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[cesaray]

[ithelpstodream]

[nowyoukno]

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[the-treble-deactivated20160823]

That was super nice of them.

And now I’m mad that nobody told us we were given cows. Cause that’s really f*cking nice and nobody mentioned it at all.

[rice-to-the-occasion]

American media tends to disregard that anyone donates to the US. And then Amurricans complain about money going abroad because “nobody helped the US in our disasters.”

>.>

Also, do you know how much a cow costs? O.O

[awesomonster]

It isn’t just a matter of how much a cow costs, its a matter of considering that Masai life is based around their cattle. Its their wealth, their food, and a significant part of their religion. Here’s a quote from Wikipedia:

“Traditional Maasai lifestyle centres around their cattle which constitute their primary source of food. The measure of a man’s wealth is in terms of cattle and children. A herd of 50 cattle is respectable, and the more children the better. A man who has plenty of one but not the other is considered to be poor.[37] A Maasai religious belief relates that God gave them all the cattle on earth, leading to the belief that rustling cattle from other tribes is a matter of taking back what is rightfully theirs, a practice that has become much less common.[38]”

So its not just “they gave us 14 cows”, its that they gave us something that is very important and significant to them, it is more than just a kind gesture that definitely deserves to be known and its a genuine shame that more people don’t know about it.

[gweatherwax]

Wait, you guys DON’T KNOW that we offer help to the US when you have disasters???????

Shit, down here in Brazil we not only offered to send tracking units and doctors to help in 9/11 but we wanted to send a whole lot of donations to help with Katrina (we have experience with floods down here so we knew what kind of medicine to send to prevent outbreaks). 

We alone had like 2 army airplanes full of medicine and non-perishables like baby formula, diapers, bottled water, mosquito nets and other stuff that’s needed to fight opportunistic diseases that hit flooded areas, enough to assist a good few thousand people at least, ready to go the day after it hit, but your government refused the donations. 

The same thing happened to the Canadians and Europeans who offered help, the US embassies around the world told us all to give money to Red Cross.

And so we did, we all gave hundreds of millions of dollars to them, and then this happened:

Red Cross scandals tarnish relief efforts

‘Breathtaking’ Waste and Fraud in Hurricane Aid

So please, don’t you go spreading misinformation and prejudice against the rest of the world, WE DID OFFER HELP AND ORGANIZED IT EVEN FASTER THAN BUSH DID, BUT Y’ALL REFUSED IT. 

[randomthingsthatilike1]

Oh wow I had no idea this happened it’s really not talked about in media at all wow this is something good to know about wow

[jadedhavok]

I’m so angry.

I didn’t know that other countries tried to help after 9/11 or Katrina. Like, that’s something we, the people, should hear about and we don’t.

Please don’t blame us for the shitty decisions our government makes. We don’t have as much control over our government as we would like to think and they keep a lot from us.

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

Spread this shit. 

[twixieshores]

After Katrina, Cuba donated several hundred blankets. Think about that. A country that is suffering economically due directly to the US embargo offered to help us when we needed it by sending what they could. And once again, it was refused. We have a government that is so self-righteous that we refuse to accept disaster aid in order to maintain this facade that we are the most generous nation on earth.

[fanfckery]

Okay, Katrina thing. Only Texans really knows this? and even then it’s not wide spread. Mexico sent their army. They sent their army for relief efforts. Didn’t call ahead, they drove all the way to San Antonio with doctors and food and all sorts of supplies. When people actually got a call from them saying “Hey, we’re sending people up.” The people who answered said “What? We can’t…” “Too late, already there.” This was while the government was turning down help. So yeah, other countries send relief. Forest fires up in Washington last year? Firefighters from Australia came up to assist. Like… we don’t hear about this shit. At all.

[awellboiledicicle]

I can second the above with the fires. 

Most the time, when people say “oh FEMA or something sent people right?” re: fires, its actually people from other countries showing up and kinda ignoring the government telling them to fuck off and staying on behalf of local departments because we REALLY need them. 

