The Fire Rises

Just a random collection of stuff I like from this app/site. All things 'geek' fan. Anti-Left. Anti-SJW. Anti-Idiocy.

[unrepentantwarriorpriest]

FBI Data Shows Armed Citizens Have 94% Success Rate Stopping Would-Be Mass Shooters

As the nation mourns the latest tragedy in “gun free zone” Chicago, a recent report compiled by Jacob Paulsen at ConcealedCarry.com show

An armed society IS a polite one, and good men with guns ARE the best defense against bad ones.

[kingjaffejoffer]

A white guy pressing a black dude about wearing a MAGA hat

How does this make you feel? Who you rooting for?

[perspectivemax-deactivated20181]

This is what y’all look like calling Kanye an Uncle Tom

[redbloodedamerica]

Angry white Democrat chastises black man in public for wandering off the plantation (Colorized, 1866)

[commonprose]

[jcap201]

[thepunishergifs]

“I think there’s no good in the filth that I put down, that’s what I think.”

[sixpenceee]

Calum McSwiggan brutally roasts PETA in a series of tweets. You can view the rest here

[maggiesox]

I barely eat meat. I try to wear cruelty free products at all times. I adopted a shelter dog and love her more than anything.

Fuck PETA.

[jcap201]

This information has been spreading for some time. The amount of animals PETA kills on a budget of MILLIONS can be looked up easily online. All the info one needs to see the type of behavior peta takes part in is readily available. Hopefully it leads to the complete downfall of PETA. They basically traffic in animal cruelty all while claiming they’re morally superior.

[postedbygaslight]

An excellent thread with likes and retweets from both Rian Johnson and Pablo Hidalgo. I don’t have much to add here except to say it’s an excellent thread, and it’s simply mindboggling that there are people who have willfully misread this story and its characters for so long.

Links to tweets: X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X

[heroineimages]

@wearepaladin

[sunder-the-gold]

I was honestly way too young to understand what was going on in that scene of RtoJ, and I haven’t watched the movie in forever, so this explanation was enlightening and helped me appreciate the end of The Last Jedi more than I already did.

[gamergate-news]

…Did McIntosh actually make a post that’s halfway sensible?

[jcap201]

Luke Skywalker himself hated Luke Skywalker in TLJ. It’s not a few basement dwelling, sexist, racist man babies who hated the character. It’s most of the core fan base. Luke’s “battle” with Ren might of been in character, but his actions in the rest of the filth that was TLJ was absolutely NOT. That’s the issue the core fan has with Luke in TLJ. Ppl like Macintosh or Hidalgo will ignore everything else because TLJ is a beacon of the SJW bs that they want crammed down everyone’s throats.

[sonia-marmeladova]

You said the Republican party fought against slavery.. That is true, but the Republican party around that time period have more modern Democrat beliefs. They were northerners who believed in equal rights. And the Democratic party in the 1800s had view more similar to modern Republican beliefs. The party's beliefs flip flopped around late 1800s-early 1900s.. The conservative states were always advocating for slavery and oppression. They were also the last states to give women the right to vote.

Let’s discuss some history then.

1791 - The Democratic-Republican Party is formed by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson against Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist Party. The Democratic-Republicans strongly opposed government overreach and expansion, the creation of a national bank, and corruption.

1804 - Andrew Jackson purchases the plantation that will become his primary source of wealth.

1824 - The Democratic-Republican Party split. The new Democrats were supported by Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren, and the National Republicans were supported by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay.

1828 - Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United States.

1830 - Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, whereby the Cherokee and other native tribes were to be forcibly removed from their lands.

1831 - Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, whereby the Supreme Court ruled that Cherokee Nation was sovereign and the U.S. had no jurisdiction over Cherokee lands. Andrew Jackson had already started to enforce the removal of the Choctaw.

1832-33 - The Whig Party is formed in opposition to Jackson’s government expansion and overreach in the Nullification Crisis and the establishment of a Second National Bank. The Whig Party successfully absorbs the National Republican Party.

