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onlyhumanz: peachhyx: forgottenwinterfrost: aelx: ipoog: daily reminder to click a button so...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 06:48:07 -0400

peachhyx:

forgottenwinterfrost:

aelx:

ipoog:

daily reminder to click a button so you can give free food to a shelter!!

if every one of my followers did this, we could give more than 85 meals to less-fortunate animals. for free.

AH HHA ITS BACK YES PLEASE IT TAKES A SECOND OF YOUR TIME AND A LIFE OF AN ANIMAL

Please do this! All you do is get redirected to a site where you tap on the button and your tap counts! Theres no donation or anything involved at all!

Go click this button!! It’s free!!!

dreadedloreenkid: stripedwoolenjumper: liz-squids: sixth-light: theauspolchronicles: nerdtastic...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 06:47:39 -0400

dreadedloreenkid:

stripedwoolenjumper:

liz-squids:

sixth-light:

theauspolchronicles:

nerdtasticami:

theauspolchronicles:

Oh boy if you’re mad about the US separating children from their parents, putting people in camps, and having a zero tolerance policy towards asylum seekers that has led to deliberate extensive cruelty as a futile deterrent wait until you hear about Australia.

…what’s going on in Australia?

Buddy! Strap in because there are two parts to this:

The past 100+ years of ripping kids from their families, racism, and attempted genocide

The past 20+ years of racism, but now island torture prisons! LEVEL UP!

Australia has had a long history of separating children from their parents. The government decided that mixed raced children of Indigenous Australians were not OK so literally kidnapped them and raised them to assimilate into white society and “breed the colour out.” This started about 1905 and ended about 1970. We call them the Stolen Generations. This has had long lasting negative effects on Indigenous Australians as it was a decades long attempt to absolutely destroy their culture and commit genocide. “But that was the past?” Surprise! By “ended in 1970″ I mean “the reasons in which we en masse tear children away from their families now has a different reason” and Indigenous children are now being taken away at even higher rates than during the stolen generations. Australia saw its Indigenous population, thought “how do we destroy their culture?” and when we were done thought “gee, how do we blame them for having all these issues in their communities?”

BUT THAT’S JUST THE BEGINNING!

Fast forward to now: Trump is using kids as political leverage to stop people from coming to the US right? Buddy he’s ripping Australia off. Scott Morrison, Minister for Immigration at the time once did that.

OK so for context: when people try to come to Australia via boat seeking asylum because they’re fleeing war/persecution we do either 2 things: turn them back and let them just… die elsewhere… Or we lock them up in detention centres on Manus/Nauru Island. That’s where we keep them indefinitely in bad conditions, give them dodgy medical care, smear them in the press, and react indifferently when they die from suicide/negligence/assault… and cover up sexual assaults from guards and the incredibly high rate of self harm and depression even in children. The entire idea is to be as cruel as possible so other people hear about it and go “geez, let’s not go to Australia. They’ll literally torture us before they give us a protective visa.” And when I say indefinitely I mean indefinitely. Some refugees have spent 5 years wasting away in these prisons. Some children have spent their entire life in these prisons. And the government openly admits that they’re genuine refugees. They’ve been rigorously vetted and known to be safe people with no intention of harming us but it’s the zero tolerance principle. You tried to come here via boat? You go jail but we call it “detention.”

Well Scott Morrison decided once to tell the Senate that he could release a few kids from detention centres but only if they voted for a bill that increased his powers to send refugees back to where they would suffer persecution and basically told them if they don’t vote for it the kids will continue to suffer. He held children as ransom for his own political power. Our Human Rights Commissioner slammed it as terrible to use kids as bargaining chips. You know what the government did? Personally attack her and ask her to resign over his bias. Our Prime Minister at the time complained that Australia was “sick of being lectured” by the UN over how we keep torturing refugees.

The main line of attack against refugees: “they’re just coming here to take advantage of our welfare.” Oh no! It’ll cost the taxpayer money to subsidise a refugee to live in a safe country! So instead of having them “rip off” the taxpayer with a couple hundred a fortnight we’ll just lock them up on an island where it costs $1 million per person on average over the past 4 years and operational costs have wasted $5 billion in 4 years. Why help someone for barely enough money to survive when you can torture them and keep them imprisoned for several times more!

