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"Your police [steal] blankets from people that you force to live on the streets, while you raid protests and criminalize people that are standing up for rights of migrants," said Pia Klemp.

“The captain of a controversial ship that saved migrants in the Mediterranean Sea has refused to accept a medal for her work.

Pia Klemp, who is German, gained attention for rescuing thousands of stranded migrants with her crew as part of the nongovernmental organization Sea Watch International. For her efforts, she reportedly faces up to 20 years in prison in Italy, where the hard-line anti-immigrant government accused her of assisting illegal immigration.

In a Facebook message published Tuesday night, Klemp announced that she was rejecting the Grand Vermeil Medal, which the city of Paris awards for bravery. She told Mayor Anne Hidalgo that the city was brimming with hypocrisy.

“Your police [steal] blankets from people that you force to live on the streets, while you raid protests and criminalize people that are standing up for rights of migrants and asylum seekers. … You want to give me a medal for actions that you fight in your own ramparts,” Klemp wrote in the scathing post.

“It is time we call out hypocrite honorings and fill the void with social justice,” she said.

She went on to say that people don’t need medals. “We do not need authorities deciding about who is a ‘hero’ and who is 'illegal,’ ” she said. “In fact they are in no position to make this call, because we are all equal.”

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yakityyaku

If I see one more "who will she choose 😍" or "where's nick" post I'm gonna SNAP lads!!! I'm curious to see June's endgame, and I'm curious to see if they do anything with Nick's character, but who really gives a shit about the men in her life!! (No offense to Luke who is wonderful)

We know who June chooses. Herself, and her children. June loved Nick and Luke, but it is irrelevant to her story at this point. She had Nichole and everything became about saving her kids and herself. She chooses to be selfish and survive and try to save her kids because that's all she cares about.

This is a show about women. This is a show about a specific woman trying to fight for herself and her kids and getting her freedom back. She isn't killing commanders and putting everyone's lives at risk so she can get back to Canada and crawl back into a mans arms immediately, she's doing it for her own safety and the safety of her daughters.

If you enjoy the romance aspects, fine! But the obsession with it is weird and frankly just misses the entire point of the show. This isn't a romance. Nick and June's relationship was a footnote in her story, so stop making it seem like the whole book.

sakura-haruka

niggazinmoscow

The women all reply with “Actually enjoy my fucking life in safety for ONE day.”

varacai

would y’all please jUST LOOK AT THIS

charlesoberonn

Apparently the current proposed name of the hypothetical ninth planet is Persephone which is such a good name I’m mad I didn’t think of it.

charlesoberonn

Allow me to explain why it’s such a great name:

It pays homage to Pluto, previously known as the ninth planet, since Persephone was Pluto/Hades’s wife in Greek Mythology

It helps make up for the gender inequality in the names of planets, since Venus is the only other planet named after a woman

If it exists, it’d be the coldest planet in the Solar System, and in Greek Mythology, it was Persephone’s time spent in the underworld that caused winter

darkbluemint

I’m into this

swan2swan

I can’t believe none of the reasons were “It’s what Pluto would want.”

alexkablob

#if he can’t be a planet at least his wife can

broadwaytheanimatedseries

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

irrepressible-domovoy

Pluto’s reaction:

deepspacepirate

me: *breaks down crying in the privacy of my own home*

my brain: you’re faking your emotions for attention. you’re just doing this because you think it makes for a cool personal narrative

one-good-day

Hot take: some ppl cannot stand loud noises or noisy environments. It raises their anxiety because Loud=dangerous and they cannot concentrate on their task. Hypervilgilence.

Equally hot take:

Some ppl cannot stand silence or a lack of noise/music. It raises their anxiety because silence= something is Not Right. Hypervilgilence.

Respect both. Both can happen to the same person in different situations or times.

Respect. Do not assume “they can take it”. Ask them, check in with them if the situation is still okay.

dogwithpants

Also, some people with anxiety disorders can’t handle super bright fluorescent lights.

juanikuz-deactivated20210427

People being against this song just because they don’t like Taylor Swift music or whatever, are selfish. Just for a moment put yourself in the shoes of a person who may not have the privilege of living in a big city that has a massive gay community or having a loving and accepting family that supports their sexuality/gender or even being born in a privileged country that has gay rights and being gay is more accepted.

And think about how validating it must feel to LGBT kids who live in places / countries that it’s illegal to be gay and can go to prision or be given death penalty. Think about how much influence and hope this video can give to them. It can literally save lives.

