsies around the world and pay the highest prices for medicines?”

The irony here is that Merck itself is a very powerful buyer. Whether negotiating commercial leases, raw materials or wages, Merck is ruthless in extracting the lowest prices it can from its suppliers. The company attained its massive scale the old fashioned way: buying it. By drawing on its nearly limitless access to the capital markets, Merck bought out dozens of its competitors:

https://mergr.com/merck-acquisitions

Anticapitalist investors funded these acquisitions in the expectation that Merck would be able to use its market dominance to pay suppliers less, charge customers more, and use some of the resulting windfall to corrupt and bully its regulators so that it could buy still more companies, charge still higher prices, and impose crushingly low prices on still more suppliers.

The IRA’s drug-bargaining provisions are extraordinarily weak. When they were first mooted in 2021, I talked about how Democrats were caving on muscular drug price controls that would benefit every American (except a handful of pharma shareholders):

https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/18/bipartisan-consensus/#corruption

They did so despite wild, bipartisan support for imposing price discipline on Big Pharma, and ending the 300% premium Americans pay for their drugs relative to their cousins abroad. 95% of Democrats support strong price controls; so do 82% of independents — and 71% of Republicans:

https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/research/2021/11/healthcare-affordability--majority-of-adults-support-significant-changes-to-the-health-system.html

No one believes Big Pharma’s scare stories about how this would kill R&D: 93% of Americans reject this idea, including 90% of Republicans. They’re right — nearly all US basic pharma R&D is directly funded by the federal government, with pharma companies privatizing the gains:

https://khn.org/news/article/public-opinion-prescription-drug-prices-democratic-plan/

Despite the fact that really whipping the shit out of Big Pharma would be both popular and good for America, the Dems’ final version of pharma bargaining is a barely-there nothingburger where ten drugs will become slightly cheaper, after the next federal election. This is called “political realism” and it’s a fantasy.

The idea that limiting drug controls to the faintest, most modest measures would make them easier to attain was obvious nonsense from the start, and Merck’s anticapitalist lawsuit proves it. Merck will settle for nothing less than total central planning — by Merck. For Merck, the role of the federal government is to wave through a stream of mergers culminating in Merck’s ownership of every major drug; patent extensions for these drugs to carry them into the 25th century and beyond, and unlimited sums paid for these drugs on Medicare.

Given all that, there would have been no downside to the Dems passing an IRA that subjected the drug companies the same modest, commensense, market-based discipline we see in Canada, or the UK, or France, or Germany, or Switzerland.

But that’s not the IRA we got. Instead of defending a big, visionary program in court, the Biden admin is facing down Jones Day and Merck to defend the most yawn-inducing, incrementalist half-measure. What a wasted opportunity.

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/09/commissar-merck#price-giver

[Image ID: A caricature of a businessman with a money-bag for a head and a stickpin bearing the Merck logo, standing atop a pile of bundled $100 bills. At the bottom of the pile, a frowning, disheveled Uncle Sam offers up a $100 bill.]

Image: Flying Logos (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Over_$1,000,000_dollars_in_USD_$100_bill_stacks.png

CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

#pluralistic #merck #guillotine watch #big pharma #markets #anticapitalism #capitalism #pharma #whiners #bargaining power #price makers #price takers #uncle sucker #inflation reduction act #ira

[heretherebedork]

Oh no, I love them.

Absolutely adore them. @respectthepetty I'm calling it a green/red pairing but I have zero proof and love them regardless.

#two worlds #two worlds the series #wayujao #jaowayu #the braggart and the whiner #thai bl #thai series #bl series #thai drama #thaibl #asianlgbtqdramas #thai bl series #thai bl drama #bl drama #asian lgbtq dramas

[accioepiphany]

This is for everyone whining about The Bear taking all the Comedy awards

#the bear #ebon moss bachrach #emmys #matty matheson #btw it’s me. I’m one of the whiners. cause like sure the bear is funny but also it’s a freaking drama hello. #but let’s be real. it would be taking all the awards in whichever category it was and that’s just facts ! ! ! #so let’s all kiss in the mouth period #emmys 2024