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based on real events

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this is an official apology to my followers who have to put up with my sporadic posting style (ie spam posts 20 times a day for 3 days, then disappears for 3 years before respawning to spam post again)

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the irony is that majority of child molesters are apparently women. In overall though, there’s not that many pedos in the world. The good people totally outweighs the bad people, but when it comes to outliers it seems majority of child molesters are women.

Hm. Do you have facts, statistics? Have you counted every single person on this earth and divided them into 'child molesters' and 'not child molesters' with 100% accuracy? Even if we look at newspaper articles and assume that everything they say is 100% true (ie no false convictions etc) we can only know how many child molesters have been caught. I'm not familiar enough with child sexual abuse cases to comment further, but I believe that everyone on earth—male, female, non binary, or transgender—is capable of doing both good and evil in equal measure. The probability of someone being or becoming a child predator is not dependent on their gender but on the goodness (or lack thereof) of their heart. So I'm sorry anon but I have to violently disagree with you on this.

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He has the patience of a saint.

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"But we're not quite as bad as that world, are we, Aslan?" "Not yet, Daughter of Eve," he said. "Not yet. But you are growing more like it. It is not certain that some wicked one of your race will not find out a secret as evil as the Deplorable Word and use it to destroy all living things. And soon, very soon, before you are an old man and an old woman, great nations in your world will be ruled by tyrants who care no more for joy and justice and mercy than the Empress Jadis. Let your world beware. That is the warning." ~ The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis

Do you ever think about how Lewis lived through two world wars and half of the Cold War? Do you ever think about how for most of his life so much of the world around Lewis was focused on developing new military equipment in order to subjugate other nations? Do you ever think about how Lewis began writing the Chronicles of Narnia to give comfort to children who were displaced from their homes during WW2, one of the darkest periods in modern human history? Do you ever think about how Lewis lived through the invention and first usage of the most deadly weapon ever created by man? Do you ever think about how he lived the last years of his life during the Cold War era, when any International incident could cause a nuclear war? Do you ever think about how Lewis was thinking back on his childhood and wondering where the world went so wrong that he would live through two world wars and a Cold War in the span of a single lifetime? Do you ever think about how Lewis was pointing out the great fault in the world that had existed since his childhood and continued to exist in his adult life?

Do you ever think about how even though Lewis wrote The Magician's Nephew 60+ years ago, this dialogue is still every bit as applicable today as it was in the 50s? Do you ever think about how our children today are still at risk of having their childhoods destroyed by adults who are too eager to go to war? Do you ever think about how, despite Lewis warning us 60 years ago not to let go of joy and justice and mercy, we have not heeded his advice and people are still suffering the same way they did 60 years ago?

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truly amazing how America will restrict the amount of time a 16-year-old can spend on a short video app full of people doing stupid dances than restrict a 16-year-old from buying a gun and shooting up a school

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Another question that will probably make me sound stupid but I’d rather sound stupid for 5 seconds than remain ignorant for a lifetime

Why is it a bad idea to let the people living in Crimea/Donbass/whatever region Russia has ‘claimed’ choose which country they want to be part of?

(assuming that Russia will allow a fair election and not manipulate the votes etc)

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Russians in Russia and their compliance with the war

Ever since 24 February I’ve noticed that there are two main attitudes towards Russians in Russia:

“Most of the ordinary Russians don’t support the war, they can’t take any direct action to stop it, even showing that they disagree with the war could have severe repercussions on themselves and their families so let’s not blame them”

and

“It’s the Russians’ fault for not overthrowing their own oppressive government years ago, they don’t have the right to complain about being jailed for protesting when millions of Ukrainians are dying or being tortured”

Most Russians follow the first train of thought, while Ukrainians tend to follow the second. The rest of the world seems to be pretty divided between the two.

I understand the Ukrainians’ anger at the Russians for (in their own eyes at least) not doing enough or even, in some cases, making themselves out to be the victims. At the same time, I don’t blame the Russians for being too afraid to speak out against their government. Now, I am neither Ukranian or Russian, nor do I personally know anyone with any ties to either country. For the ‘spectators’ of this war like me to say that one side is ‘right’ while the other is ‘wrong’ is to demonstrate a lack of sympathy towards either side. On the other hand, the people in those countries who are experiencing firsthand the impacts of the war have every right to be angry and frustrated with either side, and to say that they ‘shouldn’t’ feel a certain way is to invalidate and dismiss the reality of their lives right now.

