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[globalriseofblackpeople]

Black panther

[gabygirl1243]

Why?

Why does he always look so sad?

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Something anime does (FMA did this) is using eyes to portray a lot about the characters. There may be more to Aoyama but in low key shook.

[itschinyere-deactivated20200201]

This will be my mood for the entire 2018. Not gonna stress over anything.

[reblog-thisif]

Reblog this if its okay for your followers to introduce themselves to you.

[jamausis]

Just come to my ask box and tell me stuff about yourself. Your pets. Your favorite music. What you had for breakfast this morning. Literally anything you want, I love making new friends

[taylorswiftville]

I MADE ACTUAL FRIENDS DOING THIS BEFORE

[laughingyaoi]

Yess please, I love talking to new people :D and don’t worry about being awkward im awkward af too so just literally say the first thing that comes into your head idm :D <3

[periodically-magical]

Please do! I’m not very good at messaging people first but there are so many interesting people who follow me!

[1111-inactive]

I hate messaging first even if I really wanna be friends!! Please do this!!

[tiny-sleepy-angel]

Please..?

[nxferatu]

Do it!! I wanna get to know you guys

[protectblkwomen]

Yall won’t do it anyway

[queenwzrd]

Can y’all just do this?

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Didn’t this happen on law and order SVU once?

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It’s the internet and nothing really matters so let’s have fun with this shit in a none destructive/hateful way. K? Cool.

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This app is lit why’d I take a break from it?

*10 minutes in gets hit with the hard r on MLK day*

Feels good to be back.

[globalriseofblackpeople]

Why white people afraid of black people

Lmao he was going off

[csmitty4u]

CHECK!!!

[jaealluring]

actually watch the entire video

[findingdar-deactivated20180426]

Go The Fuck off!

[sweet-watamelanin]

He snaaaaaaappin!!

[marqweabyss]

He went in. This is gold.

[kennypendrix-deactivated2025040]

🎶somebody don’t beloong here🎶 Lol he really talking that shit!

[moodyspacebabe-deactivated20180]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽😁

[mikisking]

He summed it tf up🤷🏾‍♂️

Watch the whooole thang

[neptoonsdaughter]

Nigga said “fuck Jesus”

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Feels about right though

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My Last Gift to the Flat Earth Society

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My Views on War

"War is always wrong, but some things are [more wrong]." Henry McCord, Madam Secretary (played by Tim Daly)

I’m not any sort of particular hippie but I do think war is wrong. There are just wars and unjust wars. I think the majority of them are unjust and war should be the last option. War for oil? Wrong. War because of inhumane fuckery that absolute can’t be allowed to continue? Probably right. I don’t think war is entirely necessary but Myanmarese are already murdering the Rohingyans en masse. That’s neither here nor there.

White phosphorous bombs are terrible. Remember Agent Orange? We stopped using it because of how inhumane it was. It’s barbaric. I understand fighting for a just cause but let’s remember we are all people at the end of the day fighting wars for things we probably don’t particularly agree with unless it’s some hot spot of supreme nationalism for you.

If you are pro war I just want to know what could get you personally to kill another person. Don’t take this the wrong way but if you do let’s talk about it.

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Trumpcare? Obamacare? Reasonable Healthcare? Nah.

Short post: Let’s take away the amazing, free healthcare our politicians get and give them what we have. See if we don’t get progress immediately on that front. I’m just saying. This is probably going to drag on years unless we do what I mentioned previously or they bribe all the holdouts with stuff for their specific state/district. I’m just saying. Nothing great will come out of this in the foreseeable future. Even now the Cassidy-Graham bill is sliding in incentives for a few holdouts.

That isn’t how it should work. “Oh, you didn’t like the bill? Take this monetary incentive. Okay cool. Now we have something that vaguely resembles healthcare and we can move on to dismantling other things the previous administration did.”

