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Resurfaced 'Home Improvement' Clip Shows Just How Backwards We've Slid As A Society
As many pointed out, the conversation would be derided nowadays as "woke"—likely by Allen himself, who has become an outspoken conservative and Trump supporter.
The lecture Allen gives his character's oldest son Brad, played by Zachary Ty Bryan, centers on an incident in which he told his girlfriend to make him a sandwich, and to make his dad one while she's at it.
Allen's character reacts with exasperation, and later, he pulls his son aside to give him a talking-to, telling him:
"’I'm talking about you and Angela; the way you snapped your fingers, and she just jumped into action… You ever wonder why she does stuff like that?”
When Brad insists his girlfriend likes being ordered around in this manner, Allen's character replies:
"Sometimes girls do that because they’re afraid if they don’t do stuff like that, men won’t like them.”
Brad then protests that his Dad is only saying this because he married a more progressive, no-nonsense woman, played by Patricia Richardson, a sentiment that angers Allen's character.
“I didn’t 'end up' with Mom, I love her. I love her because she’s a strong woman."
Nearly 30 years may have passed, but it's hard not to feel unsettled by how wildly progressive this now feels.
The contrast between then and now, and the Tim Allen of then and now, was definitely not lost on people on TikTok.
Indeed, you can practically hear the Fox News uproar and far-right "manosphere" podcast diatribes about how "beta" and "woke" and "anti-man" and—let's face it—"gay" the Home Improvement scene is.
And Allen would surely be among them. He told Marc Maron in 2021 that he liked Trump in part because he makes liberals mad.
Four years later, he's starring in the ABC sitcom Shifting Gears, in which he plays an outspoken Trump supporter in constant conflict with his daughter, played by Kat Dennings, because of the "anti-woke" rhetoric he constantly spouts.
Allen's Home Improvement sexism monologue is exactly the kind of thing his Shifting Gears character would rail against—and lest you think the show is actually out of touch with the times, it is actually a runaway hit. Shifting gears, indeed.
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Texas Man Masterfully Rips GOP 'Bigots' Over Anti-Trans Bill In Must-See Takedown
It legally erases intersex people and anyone else with chromosomal, other genetic, or hormonal variants that don't align with their reproductive organs, as well as transgender people. If will also bring into question the sex assigned to people whose reproductive organs are removed due to injury or illness or if the organs have to function properly to be proof of a person's sex.
But the MAGA-aligned Texas GOP has already made it clear they have no knowledge of simple genetics or biology.
Regarding HB229, Mollberg asked the committee:
"Do y’all ever get tired of being on the wrong side of history?"
You can watch the moment here:
Mollberg told the committee their bill was a "Trojan horse" masquerading as protection for women against a nonexistent threat.
He said:
"I’m just going to call this bill what it is, it’s bigotry. For those voting for the bill: if you want me to look into your eyes while I call you a bigot, I will happily do so. Moreover, I’ll call you a coward."
"You’re not actually interested in protecting women in Texas. That’s the guise of the bill, right? It’s the Trojan Horse you use for all this anti-trans nonsense.
"I remember for years Republicans [claiming]: 'Gay marriage is going to end the world'. Then public opinion shifted, and you had to pick a new scapegoat."
He added the GOP needed to find a new way to distract voters from their inaction and ineffective governance.
@nowthisimpact One of the best takedowns I've ever seen.
The Austin-based software engineer continued, saying:
"That’s what you always have to do. It’s not that you can actually sit here and do the business of the people, make lives better for Texans like me."
"No, no, no, no, no, no, there’s no time for that. We’ve got to bully 1% of the population. We’ve got to harm them as badly as we possibly can."
"We’ve got to make them afraid. We’ve got to make them stay in their homes so that you’re not forced to actually acknowledge that they exist."
Mollberg pointed out:
"If we were sitting here 50 years ago, 60 years ago, instead of talking about trans women going into bathrooms, you’d be talking about Black women going into White bathrooms. Do y’all ever get tired of being on the wrong side of history?"
After the Human Rights Campaign posted the video on Facebook, Mollberg commented on their post:
"I still feel like I’m clumsy and awkward when public speaking, but eager to empower all my homies to speak out against bigoted buffoonery!"
People appreciated Mollberg's words of wisdom, even if they fell on the deliberately ignorant ears of the Texas GOP senators.
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Authored by MAGA Republican House Representative Ellen Troxclair, HB229 passed in the Texas senate on Wednesday, May 28, as expected. GOP Governor Greg Abbott promised to sign the transphobic bill into law.