At the end of the day we are all just humans who want to live in peace. The Ukrainians don’t have that anymore, and neither will the Russian who dares to openly oppose the war. Like I said, I am neither Russian nor Ukrainian and it is not my position to talk about what the people from either country are going through. Neither do I have the right to preach and tell Ukrainians and Russians that they have to think or feel in a certain way. All of us who are NOT Ukrainian or Russian do not have this right regardless of how we personally feel towards either country, so I hope no one goes around moralising and pushing their own agenda at others.

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The facts as OP presented them are technically correct, but also rather misleading. (warning: long history-related ahead, expand at your own risk)

Lifeboats:

✅ Not enough lifeboats for everyone onboard. (As a side note, the Titanic was actually NOT sailing at 100% capacity, further highlighting the discrepancy between the number of people it could carry and the number of people it had lifeboats for.)

✅ Designers at one point planned to equip the ship with 48 lifeboats. Not 64, as OP stated, but 48. This would have been enough to cover everyone onboard and then some, but the plan had been rejected on the grounds of expense + in order to leave the Boat Deck free for passengers to enjoy. (Even having 48 lifeboats would not be enough to cover everyone onboard had the Titanic been sailing at full capacity.)

❌ The lack of lifeboats was a direct result of White Star cutting costs. True, they could have provided more lifeboats and they didn’t, but in fact Titanic complied with every single safety regulation in the book, if not exceeding it. The Board of Trade came up with some complicated formula to determine how many lifeboats each vessel needed to carry. If anything, the Titanic carried extra lifeboats than what was legally required. The problem was that people’s attitude toward sea travel was so blithe that no one saw the need to ensure that there were lifeboats for every single person on board.

❌ More lifeboats could have saved more lives. In theory, yes. But I’d also like to point out that people in that era had a false impression of the role of lifeboats in an emergency. Some years before the Titanic another White Star ship, the Republic, sank after colliding with another ship. Like the Titanic, she was the largest ship to have sunk in her time. But unlike the Titanic, she took 36 hours to sink. In that span of time several rescue ships arrived to aid the Republic and lifeboats were used to transfer the latter’s passengers and crew to the rescue ships. Only five people died in that accident, and all five casualties were a result of the collision itself , not the sinking. Because of that incident, the public understanding of a lifeboat’s role in an emergency was to transfer passengers and crew to rescue boats (and back then the transatlantic shipping route was busy enough that it was believed that there would always be at least one ship near enough to help). The problem was that the Titanic did not have the 36 hours the Republic had. If the former had not sunk quite so quickly, if the rescue ships had responded just a little quicker, it’s very likely that we would have seen on the Titanic a repeat of what happened on the Republic, with everyone onboard transferred to rescue boats via the lifeboats, and people will still not realise the need for more lifeboats on any vessel. Plus, another Titanic scholar recently raised up a very good question that we must consider when talking about the amount/lack of lifeboats: Could more lifeboats on Titanic really have saved more lives when the crew didn't have enough time to properly launch all the boats they did have?

Drills:

✅ No lifeboat and/or evacuation drills conducted. A lifeboat drill had been scheduled to be conducted the day before the Titanic sank but was cancelled at the last-minute. 

✅ Crew members were not properly trained to act in an emergency. The lifeboat drill of the day involved a ship officer supervising a pre-selected crew to uncover a lifeboat on each side of the ship, swing it out over the side of the ship and climb aboard. Some officers would insist on checking the oars, the masts, the riggings etc, but not every one was as demanding. Even if the Titanic’s lifeboat drill had went ahead as scheduled, it probably wouldn’t have helped very much in the sinking. (As a matter of fact, the Titanic did have a full lifeboat drill before it left Southampton, including launching a boat while the ship was in port.)

✅ No lifeboat assignments for passengers. Only crew members were given lifeboat assignments, and this was only to tell them which boats they were supposed to assist in loading and lowering. None of the passengers received assignments.

❌ No drills for passengers so as not to bother them. As mentioned earlier, boat drills were required only for the ship’s crew. Neither the law nor White Star required or prepared drills for the passengers.

