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minxe:

you know what you could have instead of children?

  • a nice house
  • a nice car
  • really nice shoes
  • diamonds
  • open weekends
  • vacations that aren’t “child-friendly”
  • nice things in general
  • basically whatever you want because children are expensive and material things don’t grow up to resent you

(via your-band-sucks)

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Eavesdropping on 4-Year-Olds at the Park

Kid 1: We'll never die.
Kid 2: As long as we keep brushing our teeth.
Kid 1: No.
Kid 2: If your teeth die then you die. Get it?
Kid 1: Or you could kill yourself with a gun.
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t-t-w: Rest in peace Trayvon Martin <3 This picture makes me tear up.

"I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness."

- Jack Kerouac (via scooterdillon)

(Source: theworthlesspeon)

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It’s stuff like this that makes me so fucking angry at the people (read: Republicans and everyone/everything they are associated with) who keep telling us “no, no, no”. No, you can’t have universal health care. No, you can’t have a higher minimum wage. No, we can’t help you. You have to help yourself, right? Help yourself and everything will just work out. I grew up in a 1% town. A lot of people in my town had more mansions and summer houses and huge SUVs and sports cars and Ivy League educations than most people in this country can even dream of. When all is said and done, these people will always have money. Always. I mean, a fucking NBA player bought a mansion in my town - because major sports stars deserve to be paid millions and millions of dollars, right? When millions of average people are struggling to feed their families or pay for healthcare. The American Dream has become a myth. You cannot just become rich by working hard. The people I grew up with had families that had been here since the Mayflower landed, had been able to accumulate wealth for hundreds of years. They are the people who control the power now. My grandfather was an immigrant and my parents both came from poor/working-class families, and their generation growing up in the 60s was the last one that could get ahead at all by working hard - because college tuition was cheap, housing was cheap, jobs were still plentiful. That ain’t the case anymore. But it’s because now everything has become big business. Education is big business. And the income gap is ever-widening. My generation of college students who were plunged into debt are going to fall in the gaps, where a college degree only qualifies you for a minimum wage job. We are going backwards, and we cannot afford to go backwards. There is enough to go around, and that’s what they don’t want people to know. There will ALWAYS be enough to go around. It’s a question of just distribution and a society that is willing to say “we are all in this together”. I am the 99%, and you are too. wearethe99percent: My mom left my alcoholic and emotionally abusive father to start a better life for us. He lost his law enforcement job due to a DUI, which took our insurance away as well. My mama works so hard to take care of me and pay for our bills and groceries, but she can’t afford birthday presents for me and I’m about to have my 6th birthday. I cry when I ask for a toy in a store and she says she can’t afford it. Then she starts to cry. If not for the kindness of family and friends, we wouldn’t have clothes or shoes. Sometimes we have to borrow money to pay bills. She says she’s embarrassed because she has a good job but can’t keep up. I love my mama and I don’t want her to be sad anymore. We are the 99%.