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Why is Haiti like it is.

Haiti

was punished relentlessly for being the first black republic to successfully declare independence from its colonizers;

was forced at gunpoint to surrender amounts of wealth to France;

took out more debt from France & the US just to make the interest payments on the debt forced upon them;

was invaded and occupied by the US from 1910-1934 to benefit US businesses;

was taken over by a corrupt father/son dictatorship;

had their first democratically-elected president overthrown in a military coup, put back in power by the US, and then taken out of power again by the US;

and is still regularly intervened in by the US

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You know what? Destroy the "people in rural areas are all ignorant conservatives" stereotype and start mocking the "trad"/anti-feminist/neonazi people that are obsessed with rural areas despite having never been to one

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I'm Glad My Mom Died, Jennette McCurdy

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I wish doctors were taught like. idk. how to be normal with people who aren't white.

I went to urgent care twice and the ER once, all in the past 5 days with ear pain and excruciating neck pain (some of the worst I have felt in my life)

I was treated as follows:

Urgent Care 1: [I wore a typical hijab] Quickly dismissed with barely an exam, given questionable dosages of antibiotics

Urgent Care 2: [I wore pajamas and a haphazard headscarf that I switched to a loose turban for the exam] The doctor quite literally supposed that my headscarf could be causing the pain that's a 9/10 on the pain scale. And after 2 hours of waiting, they begrudgingly changed my antibiotics to a more adequate treatment for an ear infection.

Emergency Room: [I did not wear a headscarf at all, due to pain and fear of being dismissed] Asked questions such as whether I was born in the united states and if I'm a citizen. I was born in this hospital system, at their location 10 miles away.

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daily reminder that there is absolutely nothing normal about being expected to waste a majority of your life at a corporation to survive instead of indulging in better life experiences ✨

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“They can’t even afford soup” proceeds to wastes soup like they could have donated that and fed a hungry family but middle class eco activists just do this for attention

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Men are not bad.

Loving men is not a shame.

Men deserve love.

Men can be raised with love.

Men can heal.

Men deserve healing.

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The evil ghouls at Nestlé are still pumping, too.

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this shit fucked me up

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refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

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Fat people are allowed to participate in food traditions.

Fat people are allowed to feast on Thanksgiving.

Fat people are allowed to feel full.

Fat people are allowed to find joy and comfort through food.

Fat people are allowed to socialize through food.

Fat people are allowed to have dessert.

Fat people are allowed to have seconds.

Fat people are allowed to take leftovers.

Fat people are allowed to eat food.

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Scrappy Fiesty old ladies NOT to be messed with!!!

It’s the birthday of the woman Teddy Roosevelt once called “the most dangerous woman in America” when she was 87 years old. Mary Harris Jones, or “Mother Jones,” was born to a tenant farmer in Cork, Ireland, in 1837. Her family fled the potato famine when she was just 10, resettling in Toronto. She trained to be a teacher and took a job in Memphis, where on the eve of the Civil War she married a union foundry worker and started a family. But in 1867, a yellow fever epidemic swept through the city, taking the lives of her husband and all four children. A widow at 30, she moved to Chicago and built a successful dressmaking business — only to lose everything in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Jones then threw herself into the city’s bustling labor movement, where she worked in obscurity for the next 20 years. By the turn of the century, she emerged as a charismatic speaker and one of the country’s leading labor organizers, co-founding the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

She traveled the country to wherever there was labor struggle, sometimes evading company security by wading the riverbed into town, earning her the nickname “The Miner’s Angel.” She used storytelling, the Bible, humor, and even coarse language to reach a crowd. She said: “I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I said if he had stolen a railroad, he would be a United States Senator.” Jones also had little patience for hesitation, volunteering to lead a strike “if there were no men present.” A passionate critic of child labor, she organized a children’s march from Philadelphia to the home of Theodore Roosevelt in Oyster Bay, New York with banners reading, “We want to go to school and not the mines!” At the age of 88, she published a first-person account of her time in the labor movement called The Autobiography of Mother Jones (1925). She died at the age of 93 and is buried at a miners’ cemetery in Mt. Olive, Illinois.

She said: “Whatever the fight, don’t be ladylike.”

~ The Writer's Almanac

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you have journalists saying that the queen never gave interviews, and that we don’t know what her stance on anything was

you also have people who met her multiple times saying that she would always ask them the same scripted questions for chitchat purposes, and that their exchanges wouldn’t reveal anything about her

so when random people on the street praise her for her amazing personality and leadership — I legit heard a woman say she was “a leader of women, who always put women first” — and assign to her all kinds of qualities and opinions

you realize just how much bullshit people project onto others every minute of the day

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if the british people you know seem upset rn, it’s not that theyre bootlicking monarchists. the queens death is going to dominate their news cycle to the exclusion of all else, the cost of the funeral and coronation are going to be giant wastes of money straining an already hyper-inflated economy, traffic and travel are going to be fucked up. british people are suffering right now- being part of the poor working class there sucks just as much as it does to us in the US- and they deserve our solidarity. we can all get in on the jokes and memes and crab raves, but remember that her death didn’t end anything for them: it’s just the beginning of a shitshow.

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