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I don’t want to get my hopes up but it would be really funny if he died.

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you're laughing. trump and melania literally have covid and you're laughing. AND I'M LAUGHING TOO

HERE WE GO BOYS!

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

The cruelty is the point

It’s not that King Kenney has burned billions of dollars on stupid oil industry bets, and it’s not that he’s continued to make those stupid bets even after oil was at negative dollars, and it’s not that he’s earmarked millions for a literal anti-oil inquisition, it’s not that every minister now seems to have an army of well-paid PR staffers picking fights on twitter.

It’s because some snake, some real bastard of a human, had the arrogant temerity to be born with rheumatoid arthritis so now they’re living the high life on a disability payment. 19200 per year, a Kings Ransom reall, just to hang out and be in excruciating and debilitating pain all day.

AISH payouts amount to abouuuut 112000000 per year, which is ballpark 1% of the 8+ billion King Kenney blew threw in the last -year- on oil industry bets and tax cuts. He knows full well that he isn’t going to “find some savings,”

He’s throwing vulnerable people to the wolves by accusing them of theft and penury, even while he loots the province.

I’d like to add: As it is, AISH is fucking hard to get on to. I applied back when I was too ill to work and it was so complicated and difficult with so many hoops to jump through that I gave up, lacking the energy to be able to finally get onto it. 

After these cuts, it’s going to be neigh on impossible. Maybe if Kenney hadn’t made so many tax cuts to billionairs and the oil industry, which is now collapsing spectacularly, we wouldn’t be selling off our national parks, cutting AISH, and firing 20,000 teachers, and managing 0 additional budget for schools in the province to handle COVID-19 reopening. 

This.

There are so many rich people who get to try a new hobby every day while the rest of us are struggling 

flock together; love each other (part 7)

(more protest pigeons)

So they’re saying 12 months were never necessary in the first place? 🧐

They screen all the blood first anyway.

Especially after the debacle where they shipped HIV+ blood to Latin and South America knowingly.

This is just codified discrimination with no scientific basis. Fight back.

VOTE.

all r/relationships posts are either:

4. “My [42F] daughter [14F] told me today that she’s ‘depressed’ and ‘needs help.’ Should I ground her?”

let's not forget "my(30F) FIL(61M) and my husband(34M) are blatantly planning for my death in childbirth"

Star Wars cast members who have openly expressed their dislike for Reylo

Star Wars cast members that Reylo's started a hate campaign against

the space race may be the funniest point in history period and i'll stand by that. the US is like "yes whoever gets into space first will prove once and for all that our economic model is superior and that we are, in general, the superior country of superior and smarter people." then the soviets just went and did it and the US freaked out and needed to cover their ass so were like "WE MEAN THE MOON, WE MEAN THE FIRST TO LAND ON THE MOON."

yeah its cus walking on the moon was cool as hell and all this other boring shit sucked ass

When I was a freshman in a red-state college, I had a professor who taught Newtonian physics with a super thick Russian accent.  The student body was unusually conservative for a state college, so there was a sort of general bemusement about learning physics from a Russian, but even back then the Cold War was far enough in the past that not even the red tribe was inclined to stir up trouble about it.

He was aware enough of this to get off on trolling the class, though.  Whenever some force diagram in a homework assignment needed to be weightless, instead of being some generic spacecraft it would be “Mir” specifically.  And he’d always use ‘cosmonaut’ instead of ‘astronaut’, that kind of thing.

One day about halfway through the semester, he’s doing this with in-class examples on the board, and one of the students finally gets up the guts to troll back a little.  So this kid shouts from the back of the auditorium, “Hey professor, what’s the difference between a cosmonaut and an astronaut?”

And this beautiful man spins around on one heel to face the class, whiteboard marker triumphantly over his head, clearly having been waiting for this moment the entire semester: “Cosmonaut go to space first! Ha!”

Once again, I fucking hate the way people even slightly outside this shit will talk about it. “Troubling”??????????? This is not ‘troubling’, this is appalling! 

Casual reminder that “gang affiliation” charges are a remnant of various slave code era laws against people congregating.

It’s used for everything from railroading protesters (see above) to punting kids into prisons when they’d otherwise get a fine or possibly a low level misdemeanor.

It’s a naked intimidation tactic and it goes hand in hand with Trump and the DOJ identifying ‘ANTIFA’ as a terrorist org.

a video of me aggressively photographing mushrooms went viral on tiktok and tbh this is how i wanna be remembered.

