i hate reading this post for the sole reason that it made me realize against my will that kermit and miss piggy are literally mr. and mrs. bennet personified and this crossover would probably work
i am disturbed by how well this works
alright now i’m just pissed off because that fits even better
Is Colin Firth too old to play Muppet Mr. Darcy? Because he would be SO PERFECT.
“I’m not saying the Misses Bennett are ugly, but their mother is a total pig!”
you all have permission to come to my funeral and give wildly conflicting accounts of my life
Please. I want nothing more than to be shrouded in a confusing mesh of myth and fact
Come in cosplay, too, and if some of you can sing Britney Spears songs as opera’s for no real reason but to mess with people, I’d appreciate it. The other rules are -Stay in character -contradict each other at every turn -agree with each other about everything.
More schools do this pls saying the pledge every morning is the most dystopian shit ever
No one forces you to do it lmao
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Lmaoo it’s literally unconstitutional to require kids to stand for the pledge. I don’t for multiple reasons and not only can no one can make me, but no one has even tried, besides just curiously asking me why. Like fuck no ones forcing you lol
“No ones forcing you you’ll just be in an incredibly awkward position, socially ostracized, and threatened by staff :/// no one’s holding a gun to your head though so it’s ok !!!!!!”
Shut up dumbasses
I mean, it’s nice you went to schools where they didn’t force you? ‘Cause… they’re forcing my son.
Literally. Every day. Threatening him, guilt-tripping him, trying to bribe him or shame him. I have been down to his school to talk to the administration multiple times over this. And EVERY SINGLE TIME I bring them the supreme court ruling on my phone and I remind them he has a constitutional right to NOT participate.
It never matters. They say “Oh, well, then he should just sit quietly” and I say THAT’S WHAT HE WAS DOING, and they say “Okay then.” And the next day he comes home and says, “Mom, today one of the teachers told me her son is in the army and I’m insulting her son by not standing for the pledge.”
This is an eleven-year-old they’re talking to this way. And he was the one who made this choice. He said he sees too much inequality in the world, and too many people in America are treated as sub-human, for him to want to chant ‘liberty and justice for all’ like it’s already happened. I didn’t make the decision for him. He said, “Do I HAVE to participate? Because I don’t think it’s right” and I said I’d support him whatever his decision was. And we’ve been fighting this guerrilla war with the administration ever since.
Just because something didn’t happen to you, specifically, doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. How about you stop acting like your experiences are universal, all three of you up there.
THAAAAAAAAAAAAANK YOUUUUUUUUUU.
I remember one time I was in the office waiting for my mom to bring me a shirt because I had a really bad nose bleed and mine was destroyed. Mind you I’m wearing a white shirt which now has a lot of blood on it. I did not feel well and did not stand for the national anthem. And an administrator in the office who I had never met told me I was being disrespectful and should be standing from the pledge. Lectured me until I forced her to acknowledge how much blood I had lost.
I’ve seen teachers stop class and lecture in front of the class or make everyone CONTINUE to stand until a student who was quietly sitting stands.
it doesn’t matter if it’s ‘unconstitutional’ to force someone, it happens anyway. Doesn’t matter if you go to the principal to complain if the principal feels the same way as the teacher. Doesn’t matter if you go to the school officer, or the police, or the news, or the anything else if they all think the same.
I was called a “n****r loving f*g” and told to get out of the country the first time I didn’t stand for the flag in my hellhole of a school, and my teacher said nothing. This pissed me off a bit, but then after class he called me up to show me political cartoons he had taped up by his computer shaming people for not standing because patriotism yada yada. So that was neat.
I go to a heavily Christian-influenced charter school in rural Arkansas, and have faced similar reactions to this my entire life (my mother was politically against the pledge for her own reasons and told me I shouldn’t stand), some schools made me stand but not say it or put my hand on my heart etc. There are places that are still really like this, y’all need to stop getting caught up in your bubble of tolerance and forgetting that this shit’s still prevelant in a lot of places.
We were supposed to say the pledge in my government class. Our teacher made kids who didn’t want to say it leave the room in front of everyone like some kind of Walk of Shame. That made me not want to say it anymore either and being a crotchety little shit with the worst senioritis ever, I just stood there and didn’t say it. I sat in the back so she never knew.
Check your voter registration. If you have any mutuals in Texas, specifically, inform them of the need to check their voter registrations but they are trying to pull this crap all over the country. Check your voter registration early, and check it often.
This will be the most consequential election of our lifetime, and yet only 28% of young people age 18-29 say they will certainly vote in the midterms. That number is unacceptable, especially given we have the most to lose, our future and every social issue you claim to care about is at stake.
The Paradox Machine 