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Racism in the World Outside of the USA

Disclaimer: There’s a lot of information that could go here so I won’t pretend this is all encompassing

I have lived in the United States of America for the entirety of my life so I am only truly informed of the blatant racism that goes on here. Which, in the vast majority, is mostly white on nonwhite. If that offends you I almost feel bad because that is just a fact based on the United States of America.

However in other countries, like Zimbabwe and other parts of Africa, white people are the disenfranchised majority literally being murdered while the government either openly approves or ignores it. Not even the decency to ignore it or deny it exists. Like some Western countries.

There is literal genocide going on in the world as you read this like the rohingya genocide in Myanmar. Those are Muslims (I’m mostly sure) being murdered by the army in a country that is majority Buddhist (again, pretty sure) because they are illegal immigrants despite living there for 100s of years and the government literally just hating them.

Let me just cut this short. There is still no such thing as reverse racism. Just racism. It’s not that I don’t care about other parts of the world but I live in this part. It just makes more sense for me to be more worried about my immediate surroundings. Maybe one day I will try to be appointed Secretary of State of the United States and then I can work on those issues.

For example: If your house were on fire would you go out to find other house fires to put out before dealing with your own home fire first? Probably not. That’s just unreasonable.

G.O.M.D

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Follow Up: Flat Earthers and You

I hadn’t even thought about these things since I live in the United States and it hadn’t occurred to me but in my last post about Flat Earthers some people were bothered I had not considered the murdering of white people in Zimbabwe and the xenophobia in Japan.

Was I ignorant of these? Yes. I was considering people specifically in the United States of America who claim reverse racism is what they are experiencing instead of prejudice. So I will clarify.

1. There is no such thing as reverse racism.

2. White people, in the United States, will not experience racism in the United States.

3. There is probably some form of institutional racism in other parts of the world that I know nothing about but could probably educate myself on.

@derangedcanine2 – people all over the world are threatening to kill people all the time. Yes you can experience hate based on being white but I can promise that in the United States you are more likely to receive a friendlier outlook from your death on the news than if you were a darker shade. There are real life examples of this. Darker kids who are killed get all sorts of implications of their death being gang related than lighter toned children. But your assumption that I think enslaving people okay is just asinine and has no basis in fact. I sent you a direct ask because I do want a reply. And you did reply. Glad we cleared that up. Love having reasonable conversations.

@myriaddiscourse : Can you specify how I am being a hypocrite? Is it me being narrow minded because reverse racism is just an experience I can’t relate to? I mean, I stand by reverse racism isn’t a thing, I thing racism is just something that exists.

@keyhollow I will look into Zimbabwe later, thanks for bringing it up.

Nobody defended the Flat Earth theories though. So I guess that’s a silver lining.

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Are you on the Right Side of History?

1.      When you remember the sit-ins and bus boycotts of the civil rights era which side do you envision yourself on?

2.      Do you often consider peaceful protests to be problematic?

3.      Do you think protests are fine only when they don’t directly interfere your life or inconvenience you in any way?

4.      Do you still think protests are wrong when they don’t directly inconvenience you? You’d just rather not see some harmless action? Like kneeling during the first 5 minutes of a game for a ceremony that you also are not standing for?

5.      Would you rather people just be silent and enjoy living in this country or “leave” instead of protest whatever indignity they are currently “on about”?

If you answered yes to 2, 3, 4 or 5 your answer to number 1 should have been “the side that kinda lost, so I guess the side that dragged people out of sit-ins and hated integration to the point of threatening kids. Wow in retrospect I don’t want to answer this question but I also still want to complain about protesting the thing I don’t agree with for reasons I can’t rationally explain.”

:)

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From Me to Ben Carson (Late)

They were not meant to store grain.

Only a few pharaohs built pyramids.

Building pyramids was good for the economy at the time. They used skilled laborers and efficient waterways to get stone to the pyramids and dragged it up. Minimal effort and less inhumane than pop history would have you think.

Pyramids stored pharaohs. That’s it. We think.