1838 -  Many Indian tribes had been forcibly removed. Under Jackson, General Winfield Scott and 7,000 soldiers forced the Cherokee from their land at bayonet point while their homes were pillaged. They marched the Cherokee more than 1,200 miles to the allocated Indian territory. About 5,000 Cherokee died on the journey due to starvation and disease.

1854 - The Whig Party dissolves over the question of the expansion of slavery. Anti-slavery Whigs and anti-slavery democrats form the Republican Party with their sole goal being to end slavery.

1861 -The election of President Lincoln spurs the beginning of the Civil War.

1862 - Lincoln writes a letter where he declares he wishes to preserve the union regardless of the morals on slavery. He issues the Emancipation Proclamation, whereby all slaves in Union territories had to be freed. As states came under Union control, those slaves too had to be freed.

1863 - Frederick Douglass, former slave and famous Republican abolitionist, meets with Lincoln on the suffrage of emancipated slaves.

1864 - Lincoln revised his position on slavery in a letter to Albert G. Hodges stating “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”

1865 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders at the Appomattox Courthouse to Union victory. After Lincoln’s Assassination, Democrat President Johnson issues amnesty to rebels and pardons the slave owners of their crimes.

1865 - The 13th Amendment which ended slavery passed with 100% Republican support and 63% Democrat support in congress.

1866 - The Klu Klux Klan is formed by Confederate veterans to intimidate black and Republicans through violence, lynching, and public floggings. They gave open support to the Democrat Party.

1866 - The Civil Rights Act of 1866 is vetoed by Democratic President Andrew Johnson. Every single Republican voted and overturned the veto.

1868 - The 14th Amendment which gave citizenship to freed slaves passed with 94% Republican support and 0% Democrat support in congress. The first grand wizard of the KKK, Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest is honored at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

1868 - Representative James Hinds who taught newly freedmen of their rights is murdered by the KKK.

1870 - The 15th Amendment which gave freed slaves the right to vote passed with 100% Republican support and 0% Democrat support in congress.

1871 - The violence of the KKK grew so savage that congress passed the Enforcement Acts to repress their influence.

1875 - Democrat Senator William Saulsbury speaks out against the Civil RIghts Act of 1875, claiming it will allow “colored men shall sit at the same table beside the white guest; that he shall enter the same parlor and take his seat beside the wife and daughter of the white man, whether the white man is willing or not, because you prohibit discrimination against him.“

1884 - A train conductor orders Ida B. Wells, a black Republican woman, to give up her seat and move to the smoking car. Wells was an investigative journalist who worked for a Republican journal to expose the horror of lynching. She advocated for the 2nd amendment rights for blacks so that they could protect themselves, and she denounced the Democratic Party for treating blacks as property unequal to whites.

1892 - Democrat Benjamin Tillman is re-elected to the Senate. He was a white supremacist who boasted his participation in lynchings. He is quoted saying that “as long as the Negroes continue to ravish white women we will continue to lynch them.”

1915 - Democrat President Woodrow Wilson screens KKK promotion film Birth of a Nation. The film pictured blacks as ignorant and violent savages, and the Klu Klux Klan as rescuers and protectors of the civilized world. The popularity of the movie revived the Klu Klux Klan which had previously gone extinct. Reportedly Wilson said about the film that “[it] is like writing history with lightning, and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”

1919 - The 19th Amendment which officially gave women the right to vote passed with 82% Republican support and 54% Democrat support in congress.

1924 - Thousands of Klansmen attend the 1924 Democratic National Convention.

1933 - The chief Nazi newspaper, Volkischer Beobachter, praised “Roosevelt’s adoption of National Socialist strains of thought in his economic and social policies” and “the development toward an authoritarian state.”

