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man im high af thought house was talkin to a mini wilson

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tumblr feature where only other communists can reblog my posts

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life when you remember you can get drunk and isolate yourself from others to avoid emotionally processing difficult problems

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On 28 January 1917, Carmelita Torres, a 17-year-old Mexican maid who worked in the United States, refused to take the mandatory gasoline bath given to day labourers at the border, and convinced 30 other trolley passengers to join her. 

Her protest spread in what became known as the bath riots. Torres was one of many workers who crossed the border between Juarez and El Paso each day. In the name of public health, Mexican workers were frequently subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment. They had to strip naked, brave, undergo a toxic gasoline bath, and have their clothes steamed. The stated aim of the programme was to kill lice, which can spread typhus. However, it was not applied to everyone crossing the border: just working class Mexicans. 

In addition to gasoline being poisonous, it was also a deadly fire risk. A group of prisoners in El Paso being treated with gasoline were burned to death in an accidental fire. Furthermore, US health workers were secretly photographing naked Mexican women.

 On January 28, anger at the practice finally exploded, and within a few hours Torres had amassed a crowd of several thousand mostly women protesters. They blocked all traffic and trolleys into El Paso. They pelted immigration officers with rocks and bottles when they try to disperse them, and when US and then Mexican troops arrived they received the same treatment. The riots were eventually suppressed by the soldiers, and Torres herself was arrested. This appeared to have the effect of discouraging future protests. 

The enforced bathing and fumigation of Mexican workers with toxic chemicals like gasoline, and later DDT and Zyklon B, continued until the 1950′s. The use of Zyklon B at the border appealed to scientists in Nazi Germany, who in the late 1930′s began using the agent at borders and in concentration camps for delousing. Although notoriously they later used it to exterminate millions of people in the Holocaust.“

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There is no way of accidentally doing a nazi salute twice in a row while the entire world is watching. This man needs to be killed

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HAPPY TEN YEARS TO THE ONLY ALBUM

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meme i saw in my dream last night

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just watched the wild robot and these are my thoughts

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AMERICANS? IS ROOT BEER NICE?! I WANNA KNOW

No third option you gotta pick a side

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The ceasefire agreement was reached and joy is floating among the Palestinian people

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“A Palestinian girl carries her brother in front of the barbed wire that separates the settlement of Kiryat Arba, near Hebron.”

Photographed by Pascal Guyot.

14 January 1997.

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there's something funny about telling my therapist I'm proud of myself for really immersing myself in spanish lately and working towards fluency, I even feel pretty smart sometimes-- and before the week is out, thousands of my peers are just like "hmm tiktok ban. Whatever, guess I'll learn mandarin"

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Daryl Cagle, November 23, 2003

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Posted for the beauty and eloquence of this comment:

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hate when I wanna talk to a person but I don’t really have anything to say. but I yearn for the connection. can’t just message someone like, hi I have nothing in particular to say but you’re fun and cool and I would like to have a conversation