#call the president

[maa-pix]

“You know what ol’ Jack Burton always says at a time like this?”

[chronic-and-stressed]

Stats

5.4 million people living in Palestine in 2023.

The median age in Palestine is 19.6.

47.3% of Palestine is under 18.

Israel has killed over 12k people in Gaza (the second largest city in Palestine) since October 7.

Regardless of what side you think is "right", there is no justification for the deaths of so many people when Israel has received at least 3 billion dollars in 2023 and is requesting an additional 14k, all from America. The Israeli forces could easily afford to train and equip a special forces team to go in and handle only Hamas with minimal casualties if that was what they were after.

How we can help-

Boycott (Do not purchase, support, or use) Bolded ones are the most commonly used

HP (printers etc)

Siemens (Chevron gas)

AXA (insurance)

Puma (sports brand)

SodaStream (carbonated water machine)

Ahava (minerals)

Sabra (hummus)

Starbucks** (coffee)

Dominos (pizza)

Pizza Hut (pizza)

Papa Johns (pizza)

McDonalds (fast food)

Burger King (fast food)

Wix (website builder)

Carrefore (wholesale)

Re/Max (real estate)

CAT (construction)

Elbit Systems (international defense systems)

Hyundai (cars)

Volvo (cars)

CAF (real estate)

Barclays (bank- move your money to a different one, or even better a credit union)

TKH Security (home security)

HIK Vision (AI)

Pressure (write letters, send emails, make calls)

YOUR GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES (any government official who is not in support of a ceasefire. the president, your governor, mayor, house reps, senate, congress, etc)

White House Phone Number- 202-456-1414

Amazon (retailer)

AirBnb (rent a house)

Booking.com (travel reservations)

Expedia (travel reservations)

Disney (media- also being boycotted)

Google (search engine- also being boycotted)

It's so overwhelming what's going on, but let's all collectively do all we can.

sources- Worldometer, CNN, Axois, The BNC, The BDS

**Not officially recommended by the BDS but has been happening and making an impact

[seldompathic]

I really shouldn't listen to Snapcube when I draw

[marlimeuw]

Someone on Tik Tok wanted there to be a type of marriage but for people you absolutely hate.

They accidentally created kismesis. History is repeating itself.

[nerdpoe]

Danny has been declared the Ghost King at Fifteen. He hasn't been told this yet, but his self-proclaimed closest ghost friends, Johnny 13, Ember, and Kitty, have volunteered to not only tell him, but be his bodyguards.

They do not, in fact, tell him.

They instead make it a game of "Get down, Mr. President!" and dogpile him from perceived threats. Threats like the toaster. Or Dash Baxter. Or Mr. Lancer. A stray cat that walked out of an alley. A fight with Skulker.

A bird.

The worst bit is, even the GIW and his parents have stopped attacking those specific ghosts, because it's far more interesting that beings that mimic human behavior have picked up a childs game to mimic.

So he'll be home, at the kitchen, and with an almighty cry of "GET DOWN MR. PRESIDENT" one of the three ghosts will launch themselves over him dramatically.

There is not escape.

The security system in his house has been programmed to ignore them.

His parents love the opportunity to talk to a ghost, and are starting to go back on their "all ghosts are evil" thing.

[thundergrace]

If you want to be educated on the "welfare queen" stereotype in a hilarious and informative and thorough manner, I will once again recommend this episode of You're Wrong About

[katnissandpeetamellark]

What’s interesting to me is people who’ve only seen the movie saying Coriolanus was “sweet” or “innocent” in the beginning

Reading the book the first thing you really get from him is his bitterness and a false sense of superiority over everyone (even his remaining family)

It’s interesting how vastly different the opinion of him can be based on which media you’ve consumed first.

[communistkenobi]

It’s so funny when liberals lecture communists about not knowing how anything works, that we need to grow up and face the real world etc, while publicly demonstrating that their political imagination is so deeply impoverished that they genuinely believe the only thing the leader of the most powerful country on the planet in all of human history can do is block a slightly more fascist guy from taking his place every four years

[the1weird1pencil]

Pretty sure that Olimar feels guilty for accidentally leaving Louie behind on Earth.

[brewed-pangolin]

Being a demolitions expert, Soap MacTavish has to be very good at math.

Which means he knows the exact mathematical equations for perfectly banging his cock into your pussy and this makes absolutely no sense but it made me laugh and I'm too tired to think or care otherwise.

[swearingcactus]

little v’s dogtown doodle highlights! (yes he tried to get Myers to take him to dinner. he’s a NC streetkid he was trying to commit to fucking the NUSA in every sense of the word.)

[scalpho]

tbk fusions because watching steven universe wires one's brain a certain way. thanks as always to @cledubs and @nenekkasa for chatting about these freaks with me

[snekdood]

"if we make america worse and more of a dictatorship that will be even harder to unravel and make it the way we want the country to be, maybe then everyone will join our Glorious Revolution!" bb girl you cant even be in the same room with someone who thinks you should vote, how in tf do you think you're gonna unite people to fight in The Revolution with you? it's gonna be you and your 5 friends, i hate to break it to you.

[pumpkster]

dont watch rnm this is scary!!

[piosplayhouse]

pio im sorry but the six balls name joke bothers me. the fact that its that demons are considered to have stupid names if they're lower class or han style names (sha hualing) or titles if they are upper class/ want to appear that way, while being coded as not han chinese feels racist. i just thought you would want to know about this sort of thing.

I can see how you feel that way! It's an understandable thing to be uncomfortable with at first blush. Though honestly I don't really agree-- everyone has stupid names in sv, it's just that six balls is directly translated in English translations while the others remain in pinyin. So you don't immediately clock that shang qinghua's name is a pun that just means Went to Tsinghua University when you say it outloud or that binghe's name is (dropped in an) Icy River or that sha hualing literally translated is just gauze and bells (basically describing her outfit). It's pretty consistent throughout the whole book that every character is named lazily and over literally, less as an indication of their character traits and more as a commentary on how many artists (sqh) tend to suck at naming their OCs imo.

Take the romanized names: Luo Binghe, Shang Qinghua, Sha Hualing, Liu Geqiu

vs some overly literal translated names: dropped in an icy river, went to harvard, ribbons & bells, six balls

The reason why six balls is the only character that gets this treatment is I assume because the singular scene he's in is entirely dependent on the reader understanding what his name means for the joke to work, but pretty much every character could be swapped in to make a fun literal translated name if the situation needed it

[introspectivememories]

every time the red-hair pirates get a new crew member, benn sits them down for a Talk. rules of the ship, what kind of behavior is expected, what kind of behavior is tolerated, and what kind of behavior will get you keelhauled. near the end of the talk, benn lays down the 3 most important rules:

there is nothing i can do about the homoerotic relationship capt has with the clown

trust in capt always. even if he doesn't look like it, capt has plan. believe always.

there is nothing you can do about the homoerotic relationship capt has with the clown

and as always, the newbie gets it into their head that they can fix capt and the clown and sets up some convoluted plan to get the two back together again. and as always it fails because capt and the clown will dead and rotting in the ground before they ever Talk to each other properly. benn needs a fucking pay raise.