1933 - Democrat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes the Agricultural Adjustment Act with the well-meaning goal to help farmers and sharecroppers. Instead, though it aided white farmers, it resulted in increased unemployment and displacement of black farmers.

1933 - FDR established the National RecoveryAdministration to stimulate business recovery by forcing employers to pay higher wages for less work. This relief program was enforced on a local level and allowed Jim Crow racism to flourish, resulting in many blacks being fired to be replaced by whites. 

1934 -  The Federal Housing Administration is introduced under FDR. The FHA made homeownership accessible for whites, but explicitly refused to back loans to black people or even other people who lived near black people.

1936 - The Roosevelt Administration finally begins vying for the black vote. Though the relief programs neglected blacks, their communities were bombarded with advertisements. FDR began to garner black support though the vast majority remained economically unchanged and locked into poverty.

1942 - FDR orders American citizens of Japanese ancestry from their homes into interment camps without due process after the bombings at Pearl Harbor.

1953 - Senator Robert Byrd is elected into congress and remains a staunch Democrat until his death in 2010. He was a prominent member in the KKK and praised by Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton.

1955 - Democrat Richard Daley is elected mayor of Chicago. He resisted residential desegregation, defended public school segregation, and used urban renewal funds to build massive public housing projects that kept blacks within existing ghettos.

1957 - The Civil Rights Act of 1957 is passes with 93% Republican support and 59% Democrat support.

1963 - After the assassination of JFK, Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn into office. LBJ was a Democrat remembered by a famous quote: “I’ll have them niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years.”

1965 - The Voting Rights Act of 1965 passes with 94% Republican support and 73% Democrat support.

1968 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated. MLK voted Republican.

1960-70s - A total of 24 Democratic members of congress switched to become Republican over a 20 year period. The majority of democrats in that time period remained democrats.

1995 - Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama is published. Obama discusses how the urban cities would become the new plantation for blacks under Democrat political bosses: “The plantation, the blacks have the worst jobs, the worst housing, police brutality rampant; but when the so-called black committee man come around election time, we’d all line up and vote the straight Democratic ticket. Sell our souls for a Christmas turkey. White folks spit in our faces, and we reward them with the vote.“

2009 - Hillary Clinton lauds Margaret Sanger, KKK advocate, white supremacist, and eugenicist at the 2009 Planned Parenthood Honors Gala: “I admire Margaret Sanger enormously, her courage, her tenacity, her vision. I am really in awe of her, there are a lot of lessons we can learn from her life.”

Me: 1History revisionism: 0

[sonia-marmeladova]

gotta bring this back

[redbloodedamerica]

[beatofthesoul-deactivated201704]

Always reblogging whenever this masterpost comes around.

[anonymouse789]

Relogged for greatness and truth.

[damonramirez-deactivated2022091]

Because inside EVERY Leftist there is a totalitarian trying to get out.

[madisonsarchive]

Lost meme = [1/8 scenes] Hurley’s speech.

No one’s going anywhere with you, John. Because they’re not crazy. He’s not crazy.

[nolwamahtars]

‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’

GODZILLA (2014) dir. Gareth Edwards | dp. Seamus McGarvey

[stream]

Don’t talk like one of them. You’re not! Even if you’d like to be. The Dark Knight (2008)

[sonia-marmeladova]

You said the Republican party fought against slavery.. That is true, but the Republican party around that time period have more modern Democrat beliefs. They were northerners who believed in equal rights. And the Democratic party in the 1800s had view more similar to modern Republican beliefs. The party's beliefs flip flopped around late 1800s-early 1900s.. The conservative states were always advocating for slavery and oppression. They were also the last states to give women the right to vote.

Let’s discuss some history then.

1791 - The Democratic-Republican Party is formed by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson against Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist Party. The Democratic-Republicans strongly opposed government overreach and expansion, the creation of a national bank, and corruption.

1804 - Andrew Jackson purchases the plantation that will become his primary source of wealth.

