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Wisconsin Republicans are following through with their plan to be the cruelest state in the nation when it comes to the way poor people are treated.

This is horrifying and gross, because the list includes:

Cranberry sauce and pie filling. (Poor people can forget about making dessert for Thanksgiving dinner.)

Creamed vegetables

Baked beans

Pickles

Pork and beans

Frozen veggies that come in packages featuring pasta, nuts, rice, cheese, or meats

French fries and hash browns

Sharp cheddar cheese, Swiss, and fresh mozzarella, shredded and sliced cheeses (except American cheese of course), cheese food, spreads, and products. Even Kosher cheese is banned unless you apply to get a specific check for it which basically could identify who the poor Jewish people are. (This is really gross and skeevy because of how this is isolating Jewish people and outing them.)

Canned peas and green beans

Albacore tuna, red salmon, and fish fillets

Bagels, pita bread, English muffins

White rice and wild rice

Taco shells

Almond, rice, goat, and soy milk.

Brown eggs and any eggs produced by cage-free or free range chickens, which basically helps corporate chicken farms

Several kinds of infant food

Anything in bulk

Anything organic or natural

canetonn

here’s the list, for anyone who’s skeptical like i am. it’s on a real-ass government-ass website. i am, tbh, disgusted.

crustai

Thanks for the link. That is horrifying and disgusting.

The list is actually worse- no peanuts, SEASONINGS, SOUPS, any canned beans, WHITE RICE, anything organic or natural, and anything like lactose free/kosher milk, or anything that might be necessary to a religious group or someone with conditions such as celiac or lactose intolerance basically have to fill out forms which singles them out based on health/religious reasons.

This is really, really gross.

chalkdustmemory

Is it just me or did they basically rule out basically all the cheapest and easiest to prepare food? Because that is bullshit.

bibliophilicwitch-archive

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

feministsocialistmom-deactivate

I have food stamps in a different state and this list is essentially my grocery just when I go to the store. These are easy to prepare, quick, filling meals and most of them have a long shelf life and can be stored for emergencies or of you use up your food stamps before the end of the month. This is absolutely a blatant act of violence against poor families and I hope it continues to gain more national outrage.

flyingflotsam

Wait. What? How? Why? Huh?

avilociraptor-deactivated202106

They… They can’t buy potatoes?! Which has more potassium than a banana?! Or nuts?! Which are the best blend of magnesium, calcium, protein, and healthy fats that nature ever made?!

I don’t… I don’t understand. There is no way this is concerned with poor people’s nutrition at all.

capricorn-0mnikorn

So what are they allowed to buy on food stamps? Boiled air?

lyricwritesprose

Interesting fact number one: Wisconsin is a state with a large number of Hmong immigrants, or people of Hmong descent. I believe that only Minnesota has a larger Hmong population.

Interesting fact number two: the first words that come up when I google for “Hmong cuisine” are these: “The Hmong staple food is white rice …”

resting-meme-face

How the fuck…can you deny the poor…rice and beans. Rice and beans are essential fucking staples for poor people. They can be bought in bulk. They are high in nutrition. They last a long fucking time.

Oh, but wait…THEY DON’T ALLOW POOR PEOPLE TO BUY IN BULK.

What is their logic to this? Because all I see here is, “punishing poor people for being poor.” There is NO FUCKING REASON for this. Most of these items cannot remotely be considered ‘luxury.’ To ever deny the poor to buy CANNED or BULKED GOODS is just…mind-blowingly terrible. When I have money, I buy things in bulk for when I don’t…I just…what?!

sheepdyke

How the hell do you make it illegal for poor people to buy food? This is so wrong and disgusting.

glitterpill

Given the number of extremely cheap items on the list it looks like a way to discourage people from even using food stamps and either scraping together money for food somehow, or relying on private charities.

Is there any single fund or movement to supply food banks in Wisconsin with food specifically from that list in large amounts?

rocketmermaid

THIS IS BLATANT CLASS WARFARE AND EVERY DECENT HUMAN BEING SHOULD BE DISGUSTED BY IT.

blackthorn-and-iron-deactivated

Suggestion for all poor folks on food assistance: you can save a lot of money and get a great source of protein in your diet by eating the flesh of capitalist swine.

allthecanadianpolitics

some Canadians have gotten the false impression that everything's perfect up here at home.

