shituationist:

people act like communism is a hard sell but there are people probably living in your neighborhood right now who think the apocalypse is imminent, that the moving of the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem will hasten its arrival, and that Jesus will rule over a literal kingdom of heaven on Earth for a thousand years.

Not to mention that a hardcore Randian is 3rd in line for succession right now and Rand’s fantasy novels required perfect Gary Stu characters and energy generating machines that ran off of magic to even function.

becauseweknowthem:

Chris Hayes compiled all the times that Paul Ryan has said we shouldn’t make knee jerk decisions after tragedies.

Apparently the Speaker of the House permanently thinks all these requests for action are knee jerk.

Columbine was nineteen years ago.

The kids at Parkland and every other high school in the country have grown up with shooter drills and low grade ptsd.

I don’t know a single kid that doesn’t clock the exits in a room they enter. That’s the impact Columbine has had.

It isn’t a knee jerk reaction anymore.

It’s the long over due correction of a national mistake.

Wait…do people who grew up before Columbine not do this…?