1824 - The Democratic-Republican Party split. The new Democrats were supported by Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren, and the National Republicans were supported by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay.

1828 - Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United States.

1830 - Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, whereby the Cherokee and other native tribes were to be forcibly removed from their lands.

1831 - Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, whereby the Supreme Court ruled that Cherokee Nation was sovereign and the U.S. had no jurisdiction over Cherokee lands. Andrew Jackson had already started to enforce the removal of the Choctaw.

1832-33 - The Whig Party is formed in opposition to Jackson’s government expansion and overreach in the Nullification Crisis and the establishment of a Second National Bank. The Whig Party successfully absorbs the National Republican Party.

1838 -  Many Indian tribes had been forcibly removed. Under Jackson, General Winfield Scott and 7,000 soldiers forced the Cherokee from their land at bayonet point while their homes were pillaged. They marched the Cherokee more than 1,200 miles to the allocated Indian territory. About 5,000 Cherokee died on the journey due to starvation and disease.

1854 - The Whig Party dissolves over the question of the expansion of slavery. Anti-slavery Whigs and anti-slavery democrats form the Republican Party with their sole goal being to end slavery.

1861 -The election of President Lincoln spurs the beginning of the Civil War.

1862 - Lincoln writes a letter where he declares he wishes to preserve the union regardless of the morals on slavery. He issues the Emancipation Proclamation, whereby all slaves in Union territories had to be freed. As states came under Union control, those slaves too had to be freed.

1863 - Frederick Douglass, former slave and famous Republican abolitionist, meets with Lincoln on the suffrage of emancipated slaves.

1864 - Lincoln revised his position on slavery in a letter to Albert G. Hodges stating “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”

1865 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders at the Appomattox Courthouse to Union victory. After Lincoln’s Assassination, Democrat President Johnson issues amnesty to rebels and pardons the slave owners of their crimes.

1865 - The 13th Amendment which ended slavery passed with 100% Republican support and 63% Democrat support in congress.

1866 - The Klu Klux Klan is formed by Confederate veterans to intimidate black and Republicans through violence, lynching, and public floggings. They gave open support to the Democrat Party.

1866 - The Civil Rights Act of 1866 is vetoed by Democratic President Andrew Johnson. Every single Republican voted and overturned the veto.

1868 - The 14th Amendment which gave citizenship to freed slaves passed with 94% Republican support and 0% Democrat support in congress. The first grand wizard of the KKK, Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest is honored at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

1868 - Representative James Hinds who taught newly freedmen of their rights is murdered by the KKK.

1870 - The 15th Amendment which gave freed slaves the right to vote passed with 100% Republican support and 0% Democrat support in congress.

1871 - The violence of the KKK grew so savage that congress passed the Enforcement Acts to repress their influence.

1875 - Democrat Senator William Saulsbury speaks out against the Civil RIghts Act of 1875, claiming it will allow “colored men shall sit at the same table beside the white guest; that he shall enter the same parlor and take his seat beside the wife and daughter of the white man, whether the white man is willing or not, because you prohibit discrimination against him.“

1884 - A train conductor orders Ida B. Wells, a black Republican woman, to give up her seat and move to the smoking car. Wells was an investigative journalist who worked for a Republican journal to expose the horror of lynching. She advocated for the 2nd amendment rights for blacks so that they could protect themselves, and she denounced the Democratic Party for treating blacks as property unequal to whites.

1892 - Democrat Benjamin Tillman is re-elected to the Senate. He was a white supremacist who boasted his participation in lynchings. He is quoted saying that “as long as the Negroes continue to ravish white women we will continue to lynch them.”

1915 - Democrat President Woodrow Wilson screens KKK promotion film Birth of a Nation. The film pictured blacks as ignorant and violent savages, and the Klu Klux Klan as rescuers and protectors of the civilized world. The popularity of the movie revived the Klu Klux Klan which had previously gone extinct. Reportedly Wilson said about the film that “[it] is like writing history with lightning, and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”

1919 - The 19th Amendment which officially gave women the right to vote passed with 82% Republican support and 54% Democrat support in congress.