If there’s a huge ass disaster, and the government is sitting there with a thumb up it’s ass, help is offered and most the time– shit, it gets there! But then the feds do something really fucking dirty. They insist they were the help, if it’s talked about at all. 

They insist those people putting out fires were federal people, because to most people a fireman’s a fireman. The people handing out water and food, a relief worker is a relief worker. So on and so forth. 

We had people come up when the fires were so bad a while ago– not the Australians, but i think there was like a German group of like 3 guys that flew themselves over? They came out of sheer “this is horrible and we’re helping” and my dad [local fire chief] had them working with our guys and the feds lost no time telling every news outlet that it was THEIR people doing all the fire knockdowns and structure work when these guys were running into buildings and grabbing people, pets, and people’s important documents because they knew papers were a pain in the ass to replace. 

What you gotta understand is that our government is very intent on selling us and the rest of the world [as much as possible] the idea of a powerful and self reliant country. All our reporting on disasters, starts with the scaremongering and then moves to “but our people can handle it because we’re the best at handling things” and then they move on before the idea it’s out of control comes to mind. The average person outside of the disaster has no idea, if they have never been around such an event or met someone who regularly deals with these things, they will kinda probably nod along with that. Because we have no real scope on the scale and impact– by design. Our media intake is very controlled to slant everything to the “eh, we can handle it and everyone else out there– they need our help because they’re not so good at handling disasters like we are.” People who know better, reading international news, interacting with international social groups, looking outside their sphere of community– we know better but that kinda slant is really hard to break from because of that grip American media has on information. So, taking that knowledge, we further have restricted reporting on certain disasters because they’re considered unimportant.  Hurricanes are considered important, earthquakes are only considered important if it wrecks something the government cares about or somewhere a couple million people live that they’ll upset the national money flow/they can throw money at someone to make the news care, floods are only important if it’s in a similar manner to earthquakes but since they occur annually they’re rarely reported on nationally, mudslides that kill people or leave hundreds homeless aren’t important to the government even through they happen constantly, wildfires that consume most of the nation/continent each year generally are unimportant until they consume a town or threaten a government interest/money flow location. Terrorist attacks are always important because people will talk about them.

So, when we do get help for any of the above, it’s possible that most people may have no idea about what’s happened, let alone that help’s been sent. Or if people know something happened, the details are vague– the news don’t care to give the nitty gritty. You’ll know something happened and people are suffering and “gee, isn’t it good you’re not them” and then now the weather.

So, yeah, basically no one really knows we get help.

[petitepenquin]

International response to Hurricane Katrina:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina 

We got HELLA help, but nobody really talks about it

[evilelitest2]

American Media really fails regularly 

[iammyfather]

Hurricane Sandy, Quebec sends power line crews down to assist in restoring power.  California gets rid of water bombers due to budget cuts, Canada sends theirs down to help fight wild fires. Amazing what living on the border and having outside TV News does to your information flow.

[cyanwrites]

After Katrina, Denmark offered to donate water purification units so people wouldn’t get sick from drinking contaminated water, but the offer was declined.

A private Danish company built a mobile satellite phone booth and drove it around the poor neighbourhoods in Mississippi and Louisiana so people could call their families and insurance companies for free (apparently there was a deadline for reporting damages but people couldn’t call in because their mobile phones were dead and landlines were down).

[markingatlightspeed]

American propaganda is not a thing of the past, nor is it a new thing. It has been around forever, telling stories of exceptionalism and self-reliance while our government tries its hardest to refuse the help of others and offer its own to them, to try and force other nations onto their back foot and remain aggressively benevolent in international matters, so that it can lord that shit over them in negotiations and the media in general. I guarantee you America would have a less jingoistic, less xenophobic populace overall if this sort of information were actually reported to us. If we weren’t always fed the lie of helping the world without any gratitude or help in return. If the media didn’t present us as world police and instead as a part of the community, as other countries try hard to include us as, then maybe Americans would actually act like they’re part of a fucking community. But global citizens are hard to monger fear and distrust and xenophobia and nationalism with. They’re hard to control with propaganda and hate. They’re hard to keep ignorant and docile and saying “this is fine” while the empire burns. A lot of Americans wonder why our country is seen as a worldwide bully. Shit like that, my friends. Shit like that. Its hubris is seemingly limitless.

