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Keep protesting, keep boycotting, and keep talking about Gaza. This headline (from March 27th) would have been unthinkable a few months ago.

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"con artist" is maybe the profession with the biggest gap between How Cool They Are In Media and How Cool They Are In Real Life

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I'd love to see your take on middle aged or older Terumob!

Dumb Old Men :)

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With that story of the person buying a pregnancy test being sent formula samples in the mail getting traction recently, it needs to be pointed out that this is not new.

With my most recent pregnancy in 2020, I started receiving formula samples in the mail from Similac and Enfamil in my first trimester. My email was quickly passed between pregnancy and baby specific companies and my inbox became flooded with emails advertising countless products and services.

I was harassed by 2 cord blood storage companies after briefly browsing one of their websites. After my baby was diagnosed as terminal, I had a phone conversation with a rep who tried to convince me multiple times to store her cord blood for my future babies.

After Sam was born/died, within a week of my delivery I received a congratulations letter and offer from Gerber Life Insurance in the mail, also without my consent. I continued receiving formula coupons despite reporting her death to the companies multiple times, and even now I receive toddler formula coupons from time to time.

Amazon has tracked my purchases to the point that they know I (should) have a 19 month old and will advertise me toddler and baby things for girls, despite never having linked an AGAB to my Amazon account.

This level of capitalistic surveillance of pregnancy in the US specifically is not new and with the repeal of Roe v. Wade it should terrify you.

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walking on sunshine ⚡

(ID in alt)

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The fourth way that anticommunist extermination programs shaped the world is that they deformed the world socialist movement. Many of the global left-wing groups that did survive the twentieth century decided that they had to employ violence and jealously guard power or face annihilation. When they saw the mass murders taking place in these countries, it changed them. Maybe US citizens weren't paying close attention to what happened in Guatemala, or Indonesia. But other leftists around the world definitely were watching. When the world's largest Communist Party without an army or dictatorial control of a country was massacred, one by one, with no consequences for the murderers, many people around the world drew lessons from this, with serious consequences.

This was another very difficult question I had to ask my interview subjects, especially the leftists from Southeast Asia and Latin America. When we would get to discussing the old debates between peaceful and armed revolution; between hardline Marxism and democratic socialism, I would ask:

"Who was right?"

In Guatemala, was it Árbenz or Che who had the right approach? Or in Indonesia, when Mao warned Aidit that the PKI should arm themselves, and they did not? In Chile, was it the young revolutionaries in the MIR who were right in those college debates, or the more disciplined, moderate Chilean Communist Party?

Most of the people I spoke with who were politically involved back then believed fervently in a nonviolent approach, in gradual, peaceful, democratic change. They often had no love for the systems set up by people like Mao. But they knew that their side had lost the debate, because so many of their friends were dead. They often admitted, without hesitation or pleasure, that the hardliners had been right. Aidit's unarmed party didn't survive. Allende's democratic socialism was not allowed, regardless of the détente between the Soviets and Washington.

Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

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really enjoying playing through changeling's route

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Hunter x Hunter (1999)

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I don’t know how to explain to liberals that a leader behaving like a whipped dog while obeying a separate country’s fascist genocidal leader who is trying to cause a regional war after months of genocide so he can stay in power is the sign of a bad politician and especially a bad president. Joe Biden does not deserve uncritical support and protests against him are justified and warranted and he is risking a bigger war and losing to Donald trump for his own radical zionist beliefs. He deserves even more protests with how he’s handling Israel attacking Iran.

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have you done shaiapouf as the sad ant meme

HAHA GET BINDLED IDIOT

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Ventress!

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I talked about wanting to make an archive of old Wolf's Rain AMVs because they meant a lot to me when I was younger, so I want to preserve them even when the YouTube videos get taken down. I made it! here is the archive.org page for it!

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graffiti wall

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[ID: A Revolutionary Girl Utena edit of the spiral staircase leading to the dueling arena. Overlaid is the meme of CJ from Grand Theft Auto looking forward and saying "Ah shit, here we go again." End ID]

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Yesterday, zonazi settler terrorists invaded the village of Barqa near Ramallah, under the protection of the zionist state terrorist squads, and are now burning homes down. Yet another pogrom inflicted on the West Bank while the international community watches on in silence. International law doesn't apply for Palestinians. April 21st 2024.

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Posted ages ago on my ko-fi, but what the hell. I don't have time to draw new art TT_TT

It's difficult to draw someone who looks like everyone else and anyone at the same time. I imagine if beige was a person, they would have to look like Moist von Lipwig. I was going for the sort of coloring that would make it difficult to recall / describe the exact color of hair, eyes and skin. Which is, mostly, just brown-ish with a vague hint of Jerry from HR.

Just another face in the crowd. Wearing the very black, golem-made suit.

You'll remember the words, the golden hat and the swagger - but not the person.

The Man You Can Trust ™ and his Honest Handshake.