Scott Morrison, or Sco-Mo as we kids call them, loved the US’s Muslim Ban idea by the way. He said it was proof that the rest of the world was “catching up to Australia.” Yeah. Geez guys. What took you so long to be as bad as Australia?

Mandatory detention has had bipartisan support from the two major parties since its creation by the Keating government in 1992. We have been keeping people in prison for seeking asylum for 26 years.

Oh and the government super doesn’t them to come here. The Abbott government spent $4.1 million on a propaganda movie to be shown overseas to deter refugees.

We also don’t want to get rid of them. There was a deal under the Obama administration to take some of these refugees but this process has carried on into the Trump administration. He was livid the idea that he should uphold this deal because 1) OooOBaMaaaa!! 2) REFUGEES?? In America??? So that’s currently going nowhere. Meanwhile New Zealand, our good ally and close neighbour, has said “I’ll take some of them” and the current PM (Turnbull) has said no. His excuse? We have a deal with the US. We should see where that goes. It’s going nowhere. So he conveniently can just pretend his hands are tied and let refugees continue to be tortured and die under his care.

(And he hasn’t said it but I bet he’ll never let refugees settle in New Zealand because if they become NZ citizens they’ll have travel rights to come to Australia without the same visa restrictions as other countries AND THEN THE REFUGEES WOULD WIN).

Papa New Guinea (Manus Island isn’t Australian, we just have a deal to pay another government to let us keep a torture prison on their land… hmm I feel like there’s a US equivalent somewhere too…) decided a while back “hang on, this is unconstitutional and horrible. You need to close down the detention centre on Manus.” So we “did.” And then made a new building on the same island to keep them in and forced them to go into it despite it not being finished. This was after guards physically beat the refugees to make them go to this new prison.

I could go on but you get the idea.

So let’s top this all off with the icing on the cake: a phone call between Trump and Turnbull when Trump was getting acquainted with all the world leaders last year. Turnbull explained our zero tolerance refugee policy and the cruelty as a deterrent that is employed and Trump said “That is a good idea. We should do that too. You are worse than I am.”

“That is a good idea. We should do that too. You are worse than I am.”

Let that sink in.

And that’s where we’re up to now in modern history. See everyone likes to go to the obvious big example we have of the Nazis and their camps but the truth is… this never stopped. There are similar examples of this abhorrent behaviour happening right now and have been for decades. Governments have been putting people in camps and trying to destroy cultures, or ethnicities, or deny people safe havens from wars, and be utterly heartless and deliberately cruel since forever. This is the ongoing drive of conservatism: keep people out, keep people a certain way, and the current example in the US is just that bubbling over the horribly inescapable surface. We are deluded to think that this cruelty took a 70 year respite when WW2 ended and it’s taken this long to get this strong.

The world has always been racist. Trump just doesn’t bother to filter it. And Australia just wants to keep it on an island so no one can see it.

Also, that Australia/New Zealand immigration deal? Australia has slowly been taking away the rights of New Zealanders resident in Australia - including children born in Australia to Kiwi parents - and making it nigh-impossible for them to actually get Australian citizenship, basically all because of paranoia that brown people will move from NZ to Australia. They’re aggressively deporting Māori and Pasifika New Zealanders, even those who may have come as small children and have no memory of New Zealand, both for things like being convicted of any crime and for things like “being of bad character”. Or, rather, they don’t deport them. They put them in offshore prison camps and tell them they can’t leave until they agree to leave Australia. (It’s not that these things don’t affect Pākehā NZers, it’s that we’re not the real targets.)

During our election campaign last year, the Deputy PM of Australia openly said that if Labour were elected to government it would be bad for Australia because they would encourage refugees to try and get to Australia hoping to be taken by New Zealand. They have an island fortress mentality Trump hasn’t even started to achieve.

And the thing about Australia – there isn’t the coverage that America has. Not even in our own country. It’s hard to find out what’s happening – visas for journalists to visit Nauru are prohibitively expensive – and … no one really cares. It’s so entrenched that it’s the status quo, and when I called my MP and senators to go, WTF guys? the response was like, “…oh yeah, thanks for your feelings, cool, bye”.

