Like, the Flint water crisis, right? I just read an estimate that it would take $55 million to bring clean water back to Flint. That sounds like a lot of money until you consider that’s less than a tenth of a billion dollars. Jeff Bezos is worth $118 billion. For less than .05% of his net worth, Jeff Bezos could bring water back to an entire town. At the most money I have ever had in my bank account, .05% of it could buy me like a burger. And not even a particularly nice one.
And let’s say, yeah, the ultra-rich are soulless monsters devoid of empathy or altruism. For .05% of his net wealth, Jeff Bezos could completely turn his public image around. Instead of being the asshole who exploits his workers, suddenly he’s the unlikely hero who saved an entire town.
Like
How do you have the power to become a hero at practically no personal cost and just
Not?
Queue the stream of libertarians bitching about “you can’t just steal money from people!” Shut up, chad. I’d skin Jeff Bezos with a butterknife if it would undo his greed and give money to the millions of people it could help. He could single-handedly end poverty if he wanted to.
Soulmates are not your ~other half~, that’s just nonsense. You are a whole person already, not half a person. A soulmate isn’t even inherently romantic. A soulmate is just the other sock in a matched set. You’re still a whole, complete sock on your own, you are perfectly functional paired with any other sock, it’s just that it’s even better when you match. A soulmate is literally just the person who makes your soul go “!!! Same hat!!!” and wave excitedly.
add up ur points at the end and lets see how embarrassing ur wc phase was
creating a warrior cats oc: 1 point
creating an entire warrior cats oc clan, down to the clan name and filling up every position: 2 points
drawing ur warriors oc w/ bangs: 2 points
drawing a canon warriors character with bangs: 2 points (BONUS: add 2 points if u drew any canon character with bloodshot eyes/red marks under their eyes)
buying the warriors books and creating a collection: 2 points
stealing warriors books from the library or ur school: 3 points
roleplaying warrior cats online: 2 points
roleplaying warrior cats irl: 4 points (BONUS: add 3 points if irl warrior cats roleplay got so intense/violent that it resulted in the injury of urself or anyone else playing)
roleplaying warrior cats irl so much it got warriors banned at ur school: 10 points
making a youtube playlist entirely out of 2008 warrior cat amvs: 4 points
creating those couple amv slideshows to every time we touch, hot & cold, or bad boy: 3 points (BONUS: add 2 points if you created more than one, add 4 points if u made one of these slideshows and didnt credit any artists u put in them)
gave your cat an actual warrior name: 3 points
gave your cat a whole, entire, real warrior ceremony: 6 points
having an actual, true otp for warriors: 2 points
instead of having ur wc otp be actual cats, u drew them as anthros: 6 points
writing warrior cats fanfiction: 2 points
writing warriors smut: 20 points
actually shipping ashfur/scourge: 5 points
stanning for ashfur: 3 points
getting into warriors discourse either online or irl, including but not limited to: discourse about what clan is better, discourse about what pairings are the best, discourse about whether squirrelflight or ashfur was right, discourse about coat colors/eye colors: 7 points
if u ever announced ur love for a warrior cat, anywhere, either online or irl: 10 points (BONUS: add another 3 points just bc ur a fucking furry)
NOW THAT U GOT UR POINTS WHAT DOES IT MEAN
1-7 POINTS: ur wc phase was boring, u probably are scared to admit u have done more of these
8-14 POINTS: u probably grew out of wc/dont talk about it as much, but when u were into it u know u were kinda embarrassing and prefer to just ignore it
15-20 POINTS: ur still into wc and ur honestly hardly embarrassed about it anymore u’ve accepted this
21+: holy shit.
2 points, I was new to the internet and avoided fanfiction
When a character doesn’t realize they’ve been, like, shot or whatever and they hand brushes against their side and comes away wet with blood, and they’re just staring at it like wtf is this and then their knees just totally give out on them and they sink down, maybe gasping a little as the reality finally hits them. That’s good stuff.
I see that, and raise you a character who knows they’ve been shot, but waits until the rest of their crew is out of sight to put their hand against the slowly spreading stain of blood on their shirt, then trying to steady their breathing so they can follow without letting on how injured they are.
Okay but like the character who doesn’t realize they’ve been hurt trying to see if everyone else is okay only to slowly realize that everyone is looking at them with mounting horror. Then they touch their side to find it’s wet and oh no
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