#featheredpheonix

[thatdykepunkslut]

Ask game: definitely Discman, definitely VHS. Honestly I feel half of these on some level or another.

Fuck yeah :D gonna get everyone together and make us all watch my personal edit of High Tension 2003

[dostoyevsky-official]

An arm of the United Nations, the US helped found WHO in 1948 through a joint resolution of Congress. The US remains its largest funder, providing about 22% of all member states’ assessed contributions. The US is the only member state that can withdraw from the agency.

@featheredpheonix asked what is the source behind the last line (excerpt from the guardian). i took the statement as fact. if you read the 1947 constitution, there is no mention of the right to withdraw, nor for any benefits for the US, nor is there mention of either in the current constitution. looking at the history of WHO withdrawals, it looks like the only states to do so were the USSR and the communist bloc:

A direct result of Cold War tensions at the WHO was the withdrawal of the Soviet Union along with the Ukrainian and Byelorussian Soviet Republics (which initially had independent seats in the World Health Assembly) in 1949. The Geneva, Switzerland, secretariat was informed of these decisions by telegram in February of that year, a few months before the Second World Health Assembly was to meet in Rome, Italy. Just before and after the Assembly meeting, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary also sent notifications of withdrawal. They declared themselves dissatisfied with the work of the agency, and were angry with WHO and the United States for withholding medical resources from Eastern Europe. The Soviets felt that they had paid a very high price in human and material terms during World War II, but had received little help after the war from the Marshall Plan, US bilateral agencies, or multilateral organizations. Believing, for good reason, that the Americans dominated the WHO and the UN, the Soviets simply decided to boycott the agencies. In 1949, a communist delegate to the World Health Assembly declared that WHO was the battleground of "two opposing points of view . . . [that of the Soviet Union] standing for the interest of humanity, which demands that the attainment of medical science should serve the whole human race . . . while the capitalist camp represents the interest of a minority who consider science as a source of income and as a weapon of war." Many others in WHO, including Brock Chisholm, the first director-general, hoped that it would still stand by the social medicine principles embodied in its constitution. A key founding member, Andrija Stampar, argued that the WHO should concentrate on 4 principles: “social and economic security, education, nutrition, and housing.”3 Taken seriously, however, the social medicine perspective required questioning the inequality of land ownership in rural areas and the striking inequities, poor housing, misery, and illness in urban areas. The United States was not particularly interested in this approach and instead promoted the concept of “technical assistance.” The framework of “technical assistance” conveyed the idea that assistance to developing countries was best provided through the transference of a knowledge of science and technology, thus avoiding any preoccupation with the economic interests and social realities that led to underdevelopment. [...] The tension between the superpowers and the relationship of the Soviet Union with the UN and WHO changed in 1953 with the death of Joseph Stalin. An incipient de-Stalinization came with the rise of Nikita Khrushchev, who emphasized “peaceful coexistence” and “friendly” competition with the United States, both within and outside the UN system. In July 1955, the Soviet Union formally stated its intention to rejoin WHO and fully participate in the UN. WHO welcomed the reentry of the USSR and Soviet allied countries, and asked for payment of only a small percentage of their back dues. All the communist countries—with the exception of China—returned to the WHO in 1956. (x)

this is keeping in line with the dead-ended stalinist notion that boycotting the UN will somehow swing influence over to the communist bloc, which allowed the UN to authorize an international legion of troops to fight for south korea's independence from north korean, soviet, and chinese aggression. in a similar vein, withdrawing from international bodies over vague notions of "chinese influence" will, ironically, only allow chinese influence to strengthen unimpeded. but i digress. according to a legal comment by doctors, lawyers, and international organization workers, US withdrawal by executive order may not be legal:

The USA entered WHO membership through a 1948 joint resolution passed by both houses of Congress and this resolution has been supported by successive administrations. Former President Harry Truman explicitly referenced that resolution as his legal basis for joining WHO.6 The current US administration's unilateral action notifying the UN that the USA is withdrawing violates US law because it does not have express approval of Congress to leave WHO. A Supreme Court precedent has made clear that “When the President takes measures incompatible with the expressed or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb."

anyway, that throwaway sentence about exclusive withdrawal rights reserved for the US seems to be completely erroneous

[kunosoura]