I honestly tune out a lot of the coverage because, at this point, I don’t know what to do. Both major parties support these policies, so I vote for the Greens. I contacted my representatives. I walked in protest marches. I donate to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre and other charities.

So I guess, if I have advice for Americans, it’s to not let this become the status quo. Because you’ll wake up one day and it will have always been like this.

Holy shit, I knew it was bad here but I didn’t know it was that bad. Why don’t we hear about the depth of these things in Australia, how can they keep us so in the dark?

@stripedwoolenjumper

Part of the reason is because the government keeps passing legislation to silence whistleblowers and journalists (they currently have a bill to make possession of any information that might “damage Australia’s reputation” illegal), and the other part is that most of the media won’t or can’t report on it.

What you can do to help the Human Rights crisis in Australia:

If you are Australian:

Keep up to date and informed. The only major media outlets that routinely reports on this issue is The Guardian Australia. They are free online but consider donating if you can to keep it free access.

The Saturday Paper is another independent online news source that reports on this.

Follow or sign up to GetUp!. GetUp! is Australia’s largest progressive grassroots activist group and has lots of campaigns and information about this issue and many others, such as climate change, economic justice, and democratic and civil rights. Donate if you can, sign their peritions, follow their campaigns.

CONTACT YOUR MPs AND SENATORS. This is really important, especially if they are supporters of the policy. Keep public pressure on then, make them feel it. Letter templates are good, but personally written letters/emails are better. Call them if you can. And respond to them with your displeasure if they send you a cookie cutter response of their party’s policy on “stopping the boats”.

SHOW UP TO PROTESTS. Another really important one. Even if you just show up and march, your physical presence counts. They’re not as scary as it might seem.

DONATE. I really cannot stress this enough, if you can afford it, donate.

WHO SHOULD I DONATE TO?

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) provides financial and legal support, as well as counseling and community services, to refugees already in Australia.

Refugee Action Coalition (RAC) are a group of state-based advocacy groups that support refugees in Australia and advocate for those trapped in Australia’s offshore detention regime (link is for the Sydney group but contains links to other states).

GetUp! is one of the best to donate to for political action. They have options to donate to the organisation as a whole, or to specific campaigns.

If you are a member of the Australian Labor Party, please do what you can to bring up this issue and pressure the party leadership to change its policy.

If you are NOT Australian

Do what you can to contact your government and representatives to bring up this issue and pressure Australia to change their policy.

SPREAD THIS POST AND OTHERS LIKE IT. Australians do not have the numbers and influence on his site that Americans and British have. Please spread this information and resources so that other Australians might see it and feel like they have some power to change it or even know about it.

If you are a New Zealander: please continue to keep the pressure on your government to call out Australia and offer to take refugees.

#CloseTheCamps #BringThemHere

catsbeaversandducks: By Comic Canoe

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 05:08:08 -0400

catsbeaversandducks:

By Comic Canoe

carldangerous:This really cool and then I turned the sound on...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 05:07:14 -0400

carldangerous:

This really cool and then I turned the sound on and now I am… unsettled

so. creepy.

im-fairly-whitty: primrooks: im-fairly-whitty: primrooks: a blonde guy with a magic hammer goes...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 05:05:18 -0400

im-fairly-whitty:

primrooks:

im-fairly-whitty:

primrooks:

a blonde guy with a magic hammer goes after his colleague, a big dude with giant fists and an anger management problem, teams up with a fierce female fighter with a tragic past, all while trying to navigate a strange, colorful world forever locked in a sensationalized competition and run by an old man with a flamboyant demeanor. along the way, he runs into a disgraced royal heir with a penchant for green and mischief

is the movie thor: ragnarok or wreck-it ralph

So this gave me chronic whiplash, enjoy.

WIT, BOTH THEIR CLIMAXES INVOLVE A MASS EXODUS ON A RAINBOW BRIDGE I’M JUST AS SHAKEN

STOP IT.

ugly: woman: i miss you like the deserts miss the rain man: oh that’s so sweet, i– woman: i’ve...

