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July 27, 2015
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fireflyca: “nightmaresofsocrates: “schmaniel: “isseymiyucky: “lavendersucculents: “theprojectchocolate: “My boy Bernie ” I’m surprised to see a white man make this kind of comment. ” ^^ it’s called having a political strategist. He went from “all...

fireflyca:

nightmaresofsocrates:

schmaniel:

isseymiyucky:

lavendersucculents:

theprojectchocolate:

My boy Bernie

I’m surprised to see a white man make this kind of comment.

^^ it’s called having a political strategist. He went from “all lives matter ” to this … he has a good pick up team and will lean as deep left as he can to win the election by the hands of millennials

Martin O'Malley is the one who said “All lives matter”.

Bernie Sanders has been fighting for Civil Rights for 50 years. And dude identifies as a Socialist, he’s not pretending to lean left for votes.

…..Bernie was arrested in 1962 for protesting segregation in school and putting up flyers detailing police brutality against black people in America.

Bernie Sanders marched in Washington in support of MLK and attended his I Have A Dream speech.

Sanders has played huge roles in organizing actions protesting discriminatory actions by the U.S. government against minorities since the sixties, many times being the only politician in his circle to even mention these causes, let alone support them.

Get outta here. Only typing this out on the off chance someone out there believes it to be the contrary and can read this and be like, “oh, nice.”

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July 15, 2015
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thisisnotharmless:

Speaking of linguistics, there’s one particular linguistic tick that I think clearly separates Baby Boomers from Millennials: how we reply when someone says “thank you.”

You almost never hear a Millennial say “you’re welcome.” At least not when someone thanks them. It just isn’t done. Not because Millenials are ingrates lacking all manners, but because the polite response is “No problem.” Millennials only use “you’re welcome” sarcastically when they haven’t been thanked or when something has been taken from/done to them without their consent. It’s a phrase that’s used to point out someone else’s rudeness. A Millenial would typically be fairly uncomfortable saying “you’re welcome” as an acknowledgement of genuine thanks because the phrase is only ever used disengenuously.

Baby Boomers, however, get really miffed if someone says “no problem” in response to being thanked. From their perspective, saying “no problem” means that whatever they’re thanking someone for was in fact a problem, but the other person did it anyway as a personal favor. To them “You’re welcome” is the standard polite response.

“You’re welcome” means to Millennials what “no problem” means to Baby Boomers, and vice versa.The two phrases have converse meanings to the different age sets. I’m not sure exactly where this line gets drawn, but it’s somewhere in the middle of Gen X. This is a real pain in the ass if you work in customer service because everyone thinks that everyone else is being rude when they’re really being polite in their own language.

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