1924 - Thousands of Klansmen attend the 1924 Democratic National Convention.

1933 - The chief Nazi newspaper, Volkischer Beobachter, praised “Roosevelt’s adoption of National Socialist strains of thought in his economic and social policies” and “the development toward an authoritarian state.”

1933 - Democrat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes the Agricultural Adjustment Act with the well-meaning goal to help farmers and sharecroppers. Instead, though it aided white farmers, it resulted in increased unemployment and displacement of black farmers.

1933 - FDR established the National RecoveryAdministration to stimulate business recovery by forcing employers to pay higher wages for less work. This relief program was enforced on a local level and allowed Jim Crow racism to flourish, resulting in many blacks being fired to be replaced by whites. 

1934 -  The Federal Housing Administration is introduced under FDR. The FHA made homeownership accessible for whites, but explicitly refused to back loans to black people or even other people who lived near black people.

1936 - The Roosevelt Administration finally begins vying for the black vote. Though the relief programs neglected blacks, their communities were bombarded with advertisements. FDR began to garner black support though the vast majority remained economically unchanged and locked into poverty.

1942 - FDR orders American citizens of Japanese ancestry from their homes into interment camps without due process after the bombings at Pearl Harbor.

1953 - Senator Robert Byrd is elected into congress and remains a staunch Democrat until his death in 2010. He was a prominent member in the KKK and praised by Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton.

1955 - Democrat Richard Daley is elected mayor of Chicago. He resisted residential desegregation, defended public school segregation, and used urban renewal funds to build massive public housing projects that kept blacks within existing ghettos.

1957 - The Civil Rights Act of 1957 is passes with 93% Republican support and 59% Democrat support.

1963 - After the assassination of JFK, Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn into office. LBJ was a Democrat remembered by a famous quote: “I’ll have them niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years.”

1965 - The Voting Rights Act of 1965 passes with 94% Republican support and 73% Democrat support.

1968 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated. MLK voted Republican.

1960-70s - A total of 24 Democratic members of congress switched to become Republican over a 20 year period. The majority of democrats in that time period remained democrats.

1995 - Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama is published. Obama discusses how the urban cities would become the new plantation for blacks under Democrat political bosses: “The plantation, the blacks have the worst jobs, the worst housing, police brutality rampant; but when the so-called black committee man come around election time, we’d all line up and vote the straight Democratic ticket. Sell our souls for a Christmas turkey. White folks spit in our faces, and we reward them with the vote.“

2009 - Hillary Clinton lauds Margaret Sanger, KKK advocate, white supremacist, and eugenicist at the 2009 Planned Parenthood Honors Gala: “I admire Margaret Sanger enormously, her courage, her tenacity, her vision. I am really in awe of her, there are a lot of lessons we can learn from her life.”

Me: 1History revisionism: 0

[sonia-marmeladova]

gotta bring this back

[redbloodedamerica]

[nerdeas]

Regardless of cyborg amputees or kratos’s Scottish cousin, this shouldn’t be praised as ‘innovation’

[jcap201]

They’re lying though. The game WILL have loot boxes, known as Air Lifts. The games own preorder page even tells us this.

[baterwottle-deactivated20170220]

[another-basic-blog]

you couldnt help yourself

[mr-cappadocia]

Up until recently conquest was the human norm. If she wasn’t strong enough to defend it then it wasn’t hers to begin with.

[gonorryeehaw]

Are you seriously defending the slaughter of millions of natives jfc

[mr-cappadocia]

Yes, yes I am. Insofar as up until about last week Tuesday that’s how *all* societies functioned.

Ever wonder where the millions of black slaves came from?

Ever wonder where the meso-americans found their tens of thousands of sacrificial victims?

Ever wonder who Genghis Khan was?

Of course not. You were too busy hating white people.

