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abdalsalam2000

Everyone may know that it is difficult for you to manage the responsibility of your family alone, especially in childhood or adolescence, and in addition to this, you are in a war zone with your father who is sick with cancer and the rest of your family members. This is what I bear alone. Today, I am alone in carrying out many responsibilities. I can no longer bear all this pressure alone, so I came here to Tumblr to ask for help from you, you are like my other family. I really cannot do all of this alone, so I ask you to support me, stand by me, and donate to me and my family.

thatdiabolicalfeminist

Nader is just a teenager. Please, help him and his family survive brutal persecution as Palestinians in Gaza.

caesarsaladinn

I missed most of the Iraq war due to being a baby, but every time I read about it I start wondering why we aren’t all talking about it all of the time

caesarsaladinn

it feels like the sort of unforced error that should be obsessively postmortemed for the next fifty years, a catastrophe that should utterly delegitimize the society that made it happen, but instead everybody’s like “oh yeah, that. lmao, that was crazy”

septembriseur-deactivated202502

I have to add to this because I was teaching a text about this topic to a bunch of post-2003 undergraduates recently and each time I do so I experience the same sense of disorientation.

This is a war about which the accepted, mainstream consensus is that no one is able to explain the U.S. decision to invade Iraq. The people involved in that decision are unable, in retrospect, to explain or justify it. In almost every postmortem of this decision, you will find some reference to the fact that Richard Haass, who advised Colin Powell at the State Department in 2001-3, has said that he “will go to [his] grave not knowing” why the U.S. invaded Iraq. George Packer, in The Assassins’ Gate, describes the invasion as “something that some people wanted to do.”

This is a war that destroyed a country. It created ISIS. It destabilized the Middle East. It killed a minimum of c. 200,000 people. It displaced millions more. It resulted in devastating losses to the cultural heritage of Iraq. And twenty years on, no one is able to explain why it happened.

It seems to me that there are several important lessons here.

kawaiiabetic

I vividly remember being a teenager at the time, seeing all of this very clearly, that there were no “weapons of mass destruction” there, that Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11, and adults around me rolling their eyes because I was a teenager and just didn’t understand.

The Daily Show was a refuge of adults saying out loud what was so obviously true, but that everyone around me had entered this fugue state about that they’re still in because admitting the truth means admiting the worst about our country.

#listen to blowback podcast season 1 #it explains the iraq war in great detail

komsomolka

Despite the heavy rain, millions of Yemenis took to the streets to march in the capital Sanaa in support of Gaza.

boarcriminal-deactivated2018052

straight people when a show adds a gay character and” forces” homosexuality on them

pizzaotter

LMFAO THIS GIF IS SO GOOD 🤣

Only going to say this once even though I know it doesn't matter but I never, not once, said the protests in Iran were a bad thing, denied Mahsa Amini's murder, or said theocracy and religious police are good things. Literally the only commentary I have offered on this is pointing out the United States and other Western powers have a vested interest in using the protests to manufacture consent for further aggression against Iran and pointing out which commentators are literally payrolled US propagandists, namely Masih Alinejad, who I've seen getting boosted in basically every single post about Iran. Like I said I know saying this doesn't matter because USAmericans and westerners (including/especially the self-avowed "progressive" "leftist" ones) take even the most mild acknowledgment of imperialism and the United States being a hostile force to the overwhelming majority of humanity with the grace and nuance of a crashing plane. But whatever, I'll just put it on record anyway.

yuri-alexseygaybitch

Masih Alinejad's employer is the U.S. Agency for Global Media. She writes for Voice of Asia and Radio Farda - both US propaganda outlets. She's done photo ops with Mike fucking Pompeo. These are all things that are easily confirmable just by googling her name. And as I've stated before "shut up and boost X voices" is a myopic and infantile view on politics because standpoint epistemology does not equal material reality, and more often than not the "voices" being boosted are the most bourgeoisie, imperialist, and ulteriorly motivated.

spooky-spaghetties

Adding to this last point:

If you want to be a political actor and comment on a situation, you need to do the bare minimum of investigation and develop an informed analysis. If you don’t want to or can’t, don’t speak on the issue.

“I think we should do whatever the Iranian people want” is a cop out non-answer, because — surprise! — there is not a consensus. Do you mean monarchist Iranians? This is mostly who you hear from in the U.S., because this contingent is pro-U.S. intervention. Do you mean pro-Revolution Iranians? Ok, which ones? There were a lot of factions involved, from religious groups to Marxists.