Abbott sent a letter to state government agencies on January 30, 2025, declaring that Texas only recognizes two sexes.
It followed the blueprint of the executive order MAGA Republican President Donald Trump sent to federal agencies on his first day in office for his second term, January 20, as part of his implementation of the White supremacist, Christian nationalist agenda outlined in Project 2025.
In an official statement, Equality Texas interim CEO Brad Pritchett said:
"This bill was not needed, no judges were asking for legislative direction about definitions. Now, a clumsy and discriminatory definition will be implemented that will infect every corner of the state government with anti-trans animus."
He added:
"We have fallen so far from our ideals of freedom that lawmakers are now trying to implement their own dictionary so that they can erase people from society."
"They will be shocked to learn that trans people have been around longer than the state of Texas, longer than the United States of America, and this small piece of paper cannot undo that history nor erase trans people’s future.
Pritchett vowed:
"This fight isn’t over. Our trans neighbors mean too much to too many."
The human rights organization added that the Republican controlled Texas legislature has filed more than 200 anti-LGBTQ+ bills during the current legislative session.
Multilingual People Share The Juciest Things They've Overheard That They Shouldn't Have
However, even when a language clearly isn't someone's native tongue, it's never a wise decision to assume they don't speak it.
As they may have inadvertently heard far more than they were ever supposed to.
Redditor thievesshouldeatpoop was eager to hear the funniest and most scintillating cases of when things were unexpectedly NOT lost in translation, leading them to ask:
"Multilingual people of Reddit, what have you heard in a meeting that you weren’t supposed to, because the participants didn’t know you speak their language?"
Vous comprenez?
"Working in a Toronto bank, we were interviewing a contract firm from Montreal."
"The two parties start talking sh*t about us in French."
"My boss, who knew I spoke the language, kicks me under the table, with a very subtle head shake."
"After giving the potential firm's employees enough rope to hang themselves, I let them know the meeting was over and wished them a safe trip home...in perfect Montreal French."
"Salut la visite!"- Faster_Rat
Nice Try
"End of a taxi ride in the Middle East."
"The driver called over a passer-by to translate Arabic to English for me (I'm a White European)."
"They were talking across me, so I could hear everything they were saying."
In Arabic the driver said the journey cost 10, the passer-by instantly translated this into english as 20."
"I retorted in Arabic that he said it was 10."
"They both pulled back a little, laughed, and accepted 10."
"Am guessing there were bits that I didn't understand where they both agreed to up the price."- Schmicarus
It's Never Safe To Assume
"I was the one talking when I didn't expect it."
"I was security at an airport, and someone from my staff asked me about some random passenger's flight time."
"That passenger was walking very wobbly, and it looked like he was wasted, which I also said to my coworker, assuming with his non-local passport he doesn't speak our language."
"Then the person answered in my language that he's not drunk, he's just handicapped and that he knows it can seem suspicious that way."
"I apologized and never assumed someone didn't speak my language ever again."- Fthku
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Love Thy Neighbor
"The Amish speak 'Pennsylvania Dutch', a bastardized form of low German that even some Germans can’t understand."
"They have good reason to believe no outsider can understand them."
"A high school friend (17 M[ale]) was leaving a restaurant."
"Two Amish girls were sitting on the front steps."
"One said, 'That one has a nice a**'.”
"He thanked her in PA Dutch."
"Red faces and giggles all around."
"At work, I was cleaning a machine and making a mess."
"An Amish farmer watching commented, 'Does this dumb @ss know what he’s doing?'”
"I replied, 'Yes I do'.”
"To his credit, I got a formal apology."
"Multi racial adoptions happen among the Amish."
"Sadly, latent racism usually means that the adoptees have to leave the Amish to find a life partner."
"Having grown up in that culture and faith, they are Amish on the inside but can’t make a life in the faith because they are the wrong color on the outside."
"I know one, a Black man now in his 30’s, 6’2”, built like a linebacker and no longer Amish."
"He was visiting his family in Pinecraft (an Amish settlement in Sarasota, FL)."
"He saw two elderly Amish women coming toward him on the sidewalk."
“'Watch out for that big black one'."
"'He will run you off the path',” one said to the other in PA Dutch."
"He replied in PA Dutch, 'with our tongue we speak bad words against men who are made like God.'”
"From the Bible, James 3:9."
"He then stepped politely aside so they could pass."
"I heard this story from both sides (from him soon after it happened and through the Amish grapevine in Ohio a year later)."
"I like to think it had a lasting effect on Amish behavior."- amishlike
Love Is All Around
"Not a meeting, but I used to work in close spaces with a man who was newly-wed to his French wife."