[velocicrafter]

C O M M E N T A R Y

[musicalninja]

omg. i didnt know any of this. and now im both super pissed (that none of us knew this) and super thankful (to the countries who helped or at least tried to)

[cloakedsparrow]

Hold up. Did the US government accept the cows? Because it sounds like they did. Who the hell decided to turn down doctors and tracking units after 9/11 but accept fourteen cows from a tribe that probably can barely afford to lose them? What did they even do with the cows?

[thinkbrit]

There is a wonderful children’s picture book called “14 Cows for America” that tells this story. It was written by Kimeli Wilson Naiyomah, who was a Masai tribesman attending medical school in NY in 2001 and orchestrated this gesture. I highly recommend reading it. Beautiful story, beautiful book.

[strawberryhorrorshow]

Being abused made me such a “good kid.”

I was

Always polite

Never acted without permission

Never spoke out of turn

Always did what I was told

And it’s shitty that I was considered mature and praised for those things, and all of those characteristics have translated into me being an immature, “bad adult.”

Now I

Have difficulty making a keeping friends

Can’t act without permission/am dependent on others for direction

Am terrible at communicating

Have no agency/personal compass

It’s a really difficult thing for people who were abused as children to grapple with. What made us good children make us bad adults.

[clarknokent]

This is Important

[did-you-know]

Your brain won’t let you see every dot in this illusion. People can’t see all 12 dots at once because it’s hard for human eyes to process peripheral information, so the brain guesses to fill in the gaps. In this case, it settles on intersecting gray lines. Source

[aki-anyway]

When someone says these days sexism and misogyny don’t exist anymore show them this.

[politicalprof]

I want to thank him because we’re trying to cut down our payroll and as far as I’m concerned I’m very thankful that he let go of a large number of people because now we have a smaller payroll.

Donald Trump, thanking Vladimir Putin for requiring the US to reduce its diplomatic presence in Russia …  (via politicalprof)

[hhopscotch]

I got a nice message from @sagesbeansprouts A cute virtual preschool/safe space for you folks who enjoy age regressing and/or sfw little space.

It’s sfw and they have worksheets and let you submit things….etc. Check em out if interested.

[honeypotpreschool-blog]

Good morning baby bears! ✨

I’m finally back home and I have an activity I’ve created myself for you!

It’s called; Toy introduction! There will be a add on to this activity next time! I hope you like it baby bears! 

Here it is:

I’ve also added these cute calico critters coloring pages along with it;

Feel free to complete any activity you wish! 

I’m happy I could start this morning with some fun! // make sure you change into day clothes, wash your face, brush your teeth, eat breakfast this morning, and take your meds! 

- mod dia 

[hhopscotch]

Also a pretty neat blog

[advicefromsurvivors]

When your child says “Why can’t I get a puppy?”

Instead of defaulting to “My house, my rules”

Try “Any pet is a lot of responsibility. A puppy would have to be fed, walked, and taken outside to use the bathroom several times a day and taken for regular check-ups and vaccinations at the vet. You can’t do all of that by yourself, and I/we don’t have the time or money either.”

When your teenager says “Why can’t I come home at 2:00 this Saturday?”

Instead of defaulting to “My house, my rules!”

Try “The time you come home is a matter of respect and consideration. I/We will not only be concerned for your safety, but we would either be disturbed in the middle of the night when you arrive or forced to stay up for several extra hours waiting.”

When your child says “Why am I not allowed to do this thing?”

Instead of defaulting to “My house, my rules!”

Try actually communicating a legitimate reason, because children pick up on subtlety and on context and on the unspoken messages, and it’s better to teach children lessons like “You should think really hard before taking on new responsibilities” and “It’s important to show consideration for the needs of the people with whom you share a living space” than lessons like “It’s okay for people to demand your absolute obedience so long as you’re dependent on them for survival.”