Third Class:

✅ Locked gates separated steerage passengers from first- and second-class areas of the ship. This was not a result of discrimination, but to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. Every passenger ship on the Atlantic had similar barriers between steerage and the rest of the passengers.

❌ Crew members locked third-class passengers belowdecks during the sinking. Despite the locked gates, there were emergency exits third-class could have used to reach the upper decks. Admittedly these routes were not as direct as the upper classes had; to get to the boat deck from the third-class area you had to cut through several the third-class rooms to get into second-class, down a long corridor beside the crew areas, through the first-class public rooms and up several flights of stairs before finally reaching the Boat Deck. Unfortunately there was a lack of clear instructions to third-class on where to go and how to get there and so many of them got lost belowdecks.

❌ Crew members didn’t try to help third-class get to safety. Most of the crew were busy loading the lifeboats and guiding first- and second-class passengers to the Boat Deck. Nevertheless, a handful of stewards did try to lead third-class passengers up to the Boat Deck using the route I described above. The worst the crew of the Titanic can be accused of was oversight, because in the sinking there was so much to do on the upper decks that no one remembered to check on the steerage passengers. But this oversight is NOT a result of active discrimination, which leads me to my next point:

❌ Third class were deliberately kept out of lifeboats to save seats for their ‘betters’. None of the third-class passengers (none of the women and children, at least) who managed to make it to the upper decks were denied entry into a lifeboat because they were steerage. The problem, as mentioned earlier, is that so few of them made it there.

Crew:

✅ Large proportion of crew died. The numbers OP gave are very telling. Except for the stewardesses, whom no one suggested should stay behind, and a very, very small handful who rushed Boat 5, the only crew members who got in the lifeboats were ordered by an officer to take charge of the boats. The rest went down with the ship. Some managed to swim to safety; most of them perished.

❌ Large number of crew members died because they were seen as not worth saving. Certain individuals may or may not have felt that way, but on the whole no one, not the passengers on the Titanic nor the public back on land, saw the crew as expendable. Legally they had to ensure the passengers’ safety before their own, but in practice there is nothing to stop them from saving their own lives. There have been cases before and after the Titanic’s sinking when crew members abandon a sinking ship before any of the passengers, even in the more ‘egalitarian’ 21st century. Do you remember how in 2014, when the MV Sewol capsized, the Captain climbed into the first lifeboat away clad in his underwear, leaving behind 300 passengers—mostly teenaged students—to drown in their cabins? The Titanic’s crew could very easily have done the same. They stayed, I think, because of the sense of duty that was deeply instilled in them. The boiler rooms were the first to take on water, and yet the stokers remained despite the danger so that the ship would have lights and power until the very end. And because the ship continued to have electricity, the wireless operators were able to continue sending out distress signals. They could have abandoned their post at any time, but they refused to leave even after the Captain released them. And yet to say that they were mindless robots going to their death would not be true either. For reasons that we may never fully comprehend, they chose to stay instead of taking the first opportunity to save themselves. Because of their sacrifice, seven hundred people did not die in the Atlantic that night.

Conclusion:

There were certainly elements of classism and elitism underscoring the Titanic tragedy and even the era in which she existed, but neither of these are to blame for the sinking or even the large loss of life. The collision was a result of unusual weather conditions, the sinking a design flaw, and the lives lost a lack of understanding of the dangers of sea voyage. In many ways the Titanic tragedy was inevitable; even if she had not sunk or had not taken so many lives, sooner or later something of a similar scale would happen because of the casual, almost irresponsible way people viewed sea travel then.

The tragedy of the Titanic deserves to be remembered as a story of corporate arrogance, corporate negligence, and corporate disregard for human life. It deserves to be remembered as a story about the evils of classism. Even despite the outdated maritime laws of the era, that tragedy was fully preventable if proper safety protocols had been followed.

And I will FIGHT anyone who claims that Titanic “deserved it” just because their knowledge only extends through the run time of the James Cameron movie and they think that the majority of passengers were wealthy. Hell, even the wealthy people didn’t deserve it.

First of all, if we group third class passengers and the crew/staff together, something like 80% of the casualties on that entire ship were poor working people. 80%!!!!!!!!