This isn’t about Taylor anyways, it’s about her using her big influence by giving a platform to LGBT artists so they can feel free and express themselves and to remind us that no one can judge us and no one can stop us. To make the whole community feel loved and safe.

Representation it’s really fucking important.

Edit: I forgot to add the video to the post so here it is! 🏳️‍🌈

https://youtu.be/Dkk9gvTmCXY

qrsive

why isn’t there a STRAIGHT pride parade?? why isn’t there WHITE history month? why isn’t there an international MEN’S day!? why isn’t there a hospital for WELL people?? why isn’t there a soup kitchen for RICH people??!?

yourotpsucks

why isn’t there a cemetery for LIVING PEOPLE

profeminist

gogomrbrown

I learned in a Latin Studies class (with a chill white dude professor) that when the Europeans first saw Aztec cities they were stunned by the grid. The Aztecs had city planning and that there was no rational lay out to European cities at the time. No organization.

punkrockradio

When the Spanish first arrived in Tenochtitlan (now downtown mexico city) they thought they were dreaming. They had arrived from incredibly unsanitary medieval Europe to a city five times the size of that century’s london with a working sewage system, artificial “floating gardens” (chinampas), a grid system, and aqueducts providing fresh water. Which wasn’t even for drinking! Water from the aqueducts was used for washing and bathing- they preferred using nearby mountain springs for drinking. Hygiene was a huge part if their culture, most people bathed twice a day while the king bathed at least four times a day. Located on an island in the middle of a lake, they used advanced causeways to allow access to the mainland that could be cut off to let canoes through or to defend the city. The Spanish saw their buildings and towers and thought they were rising out of the water. The city was one of the most advanced societies at the time.

Anyone who thinks that Native Americans were the savages instead of the filthy, disease ridden colonizers who appeared on their land is a damn fool.

robotsandfrippary

They’ve also recently discovered a lost Native American city in Kansas called Etzanoa It rivals the size of Cahokia, which was very large as well.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

here are some reconstructions of Tenochtitlan

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

just a note, we don’t think of old european cities as ruins, because those civilizations continued and kept building over the old–there are no abandoned ruins for us to visit & photograph. when we picture those old cities, we have only mental images drawn from our own assumptions & prejudices–images that tend to glorify ‘civilized’ europe.

since victors write history, our image of native american cities was created by colonizers motivated to uphold the ‘native savage’ myth. when we think of these civilizations now, we think of ‘uncivilized’ (rough, broken, abandoned) ruins, because that’s what remains. ruins are the only thing left. because of the destruction wrought by western invaders, these civilizations never had a chance to continue building. they were destroyed, and all we have left is an unimaginative shadow of their former glory.

baby-yodas-mom

went to peru and visited some of their museums and learned inca history that american schools don’t teach you. basically you know why they were beaten out by the spanish invaders? because incas were mostly scientists and not warriors. they had advanced medicine, farming and science technology. THATS what they were good at - tech - not building weapons to most efficiently kill people. the spanish were good at that. so they won. basically the real savages and thugs won and murdered a bunch of scientists, and their technology and advancements are lost forever. it took into the 20th century for colonizer technology to advance in the field of medicine and agriculture to the level of the incas. colonizers literally set human knowledge back like 500 years.

swainlake

if clarke saves herself with no help from the others i’m going to be genuinely gutted. that’s not empowering, that’s devastating. clarke’s been saving herself for years with no help. clarke’s been alone for years with no help. she’s been shunned and abandoned by the people who she’s consistently put before herself. if ya’ll tell me she’s on her own again, i’m gonna be furious and no amount of grovelling on the part of her ‘friends’ will make me forgive them for not fighting for her

wintersoldierisbae

why are people still calling Good Omens queerbaiting

lynati

Some are mad that the showrunners won’t label them as gay because the characters aren’t men, just male-presenting beings; some because there wasn’t a kiss or other moment of physical intimacy of a sexual nature and an asexual romance doesn’t count as rep to them because they don’t consider aces part of the queer community; some because the two didn’t say “I love you” even though their actions are all but screaming it and the story ends at a point where clearly neither are ready to say those words out loud to the other yet. Some people want rep that gives them things on screen that NO ONE can argue is platonic, or claim that there is a straight explanation for, and that’s completely understandable. We should have more shows that give us that. I just wish more of them understood there’s a difference between something that didn’t give them the specific kind of representation they were hoping for, and actual queerbaiting where the possibility of a queer relationship is dangled by the showrunners / writers / subtext but never confirmed or made overt.