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jettison-my-gift · 1 year
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Ok I’m fully for Scottish independence. Fuck the Tories. Fuck the English. Free the Scots. And give trans people the respect we deserve.
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Reforming the human rights act
The UK is planning on reforming the human rights act.
If it wasn't shitty enough for them to try and go against BASIC human rights to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, they're now planning on making it legal for it to happen.
This is going to affect immigrants, refugees, criminals, disabled people and asylum seekers.
If the human rights act does get reformed, this is going to make it easier to deport people and reduce the government's responsibility to uphold human rights.
It's the government's way of cleaning their hands by pretending nothing has happened
Please please sign the petition so it will at least get debated in Parliament. Only UK residents and British citizens can sign it, but please please please reblog this to protect human rights
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/607712
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devoid-dusk · 2 years
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Banking crash, Brexit, pandemic, war. Whatever the crisis, it's the poor that pay for it.
The country is in a mess and the human rights act is going under a "reformation"
The human rights act reforming means that the government will be able to deport you if you commit a crime, reduce disability benefits that people need to live on and will distance the UK from the European Court of Human Rights. Asylum seekers and immigrant are going to be at a much higher risk.
100,000 is the number of signs needed for it to be debated at Parliament, we've got 20,000 signatures left. Anyone of any age can sign the petition as long as they live in the UK.
If you live in the UK, please sign the petition to stop the reformation going ahead.
If you don't please reblog this post and the many others with the petition linked on them.
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natureisgay · 1 year
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i HATE rishi sunak. he has planned a review of the Equality Act 2010, in reference to where transgender people’s right are (currently legislation protects trans people regardless of where they are in the process of transitioning i.e. no matter if they have had surgery, hormones, a gender recognition certificate) which means that self-identification for trans people will have no legal force and so cannot access single-sex spaces they need so urgently like refugee. It’s absolutely horrific. And on top of that people think he also wants parents to have more say on what is taught in PSHCE, so to not allow ‘contentious’ resources about race or LGBTQ+ rights.
This is not OK. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS
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heatsu · 7 months
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I'm getting more and more anxious about the upcoming parliamentary elections as the current ruling party has gone crazy with insane propaganda rambling and they're even getting to YouTube adds (which are fucking insane and delusional)
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bpdshan · 8 months
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heritageposts · 2 years
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i saw the trailer for the new feel-good “anti-racist” US war movie about the carpet bombing of North Korea and started writing up something for this blog, partially inspired by the absolute shit storm i got for sharing that post i made with pictures of everyday life outside pyongyang
and then i gave up, because what’s the point? westerners can’t even handle a single picture of a north korean not looking miserable without screaming propaganda
meanwhile, there are no stories about the horrors of life in the ‘hermit kingdom’ that are deemed too outlandish to be believable. i can’t remember who said it, but it’s like the entire country has taken up permanent residence in the western imaginary as some silly little cartoon villain, where the leaders of the country does evil things for no discernible reason. they’re just silly and evil like that, and the citizens, of course, are silly, too. silly and brainwashed.
i watched a video recently of a tourists visiting an auto dealership in pyongyang, and the entire time he was just gawking at the employees and costumers, shoving his phone in their face, and confidently explaining to his youtube audience that everyone he’s interacting with are actually actors.
what level of dehumanization do you have to reach for that thought to even cross your mind? to think that the people you see before you are actors? that entire cities and shops are erected with to sole purpose that you, a western, will see them and be impressed?
what frustrates me the most is the casual cruelty that seeps into any mention of north korea, no matter how small. if north koreans are not being evil, they’re being silly.
a north korean newspaper reports that a group of archeologists in pyongyang have discovered an old rock carving with the words ‘unicorn lair’ (mistranslated), and the western press reports that north koreans now believe in unicorns.
a tourist at a hotel in hamhung is told by the receptionist to be careful at the beach: the waves can get high. that day the tourists goes to the beach, and there are no waves. she retells the story to her instagram followers, explaining that the poor woman at the hotel could never have seen real waves before because north koreans are probably never allowed to travel.
she adds a little teary-eyed emoji.
one of the cities i included in the post was sariwon, a densely populated city to the south of pyongyang. below are some pictures from its “folk customs street”, which was built to showcase old korean traditions and customs
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here’s all wikipedia has to say about it
Built to display an ideal picture of ancient Korea, it includes buildings in the "historical style" and a collection of ancient Korean cannons. Although it is considered an inaccurate romanticized recreation of an ancient Korean street, it is frequently used as a destination for foreigners on official government tours. Many older style Korean buildings exist in the city.
