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Candice Payne used her personal American Express card to get homeless people off the streets during record-setting freeze in Chicago.

Candice Payne is a hero.

I figured this was some rich person who bought out the rooms, but she’s just a regular person who charged it to her credit card. 20 hotel rooms at the last minute must’ve been a fortune.

Candice for mayor of Chicago, tbh.

beachdeath

it’s not mentioned in the headline but in addition to charging twenty rooms to her own credit card, candice payne also rallied a group of friends and volunteers to pay for a total of sixty rooms, giving shelter to eighty people for three nights. mutual aid!!!

profeminist

“Women wanting to feel safe, to BE safe is not an attack on men. It’s the most basic of rights. Don’t let anyone flip the narrative. Decent men are not sitting around worrying about being accused.”

- Justin Guarini

keithsweatshop

stydixa

Food. Sex. Food. Sex. I don’t know! Oh god, I want both!

lukecage

Step up. I am Harlem and Harlem is me.

lagonegirl

This should go viral

stickydates

King Leopold II, as only one example, had a hand in the Congolese rubber trade. Enslaved people would be made to collect rubber sap on their bodies. When it dried it would be peeled off along with their skin, leaving them severely wounded. They were forced to collect as much rubber as possible as quickly as possible because their loved ones were being held in the custody of Belgians; their lives were threatened and the women were assaulted.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg….

stfuyouloveme

Sad

onlythiskev-deactivated20171024

The colony in The Congo was in fact a “personal” colony of King Leopold II, not even a colony of the Belgian state, and therefore even more gruesome atrocities were committed. There are accounts of families being held hostage so one could work, and if a slave did not bring enough of a good back they would have their hands amputated. It was so bad that the Belgian state (white, patriarchal, imperialistic and not that great by itself) took possession of it from Leopold because they thought he was being too inhumane. Now, if an inherently racist and imperialistic government that thinks Africans are inferior to Europeans forcefully takes a colony from you for being too inhumane, you’ve got to be pretty fucking terrible.

violaslayvis

There’s a documentary about this called King Leopold Ghost’s https://youtu.be/J9oTL5KAk80

Highly recommended.

nevver

Names to know, Alan Ket

Tfw you hate yourself loooool

ypoos

It must just be me.

#lonewolf

lilytakeson

almaza-deactivated20160914

if you’re a man, i’m not interested in hearing your critiques on how superficial and obsessed women are with beauty. discuss instead how patriarchy created a society that resulted in women placing their entire self-worth on their appearances and how you, as a man, can change a culture that produces that.

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