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Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022) dir. Josh Gordon & Will Speck

it’s just all so stupid bc the ppl that get mad when you “‘make everything about race” seem to not understand that it literally..is all about race, you are more likely to have asthma and allergies and breathing problems if u live close to large populations of black people bc during segregation and redlining less diverse sexed trees were planted in the areas made up of predominantly black and brown people, black people have higher rates of plant related allergies and higher rates death from asthma bc young male trees were planted in addition to poor conditions regarding pollution, redlined areas get worse treatment structurally, if u live in a city u are more likely to die from lung cancer bc of segregation, and ppl act like im just saying stuff and making shit up and it’s like no dude statistically that is the truth, it should bother u that u get the short end of the stick simply bc some government official didn’t want black ppl to have “good” stuff

Race is one of if not the determining factor for ones proximity to landfills, waste sites, industry/manufacturing plants, fuel refineries, fracking/extraction, etc.. It's wild that people don't understand that or deny it bc you can literally spend sometime outside and see it. You can look up the toxic donut in Chicago and cancer alley on Louisiana and see it. Look up the willow project and see it. Look where Genocide Joe was trying to build new LNG terminals and see it. Everything is about race.

This is Sarah Grimké.

She was born to a rich plantation family in the American South during the time of slavery. She owned a slave, Hetty, a girl her parents gave her when she was a child. She was absolutely the sort of person whose racism you could justify as being ‘of her time’ and ‘just the way she was raised’.

And she cited the injustices she saw growing up on the plantation as the motivation for her becoming an abolitionist as an adult.

When she was a kid, she tried to give bible lessons to the slaves on her Dad’s plantation, and taught her own slave to read and write. As an adult, she and her sister campaigned for the end of slavery. When she found out that one of her brothers had raped one of his own slaves and gotten her pregnant three times, she welcomed her nephews into the family and paid for education for the two that wanted it.

This was a woman who was raised in a culture of slavery, looked around her as a child and said “hey, wait a minute, we’re all assholes!” and spent the rest of her life trying to put things right.

It absolutely was a choice.

This is something I’ve been forced to learn in the past two years. The world around me is turning into something I was raised to believe could only happen in history books, or maybe in other parts of the world that sort of belonged in history books.

The more I see this happening–and the more I learn about the past and how hard people did fight to stop Hitler from initially rising to power, or to point out the humanity of slaves–the more apparent it becomes that we have always had these choices, and they’ve always been the same.

And we’re always going to have genuinely appealing opportunities to make the worst possible choices again, no matter how much more modern the world appears.

George Washington owned slaves right? Most of the founding fathers did, and in grade school, to smooth over that abuse of humanity by an American hero, we as children were told “Yes, George Washington did own slaves but he freed them when he died.” And you infer that he didn’t like slavery but it was an economic necessity.

And then you’re in your mid twenties watching a food show on Netflix and you learn that because Pennsylvania was a Quaker colony, they led the nation in emancipation and if an enslaved person was in Philadelphia for more than six months, they automatically became freed. And the young nation’s early capital was in Philadelphia, where Washington brought his household of enslaved people with him. And he took them back to Virginia every five months for a time so as to start that clock over and keep them enslaved.

There’s a trend with historians to want so badly to maintain the prestige of George Washington and an exceptional and morally pristine figure. And true, there are many instances in his writing where he sounds like his opinion on slavery as an institution is turning and that he knew slavery was wrong. But his actions. He literally had to do absolutely nothing to free his household staff, and took great pains to keep them enslaved.

It’s important to remember that too. That there were people in positions of enormous power, who know what they’re doing is wrong, and choose to do it anyway.

Do not let anyone tell you his teeth were made of wood.

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tweets by Shaun (shaunvids on bsky) @shaun_vids: liberal defenders of the status quo feel no sadness or anger when the deaths are caused by their guy, their thin platitudes about equality are contingent on which team is in office. if it is theirs they will make excuses and dehumanise the same as any open racist would

they actually feel positive about it. their ability to accept such injustices signals maturity and level-headedness to their fellow monsters. 'ah, but you see, it must be this way' - but of course if the other team were in office they would be crying injustice from the rooftops

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You see this at the end of every empire

When France left Vietnam they poisoned the wells and burned down any buildings they could

In Indonesia the Dutch killed civilians as they retreated from the newly liberated country

When the British army left India they stole everything they could carry on the way out

Western imperialism can't stand seeing their colonial dreams fail, and they always show their true colours by massacring civilians out of spite

Israel will fail too. Just like the rest.

muffy’s lunch consists of three sandwiches and a bread roll

SCREAMING Muffy sis…………..the carbs

Happy 10 year anniversary to this iconic post

Your daily dose of cat memes

The left says "sale sale"

The right says "sasa lele"

Link to the artist’s Instagram

"Treatment" for addiction that requires you to lock up, confine, coerce, or otherwise strip addicts of their autonomy, it isn't treatment. It is a revenge fantasy that prioritizes your desire for subjugation over the actual betterment of addicts.

I don't even have the adequate words to describe the fact that survivors of the Nakba are describing their devastation in Gaza as "worst than the Nakba"

112 - “Anywhere ft Lil Zane” (1998)

I still can't get over that tweet of someone having bubble guys and saying that it sounded like the beginning of this song.

And why did the value plummet, Marissa? Why did it plummet?

Would like to know how exactly she wouldn't fuck up Netflix or Hulu

Yahoo thought Tumblr would be the next PDF

What does that even mean? PDF as in Portable Document Format?

i cannot stress enough that i dont think yahoo even knew what a pdf was

you left out the best part of that article. the poor yahoo emplyees at those meetings were just as confused as the rest of us.