Young people today don't know, but there was a time where everyone was doing everything possible to escape cigarette smoke. There used to be "non smoking" sections of public areas (like restaurants), but the smoke just made its way to you anyway. It was impossible to get away from.

Genuinely, if nothing else, don’t voluntarily make yourself financially beholden to tobacco corporations.

My husband can’t go a single day w/o coughing and passing out and he’s only 48. Still puffing away. Don’t do this to yourself. And I loooved smoking. I did it for many years. It’s not worth it.

Tammy Duckworth didn't say a fucking WORD about the Supreme Court going after trans people recently. Liberalism is a fucking cancer.

Lost my mom at 57 to a smoking related disease. Lost my step mom to lung cancer at 62. My dad who smoked two packs a day for like 50 years had a stroke at 65 that caused dementia. I quit smoking 15ish years ago and it was the best decision I’ve ever made for my health.

Smoking cigarettes is the cool cousin of being anti-vax.

As someone with multiple relatives who have died of lung cancer, I am also am infuriated by this

its so cool and edgy how my mom is currently dying from lung cancer that spread to her brain and her bones...please for the love of god, don't smoke

Yes, I agree. It's weird how the sex-appeal is so brainwashed into so many (even I feel it at times). I even hate the smell & how it lingers on everything. Growing up w/ an asthmatic friend, I also hate how 2nd hand smoke can ruin lives.

are young people today aware that there was an active effort 20-25 years ago to stop depicting smoking as cool and glamorous because people got tired of watching their loved ones die of cancer and heart disease from something preventable? seems like classic history repeating itself stuff

ENDORSED. I’ve seen it from Charli XCX, Beabadoobie, Addison Rae… it makes me feel fucking crazy. Don’t these people KNOW?!

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emphysema is not sexy, is not worth it

I genuinely hate the push to make smoking a thing again. I have watched so many drawn out, ugly, painful deaths from smoking. It makes everything disgusting. It enslaves us to the worst kinds of corporations. There’s ZERO positive here.

Disqualifying trans candidates for a period of being unhoused is like insult to injury.

"But every guy I know is a rapist" is the kind of flex only Adam Carolla would think of.

So. I did it. Lotta people gonna be mad about this one. Show it some love?

When Canada becomes film Latin America.

No context but GOOOOOSSSSSSSHHHH if you heard squealing a moment ago that was me here in Chicago.

If a nation has killed even a single one of its innocent citizens, it is not a “functioning democracy.”

over the course of my life i've heard many many people say "it's too bad hitler didn't find success as an artist, maybe this could have all been avoided" and rowling really gives the lie to that

So like... we're on this. You can get iHunt goodness for dirt cheap AND you can help an AMAZING Latin American artist in need.

I can assure you that Joe Biden's biggest problem wasn't that he didn't sufficiently "message" his accomplishments. People know exactly what Biden did, and that's why he was an extremely unpopular president. All the propaganda in the world won't get people to ignore declining material conditions.

This quote should be enough to radicalize any sane person. We should have an opposition party raising hell and demanding arrests. But what we actually have is a collaborative party that praises these people for being expert legislators and chill guys to have a beer with.

But, but, but I'm told the only reason anyone would not like Jeffries is because they're racist.

I'm tired of everything hurting all the time.

I feel this so much. I used to do 5-10 convention appearances a year on a variety of topics. I was an industry insider guest of honor at Gen Con. I came out as trans, and INSTANTLY I only ever got invited to "being transgender in gaming" panels and similar. Now I never get invited to anything.

Going after Amnesty International would be considered too silly and evil even for a Captain Planet villain.

Hear me out: We stop have to talking like a warrant for arrest is a warrant to slaughter.

Put together a playlist of wish list music for the #iHunt TV show to share with the production team. Gosh let’s see this show happen.

So like... we're on this. You can get iHunt goodness for dirt cheap AND you can help an AMAZING Latin American artist in need.

In case you didn't know, this meme is pulled directly from one of the most transphobic jokes ever aired on network television.

Do you know how good it feels when a conservative monster dies? We could feel that every single day if we tried hard enough. A better world is possible.

I don't understand why publications on the left publish hero shots of villains. 🤷

I could beat up any single man that thinks the Democratic Party "left men behind."

Nobody I worked with killed as many people as Lindsey Graham (or Mitch McConnell or Dick Cheney or George w Bush or Henry Kissinger). This incessant need Democrats have to pay tribute to despicable scumbags js part of the reason people don’t believe them when they say elections are a crisis point.

Rest in Piss Lindsey Graham.

Oh fuck you, you fucking piss fucker.

Once and forever again: If you need to tell us that you mourn ALL lives lost, I'm going to need to see an equal number of posts where you're mourning each and every. one of the the victims of the dead guy you're currently dickriding. But I'll never see that, because you're a hypocrite.

Please. Now tell me how Hitler was an elder statesman. I NEED it. Put it STRAIGHT INTO MY VEINS. But hey at least he laughed when he was starting illegal wars that killed millions. Right? Liberalism is a fucking cancer.

Of course they did. Why would they be expected to monitor RFK Jr? He works in the office, they see him every day.

Oh I see the issue was he was a homo gay that clears everything up.

Rest in Piss Lindsey Graham.

Playing a TTRPG with my daughter. She asks, "Why is one of the character types 'person but mentally ill?'" Struggling to not say, "Because it was written by a guy that made up and tried to spread a rumor that I beat your mom, and when she told him to apologize, he said she had Stockholm Syndrome."

Gotta say it's pretty (funny? sad? whatever?) that Elon Musk's 22 year old daughter has already seen more career success than I will in my entire life. I feel like there's something to be said there. I just can't muster it.

I can't wait. Caelan's videos are always super on point. I HATE this shit. It's exactly like claiming Putin and Trump are gay. Liberals LOVE to use gayness as a cudgel against conservatives because they hold the exact same bigotries.

They killed all the nice ones. They imprison and deport “the tolerant left.” There ain’t no justice. Just us.

A slice of Leftist History, No replacement for reading a book, but still a great simple breakdown of an icon to inspire future reading, research, and action into building a better world.