it’s just north koreans being silly again. there’s no mention of what might motivate them to build a street like that — why the preservation of old customs, culture and architecture might somehow be important for the city
could it perhaps have something to do with how the U.S. air force dropped 635,000 tons of bombs, including 32,557 tons of napalm, over the korean peninsula during the war? the carpet bombings, which are now the topic of an upcoming hollywood movie about overcoming racism through warcrimes, destroyed an estimate of 85% of all buildings in north korea. some cities were entirely wiped off the map.
in sariwon they missed a few buildings, but not many — after an intense firebombing campaign the U.S. military estimated the destruction of sariwon to be at 95%.
none of this is mentioned on the wikipedia page for sariwon.
we destroyed entire cities. memory-holed the entire thing, called it the forgotten war. and now, 70 years later, we’re convincing ourselves that the people living in the ruins are actors.
and somehow the north koreans are the brainwashed ones
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dirkification · 7 months
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youre 30+ posting incest??? go pay your taxes
Babe my taxes were due in *April* and the season doesn't start again until *January*
Maybe retake that high school finance course along with like basically any intro English/literature course
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most of us have heard of the red car game. you’re on a road trip, you’re bored, you start looking for red cars to do something.
and then they’re everywhere. you notice them nearly every few minutes.
there aren’t suddenly more red cars now, of course. you were seeing them already, but you weren’t noticing. you weren’t looking.
I am noticing things.
there is a plant I notice everywhere now, a small bushy plant in suburbs, along streets, by shops on the highways. dwarf umbrella bush is what the internet tells me when I look for it’s name. I did this because I wanted to know why,
every time I ever saw it, every place,
it was always dying. always the leaves turning yellow, the branches small and scraggly. inside out - nitrogen deficiency. their soil drained.
I am noticing how many of these landscaping plants are yellowing, how small and sickly they look in just a few years. I am noticing how often the grass outside the house is replaced when it once again turns brown and dry, how the type never changes and the cycle starts again. I am noticing how the unmowed, unkempt spaces on lakesides and roadsides look more alive than this. how the preserve I grew up next to was miles of “messy” unmanicured nature and the ground was covered in leaves instead of grass and there was life.
I am noticing the birds that come by the lake. there was a flash of blue wings and red chest - eastern bluebird, male, relatively common. I had never seen one before. there is a family of ducks that appear every spring; i cannot say if it’s successive generations or different ducks, but I can always look forward to ducklings. there are little brown birds with white heads whose names I do not know - are they some kind of piper? why don’t I already know?
why is it so hard to learn about my native plants (accurately, that is)? why are so many gardening sites littered with people who think a plants value is based on how pretty or useful it is to them, who think a tree shedding leaves is “messy”?
why is knowing about the world we live in so… odd? why is it a hobby and not vital knowledge? I learned about polar equations. I taught myself about mycorrhizal networks and species of insects.
(did you know there are shiny green bees? a special species of wasp pollinating figs? that white flowers bloom at night for moths? do you know? have you looked?)
I cannot look at a lawn and see life anymore. it is a wasteland, devoid of life, dying slowly itself. everywhere is grass, grass, doused in water that runs over into storm drains, soaked in fertilizer and pesticides and a hundred other poisons and sending one clear message:
this is a place of death. life is not welcome here.
I do not think I could live in a city. too loud, yes, too busy, yes, too many people, yes, but the plants would bother me. a tree allotted only a convenient square, surrounded by dead stone and metal.
a forest cleared for this, for burning asphalt streets and racing cars and shops whose bathrooms are “for paying customers only”.
this is a place of death. life is not welcome here.
and now I am noticing.
