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I’m going to say something that might sound crazy. Suicide and suicide attempts are sort of a societal alarm bell that says “something is very wrong with the environment this individual was in.” A living being choosing to take themselves out of existence is the most extreme act of distress there is. The state stepping in to silence this alarm bell by funneling suicidal people into a state sanctioned euthanasia program, normalizing this act through a socially accepted bureaucratic system, is not a good thing. It goes hand in hand with the state’s interest in maintaining the status quo at the expense of the population and the psychiatric industry’s interest in individualizing societal problems to extract profit and aid the existing system. It’s saying “there are no complaints here, just people with sick brains, carry on.”

kittyit

it does not sound crazy

memescomedy

necrobob

That’s not quite true. The reporter behind the story, Daphne Caruana Galizia, was murdered.

whatisthisplaceidonteven

After mass protests, the Prime Minister of Iceland was forced to resign, along with many other members of the ruling party.

After mass protests, the President of Pakistan was forced to resign, along with many other members of the ruling party.

Worldwide, hundreds of people – many rich and powerful – were arrested.

Billions in stolen assets were returned to the people.

And 82 countries changed their laws to crack down on the wealth hoarding the papers revealed.

(Source here)

To say the Panama Papers accomplished nothing is an insult to Daphne Galizia’s memory. Her work, and the work of the hundreds of other journalists who contributed to the Papers, changed the world.

Disinformation like this is designed to discourage you, to make you feel you’re powerless against the monsters of the world. They want you to feel that way, because they are terrified of your power to make change.

Take your power back. Demand better. Keep fighting for a better world, because a better world is possible.

philosophybits

“In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them.”

— Bertrand Russell, Power: A New Social Analysis

lenore-tumbles

wrong good sir. They exercise their power, because most people accept the authority of the economic "scientists" as actual fact.

Economics are not a real science.

tamarrud

Resisting Erasure, Adam Hanieh

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brainscrems

Valuable tags from @doberbutts

xxriverdaughterxx

Don't forget the direct health impacts of the candy and soda industries, either. Colonization parasitizes every aspect of life. Yeah, people are paid basically nothing (or literally nothing) to harvest this cacao. So how do they get food? Well, they probably don't have legal rights to eat anything they're helping to produce. Or the right to forage. Or to farm with GMO seeds that will survive that given area, especially under conditions of climate change.

So how do people get by? Cheap crap that colonizers sell back to them. Diabetes isn't something that's just inherent to Indigenous/Latine populations, even though it's implicitly suggested in medical literature and rarely explored further. It's an illness purposefully inflicted on people by corporate (and classic state) colonization. High fructose corn syrup is ubiquitous in food available to impoverished people because the American government subsidizes its production. When you live in an artificial food desert and have to rely on prepackaged shit because you don't have legal access to anything else, you're going to suffer. When the water is taken away by Coca-Cola, and the coke is cheaper than buying the water back, you're gonna buy coke so you can also afford food.

So the CIA doesn't even have to do all the work directly. They just supplement what American corporations inflict, because the corporations are the country. Colonized people are of great benefit to the imperial core, whether they live or die.

So this chocolate bar isn't just economically important - this kind of production is vital to the welfare of the people.

mindblowingscience

Drinks including water, soda, beer and wine sold in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in plastic bottles, according to a s

Drinks including water, soda, beer and wine sold in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in plastic bottles, according to a surprising study released by France's food safety agency Friday. Researchers have detected the tiny, mostly invisible pieces of plastic throughout the world, from in the air we breathe to the food we eat, as well as riddled throughout human bodies. There is still no direct evidence that this preponderance of plastic is harmful to human health, but a burgeoning field of research is aiming to measure its spread.

shellstrop420

Unpopular opinion: if you are on your phone, you are not resting. Human brains literally need complete downtime to function properly. This means time spent not reading, not scrolling, not listening to music or podcasts, not tidying up, not having TV on in the background. I'm not good at implementing this either but that doesn't make it less true

berniesrevolution

@themaxburns

thefrogman

Testing out the new tumblr photoset feature.

thefrogman

People were mentioning gifsets.

Did you know… I made the very first one?

Tumblr announced a new “photoset” feature and they mainly intended it as a way to post a bunch of still images.

And I was like, does it work with GIFs?

I made this and then it inspired a ton of other people to do creative things with multiple GIFs.

My favorite was this one.

professionalchaoticdumbass

actual world heritage post

peachfromcmbyn

The person who wrote "I supported Amber Heard when I thought she was beating Johnny Deep's ass unprovoked" should win the Nobel Prize in Literature

aletheyass

post your mediocre art girl. anora can win 5 oscars. who fucking cares

theconcealedweapon

emixion

Full offense but everyone writing fanfics about Luigi Mangione is going straight to hell. What the actual fuck is wrong with people. No, this isn’t a “don’t like don’t read” scenerio, this is a potentially historic ongoing trial that the media has been heavily swaying towards a guilty verdict before anything can properly commence.

We are on the cusp of a mass conspiracy AND class unification during the rise of an american oligarchy and once again, the shitbag “progressives” on this website prove they have no fucking human emotions beyond their depraved fantasies. There is a man on trial for terrorism for allegedly shooting one person and all you despicable people acknowledge is your own delusions.

Genuinely go fuck yourselves. When any opportunity for meaningful systemic change knocks at your door, you’ll be too busy burying your face in your screen while mentally banging someone you will never meet. You’re sad and fucking disgusting.