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 12:13:22 -0400

ugly:

woman: i miss you like the deserts miss the rain

man: oh that’s so sweet, i–

woman: i’ve adapted to existence without you, buried everything we made together, and prolonged exposure to you would be disastrous.

skinw4lker:This is gonna be me I don’t know if it’s the sleep...

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 12:11:41 -0400

skinw4lker:

This is gonna be me

I don’t know if it’s the sleep deprivation but I laughed until I cried and snorted several times

bogleech: moving to portland was the best decision we ever made

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 12:09:47 -0400

bogleech:

moving to portland was the best decision we ever made

tangled-obsession: mewzaque: norgay: coolcatgroup: artemuscain-gamingandbs: coolcatgroup: blood...

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 12:04:15 -0400

tangled-obsession:

mewzaque:

norgay:

coolcatgroup:

artemuscain-gamingandbs:

coolcatgroup:

bloodycoyote:

coolcatgroup:

jakyyo:

coolcatgroup:

e-102-y-gamma:

coolcatgroup:

Cats with expressive little faces… reblog if you agree….

i think you forgot one

I am such a fool.

I forgot judgementsl cat too

But let’s not forget. (I’m low key scared…)

Hnoly shit

Ok but how could you forget

Oh my god why did I forget him

Keep ‘em comin

I’m trying to prove a point to my little brother. Reblog if you are a boy who wears nail polish, or support boys who wear nail polish.

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 12:02:38 -0400

where-no-fandom-has-gone-before:

He wants to wear nail polish, but because he’s a boy, he’s afraid people will make fun of him. Bonus points if you include a pic of yourself/your hands done up in polish, so he has some solid evidence that other boys wear it!

hobosolo: theamazingsallyhogan: 17mul: mighty-mouth: Colonize...

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 12:00:41 -0400

hobosolo:

theamazingsallyhogan:

17mul:

mighty-mouth:

Colonizers gone colonize. 😂😂

@lmsig

In December of 1940, America still hadn’t entered the war.

There were a lot of Americans - such as the 800,000 paying members of the America First Committee - who looked at fascists massacring their way through Europe and declared “that’s not our problem.”

Captain America was created by two poor Jewish Americans, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, with the specific intent of trying to convince Americans that entering the war was the right thing to do. It wasn’t easy - Kirby went far beyond what was expected of artists at the time, penciling the entire issue with a deadline that would have been difficult for a two-man crew to pull off.

Captain America punched Hitler right on the cover, at a time when a majority of Americans just didn’t feel like doing anything decisive against the Nazis.

Kirby and Simon faced considerable resistance for their creation, including steady hate mail and outright death threats.

Once, while Jack was in the Timely office, a call came from someone in the lobby. When Kirby answered, the caller threatened Jack with bodily harm if he showed his face. Kirby told the caller he would be right down, but by the time Jack reached street level, there was no one to be found.

Both creators enlisted after America entered the war. Kirby, as an artist, was called upon to do the extremely dangerous work of scouting ahead to draw maps. He also went on to co-create Black Panther in 1966.

They didn’t create Captain America to be an accurate depiction of America-As-It-Is. The character was meant to inspire and embolden, to show America-As-It-Should-Be.

The subject of where the Vibranium for the shield came from actually never came up for decades of comics, until it was finally addressed by Black Panther’s writer, Christopher Priest, in 2001. Priest never shied away from acknowledging America’s racism, but he also understood that Captain America represented an ideal, intended to inspire Americans to be better.

The story mixed together a “present day” discussion between Cap and T’Challa with flashbacks to when Cap met the Black Panther ruling Wakanda during World War II.

FLASHBACK:

PRESENT:

PRESENT -> FLASHBACK

PRESENT:

The Vibranium was given, freely, by one good man to another good man.

It is right to rage against the injustices done by our governments. We must call them out, and we must fight for what’s right.

But if you can’t even stand to see the symbols created to inspire people to be better, and rail against those, then you’re just confusing cynicism for realism.

This was a masterful callout that deserves a place in the callout hall of fame, which I just realized needs to exist. It strikes the perfect tone of, “I’m not criticizing where you’re at on this, I’m holding my hand out and inviting you to step up to the next level in your thinking about it.”