1,300 passengers. 319 were the ultra wealthy first class, your Rockefellers, your Guggenheims. 272 were second class, so, probably people who were in the same league as doctors and lawyers are today. The remaining 709 were third class—the working poor, the immigrants seeking the better life America claimed was waiting for them. Note that this last category accounted for more than half of the ship’s passengers.

(Note also that this group was made up of people who’d have experienced ethnic discrimination as well as class—mainly the Irish, but also Italians, Greeks, Hungarians. Poles, Scandinavians, one or two Chinese families, to name a few. Note also that this wasn’t the modern day US where all but the last are considered white.)

(NOTE ALSO: THIS GROUP WAS KEPT LOCKED BEHIND LITERAL GATES BELOW DECK SO THEY COULDN’T MINGLE WITH THE UPPER CLASSES. THAT WAS NOT MADE UP FOR THE MOVIE!!!)

62% of first class survived. 43% of second class survived.

Less than 25% of third class survived, including only 25 children out of a total of 80. Entire families were wiped out.

Of the 900+ crew and staff, only 23% survived. The reason I grouped them with third class earlier is because, typically, if you’re cleaning rooms or serving food or shoveling coal into an engine for a living, you’re probably not doing it for fun.

I’m could stop here. I could say that claiming the Titanic deserved it is to claim that 1200+ poor immigrants and workers deserved to die, literally locked below decks due to the extreme classism of both of White Star Line and society at large. But I won’t, because it gets worse.

First, there’s the fact that the crew was not well trained about how to act in the event of an emergency. There were never any evacuation drills run with them and the passengers, because the company didn’t want to trouble their guests. And then there’s the matter of the lifeboats.

The outdated laws of the era required ships of Titanic’s size to carry 16 lifeboats, and that’s exactly how many she had. Well, technically she had 20, if you include the 4 collapsible lifeboats. But she had room on her decks for four times that number—the original plans for her included 64 lifeboats. With 64 boats, they could’ve absolutely rescued all 2200+ people aboard. They could’ve rescued almost twice as many people as that.

The 64 lifeboats were slashed down to 16, because White Star Line wanted more room on the deck for their 319 first class passengers’ leisure.

Even if every lifeboat left at full capacity, only 1,178 people were getting off that ship alive.

So, you know. Maybe let’s forget the silly romance and focus on the fact that this is one of the most famous examples of why you can’t trust companies to spend money on ensuring people’s safety if it isn’t legally mandated. Let’s focus on the fact that this is one of the most famous examples of classist attitudes murdering poor people.

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Why is it that women can and will be brought to court for prostituting themselves but men are not prosecuted for buying prostitutes?

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I always hated the term ‘emotional resilience’ because it’s almost always used in the context of ‘you need to build up your emotional resilience so you won’t be bothered by things’ and that pisses me off to no end. Like, why can’t I be bothered by things that make me unhappy? Don’t I have the right to feel angry, or sad, or afraid? I'd much rather feel all these things than become jaded and apathetic to the world.

I mean, I get it, we’ll always be dealing with some kind of shit in life. But it’s like the minute I show myself to be anything less than smiling and happy or at least calm and collected suddenly I’m ‘emotionally weak’? Maybe to you XYZ doesn’t seem like a big deal but it is a big deal to me, and I can maybe take this much shit but I have a limit too, and unless you’ve been in my place and felt what I feel you don’t have any right to comment on how well or not I am handling my emotions

Maybe try looking at things from a different point of view? Instead of seeing my faults for being upset at a situation maybe see how strong I am to be able to handle this much shit to this extent? Maybe actually acknowledge my struggles and my efforts to cope instead of tearing me down when I can’t?

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At the risk of sounding like an uneducated racist (which I swear I’m not, I’m genuinely curious and want to know ppl’s opinions):

Every time a white person takes something from another culture—the cornrow hairstyle from Africans or Chinese characters as tattoos, for example—it’s cultural appropriation, but how come we don’t say the same when a POC takes something from European/white North American culture? (I mean granted it doesn’t happen very often but still)

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my father didn’t go to work today and when I asked him why instead of telling me took leave like a normal person he told he he fired the boss

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SIERRA BOGGESS AS MOTHER IN RAGTIME MAKE IT HAPPEN PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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“oh my god don’t be so sensitive” first of all I'm traumatised

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hey does anyone just randomly get déjà vu of déjà vu