"He would take phone calls from her and with nowhere to go, I would try to politely tune it out (we weren't allowed to have headphones due to safety concerns)."
"I got to hear some very sweet conversations."
"Hearing him tell her how much he missed her and loved her was very cute."
"I never told him, or anyone I knew."
"It's none of my business."- Classic_kitty
Name Calling Never Pays Off
"A group of tourist girls in public transport were pressed up against me because of the crush and one of them said in their native language (Swedish) 'look at that idiot with his jacket above his head'."
"The idiot was me."
"I replied to her in her language that I had a project for Uni wrapped in my jacket and I was protecting it against the crush, and I even unwrapped it a bit to show her, but she didn’t see it because by that time she was looking red-faced at the floor while her friends were giggling."- Loko8765
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Looks Can Be Deceiving
"I trained to be a Japanese translator / interpreter but don’t have a drop of Asian blood in me so no one would ever know unless I told them."
"At one point in my career I worked at a company with a lot of Japanese colleagues and was on a call with them and some non-Japanese speaking employees."
"After some heated back and forth, the Japanese colleagues asked if they could switch to Japanese to talk internally."
"The first thing out of their mouths was 'why don’t these Americans ever listen?'"
"They are so difficult to work with!'."
"I had to put myself on mute to laugh about it."
"I signed off the call in Japanese just to make them sweat a bit."- kuzubijin
In The Heat Of The Moment
"Pretty girl at a college house party telling her friend she thought I was cute and she was going to jump my bones that very evening."
"Surely I capitalized on that extremely valuable information?"
"I did not because I’m an idiot and C*ck blocked my own self."- netter_360
When They Go Low...
"When I went on a college trip to Japan, we were in the customs line at the airport when an elderly Japanese woman in line behind us started making all sorts of snide comments about us as foreigners."
"Most of the people in my group knew either very basic Japanese or none at all."
"I wasn’t fluent by any means, but knew enough that she was talking smack."
"So I turned around and told her in Japanese I’d been excited for the trip because I’d heard Japanese people were SO KIND."
"The look on her face was priceless."- __silent_wishes
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Funny No Matter The Language
"I taught English in local high schools in Indonesia for a few years."
"I used to pretend not to understand Indonesian so my students would be forced to rely on their English to communicate with me."
"One morning I was doing roll call and a student was missing."
"I kept asking in English if anyone knew where he was and they all kept saying no."
"One of his friends asked his group in Indonesian if they knew - one of the boys replied 'he's taking a sh*t' and I burst out laughing and blew my cover."
"The one who said it was mortified to have sworn in front of a teacher who knew what he was saying."- gagrushenka
In Good Company
"A long time ago, a friend was stopped by German police."
"They flatly refused to use English with him, knowing he didn't speak German."
"It must have been an act of God that empowered them because as soon as his other half spoke in German (her being German and all), they were fluent in English."- SugarInvestigator
One Can Easily Tell When They're Being Swindled...
"I was checking into a 90,000tshs room in a hotel in Tanzania a few days ago and the manager told the receptionist in Swahili to charge me 120,000tshs."
"I cut her off, challenged her in Swahili and said the room is 90,000tshs and she instantly slunk backwards and told the receptionist to charge the lower amount."
"That felt quite satisfying."- tfeilding
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TWO Official Languages...
"I wasn't working but in college, it was a French college and we were an English course (aircraft structures)."
"The instructors right in front of us would say we are doing things wrong or that they think _____ doesn't get the point, etc but would never actually correct us or say anything."
"One day I finally replied back in French 'so TELL him'."
"And the two were absolutely shocked and said in French 'you understand us?'"
"'I can't tell you how often I've caught French people talking sh*t right in front the person/people, assuming they/we/I don't understand."
" In Canada it is quite common to learn both so.... Idk why they would do it so blatantly and then act shocked every time someone understands."- Blibberweed
And They Thought They'd Get Away With It...
"Back when I was a research student I taught undergraduate basic IT."
"The university I was at had a lot of Greek students at the time."
"My research partner was Greek, so taught me a lot of Greek insults and the like."
"Anyway, whilst teaching a bunch of Greek undergrads they were calling me a wanker and all sorts of stuff."
" I didn’t acknowledge it, eventually won them round and they were ok at the end."
"Last day of teaching I thanked them all for their participation and hard work."
"In Greek."
"Lots of red faces."- Technical-Yard4538
Foreigner, Not A Tourist…
"I'm a white dude that speaks Mandarin and lived in China for a decade, I've heard it all."
"Not just in meetings, but on the street, in restaurants, on the subway, everywhere."
