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In 1989, George Bush gave a speech about crack. During the speech he pulled out a bag of crack and said “this bag was seized right across the street from the White House in Lafayette park.” Turns out, his speech writers had the idea to pull out a prop during his speech and in order to make it believable they had the DEA plant crack on this random 18 year old black kid. They lured him there. He didn’t even know where the White House or Lafayette park was. When he got there, they arrested them. The plot was discovered by a journalist.
What journalist
Gary Webb
And then Gary Webb killed himself after he revealed that the CIA let crack infiltrate black communities through drug cartels making deals with the CIA. His wife left him and his career was ruined for exposing the drug war as a war against people of color.
There’s a really well done movie called Kill the Messenger (x) I suggest everyone should watch. It was done in partnership with his family and details the events from beginning to end.
Do we know the name of the “random 18 year old black kid” who was framed by the United States Government for a crime he didn’t commit?
Update: His name is Keith Jackson. He has a wife and family now, and lives in the Baltimore/DC area. Unsurprisingly, he doesn’t want anything to do with what happened to him. The charges against him for the Lafayette case were dropped, but he received a 121 month sentence for distributing drugs near a school. Keith Jackson was a senior in high school when he was arrested. He was released from prison in 1998, 10 years later. We have to remember all of the time that was taken from him. We have to remember that he wasn’t just “some random 18 year old black kid.” The government chose him to become a caricature of who they wanted the “enemy” to be in the War on Drugs because he is Black. Remember Webb’s thesis. Remember Keith Jackson’s name. Remember his story.
1. Let’s stop the bullshit.
Gary Webb didn’t kill himself he was murdered. No way in hell do I fucking believe that Gary Webb committed suicide by shooting himself twice in the head.
2. Rick Ross admitted that he believes Gary was murdered because they were still working on their documentary (American Drug War) while Ross was still in prison at the time. As Ross said, “The last time I talked to Gary, he still seemed adamant about continuing with his investigation.”
3. Then 10 years after his death the CIA admits they purposely destroyed Webb career and life and still target him until his death.
I don’t believe for a second that Gary Webb shot himself twice in the head.
He was murdered because he exposed how The CIA, the government, and Satan aka Ronald Reagan purposely flooded the black community with drugs.
Is all of this true?
Yes, I did a project about The War on Drugs and how conservatives tried to create another campaign for voters to get behind with The War on Gangster Rap.
That’s when I was introduce to Gary Webb work. You often see me speak on what he revealed about the Reagan Administration and how Ronald Reagan was the fucking devil that I am glad that he is rotting away in hell right now.
Gary Webb did not commit suicide by shooting himself twice in the head.
History has taught me that a story about a whistle blower committing suicide is a huge red flag.
When folks start spilling the tea on the government, the government’s first reaction is to silence them.
Killing them is one way. Smear campaigns are another.
Pay attention.
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I think a lot of people have trouble understanding transgender issues because they try to see themselves as trans, but come at it from the wrong direction. i.e. a cis woman tries to understand transness by going, “what if I felt like/wanted to be a man” when she should be approaching it as “what if I, a woman, was so easily mistaken for a man that I had to pretend to be one”,
And I think this is something to keep in mind and to explain away when trying to get these matters across to people who’re new to the idea.
i genuinely never thought of it that way but dang this makes a ton of sense now
thismposst is the one that made me get it
I will admit, I had to re-read this many times before it clicked in my head.
I honestly hate how art and media have kind of romanticized the idea of like “going off your meds and being your true self again” because like I started taking antidepressants and like immediately got a new job, found a place to live, improved my relationships with people in my life and completely reconciled with my sort of estranged ex-girlfriend?? Medication can be rad and while I realize that it’s not for everybody I don’t think anything should be trying to convince anyone that being on medication inherently makes you less of who you are
(Most) Medication is for helping you to be you again. The real me isn’t tired by just walking to the train station. The real me is not my anxiety or depression. They don’t define me.
The real me is who I am when I’m not anxious and feeling worthless 24/7.
Medication is supposed to be the chemical equivalent of glasses or a wheelchair, depending on the severity of impairment. It tries to help you compensate for what has been taken, been broken, or is missing.
In particular, i always hear the myth that anti-depressants give you “artificial happiness”… no, no, no. They give your brain the ability to be happy. You won’t always be happy, and sometimes you’ll be sad. But the happiness you’re able to feel when you’re on meds is your own, real, happiness.
SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE NEUROTYPICALS IN THE BACK!!!
I mean this is important for neurotypicals but it’s honestly more important for people who struggle with mental illness and hate being on meds for a variety of reasons (aka me).
Take away med stigma! Don’t deny yourself something that can help you live a more fulfilling life and don’t shame people for their choices!
Welp, my Rey Funko hates me now but she was too cute not to post
Comment which outfit is the best! (though none of them are that great, stupid Sylvanians)
She has a YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzkY7wa8Ksxv4M5NyUYgTmA
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the only acceptable gamer
my new role model. going to start using ‘gimme the kill shot’ in team chat now.
Hot Take on Taako & Lup's Surname
(Disclaimer: This idea is based on one of those early arc goofs. Also, if someone did this before I haven’t seen it, so no offense to any theoretical other person!)
In Ep. 7: Moonlighting (Part 1), Taako earns another piece of the “taco puzzle” and Griffin gives him sour cream, but also part of his backstory. When Taako was under the age of 12 (presumably adjusted to human years - Griffin says “the tender age of 65”) he lived on a farm with his grandpa, Tostaada.
Now, it’s very likely that this is Griffin’s interesting way to reveal an item and not Justin’s purposefully crafted storytelling, which makes it dubious canon for Taako’s backstory. But I’m treating it as canon for now.