Here’s my position: Iranians can solve their own social problems like police violence, and they should be allowed to do so without the U.S. using the upheaval as an opportunity to whip up international sentiment against them. It’s considerably harder to do any genuine internal change with a hostile superpower trying to use every instance of unrest as a chance to tighten the screws of deadly economic sanctions or set the stage for a coup. Would the 2020 protests of George Floyd’s murder have gone better if the international community had responded by making food more expensive and medicine harder to obtain? Because that’s the U.S. State Department’s solution, and therefore Masih Alinejad’s, too.

mysharona1987

assoc-of-free-people

Maybe because shared responsibility is a euphemism for oppression.

tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva

Me when it's my turn to do the dishes^

tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva

The way he's arguing with other peoples replies but not this one...ultimate takedown

well if you won’t let me then it’s more than a recommendation tumblr

tiktokstowatch

simonalkenmayer

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No…

I thought I could figure out the referent, but no. I can’t. Which murdered British boys? Someone go back and ask that elderly neighbor or I’ll never be able to sleep again.

starkie-md

King Edward V of England and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York! They were murdered by their uncle!

knightsintodreams

She… she does

loumandliker

lying to people in positions of power (landlords, rental agencies, employers) to get what u want (a flat, a job, whatever) is cool and u should do it more often.

loumandliker

maybe it’s the Older Sibling in me but lying to people outright, by omission, or by implication is a useful skill. if the landlord says it’s not a party flat tell them you’re relieved to hear that because you hated living with people who had people over a lot. no you didn’t meet your future roommates through a facebook flatmate searching group, you met through mutual friends. you’re neurotypical and love working with people, customer service is your passion! you used to do tons of volunteer work in high school while also juggling extracurriculars and maintaining good grades which shows you’re really good at time management and like being busy, nevermind the fact that your school required you to do those volunteer hours. lie on the spot! adapt! you too can be the perfect person for every single situation! don’t feel bad about it! there’s no reason to be honest as long as it won’t directly be clockable as a lie!

baddingtonbitch

good morning to this legend <3

plaidos

the thing is about trans women is that even in ostensibly “pro trans women” spaces, it is socially unacceptable to be attracted to trans women. like for example, on this website, if cis women talk about how they like trans women with stubble, or broad shoulders, or deep voices, or even just that they like girls with dicks, they are treated like chasers. and like, no, actually, a chaser means somebody who specifically objectifies trans women in a degrading way and refuses to integrate their trans girlfriends into their lives like introduce her to their parents etc. and just uses her as a sexual object. you can’t just moralise being physically attracted to trans women as wrong and objectifying and fetishistic. we are attractive, we are sexy; why are you so afraid of people expressing that?

plaidos

and the thing is, if you think open and enthusiastic attraction to trans women is fetishistic then it’s actually you who is objectifying us by seeing attraction to us as a kink.

dispatchesfromtheclasswar

trekwiz

Ok, but if you’re an independent contractor in the US and this happens? Find a lawyer, because you might have just gotten a huge payday.

Your position was just referred to as employment. Independent contractors do not have employers; they do not have employment. Congrats, your contact at this company just provided evidence that you were illegally missclassified.

This contact is claiming that you have set hours you’re obligated to fulfill. Unless a work task can only be done at a set time for practical reasons (i.e. you’re an audio freelancer paid to support a live event that occurs at a particular time and requires a certain amount of pre-show setup), a company cannot set an independent contractor’s work hours. This is further evidence that you were missclassified.

The whole exchange establishes that the company is interpreting an employer-employee relationship rather than expecting a service. Discipline and potential for firing (you cannot fire an independent contractor; no longer purchasing their service is not equivalent) establish that this person views themselves as a manager. Independent contractors cannot have managers.

This one text exchange could:

Get you back pay for the full duration you’ve worked there, to bring you up to the compensation that an employee would have gotten

Get you back compensation for lost benefits that an employee would have gotten

Get you back pay for the additional self-employment taxes the company should have covered

Get the company to pay back taxes to the government

Get the company to hire everyone who performed a similar role, or face further penalties and fines

A win would encourage the rest of their missclassified workers to sue for the same, or give them leverage to demand a better deal

If the company is going to screw you over like that, may as well make them pay for it.

trekwiz

Since this is getting a lot of reblogs, here’s a federal source that can help you determine if you’re illegally classified as a contractor:

You can also file a form with the IRS to force the company to correct your classification (assuming you meet the criteria), without necessarily having to sue:

Learn how to determine whether a person providing a service to you is an employee or an independent contractor.

Keep in mind that this is just federal. Most states also prohibit missclassification as an independent contractor; and even if states have more lenient rules, companies still have to comply with this federal law. The rules have largely been bipartisan and existed for decades, so they’re common.

States also have an interest in having regulations about missclassification: it’s a significant loss of tax revenue. Your self employment tax does not fully equal what a company would have paid for you in payroll taxes.

A lawyer can help point you in the right direction if a company is currently missclassifying you.