Some Canadians seem to be glossing over Canada’s own problems with racism lately.

With chaotic events outside our borders – from Donald Trump’s blatantly racist and bigoted statements to the xenophobia that surfaced during the Brexit campaign – some Canadians have gotten the false impression that everything’s perfect up here at home.

Anyone on social media lately might have noticed the “Meanwhile in Canada” meme: usually in response to something terrible happening elsewhere in the world, Canada is shown as a peaceful paradise where Canadians only deal with minor, trivial problems as an exaggerated contrast. Oh, and Justin Trudeau usually makes an appearance too.

Here are a few examples:

[in article linked above]

Taking these images at face value, you’d think Canada is a multicultural paradise that doesn’t have issues with racism ingrained in attitudes and insitutions as they’re found in other countries: from racialized policing, to poverty, to the regular stream of ugly racist incidents that seem commonplace in the United States. Foreign journalists sometimes play this game, as well.

But here’s the problem: even though we may embrace and celebrate its diversity more than other countries, all of these problems still exist here in Canada.

Let’s stop and think about a few facts you won’t find in the latest “Meanwhile in Canada” meme:

Meanwhile in Canada, racism is still a big problem in Canada’s policing and justice systems

Sorry Uncle Dave, Canada’s racist, too.

According to a 2014 report issued Canada’s Correctional Investigator, between 2005 and 2015 Canada’s prison population grew by 10%.

During the same period, the number of black inmates grew by 69% and the number of Aboriginal inmates grew by 50%.

In fact, almost a quarter of Canada’s total prison population is Aboriginal, despite Aboriginal Canadians representing only 4.3% of the population, and the incarceration rate for black Canadians is “three times their representation rate in general society.”

There are also the well-known instances of black Canadians commonly being subjected to random police “carding” checks. Not to mention cases of police shooting black men like Andrew Loku and Jermaine Carby dead for no particular reason with the officers involved rarely facing subsequent disciplinary action.

#Canadian politics

fycanadianpolitics

The Trudeau government contends that a massive $15 billion armored vehicle deal is "between a private company and Saudi Arabia." Documents obtained by VICE News prove that's not quite true.

New documents obtained by VICE News reveal that the Canadian government is providing military bases, staff, and resources to test-drive the heavily armored, and highly-controversial military vehicles being purchased by the Saudi government. They also prove that, despite what the government of Canada has said, this is not just a deal between a private company and a foreign country: It is a deal between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Canada itself.

The revelation directly contradicts statements from the Canadian government contending it is just a passive participant in the deal to sell the vehicles, commonly referred to as the ‘LAV III’, to the Middle Eastern absolute monarchy.

The documents, obtained by VICE News through an Access to Information request, detail how the company, General Dynamics Land Systems Canada (GDLS-C), requested and obtained assistance from Ottawa in letting the Saudis test out the heavily-armed machined […]

fycanadianpolitics

With another lockout or strike looming at Canada Post, management is once again relying on huge amounts of public misinformation to turn the people against the postal workers, and sap confidence in our public postal service. Here are seven big myths about Canada Post that you’ll find repeated in the papers and on TV, at the dinner table or on your smoke break, and from politicians and Canada Post management. A version of this list is available as a printable flyer or poster.

MYTH #1: “We aren’t profitable”

FACT: Canada Post has been profitable for 20 of the last 22 years, including the past four years. It was not profitable in 2011 because management locked out its workforce and lost a lot of business. Since the mid-1990s, Canada Post has put over a billion dollars in profits back into the public purse.

MYTH #2: “Canada Post is a waste of taxpayers’ money”

FACT: Canada Post doesn’t run on any taxpayer money. It has actually put more than a billion dollars back. Canada Post became a Crown Corporation in the early 1980s so it could survive off its own revenues. Anyone who says Canada Post wastes taxpayers money is misinformed or lying.

MYTH #3: “The internet is killing Canada Post”

FACT: Canada Post is shipping more items each year than it was in 1989, five years before the internet took off. Letters are declining steadily but internet shopping has led to a boom in parcel deliveries. Canada Post is constantly setting new records in parcel delivery volumes. Canada Post is riding the internet shipping boom just like Amazon and other internet shipping companies.