[shadywinters]

TRUTH

[blackwoolncrown]

Also worth knowing: training your child to accept arbitrary ‘reasons’ for obedience like ‘because I said so’ and ‘my house my rules’ etc trains them to be more susceptible to peer pressure because in their mind, when someone who is at all an authority (older than them, bigger than them, more impressive than them, more confident than them) demands something, they should accept it and not think about it critically. Let them ask why, and give them a real reason. If not, don’t be surprised when they fall for lots of bullshit when they are older. You’re the one that made them believe ‘BECAUSE’ was reason enough.

[politicalprof]

Among the many horrible things about those effing Virginia Nazis ...

is that, apparently, they had a bunch of Nazi paraphernalia lying around they could just bring it to the rally, or they were able to acquire them fairly easily. As, apparently, one does.

Meanwhile, I am sitting about 2 miles away from where the founder of the American Nazi Party, George Lincoln Rockwell, was born.

[chieftrashcloud]

First year teacher advice

Ignore the teacher who has been teaching for 15 years and tells you all of your new ideas will fizzle out, or that “you’ll see”, or “it won’t last”, and “tried that, it didn’t work”. Try all the things your little Pinterest heart desires and find out what works for you! I try new things every year, and yeah sometimes I think “oh man, this is not working”, but sometimes things go really great! Every teacher is different, be the best teacher YOU can be.

[windycityteacher-deactivated202]

^^^^^ THIS.

There is such a difference between “it won’t last” and “that sounds REALLY difficult, have you considered _____?” 

[elviajedelaesperanza]

@lugofrombananacountry and @windycityteacher spitting wisdom

[lagonegirl]

A lot of businesses in downtown Charlottesville with these signs.

[almorosa-deactivated20170822]

it makes me so sad that we have to do this 

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

“Killing Jews” was just listed as a leading component of “Republican values” in Charlottesville

In this video from the Washington Post on the horrific situation in Charlottesville, white nationalist Sean Patrick Nielsen said that in addition to “standing up for local white identity” and “the free market,” his top value as a Republican was killing Jews:

This is how accepted anti-Semitism is. These monsters are so comfortable in support for their Judenhasse that they are literally unafraid to give their names to a major news outlet or to show their faces to an international audience and declare that they want to murder Jewish people. And I worry one day the rest of the world will let them—again. 

[starlightomatic]

Maybe my non-Jewish followers could reblog this

[sale-aholic-deactivated20190809]

[politicalprof]

here’s a brief and certainly incomplete collection of some of the various people, things, and entities that the president has spoken out against by name since taking office: — Opinion polls that are unflattering to him; — Nordstrom; — The “fake news” media; — Specifically “CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, NYTIMES & WAPO”; — Meet the Press host Chuck Todd; — The New York Times; — The “fake” reporting on his campaign’s potential collusion with Russia; — The “witch hunt” that is the investigation into his campaign’s potential collusion with Russia; — #FraudNewsCNN; — Leakers; — Anonymous sources; — Senator Lisa Murkowski; — Senator John McCain; — Senator Lindsey Graham; — All Senate Republicans; — Congress; — Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch; — His own attorney general, Jeff Sessions; — Acting FBI director Andrew McCabe; — Former FBI director James Comey; — The FBI; — “Fake tears” Cryin’ Chuck Schumer; — Nancy Pelosi; — Congressmember Adam Schiff; — Senator Richard Blumenthal; — Barack Obama; — Hillary Clinton; — John Podesta; — Democratic congressional candidate Jon Ossoff; — Democrats in Congress; — Obamacare; — North Korea’s unsuccessful missiles; — North Korea; — Qatar; — China; — Mexico; — Canada; — London mayor Sadiq Khan; — “Crazy Joe Scarborough and dumb as a rock Mika”; — Morning Joe; — Arnold Schwarzenegger; — Snoop Dogg; — Mark Cuban; — “Celebs”; — Kathy Griffin; — The Ninth Circuit Court; — Transgender military service members; — Chelsea Manning; — M3-13 gang members; — The idea that his first 100 days in office were of symbolic significance.

New York magazine (via politicalprof)