[gonorryeehaw]

Okay but…you are saying the atrocities these people committed were ok? The consequences these people are still feeling today are ok? I’m honestly lost on how you can view this dark time in human history as “justified.”

[mr-cappadocia]

I’m not saying anything is okay. I’m saying that’s how the world worked. In many respects it still does.

However, the outrage being displayed is fake. It’s deceit. It’s a conditioned response.

I mean you’re really asking me if I think the horrible deaths of tens of thousands of people is “okay”? What universe do you even live in?

But do you see me gnashing my teeth and wailing into the stars over all the victims of Genghis Khan? Or Alexander the Great? Shaka Zulu?

Do you? Do you weep into your pillow at night over the atrocities committed by Vlad Tepes?

No? That’s strange.

My anger and outrage is reserved for the living, not the long dead. So if you find yourself becoming so terribly furious over such things it would be good to question why you feel such fury over ancient sins committed by people long dead upon people even deader.

[smellyoldblanket]

Gotta say I agree with Cap (yup, line up to punch me in the face).

Genocide is not okay by any means (and no, Cap never said it was), racism and racist killing isn’t okay (Cap didn’t say that either so those accusations need to stop, he said nothing racist).

It’s just how the world has always worked. It’s shit, it’s bad, it shouldn’t have happened, but everybody who is becoming enraged over the native genocide probably HASN’T shed a tear over Genghis Khan’s victims, and they probably don’t even KNOW about Africans selling one another into slavery.

Like that one person said, “white people are used as a scapegoat”, and then they immediately proceeded to use whites as a scapegoat. “POC” have been enslaving and killing one another for a lot longer than whites have, and whites have been on the shitty end of that stick for a long time as well FROM POCs (historically throughout Europe and Russia).

If you’re going to get mad about someone saying “people were assholes and genocide shouldn’t happen., but that’s the way it worked back then”, you’d better be acknowledging that native Americans DID enslave one anotehr, DID kill one another, that Africans DID sell each other to whites into slavery, and that they STILL DO to this day. You need to acknowledge that human trafficking, slavery, and genocide is NOT A WHITE THING, it’s a HUMAN thing. We’re disgusting animals who take what we want without morals, that’s how it works. Playing blind to “POCs” doing this shit isn’t helping matters. Stop using whites as a scapegoat.

[givemeyourtired]

This was interesting but I must agree. You have to unlearn how you’ve been taught to feel through vicariousness, others’ agenda and expectations, and learn how to feel and establish your own feelings through logic and reasoning. If you resort to blaming just because others are blaming, without looking at the facts, then you are just following a crowd and not thinking for yourself at all.

[gsxp]

Notice how Russia was invading Ukraine up until a month ago, but tumblr didnt give a shit.

[poppypicklesticks-blog]

I never see Tumblr criticise the Japanese for their treatment of the native Ainu people.

Also do SJWs seriously believe the native tribes and civilisations lived in peace and harmony with one another until Whitey turned up?  I mean it’s not like the Aztecs conquered most of Mexico so they could have lots of slaves to sacrifice for their gods (the god of rain, Tlaloc loved child sacrifices that were crying, so it was customary for the priests to pull out the slave childrens fingernails so they would be crying for the gods pleasure)?  Where did they think scalpings come from?

What about the Manchu conquering China and setting up a series of laws that kept the Han Chinese as second class citizens at best in their own homeland? 

Conquest is a part of human history.   Barbaric oppression of conquered people is not just the domain of whitey.  

[the-real-adam-taurus]

This post should be on everyone’s dash😐. Stop using Caucasians as a scapegoat.

[inked-up-gentleman-deactivated2]

Facts

[bigby-direwolf]

Also do SJWs seriously believe the native tribes and civilisations lived in peace and harmony with one another until Whitey turned up?