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The Flat Earthers and You

Flat Earth Believers are some of the most narrow-minded people who can’t seem to understand that their tiny scope of the world is not universal.

Who does that sound like?

The people who deny that racism and sexism aren’t real because they themselves don’t experience it?

What about when they deny your experience with another anecdotal experience?

B.O.B. did this already. He said that he has only seen the horizon as it is, flat, and that if the Earth was round it would have a curve. Does that sound like people who say racism is dead because they have experienced this and that?

Another thing, time zones ruin the flat earth mythos. Like. If the Earth were indeed how do we have someone in Japan seeing the sunset while someone in California is seeing the sunrise?

Idiocy has been weaponized but we have to at least shout out these celebrities who unabashedly support the Flat Earth theory. The first ones that come to mind for me are B.O.B. and Shaq.

Ah, but does this apply to people who Stan for reverse racism? No. Reverse racism isn’t a thing. There is not a singular institutionalized force against white people to hold them back in any form. Nobody has ever lost out on a job they were qualified for because their name sounded white. Reverse racism is a myth. Like the Earth being flat.

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The Futility I Feel Protesting in the United States between 2014 and now (2017)

In the terrifying political climate that is today’s society the best we can hope for is the illusion of evoking change through protest. In other countries they protest and see results immediately. For example: South Korea protested their President in January and there was an impeachment because of the influence a woman supposedly had over President Park Geun-hye. There was a new election and Moon Jae-in became the new President.

Now look to the United States. I won’t even touch the protests about the unjust murder of black people at the hands of police officers. Instead let’s look at something that you would think is obvious just from the outside looking in. Firstly the Dakota Access Pipeline protests that went on because of possible environment impact. The protests went on for months before President Barack Obama halted it only for that decision to be overturned by the following President. Despite the conflict of interest* for President Trump he persisted in his support of the Pipeline. People were getting their skin peeled off by water cannons in the bone cutting winter but all this protest meant nothing since the project continued.

A protest of this magnitude in a democratic country would bring about change. But it hasn’t. Think of all the protests that involve unjust police shootings and police brutality. You would think at this point there would have been some sort police reform or 3rd party police investigative service.

Instead the police have resumed their militarization with tanks and riot gear for peaceful protests and nothing for white supremacists shooting a loaded gun into a crowd of counter protestors.**

You would think your elected officials would sense what their constituents want or at least listen to them at rallies. However, because of a lack of term limits and the massive machines that are major political parties, they only need to serve themselves and their party to stay in their seats.

You would think other citizens would be able to empathize with the hundreds of thousands of people protesting instead of deriding them and downplaying their experiences since they have not had those exact same experiences. How would you feel in this situation? (As a protestor.)

*According to federal disclosure forms Donald Trump held up to $50,000 in stock in Energy Transfer Partners and up to $250,000 in Phillips 66.

**https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4332413/shocking-moment-white-nationalist-fires-a-gun-at-black-charlottesville-protestors-while-cops-stand-and-watch/

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Experts in One Field Should Not Be Authorities on Anything Else but their Expertise

It’s all in the title honestly. But sure. Let’s get into it. (This is just gonna be quick notes of mine instead of a thought out thing.)

We gotta stop giving smart people so much pull. Being an expert in 1 thing doesn’t mean you’re an expert in all things. Why listen to Bill Nye on climate change? He’s an engineer. Yeah he can be educated on it and I happen to agree with him but he is not an authority on the matter. That’s why some experts in the field of climate change actually disagree with him on some things. But because he has a huge platform we listen to him every time. What about Stephen hawking on anything outside of theoretical physics? Would you ask your mechanic to give you braces? Probably not. Let’s start listening to experts on only the things they are actually versed in.

I only say this because politicians (whose expertise are probably something in politics) often act as experts on biology, meteorology, and all these other things they want to legislate without consulting actual experts. See? There was a point. I just didn’t know I was going to arrive here until I did.