you race down the dirt path. the soft, sandy soil sticks to the bottom of your bare feet as they touch down again and again, rhythmically trotting down, down, down. through a forest, the thick canopy of leaves shining in the sun above, the wind rustling through the branches. you hear birdsong and squirrels twittering. at the bottom of the soft winding path you hear the crash of waves, skidding out and turning round a boulder to see the ocean in all its vast glory. the blue sky is painted with gentle white clouds as the water sloshes round, crashing down and receding again and again. the sand filters between your toes, damp from the tide. seagulls caw and play on the wind. the trees stand behind you, a protective guard, shielding the small cove from any troubles imaginable. take a deep breath. take in the clean, salty breeze. feel the warmth of the morning sun.
I’m noticing a trend in political news stories trying to humanize Trump voters and make everyone feel sorry for them.
LOL.
They’re racists, xenophobic, antisemitic, and Islamophobic. Guess what? I have zero sympathy for any of the racists who voted for Trump (and would probably still vote for him in 2020)
they vote for trump he fucks them over we call them stupid so they resolve to vote for him again…..
Too stupid to live, that’s right.
Yeah. The subplot is basically, “The only reason racists are being racist is because everyone is mean to them whenever they’re racist”
It’s ahistoric, circular logic at it’s finest. But hey, what else is new, right? That’s our media: anything to humanize racist white people and turn them into sympathetic victims - no matter HOW racist they are
I’m going to force myself into half-hearted optimism and think there HAS to be an interruption of the circuit at a certain point. Once they’re in enough pain, self-preservation has got to kick in, and a greater number will start listening and thinking, not just hating and hating. Otherwise we’re all going down together in the death spiral.
I’m an optimist at heart, but in many ways, just being black in America has had a very sobering effect on my optimism - especially where Republicans and (racist) white people are concerned…
Like, I dO feel what you’re saying and I really wanna be right there with you, but I’m reminded of that story about the scorpion and the frog, and yeah, a lot of Trump voters aren’t ever gonna change. Blind hatred is just in their nature. Many of them will *never* come around and we aren’t gonna be able to “save” them or change their minds
So we probably need to focus our efforts and just organize and out vote them in 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024….etc
‘All that you need to know about boars can be summed up in the fact that if you wish to hunt them, you must have a specially made boar spear. This spear has a crosspiece on it to prevent the boar from charging the length of the spear, driving it all the way through his own body, to savage the human holding the other end.’
-Boar and Apples, T. Kingfisher
fuck OFF
Note that pigs are also HUGE. So, yes, they ARE slightly larger pigs.
So I grew up in the city and have never seen a pig in real life and I just googled it and WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS
I thought they were like labrador sized, like, fat labradors, not mini-cows.
every time I see this post there are more people discovering how fuck off huge pigs actually are and I love it I thought this was a thing everyone knew but clearly not and I’m laughing
This is me with our Tamworth boar, a heritage breed closer to their wild cousins than the Yorkshire above. I am a fully grown, average sized human. He was a gentle sweetie who, sadly, is no longer with us. His name was Mr. Big.
FUCK OFF
Forever laffin’ at people who don’t understand how enormous, terrifying, and tenacious wild boar are.
They’re like if bears had knives protruding from their closed mouths and Didn’t Know When To Quit. Their survival instincts when they’re wounded aren’t “run away and minimize injury” it’s “take the thing that hurt you down with you” They also make sounds like someone crossed a pig with an alligator.
Their head and neck alone can be like the size of an entire human torso.
Also forever laffin’ at people who think pigs are tiny, ‘cause we designed those things can get in the neighbourhood of a thousand pounds in ideal circumstances.
It’s like when people assume Tuna must be small because they’ve only ever experienced them in hockey puck form.
More dumps!! I totally made the top one with Envy for myself. Tbh more soon bc everyone seemed to love them and it’s the only thing I’m semi okay at??? Over 600 notes I’m crying tysm ily all
me whenever i have a cold: i can’t remember the last time i could breathe out of my left nostril…it must have been 14 years ago when i was a child on the farm..life was simpler back then….. i remember the sound of the creek over by that big rock.. when papa came home from the town bearing fresh yeast for ma to make bread with, i breathed in the crisp fall air through both nostrils before heading into the kitchen, where i could smell all of our spices