That’s exactly what they believe. Haven’t you ever seen that post where they rewrote the Avatar: The Last Airbender opening to be about all other races and nations living in peace until the white people attacked? They don’t think that’s a simplification or joke at all, they think that’s literally how history was.

[ghost---busting]

The Scoleri Brothers

[quakerjoe]

[cuzyouwanttotakemypicture-deact]

Yep

[libertybill]

From WAC

THE MISLEADING CLAIM:

“The average hip replacement in the USA costs $40,364. In Spain, it costs $7,371.“

The Reality:

First, note that Spain has a single-payer health care system run by the government. Their system requires, by law, that the state provide healthcare at “no out-of-pocket” cost to the individual. (except for prescription drugs.) Thus, costs are incurred by taxpayers.

One reason the cost of surgery is different between the two countries? Incomes are lower in Spain than they are in the U.S. This means the labor component that factors into your hip replacement is severely reduced.

The Median salary of an Orthopedic surgeon in Spain, for instance, is only $64,152 a year. The same position pays about $432,552 a year in the U.S.

The labor component for surgery in America is therefore roughly 6.75 times greater than it is in Spain. If one were to adjust the cost of a hip replacement surgery in Spain by accounting for what the surgeon SHOULD be getting paid, we’d see a final price much closer to what’s charged in America.

WHAT’S THE COST RELATIVE TO MEDIAN INCOME?

Spain’s Median Household Annual Income, adjusted for purchasing parity, was $17,191 in 2011. The United States’ Median Household Annual Income, on the other hand, was $50,054 in 2011.

If the average cost of a hip replacement in Spain is $7,371, that’s roughly 43% of that country’s median household income. Note, that price is billed to the taxpayer. As we’ll demonstrate however, in America, the cost is less burdensome.

Now, there is no such thing as an “un-insured” price for medical care in Spain, since everyone is insured via the government. Therefore, Spain’s cost must be compared to what INSURED individuals are charged in America. The Average Cost of the same hip replacement surgery in the U.S. is $39,299 (per our sources). This would represent a whopping 78% of median household income IF - and only if - people actually paid it, but they don’t. Most of the cost is billed to private insurance companies, which sustain themselves via profitable investments mitigating the need to profit directly off of consumers. Only about $3,000 is ever billed to an insured individual. That’s around 6% of median household income.

One might point out that while the costs are mostly incurred by private insurers in America, those insurers merely disperse such costs amongst their customers not unlike the Spanish government passing costs onto taxpayers. This is a fair critique, and for the sake of argument, we can attempt to adjust for that.

For 2011, premiums for employer-sponsored family-health coverage were roughly $15,500. (Paid largely by the employer) On average, workers, however, only paid about $4300 of that. For single (non-family) coverage, workers paid even less, with an average contribution of only about $950. [x] If we were to include one year’s worth of insurance premium contributions with the cost of this surgery, the cost in America would still only range from $3950 - $7300. That only represents 7.9% - 14.5% of our 2011 median household income, which is significantly less than Spain’s 43%. In fact, for the burden of a U.S. family to match that of Spain, we’d have to include, not only the out-of-pocket expense from the surgery, but also over 4 years of health insurance contributions. For individual coverage, we’d have to include 19.5 years of health insurance contributions! Luckily, our burden isn’t 43% of our median household income.

WHAT’S THE CONCLUSION?

Yes, the absolute cost is lower in Spain than it is in America, but that cost represents a burden far greater than what we experience in the U.S. Meanwhile, in the United States, depending on how you count it, people only pay an amount equivalent to about 6%, 7.9%, or 14.5% what they earn annually. When Spain’s burden is 43%, which system sounds less burdensome to YOU? —————————- Sources: http://www.salaryexplorer.com/salary-survey.php…

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php…

http://www.ine.es/en/daco/daco42/etcl/etcl0412_en.pdf

http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=IDD

http://health.costhelper.com/hip-replacement.htmlanted=all&…

http://www.justlanded.com/engli…/Spain/Articles/Jobs/Doctors

[x] (*2011 figures were approximated. Source actually only provided 2010 and 2012 figures, but indicated what the growth rate was in that time, allowing for a 2011 approximation.) http://www.ncsl.org/resear…/…/health-insurance-premiums.aspx

[jcap201]

Why are those on the left so goddamn short sighted?? Are they all purposely ignoring reality or are they all just that fucking stupid?

