This is a great example, actually, of “look for yourself before you reblog bullshit posts that make you feel good about whatever political points you’re trying to score in place of actually caring.”
Because while Clinton did sign the bill, he signed it because it passed with a supermajority in both GOP-held houses, meaning it could not be vetoed. Some Democrats in the House and Senate voted for the bills to be sure, but claiming that this was something Clinton had any control over is bullshit of the highest order. The government simply doesn’t work that way.
But learning even the tiniest bit about how our government works is too hard. Posting screencaps is so much easier and more satisfying.
Like COME ON:
Look what interesting trivia you can find when you’re not obsessed with dunking on whoever you’ve decided is Evil And Bad today:
And even stuff that’s not so trivial, such as discovering that Clinton worked to prevent the bill from being even worse than it was:
Look, if your argument is that President Clinton should have done more, should have not put a brave face on a shitty piece of legislation that he knew he couldn’t stop and that he shouldn’t have allowed his administration to enforce the new laws quite so rigorously as they ended up doing, that’s fucking fair! But don’t act like Bill Clinton is your rival in 7th period debate and you’re just looking for anything to make the rest of the class go “OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
This is our country. Grow up.
#I swear to god!#also like thanks I guess to the twerp who originally posted this because I’ve spent an hour or two looking into this law#and let me tell you literally none of the equally glib and snarky articles written lately about it#and how it’s somehow directly responsible for Trump’s super racist policies#not ONE of those goddamn articles mention even offhand that Clinton had no choice about the bill becoming law#or about the fact that literally months before his reelection he pressured the GOP into taking a lot of provisions out#and in fact split the bill up#so that undocumented immigrants would not be harmed AS MUCH by this bill#and he doesn’t get credit for that because he shouldn’t get credit for not even quite meeting Bare Minimum Decency bar#but my god you’d think REPORTERS wouldn’t be this fucking lazy#as to not double-check how the bill was passed and by what margin#anyway (via @leupagus)
reblogging this again for more info and further snark and also these excellent tags
For the 3rd year in a row I’m seeing people give Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events a try and then get disapointed/angry that nothing good ever comes out of it that everything always seem to go wrong for the Baudelaire and I’m just… if only someone, anyone…. had warned them
me: *is repeatidly told by the story itself that it doesnt end well, has a title sequence song that is just about how one should stop watching immediately because it’s sad, the narrator, each episode, tells me that i have an option of not watching it and proceeds to wait a few seconds for me to leave*
A Series Of Unfortunate Events: *isn’t a happy story*
Annnnd our parents and grandparents never taught us basic life skills because the baby boomer generation loved outsourcing easy work, like hemming pants and baking cakes. The generations before us glommed onto the fast, easy fix, and important skills have been lost in the process.
(And of course the generation who raised us loves to act fake shocked like “my grandkids don’t know how to boil water” like yeah, Janice, that’s because you took your kids out to eat 6 nights a week and baked Stouffers lasagna one night)
And now we are broke. And can’t afford to pay $60 to have every pair of pants we own hemmed (shoutout to shorties!). We are making yogurt because we can’t afford to pay $2.50 for one yogurt.
I’ve learned to knit to make myself wool hats and scarves. I’ve learned to sew so I can make items that would otherwise cost me 4x the cost to make it. I’ve learned to make yogurt because I would prefer to spend $2 for a gallon of milk and get 24 yogurts out of it rather than just one.
I’ve planted fruit trees in my yard so I can reduce the carbon footprint of the fruit I eat, and because produce is expensive.
I raise egg-laying chickens so I don’t contribute to factory farming.
My husband hunts deer so that we can eat lean, virtually fat free meat, and also not contribute to factory farming. The deer live happy lives and are not allowed to suffer. (Hey PS also, hunting up here plays an important role in ecology, as otherwise the deer population would explode, and deer would starve in the winter. Thanks for coming to my TEDta…)
My generation is going on YouTube to learn to change tires, bake bread and do their taxes because y’all sure as shit didn’t teach us.
THIS
Lets not forget the phasing out of the HomeEc class. Or the Shop Class.
Alleviating one’s ignorance of a subject should NEVER, EVER be looked down on! Learning and growing are never anything to be shamed of, or for!
reblogging for the additions.
really if you take a moment to think about the headline it basically just says “millennials are so helpless they’re taking time to learn how to do things they don’t know how to do”