That’s the kind of callout that people can sometimes actually hear, not just for entertaining the bystanders. Truly, we need more of this.

mralexander1: meadowsandrainbows: pastel-pwussy: doomfistsba...

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:55:11 -0400

mralexander1:

meadowsandrainbows:

pastel-pwussy:

doomfistsbabymama:

peaceloveandyanni:

princessakuba:

caliloner559:

rudelyfe:

I missed this

Never forget

Lmao

Pokemans

Everybody know that’s big dick bee

WHY HAVE I NEVER SEEN THIS 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

😂😂😂

😩😩😩😩😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

actually snorted

perspektiivivirhe: catchymemes: Catastrophe Cat math....

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:53:37 -0400

perspektiivivirhe:

catchymemes:

Catastrophe

Cat math. Cath.

what a catastrophic jump

persian-papii: niggazinmoscow: I learned in a history class...

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:45:59 -0400

persian-papii:

niggazinmoscow:

I learned in a history class that because Einstein was an immigrant none of the US (white) colleges or universities would let him join their faculty but black colleges and universities welcomed his brilliance with open arms.

it wasn’t because Einstein was an immigrant, it was because he was Jewish

until the late 1940s most American universities including harvard and other ivy league colleges had quotas limiting the number of Jewish students and staff, Yale’s quota only ended in the 1960s

raejin99: prokopetz: Fun fact: cats don’t just wiggle their butts before they pounce out of...

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:43:46 -0400

raejin99:

prokopetz:

Fun fact: cats don’t just wiggle their butts before they pounce out of excitement - they’re also making tiny adjustments to the position of their feet in order to more precisely aim the ensuing lunge.

Or, in other words: your cat is calibrating.

Loading pounce.exe

Initiating…

Analyzing target coordinates

Trajectory adjustments required, initiate calibration protocol wigglebutt.exe

Wiggling…

Wiggling…

Calibration complete. Initiating pounce in 3…

2…

1…

Pounce initiated

Results: Slammed head first into wall. Please debug wigglebutt.exe

pizzaotter: anomalousdata: floorwildcat: Holy guacamole and...

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:34:17 -0400

pizzaotter:

anomalousdata:

floorwildcat:

Holy guacamole and cheddy cheese!

“I mean, that’s not really that impres–JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.”

JESUS FUCK

Pfft I was expecti WAAAAHHHHHHHH??!??!??!

giflounge: Now you can call me Mr. Cat. 😼 that reveal tho

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:32:45 -0400

giflounge:

Now you can call me Mr. Cat. 😼

that reveal tho

broke-broken-breaking: folkdad: i complimented an old lady customer’s little round glasses and she...

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:31:40 -0400

broke-broken-breaking:

folkdad:

i complimented an old lady customer’s little round glasses and she said “why thank you! someone told me they had a ‘steampunk look’. i haven’t been called a punk in a long time, much less a steamy one!” i’m flatlining

This is so pure

orangeyjuicy: jasmancer: jasmancer: Steve Rogers uses voice to text to send texts and formats...

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:31:03 -0400

orangeyjuicy:

jasmancer:

jasmancer:

Steve Rogers uses voice to text to send texts and formats them like a telegram

HEY BUCK STOP SAM AND I ARE OUT SHOPPING STOP WANT US TO PICK UP SOME TAKEOUT STOP

Steve rogers fully understands that this is not the correct way to text. He just likes the absolute outrage it causes every time someone receives a text from him and wants to see how many times he can make the same people explain texting to him until they realize. Sam is currently at 14 times, beating out tony who’s at nine. Twice now shuri has facetimed him after reading bucky’s texts. He’s also managed to convince thor that this is the Earth Way to text and it’s great

Someone make this a fic!

emo-sanders-sides-loving-unicorn: virgilanxiety: spoonmeb: sir...

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:29:28 -0400

emo-sanders-sides-loving-unicorn:

virgilanxiety:

spoonmeb:

sirfrogsworth:

I thought this was very sweet. Young Nassir asked his mother, Fatima, to his senior prom. It looks like they had a swell time and their outfits sparkled in all their matching glory.

That is so sweet 😭

they are both so beautiful wtf who gave them the righttttt

This is so sweet!

I’m not crying, you’re crying!