[sparklepuff360-deactivated20181]

Here’s a reminder that:

You can wear whatever you want, regardless of skin color or ethnicity.

You can eat whatever food you chose, regardless of skin color or ethnicity.

You can participate in any holiday you chose, regardless of skin color and ethnicity.

Nobody has the authority to tell you as an individual what you can or cannot do, and don’t feel ashamed if certain people lash out. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, as you are entitled to not care about said opinion.

Don’t harrass people simply for doing something you don’t particularly like. Wearing a sombrero as a black guy or a Chinese inspired dress as a white girl doesn’t make you a racist.

Have a good day!

[ojoroto-deactivated20180906]

“cinco de drinko’

you are truly dumb as fuck

[sparklepuff360-deactivated20181]

when you’re so insecure a play on words sends you into a rage lmao

[ojoroto-deactivated20180906]

im not “in a rage” im just really shocked by how dumb you are lmao. really gringa, im genuinely in shock.

[aquilarios-deactivated20180610]

Nobody has the authority to tell you as an individual what you can or cannot do

This is hilarious to me, cause we live in a society, and every day we have people in positions of power who prevent us from doing whatever the hell we want, but I dare this gringa to go up to a government official and tell them they’re about to commit a felony.

[suburbanjustice]

Love the attempt at making it seem like it’s not a grudgepost. Like, bruh, you’re very blatantly not trying to make some ~inspiring positivity statement~ to tumblr, you’re just being petty and trying to reassure yourself that you’re not being a prick (you are). It’s not a good look.

Frankly I don’t feel like taking the effort to look at your blog so I don’t have your age but I’m going to assume it’s 16, ballpark. If you’re older, that’s even more horrifying. 

[sparklepuff360-deactivated20181]

Me: Anyone can wear anything from any culture! Enjoy it. Not Irish? Have a blast on St. Paddy’s. Not Mexican? Big whoop! Drink away. Who cares, it isn’t hurting anyone, have a good time!

Everyone on Tumblr: Gringa :) you’re fucking dumb and I don’t even have the time to tell you how horrible you are. Fucking racist!! This is anti-Latina!!!

[suburbanjustice]

Except it is hurting people, and you are being racist. Stop throwing a fit and taking criticisms of a bad behavior that you have the option of changing so personally. Maybe look at your behavior, have the humility to ask yourself why so many people would be upset with you, and consider that you might be the one in the wrong here. (Hint: it’s not because everyone on tumblr is a big meanie).

[sparklepuff360-deactivated20181]

You’re right, it’s because everyone on Tumblr is collectivley pussified to the max. It’s unfortunate. No, words can’t hurt you. Other people wearing clothes can’t hurt you. Other people eating foods can’t hurt you. Other people celebrating holidays can’t hurt you. It’s impossible. Just because someone says it’s unfair and wrong, doesn’t make it wrong. You’re not the queen of morality. Get over yourself. Let people enjoy themselves. A white guy drinking today isn’t doing anything to hurt anyone, and if you simplify a culture to a poncho and a day, you’re the problem, not me.

[i-am-worthy56]

So these people on here believe that me, a white girl btw, can’t go to Taco Bell or appreciate another culture because I’m not of that race? Does this mean that all restaurants, clothes, etc…made by whites can’t be used by other races other than by the race it was made by? Sorry but that sounds like segregation.

[jcap201]

Eat what you want to eat, wear what you want to wear. Celebrate what you want to celebrate. Cultural appropriation doesn’t exist. If one of these clowns gets upset, eh, consider that a bonus.