#education education education and war

[politijohn]

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[snawleyy]

late night study

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

Massachusets funds free higher education with a 4% tax on millionaires.

[reality-detective]

War on natural remedies 1961 to 1975: funded by the AMA. Imagine being arrested for selling basil?! 🤔

[greenwichtraders]

Let this be so.

[kaapstadgirly]

"The Jewish colonial project cannot be achieved without force because no country, no people give up the land without fighting for it."

Gabor Maté is a renowned physician, speaker, and bestselling author with a focus on addiction, stress, and childhood development.

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[bixels]

The idea that uni protesters are "elitist ivy-league rich kids larping as revolutionaries" on Twitter and Reddit and even here is so fucking funny to me if you actually know anything about the student bodies at these unis. Take it from someone who's going to one of the biggest private unis in the US, 80% of the peers I know are either from the suburbs or an apartment somewhere in America, children of immigrants, or here on a student visa. I've heard about one-percenter students, but I've never met one in person. Like, don't get me wrong, the institution as a whole is still very privileged and white. I've talked with friends and classmates about feeling weird or dissonant being here and coming from such a different background. But in my art program, I see BIPOC, disabled, queer, lower-income students and faculty trying to deconstruct and tear that down and make space every day. So to take a cursory glance at a crowd of student protesters in coalitions that are led by BIPOC & 1st/2nd-gen immigrant students and HQ'd in ethnic housings and student organizations and say, "ah. children of the elite." Get real.

[nando161mando]

[bloghrexach]

💥 … #Boycott … here’s info!! —There’s something minimal you can do!! … 💥

@hrexach

[sunbeamedskies]

It is a PRIVILEGE to be able to say that the entire population of a country or region are inherently guilty and deserving of death. It is also exactly the same shit the alt right does.

I've seen people do this to both Palestine and Israel. If you honestly celebrate the murder of Palestinians or Israelis and try to justify it, you are no better than an alt right cult member.

Real people are dying and suffering while you pretend this is a video game.

[politijohn]

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[jonsnowunemploymentera]

In the whole “what would the Starks do if Jon’s parentage ever came to light” debate, the most interesting figure to me is Robb Stark. Ned is already caught between a rock and a hard place: duty and love to both his king and his sister’s son, though he already committed treason once to save Lyanna’s boy. Catelyn the embodiment of the Tully words, “family, duty, honor”, is fiercely loyal to her husband and children - but not to Jon. So if she was ever put in a position to choose, it’s obvious what she would do. Then there’s Robb. He’s his father’s heir, his mother’s pride. He’s named after Robert Baratheon, the ruling king of the seven kingdoms, as a testament to his father’s upbringing and love for his friend. But Jon is his brother; his best friend; his greatest companion. Where Ned’s choice would leave him conflicted, Robb doesn’t share the same loyalty to the king. So when forced to fight for the crown or his brother’s life, he’d obviously choose his brother. Which would be an interesting twist of fate. Ned and Robert rebelled for their lives many years prior. How interesting it would be for the boy who bears Robert’s name and the boy who bears Ned’s face to rise in rebellion again.

[reality-detective]

Strong Words 👆

PRESIDENT TRUMP: "I will invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 -- to target and dismantle every migrant criminal network operating on American Soil -- And I am calling for the death penalty for any migrant that kills an American citizen or a law enforcement officer." 🤔

[palatinewolfsblog]

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." Ray Bradbury.

[stealingpotatoes]

You're right that Ahsoka has committed many war crimes, but she's not the only one; Luke has at least committed mutilation and fighting under a false flag (engaging in combat with the enemy whilst disguised as said enemy), Cal has committed mutilation, fighting under a false flag, and arguably torture, and as for Ezra…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c5i1CHp2FFU&t=2s&pp=ygUbc3RhciB3YXJzIHJlYmVscyB3YXIgY3JpbWVz

LMAO omg hiiii geneva convention lawyer anon <3 you make a great point however i'm gonna argue luke and cal's warcrimes don't count bc 1. luke sucked so bad at pretending to be a stormtrooper and 2. cal absolutely SERVED in that uniform, the empire should be thanking him for wearing it

[odinsblog]

Dozens of Ukrainian children from a Russian-occupied city in Ukraine were taken to Belarus and sent to “emergency survival training” with the Belarusian military, according to local media.

The Belarus 4 Mogilev state television channel reported on Wednesday that 35 children from the city of Antratsyt in eastern Ukraine, which Russia has occupied since 2014, were sent to the eastern Belarusian city of Mogilev, where they were taught “how to behave in extreme situations” in exercises with the Belarusian military.

In the report, the children — some of whom are wearing tracksuits with Russian flags printed on their sleeves — are shown holding on to each other and covering their faces during a fire drill.

Thousands of Ukrainian children have been deported to Russia and Belarus from Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. In July 2023, Russian Children’s Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova put the figure of Ukrainian children “received” by Russia at 700,000, claiming most were accompanied by their parents or other relatives.

A study by Yale University found that between September 2022 and May 2023, over 2,400 Ukrainian children aged 6 to 17 were deported to Belarus from the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine, which are occupied by Russian forces.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko met with a group of deported Ukrainian kids last month, promising to “embrace these children, bring them to our home, keep them warm and make their childhood happier.”

In March 2023, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Lvova-Belova, accusing them of overseeing the “unlawful deportation” of Ukrainian children.

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