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Something unnerving to consider

...But better to know about it than not to.

Just a general reminder that increasingly it's going to be smart to watch what you discuss, in what venue.

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In 1969, actor Samuel L Jackson was expelled from historically black Morehouse College for locking board members in a building for two days in protest of the school’s curriculum and governance. Included in this group of people who were held hostage was Martin Luther King Jr.’s very own father, Martin Luther King Sr.

In 1966, during the height of the civil rights movement, Jackson enrolled at the historically black Morehouse College in Atlanta, the alma mater of Martin Luther King Jr. In 1968, when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Kings body was brought to Atlanta to lie in state at Spelman College, the historically black woman’s school adjacent to Morehouse. Jackson attended King’s funeral as one of the ushers and then flew to Memphis to join an equal rights protest march that changed the way he thought. “I was angry about the assassination, but I wasn’t shocked by it. I knew that change was going to take something different – not sit-ins, not peaceful coexistence,” he stated in an interview with Parade about his reactions to King’s death.

Yall sleeping on this Sam L. Jackson interview about trump lmfao.

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Samuel Jackson & crew kidnapped the board of his university as part of a protest back in the days. This sounds like I’m making this up but I’m not he has always been cool as hell

Yall sleeping on this Sam L. Jackson interview about trump lmfao.

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reading a paper on quality of life among 45-to-70-year-olds with Down syndrome:

“Individuals expressed a desire to be allowed to go to bed when they wanted to.”

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every time a supposed communist decides that whatever political upheaval they're currently in is finally the one historical event entirely inexplicable from material interests and due to the crazy idiocy of the people in charge, a cia agent gets a promotion

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i love getting exposure to misc fetishes that im not into because imo it's really interesting to see what the invented scenarios, art pieces, stories, etc reveal about the primary concerns of the fetish-holder, like the specific traits that are necessary to make the fetish "work"

like as an example, one would expect the bimbo fetish to exclusively involve the "bimbo" characters being uhh Universally Uninformed, but there are novels & comics etc that depict like.... Bimbo Scientists. but the Bimbo Scientists' projects are like "how can i make my boobs bigger" "how can i invent a really attractive man" etc. it casts the fetish in this really fascinating light--like, the character *can* be Conventionally Smart, as long as she uses her education for like vapid & trivial ends, which forms this really interesting like Reconfiguration of the conventional images & signifiers of "un/intelligence", like as if to say that for at least some adherents of that fetish, the values & concerns conventionally associated with Foolishness & Vacuity are more weighted than the actual primary traits associated with smartness

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there's interesting connection between current anti international ngo financing policies due to 'recources being wasted' in usa and the fact that there was no successful color revolutions in years and ones which happened were done thru usa straight up financing military alliances instead of soft power outlets.

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Scare campaign from Aussie state-run media that paints China as the evil unprovoked aggressor flying scary military planes over Taiwan, making no mention of the fact that:

1: Taiwan's self-declared "air defence zone" is huge, and actually covers more of China than it does of Taiwan.

2: These actions are a reaction to America which has sailed guided missile destroyers through the Taiwan strait 7 times in 2021 alone (more since that article was written as recently as a week ago), and regularly stages massive war games in the region simulating war with China (which they consistently lose lmao)

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El Salvador offers to accept US violent criminals of any ethnicity

Well…this has gotten to Super jail levels of Fascism and we are speeding straight to Judge Dredd type shit.

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this is quite literally on-par with a royal baby announcement

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Uakari Poison Frog (Ranitomeya uakarii), family Dendrobatidae, Peru

photograph by Alvaro Cubero 

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it's been said a million times but there is something horrific about left liberals crawling out of the woodwork every 4-8 years to pretend to care about ICE and immigrant detention centers and the enslavement/deportation of various racialized peoples. they don't care in any real sense, it's just a bit of political theatre about the farcical party system of the states. the US has been committing genocide and utilizing concentration camps for centuries

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wild how we have a medication that is super effective at treating a debilitating disability but its controlled to hell and back because What If Someone Takes It For Fun like i have an idea who gives a shit