Audio transcription:

Person filming: " having gay friends is all fun and games until they need to take a picture of a mushroom"

Person kneeling desperately to take picture of mushroom while friend films: "UUUUGH it's a bunch though! It's a family Megan!"

The Last Airbender: Ang by Daniel Warren Johnson *

a lil controversial but people should spend less time dunking on TERFs and spending more time uplifting and supporting trans women

ERASE the idea that America saved lives by dropping two atomic bombs on Japan from your minds. ERASE the idea that it was anything more than a political move to scare Russia and also to satiate US curiosity as to the true ability of nuclear weapons. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not military bases. They were heavily populated civilian cities chosen precisely bc the U.S. wanted to see how many people an atomic bomb could kill in one go. Japan was on the verge of surrendering, the U.S. literally wanted to test out their nuclear weapons on people that they deemed disposable. That is it. If those bombs were dropped by any nation other than the US veryone involved would have been tried as war criminals.

Also erase the idea that America was the hero of WWII and got into the war because they wanted so save people. They couldn’t have cared less about the victims of the Holocaust, proven by the fact that they turned away so many shiploads of refugees that went on to die at the hands of Nazis.

“the us wanted to see how many people an atomic bomb could kill in one go” oh really? Source your bullshit, asshole

i left out sources bc i figured most tumblr users know how to use google but ok 

- Report produced by the U.S Strategic Bombing Group (employed by Truman) to survey the air attacks on Japan concluded that: 

“Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey’s opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945 and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.” - page 52-56 

- Dwight Eisenhower future president and then Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces also said:

“I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to [the then Secretary of War] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.” - page 380

- Admiral William Leahy, one of the highest ranking officials in the US army during WW2 wrote of the usage of the bombs:

“It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. […] My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.” - page 441

- General Douglas McArthur, another high ranking US official in the war:

“[When asked about his opinion on bombing Japan] He replied that he saw no military justification for the dropping of the bomb. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor.” - page 70-71

- On September 9, 1945 Admiral William F. Halsey commander of the Third Fleet publicly quoted as saying:

“The first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment… . It was a mistake to ever drop it… . [the scientists] had this toy and they wanted to try it out, so they dropped it… . It killed a lot of Japs.” - online source

- The US secretary of war, Henry Stimson, speaking to President Truman:

“I was a little fearful that before we could get ready the Air Force might have Japan so thoroughly bombed out that the new weapon [the atomic bomb] would not have a fair background to show its strength.” - diary of Henry Stimson which can be found online here 

- Even those deploying the bombs questioned the decision to drop them on civilian cities:

“I thought that if we were going to drop the atomic bomb, drop it on the outskirts–say in Tokyo Bay–so that the effects would not be as devastating to the city and the people. I made this suggestion over the phone between the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and I was told to go ahead with our targets.” - online source

- Lewis Strauss Assistant to the Navy Secretary James Forrestal on the locations of the bombings:

“I remember suggesting […] a large forest of cryptomeria trees not far from Tokyo. The cryptomeria tree is the Japanese version of our redwood… I anticipated that a bomb detonated at a suitable height above such a forest… would lay the trees out in windrows from the center of the explosion in all directions as though they were matchsticks, and, of course, set them afire in the center. […] Secretary Forrestal agreed wholeheartedly with the recommendation.” - page 145

So to recap: 

Draw your own conclusions. 

I hope y'all know that this is common knowledge to everyone of every other country

Wrong. Other western nations that were allies of America still maintain this fallacy too. I know for a fact the british (and by extension aussie/nz) school curriculum teach that these bombs ‘saved lives in the long run’.

Be kind to humans abused and exploited by capitalism

did anyone else feel their heart just break when diego’s patience finally snaps because his brother (whom he thought he could trust, thank you very much for that, five, you little shit) chooses to out his escape plan to the staff instead of helping him, and because he’s diego, he fights them off with everything he has, but the minute they decide to tranq him, he immediately reverts to begging and saying “no please no not the needle” because in that moment, he isn’t a hardened superhero anymore, he’s just a man who’s always been afraid of needles because of a traumatic tattooing incident in his childhood

then later on, we see him slip out of that straitjacket with calm, practiced ease, and that’s when it hits you that hargreeves probably made them do this over and over again as kids, not even caring that doing so would mean broken bones and pulled joints because “tHe fAte of the wOrld haNgs iN tHe baLaNCe blah blah blah”, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg of the amount of psychological, physical, and emotional trauma his father gave him growing up so is it really any wonder that he grew up all snarky and jaded and withdrawn from the world