Take a step back from TAZ with me. If you have two grandfathers each from a different side of your family, and you call both “Grandpa”, it can be confusing. A lot of people in my area (which is Tennessee - keep in mind, a nearby region to the McElroy’s native West Virginia with likely similar linguistic patterns) solve this problem by adding the grandparent's surname to the title “Grandpa”. So you might have “Grandpa Smith” and “Grandpa Johnson” and that’s just what you call those two elderly men and everyone’s cool with it.
So, going back to TAZ, this could mean that Tostaada might not be the grandfather’s first name, but his last. If Taako and Lup had two grandfathers (or more), this might have been a good way to differentiate which side of the family they were talking about. And if “Tostaada” is his last name, we have a possible candidate for Taako and Lup’s surname.
Keep in mind: we don’t know when the twins lived with their grandfather while they got passed around a lot, nor do we know that this guy was actually their biological grandfather (could have been a great uncle, married into the family later, or other relation). So I can’t say, “omg guys we found it!!!” with absolute certainty.
But this is at least an idea to entertain, and perhaps will fit your fandom needs. Personally, I like the way “Taako Tostaada” or “Lup Tostaada” sounds better than “Taako Taaco” or “Lup Taaco”, but maybe you don’t, and that’s okay! It’s just a fun idea that I use and I thought you all might want to share it with me.
In summary: Taako and Lup could have the surname “Tostaada” because of a grandfather called into existence by Griffin, assuming that he’s “Grandpa Tostaada” instead of “grandpa, Tostaada”, though the reliability of this canon (and perhaps this idea) is dubious.
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Okay this one isn’t submission sunday but it’s way too good to go in the queue, I have to post it now.
Valid headcanon.
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Carmen Sandiego | Official Trailer
Damn the animation style is haut.
( oh and Carmens pretty nice I guesggtjbfu)
What I have planned for my future Taako cosplay for Akon 2019 :)
I was trying to figure out why indrid got captured and I have some theories
tv shows with time travel organizations/bureaus/police/agencies/whatever should have a department with instead of a tech genius eating candy, it’s a harried seamstress or fashion designer who is like
“1450 italy? does it look like I have the time to dye you wool? nO. YOU’RE GOING TO THE 1980s”
and throws shoulder pads at the hapless time agent
“I literally made three- THREE- 18th century corsets last week. You can wait until one of them gets back, or you can go sometime post-1920s, because if I have to sew one more god damn channel I will literally lose my mind.”
“Upper middle class?!?!? You told me upper class! FUCK YEAH THERE’S A DIFFERENCE!!!”
“How about kimoNO.”
“Look me in the eyes. I do not care what you want. This is the 1500s. You absolutely cannot wear trousers.”
“Another court gown?? Here’s a novel idea: go as a peasant for once in your life. Why do you do this to me? You’re fucking sadists that’s why.”
“Don’t mind me, I’ll just be up all night hand painting silk.”
“THE POLICY IS ONE MONTH’S ADVANCE NOTICE ON PRE-1900s WOMEN’S FASHION FOR A REASON, DEBRA.”
This was Edna Mode's first job
I was waiting for the night bus at 1am the other night, eating fries, when a dude, high as fuck, tried to harass me. It took several “I don’t want to talk to you, please go away” for him to finally move, but I think it helped that another man was giving him the death stare and clicking his tongue at him. He then checked I was okay and whether I knew the guy or not. Good dude.
Shout out also the man who silently switched places with me on another night bus to be a buffer between me and a guy who had threatened me. Thank you
Men: this here? This here is what you need to be doing as allies. The men who harass and insult women are not likely to take our complaints about it seriously. But you, another man, they will listen to.
I was pumping gas at like 10 PM one night, and these bunch of drunk guys came walking up to the gas station, and one of them yelled over to me if I wanted to see his dick. His friend says to him, “You don’t have anything she wants to see.” and apologized. It was pretty awesome.
this is all we want from men. to recognize the wrongs done by other men, and acknowledge it. not give us shitass defense like, “not all men do that”
i am incredibly tired of my editing application crashing so take this as it is lol
Today in a nutshell
Brb sobbing with laughter
Has anyone else noticed how, when you have a chronic condition of some kind, that there’s always the basic assumption from people around you that you’re not already doing everything you can?
It’s all about the illusion of control. People who are healthy like to believe they can always keep being healthy if they do the right things. They don’t want to think about how good people get struck with terrible circumstances for no reason. So they keep assuming that if they got sick, they could do something to make it better. And if you’re still sick, that must mean you’ve done something wrong or not done enough.
Nail. Head. The same attitude can be seen in how a lot of people talk about poverty.
And sexual assault. All they have to do is not go there not drink that not wear that not date them and they’ll be fine, right?
The Just World theory - that as long as I do everything right, I’m safe, and everybody who isn’t safe is at fault for not doing everything right - is perhaps the most harmful and widespread mindset today
if you ever see a conservative and wonder just how in the world they have so little compassion? they are genuinely convinced that most - not all, but most - bad things that happen are the fault of the person affected, because then they don’t have to feel bad
somebody explaining this to me as a young adult was, quite literally, the start of me seeing the world in a new way and moving considerably to the left politically. by letting go of the just world mindset my conception of reality shifted considerably
listened to Bohemian Rhapsody today… i’m so very sorry
If this post gets 100 notes I’ll recreate the entire song through memes
OK so I’ll do my best to get this done soonish–it may be a week or two, but I’m doing it
My masterpiece… is complete.
op did not put in this much work for 160 notes
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