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sirenserendipity · 26 days
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joe biden, the president of the united states, saying that 66 US aid packages flown into gaza “isn’t enough” while having given over 6 BILLION dollars to the israeli government for weaponry and military aid, is fucking insane. it’s fucking insane. here is a man feigning tragic outcry over lack of humanitarian aid, as if he and his entire political cabinet didn’t fund genocide and the murder of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians. as if he and his entire cabinet didn’t push mainstream media to support the plight of israel for MONTHS on end and villainize citizens in gaza simply for fucking existing. colonization and the tactics/actions of it’s oppressors and successors will continue for reasons of greed, for reasons of political interest and nothing more. no one on this earth— not a handful of fucking people in a god damn room completely removed from such violence and consequence— should ever be able to carry out this kind of act. it is not a war, it is a genocide. there is not and never will be a justification for it. it didn’t start today, it’s only just been continuing in recent months and ramped up since october.
joe biden and others in power should face criminal charges for war crimes— for genocide, for senseless slaughter and refusal to provide adequate humanitarian aid when possible. for providing weapons of mass destruction to a violent state government and knowing the genocidal intentions of that government. citizens in gaza are starving, they’re dying from exposure and/or injury, they’re in need of medical supplies and menstrual products and clean food and water, they are in dire fucking need. many are dying— being purposefully killed in horrific fashion. humanitarian efforts are being blocked by israeli military and those that are able to get through in rafa are being extorted and told they cannot cross without paying sums of thousands. palestinians attempting to flee gaza are being told they cannot unless they pay sums between five to ten thousand dollars to the Organi Group. meanwhile the bombs are still dropping and the gunfire is unceasing. there is no evacuation plan and there is nowhere else for palestinians to fucking go. they have to wait for aid and hope they can get it.
you cannot fucking cry to your constituents and feign tragedy when you were the one that paid for this genocide. fucking disgusting. i hate this goddamn country. i hate america. i hate it here. i hate this place. and still, im lucky to be here where the violence is decided rather than carried out. it’s not okay. we should not need to be grateful for lack of genocide. america is a country built on the greed and violence of opportunists. there is no justification for fucking genocide. i don’t care what you believe in or don’t. there is no reason to murder tens of thousands en masse. this needs to fucking stop. when it does, remember to hold those accountable who influenced this genocide with overwhelming resources of military, money, and media.
until then, please donate when/if you can. if you have a dollar, please give a dollar. if you have no money and only your voice- please use it. if you have time and are physically able, go to a protest. if you can’t go to a protest and you can’t donate, boycott (don’t buy from) targeted companies which are directly funding this genocide. if you can’t do that, please just don’t stop talking about it. it’s heavy and it’s a lot but we need to keep talking about it and having these conversations. history repeats otherwise
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artisticdysfunction · 6 months
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when will people realize. when will people fucking realize that there's more to fucking RAMCOA than the satanic panic bullshit.
cults count as RAMCOA.
trafficking humans of any kind is RAMCOA.
gangs and cartels can absolutely inflict RAMCOA.
there is so much more to RAMCOA then the youtube video essays about the satanic panic. RAMCOA is a spectrum of experiences. it's not some mythical shit you only see in gratuitous horror movies. it's real and it happens every fucking day.
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i-cant-sing · 5 months
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So you support Palestine kidnapping innocent women and children who have nothing to do with the situation and government, being raped and beheaded… can you justify that?
See you're so stupid and racist and disgusting that you equate "Hamas = The entire country of Palestine" I honestly can't believe your mother had to suffer through all the labour pains just for you to spew stupid shit. Malala did not get shot, your ancestors did not work hard and survive for you to be so dumb. Please, anon, go educate yourself and think twice (maybe thrice for you, hay for brain) before opening your mouth.
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infinite fantasy possibilities and youve chosen to become a middle manager
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xensmells · 5 months
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”I can fix him” “I can make him worse” WRONG!!!!!!!!!! We should all KILL HIM!!!!!!!!! AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ivan-fyodorovich-k · 12 days
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I imagine the underlying principle of being upset by the proposed TikTok ban is that hatred of government regulation trumps all other hatreds, which makes sense, but it's weird to see how many people apparently love TikTok now, after I thought we all agreed it was in fact the worst thing in the world and that it poisoned the internet and our species incurably
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uncanny-tranny · 3 months
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"ooh, you can't take government assistance because..."
Buddy, you already paid those taxes - you're already contributing to the funding of government assistance by paying them, you're entitled to that assistance not only because it has already been paid for, but also because you're a person who deserves to live. Shaming yourself or others for taking assistance is nonsensical hyperindividualism that will only make your life worse in the short and long-terms. Take that money, use those programs. Apply for them, and don't be ashamed for some bullshit reason like "oh I just don't deserve to live" that is attached to taking that help
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