MYTH #4: “We can’t afford pensions”

FACT: Canada Post wants to weaken pensions for new hires, saying the old pension plan is too costly. But the pension crisis is a phony one. Canada Post is profitable and postal workers continue to pay into the plan. The pension plan has enough money to pay out workers as they retire. Rolling back the pension plan is a management cash grab.

MYTH #5: “We can’t afford home delivery”

FACT: Canada Post can afford to restore and expand home delivery. We don’t have to be the only wealthy country in the world that is cutting this service. Restoring and expanding home delivery would be even easier with new revenue-generating services like postal banking, which exists in many other countries, including Canada until the mid-1960s. Canada Post’s own studies show postal banking is a financial no-brainer, but they don’t want postal banking or home delivery because they have another agenda. This agenda has nothing to do with providing essential public services.

MYTH #6: “We won’t privatize Canada Post”

FACT: Cutting home delivery, rejecting postal banking, and pushing rollbacks on postal workers is about making Canada Post ready for privatization. Canada Post delivers two-thirds of the country’s mail, and has by far the largest retail infrastructure in the entire country. Private mail and shipping companies want these assets, and they want to get rid of Canada Post as a competitor. Canada Post top management is full of privatizers. Canada Post CEO Deepak Chopra sits on the board of a think-tank that called on the Harper government to privatize our postal service. Chopra was also a major executive for the world’s largest private mail corporation, Pitney Bowes. The previous Canada Post CEO became British Royal Mail’s CEO and oversaw its wholesale privatization. Canada Post management, the private sector, and politicians across party lines want to privatize Canada Post.

MYTH #7: “We don’t want a labour dispute”

FACT: Canada Post wants a labour dispute and disrupted service so it can undermine our confidence in our public postal service, blame the dispute on the postal workers in some old fashioned union-bashing, and further prepare it for privatization. The new Liberal government is also putting together a review of Canada Post. Management definitely wants a labour dispute and a phony pension crisis to dominate the agenda, not the restoration of home delivery and new services like postal banking. Look out for corporate think-tanks, newspaper columnists and politicians repeating all these myths. The goal is to undermine a public service so the public won’t protest its privatization. This is a classic privatization strategy.

What do we want?

A publicly-owned, financially-stable Canada Post is possible. We can afford decent jobs for all postal workers and home delivery for all. The internet has led to a boom in parcel deliveries. We could also have postal banking like other countries, giving us more options than just the big banks and predatory payday loans, and offer better banking services to rural and remote Canadians. Postal banking would ensure Canada Post’s financial stability well into the future. The postal workers are not the problem. The service-cutting privatizers running Canada Post are the problem. Tell your MP that you want a better public postal service, not one that cuts services and pushes for labour disruption. Send a message of support to our postal workers. Put a sign on your mailbox, tell a postal worker you support them, and if it comes to it, get down to the picket lines.

allthecanadianpolitics

Final approval left to council after emotional board meeting sees overwhelming support for harm reduction measure

The loudest voices advocating for supervised injection sites in Toronto in a committee room at city hall on Monday were those who could not be there in person.

Brooklyn McNeil, 22. Brad Chapman, 43. A loved one who collapsed in a Tim Horton’s bathroom and never made it out alive.

The stories of Toronto residents who died of overdoses on Toronto streets were heard for hours by board of health members, told by their friends, family and support workers at an emotional meeting that saw an overwhelming push for what advocates say would be a life-saving measure.

The board unanimously agreed, signalling a new approach to harm reduction as a public health problem — one that has yet to be implemented in Ontario.

Members backed a recommendation from outgoing chief medical officer of health, Dr. David McKeown, to move forward with three sites proposed within existing community health centres on Queen St. W., near Yonge and Dundas Sts. and in Leslieville. Final approval will be sought at council next week.

“Brooklyn McNeil was not an exception. People are dying every week,” said John MacDonald, a harm reduction worker at Eva’s Satellite homeless shelter where McNeil — a Thunder Bay native who struggled herself with addiction and mental health from a young age — had become an advanced peer worker.

She died of an overdose on June 22. She would have been 23 on Tuesday.