Tagged by the handsome Kevin @lawoftheclaw

Last song:

Been listening to this like on repeat since a concert last week

Favorite color: always red, even if I wear blue better

Last Book:

Surprised how much I enjoyed this, it’s got a pretty unique tone and I worried it was a little young adult-y early on but it managed to persuade me otherwise and with a surprising brutality

Last movie:

Last Show: also G Gundam ^^

Last Obsession: welll I went through kind of a kick listening to Magdalena Bay recently a lot but then god punished me for being basic with Covid :]

Tagging: @curseofmeatthawsmoth @post-brahminism @hovfire @featheredpheonix @lukore @bovid-beauty

[cornbread-but-cringey]

[ID: all-caps tumblr reply by featheredpheonix that reads "sal look out they are trying to make you an american". end ID]

Biden may have dropped out, but I'm still voting Sal no matter whal. Looking forward to you being our first woman in the Oval Office.

Thank you for having so much confidence in me!

Wait a minute

[mettic]

You were almost named after a TF2 character???

the reality is my parents really liked to kill a mocking bird but yes playing tf2 wouldve been fucked if i was born a girl

[nil-elk]

Apex is a good social game to play with friends cuz of all the downtime between firefights. It's free, so as long as you've got some people to play with, it's hard to have to bad a time.

Yeah, I have it downloaded and installed and all that. I’ve played a max of...maybe 5 minutes? A few friends play it, so it’s just a matter of jumping into it I guess. :P

[keeganbee]

For your tarot card: do you know who owns/works the tavern? The best way of making a place feel lived in is looking at whoever is living in it, and going off of what they might put in it.

WHOOPS just saw this, thanks tumblr

I don’t! We met the tavern owner in May 2020 and I have absolutely no recollection of her beyond Is Human. Although I might go crawling to the DM and ask him about the owner now that you suggested that. It’s just for the background of a very dynamically posed bard player, but I went so hard on the monk’s environment that I feel I must do the same here lol

[toffee-hammer]

The "Feralgard" meme is from Fire Emblem Three Houses

Ohhhhh, okay now I see it. I thought she looked kind of familiar.

[anthiesecelicas]

🐄

send me a 🐄 and i’ll reply with a random picture i have saved!!

[thatdykepunkslut]

Tagged by @goldalicious to post 6 non-selfies from my camera roll :3

Mostly from going up to Portland with my partner a couple weeks ago but also some other random shots around town. Can you tell I'm not a professional lmao 🤣

Tagging @dognonsense @featheredpheonix @theachingvoid @t4t4t @anarchafemme and @lead-paint-girliepop :D

[lumberwoof]

featheredpheonix replied to your post: I’m quietly celebrating my bday with cake and rum....

What type of cake and how’s it pairing with the rum rn?

it’s a very rich chocolate truffle cake and I’m not sure about how well the rum pairs with it, but I’m definitely enjoying them both

[kunosoura]

@featheredpheonix Yeah like on one hand some people truly don’t engage with real world issues on any genuine level and “unserious” is a very good way to describe their political engagement. But on the other hand everyone who uses that term looks like this

I hate that I'm the sort of person to use unserious seriously now too lol

[innovatorbunny]

#Reigensweep is inevitable

that motherfucker took over my body for a split sec legit

[tamamita]

I knew that Islam views Jesus as at most a prophet rather than the son of God, but why don't they believe Jesus was crucified?

It’s not a matter of “why”, it’s just that the Qur’anic narration holds that Jesus (a) is the Messiah, and so he cannot die before he starts his mission. Judas is mostly believed to have been the one crucified as God led Jesus’ persecutors to him instead. To protect Christ (a), God brought him up to heaven where he is alive. The Second Coming is still a fundamental belief in Islam and the Great tribulation is emphasized in Islamic eschatology, however there is no dispensationalism in Islam. 

[overachieversloth]

According to another version of the post I saw somewhere on here, it's that Saudi rap is supposedly about tips and tricks for driving and stuff!

That’s real cool, tbh.

And one hell of a good flow, holy shit.

[junkazama]

featheredpheonix replied to your video “If you told me way back in middle/early high school that a Harpie Lady...”

THAT IS DISGUSTING OML

That video shows why Pot of Greed and Monster Reborn have been banned for a decade lmao