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¡Viva Cuba Libre!

#pa’ fuera con el comunismo #Cuba #Nuestra Señora de la Caridad del Cobre #ruega por nosotros

stop making shows about americans in europe… try europeans in america instead. the outrage of not knowing exactly what something costs at a store,, no public transport,, everyone smiling in your face and waiters scaring you by constantly popping up at your table… ice in your water for some reason,, the kind of culture clash i want to see!!

obliqe

fuck emily in paris i want françois in texas

yardsards

ivan in west virginia

all his neighbours immediately distrust him because he’s russian and they haven’t gotten over the red scare and also no one new has moved in to the town in almost a decade

but then he participates in podunknowheresville’s annual lawnmower race with a monstrosity made from scrap metal and far too much duct tape and he wins second place in a neck-and-neck final round against sam americason, the most anti-russian man in the village

and ivan is scared that he blew his one chance to get accepted by the community but then sam jumps off his lawnmower and pats ivan on the back and says “you did good, brother. i’m sorry i misjudged you. looks like hillbillies are the same no matter what country we come from. you’re just like us, ivan. guess our redneck town has room for a little extra red” and everybody laughs and the credits roll while the ussr national anthem gets played on a banjo and washboard

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Seconding Ivan in West Virginia

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Moscow on the Hudson (1984)

#not exactly Ivan in West Virginia but still captures the culture shock element OP was targeting

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I hate that whenever I complain about scam callers people are always like "just don't pick up!" BROTHER I DON'T PICK UP! YOU JUST WATCHED ME GO "ugh spam" AND HANG UP. It's still such an annoyance, and I can't just like, ignore phone calls because sometimes it's my wife calling about the children, or doctors offices or or or. Not answering doesn't make it not a problem omg.

keepcatholic

If solicitors, salesmen, senators, scammers, and strangers were constantly knocking on one’s front door at all hours of the day and night, “just don’t open the door!” would come across as blithely stupid and unhelpful advice. In the digital age, a phone is as much a portal into your life as your home’s front door, and an unwanted invasion of either can be just as obnoxious, costly, or even deadly. The fact that we are 150 years removed from Alexander Graham Bell’s first phone call and yet today’s carriers still refuse to clamp down on the rampant abuse of their services is a scandal. “Just don’t pick up” exculpates the scammers and the complicit carriers who refuse to solve a solvable problem.

#a carrier that cared about its customers would demand other carriers transmit caller identification and blacklist the carriers who do not #most of these scam calls originate outside the US #once entire countries start getting blacklisted the locals of those countries will finally have an incentive to prosecute the scammers

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@love-elevated and I were stunned by how difficult it was to find any heavy whipping cream this weekend that did not contain added gums or other ingredients. Surprisingly, we only found one unadulterated option: Kalona SuperNatural Organic Whipping Cream. Unsurprisingly, it was the most expensive option. These “food” manufacturers are going to be the death of us all if they do not stop messing with what we eat. It is maddening how often food staples—cheese, meats, rice, fish, flour, butter—are packed with industrial additives, to say nothing of with what your food is fed, sprayed, or injected which never makes it to the store labels. There is no acceptable reason why what should be a one ingredient food—cream—should contain more than one ingredient in the bottle.

#starting a political party just to fix the food

shalomdude

Happy birthday, America! (x)

theredheadedpatriot

I'd like to take a minute to appreciate Caesar Rodney: the delegate from Delaware who, despite suffering asthma attacks and painful facial cancer, and despite warnings from his physician that a long ride at full-gallop could be deadly to him, answered an urgent dispatch saying he was needed immediately by the Continental Congress, rode 80 miles through the night in raging thunderstorms and pouring rain to arrive, exhausted and ill, covered in mud, and sopping wet, in the nick of time to cast the tie-breaking vote for independence on July 2, 1776.

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The Lancaster News Journal, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1915

love-elevated

Celebrating the 4th as a historian 🇺🇸

It’s almost time 🇺🇸

#250 Years of American

Brittany Clark, 31, was swimming in the Econlockhatchee River with friends Sunday when she was attacked.

Repeat after me: Every body of water in Florida is suspect until proven otherwise.

This poor woman died yesterday in horrific circumstances in the maw of a 12 foot alligator while swimming in only three feet of water in a river in a state forest. Heaven knows what precautions her and her boyfriend took, if any, but it bears reminding everyone—residents and visitors alike—that any pool, pond, lake, river, swamp, spring, canal, bay, or beach in Florida can hide an alligator or any number of other harmful or outright deadly creatures resident to our state’s waters. There are plenty of places to swim with crystal clear visibility and other deterrents to minimize the chances of suffering—or at least surviving—an attack. Even standing/walking by the water and fishing without sufficient awareness/precautions can be deadly. It never hurts to be picky about where you spend time in or around the water and, even then, always keep your head on a swivel.

#prayers for her soul and for her boyfriend #awful awful #gore

It is never going to happen because of Republican cowardice, Democrat malice, and overall institutional intertia, but the civilized remedy for that awful “birthright citizenship” ruling is the impeachment process. The justices who tortured the 14th Amendment to arrive at that stupid, stupid decision deserve to be impeached, removed, and barred from any office of trust or profit under the United States for the rest of their natural lives. There is no reading of that amendment or the context of its adoption that justifies extending a de facto right of American citizenship to the children of all eight billion people on Earth if their mothers happen, by fraud or by accident, to find themselves giving birth on any evidently magical patch of star-spangled dirt. Every Republican running for Congress needs to commit to passing the necessary legislation under Section 5 to correctly define “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” to exclude any and all foreigners who entered the country as temporary visitors or unlawfully for the purposes of conferring citizenship to newborn children. Making this the headline issue of the midterm campaign would significantly boost Republican fortunes if they would but seize the moment and promise to fix the Court’s error once and for all. This has to be addressed immediately.

#Supreme Court #madness

beardedmrbean

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According to my government shutdown poll, tumblr agreed that the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 was the one federal law they were most likely to continue to respect while the federal government was on indefinite hiatus:

#self-government at its best

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This would all be a lot simpler if governments simply banned digital media streaming platforms from falsely using the words “buy”, “purchase”, “own”, “sell”, and “sale” in reference to any digital media offered by those companies to which a customer’s access can later be remotely retracted/disabled at will whether they be games, movies, music, books, programs, etc. And if they continue to falsely advertise those things as being available for “purchase” or “sale” while retaining any ability to disable them later, then doing so should be prosecutable as fraud. If the companies are in fact only offering these things for rent/subscription then they should be compelled to use the words “rent” or “subscribe” to stop tricking people into paying more money for a false sense of “ownership”. Ownership has to mean something for anyone to be able to fairly transact business and governments have an interest in enforcing customers’ rights to keep what they purchased. No one would buy homes or cars if the architect or auto engineer could simply repossess them from the buyer at any time after the completion of the transaction—there is no reason to accept this fraudulent behavior just because a purchase occurred digitally.

Likewise, people should learn that you cannot own anything you do not meaningfully possess and start incorporating that knowledge into their buying habits. If a physical version of something is available, buy the physical version. If a company does not commit to allowing customers to use their digital product indefinitely after “purchasing” it, then do not “buy” from them. And for heaven’s sakes, stop subscribing to streaming platforms if ownership is what you really want.