"I'm a dumb fat foreigner."
"I couldn't have possibly completed that task because I'm just a dumb foreigner."
"I'd f*ck that guy (much appreciated)."
"He's tall."
"He's fat."
"What is he? Is he Russian? No, he's too fat he must be American."
"Look at him pretending to read the menu/newspaper."
"Why's he in here (a Chinese language film), he's not gonna be able to understand anything."
"That's disgusting, all they come here for is to take our jobs and our women (lololol)."
"I hate seeing foreigners with our/Chinese women."
"Oh wow he can actually use chopsticks."
"Oh, he can eat spicy food."
"Wait, they actually like to eat that?!?! (stinky tofu)."- Hai-City_Refugee
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Our parents and teachers always taught us that it isn't polite to talk behind someone's back.
It's even worse to talk smack about them when they're in your presence.
No matter the language.
TikToker on Family's Tragic Battle
Her mother and advocate, April Newkirk, told the media that Smith was released after being administered medication with no CT scans or other tests.
Newkirk talked to the media about her daughter’s life-threatening symptoms being ignored:
“They gave her some medication, but they didn’t do any tests. No CT scan. If they had done that or kept her overnight, they would have caught it. It could have been prevented.”
The next day, Smith’s boyfriend awoke to Smith gasping and gurgling for air in her sleep and contacted emergency services. Smith was transferred to Emory University Hospital, where CT scans showed blood clots in her brain, and soon the doctors declared Smith brain dead.
The family’s nightmare became worse when they were informed that under Georgia’s anti-abortion LIFE Act, medical staff is legally required to maintain life support until the fetus reaches viability at 32 weeks.
The Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act, also known as Georgia House Bill 481 or the heartbeat law, is a state-wide consequence of the 2022 reversal of Roe v. Wade that was signed into law by pro-life Governor Brian Kemp in 2019, banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
In Smith’s case, Republican State Senator Ed Setzler, who sponsored the LIFE Act, supports the medical staff’s risk-adverse interpretation of the law:
“I think it is completely appropriate that the hospital do what they can to save the life of the child. I think this is an unusual circumstance, but I think it highlights the value of innocent human life. I think the hospital is acting appropriately.”
The hospital has kept Smith on unresponsive life support even as doctors found fluid in the baby’s brain. Doctors plan to perform a C-section on Smith in early August.
And even though the baby, whom the family has named “Chance,” is showing some improvement with a strong heartbeat and measurements, the family has expressed frustration over not having a say or a legal means in Smith’s medical care or pregnancy.
Newkirk discussed the medical staff’s decision to keep Smith alive:
“We didn’t have a choice or a say about it. We want the baby. That’s a part of my daughter. But the decision should have been left to us, not the state.”
The grieving mother has been visiting her daughter daily and bringing Smith’s youngest son to see her, who reportedly thinks his mother is sleeping:
“It's torture for me. I see my daughter breathing, but she’s not there. And her son — I bring him to see her."
Newkirk’s interview with 11Alive News can be seen below:
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The family’s suffering is shared by TikTok user Jennifer Comstock, whose 30-year-old son was declared brain dead and kept alive to stabilize his organs for donation while medical staff found donor recipients. In her video, she discusses the ongoing medical interventions and medications that “would fix one thing, and another would go wrong.”
But Comstock highlights how her son had chosen to be an organ donor, while Smith didn’t have a choice:
“My son wanted to be an organ donor, and that is why we continued to do it. And my son saved lives. But I don't think you guys understand. This woman is not in a vegetative state; she's not in a coma. She's dead. Her body is not functioning. Her brain is not producing the hormones required to sustain a pregnancy.”
Comstock’s TikTok can be seen below:
Comstock echoed Newkirk’s pain as the family is being put through torture as they wait and watch their daughter’s body deteriorate in state-enforced hopes of saving the fetus. Like Comstock, many have expressed their outrage and sadness over the law that has directly affected Smith and her family.
Their reactions can be seen below:
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Georgia Democrats have been calling on Governor Kemp to clarify the legality of the LIFE Act regarding Smith’s case.
Georgia State Senator Nabilah Islam Parkes held a press conference yesterday and sent a formal inquiry for a binding legal opinion on the House Bill from the attorney general on what qualifies as a medical emergency for an abortion, a definition on fetal conditions incompatible with life, and why that guidance has not been made explicitly to medical providers and hospitals.
Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade, Georgia is one of 13 states to ban abortion and enact gestational limits.
A GoFundMe campaign for Adriana Smith and her family has raised over $ 130,000 with 3,000 donations.