“She’d still be alive if there was a safe injection site. She didn’t even really have a chance to live anywhere near a full life,” MacDonald said. “Every week we’re getting emails about someone overdosing and dying. It’s going to get worse unless we have safe injections sites. They may not save everybody, but even one life — it’s worth opening them.”

kris-allen1359-deactivated-deac

to repair the metaphor it’ll need to be “cars invented specifically to kill people”

they’re called tanks and they’re…frowned upon

kris-allen1359-deactivated-deac

BEEP BEEP IT’S A HOBBY

captainlordauditor

i mean…not all guns are designed to kill people. some are designed to kill animals. like, ya know. for food.

kris-allen1359-deactivated-deac

I’M JUST A HUMBLE SETTLER TRYNA PUT A FOX ON THE TABLE FOR MY WIFE AND KIDS

theequeerstrian

EXCEPT THAT ARGUMENT IS BULLSHIT

CARS ARE FUCKING REGULATED TO HELL AND BACK

THEY HAVE TO HAVE SEAT BELTS

YOU HAVE TO /WEAR/ THE SEAT BELTS

YOU HAVE TO TRAIN FOR A YEAR IN HOW TO USE ONE

YOU HAVE TO PASS A TEST TO PROVE YOU KNOW HOW TO USE ONE

IF YOU FUCK UP AND USE IT IRRESPONSIBLY, THERE ARE FINES AND YOUR LICENSE CAN BE REVOKED

THIS WHOLE FUCKING ARGUMENT IS BULLSHIT

Also, there are MORE DANGEROUS vehicles and those are EVEN MORE regulated!

You can’t drive your race car on the roads! You have to trailer them to and from race tracks

Cars DID KILL A FUCK TON OF PEOPLE, and honestly still do, so you know what we did?

We created a whole fucking government agency to regulate them (see: Department of Motor Vehicles), We created laws to govern their responsible use (it hasn’t ENDED ALL misuse but it sure as fuck decreased the commonality of accidents/deaths) We have police ESPECIALLY DEDICATED to patrolling and keeping an eye on people who use cars to make sure they’re using them correctly!

So no, maybe we didn’t outright BAN cars, BUT WE TOOK A RESPONSIBLE FUCKING STEP AND CREATED REGULATIONS AND LAWS AND STUDIED CAUSES OF MOTOR VEHICLE DEATHS

punkbutch-deactivated20161214

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

elementalisman-deactivated20210

Excellent discourse but that beep beep tank image is fucking killing me XD

allthecanadianpolitics

Surrey school officials have found higher-than-safe levels of lead in drinking water in each of the first six schools tested by the district.

The results, which the school district says have been communicated in letters to parents, show lead remains an issue of concern in many water sources tested.

The highest level was found in a water fountain in the basement of Crescent Park Elementary, which registered 85 parts per billion lead concentration — eight times the Health Canada maximum allowable level for safe drinking water of 10 parts per billion. After the fountain was flushed by running the water for two minutes, the lead dropped to a safer level of fewer than three parts per billion.

A staff room sink at Sullivan Elementary registered 16.4 parts per billion of lead, which rose to 16.9 after the water was flushed for two minutes. A follow-up test of the sink three days later showed levels had spiked to 62.5 parts per billion, pre-flush, more than six times the federal guidelines.

Lead was also found in pre-flush levels in water sources at Port Kells Elementary, Hall’s Prairie Elementary, Prince Charles Elementary, and Surrey Traditional Elementary.

Copper levels that exceed Health Canada maximums were also found in water sources in the six schools.

allthecanadianpolitics

Just like that, Clark begins a slew of million-dollar announcements, many aimed at ridings she knows the Liberals will struggle to get elected in.

The last few weeks have seen a flurry of funding announcements from the B.C. Liberals, falling on the doorsteps of select school districts across the province. In one instance they decided to remove their request that boards cut $25 million from their operating budgets this year.

Of course they didn’t put it in those words – the Liberals announced it as “additional funding,” but those of us who have been paying attention are well aware this is far from an addition, but rather a reduction in this year’s cuts. There has been no talk of restoring the $29 million boards were forced to cut last year, or any permanent funding increases going forward, for that matter. There was also an announcement of funding to add 3,000 school spaces in Surrey, where some schools are over 200 per cent capacity and so overcrowded that the entire school property is full of portables. Unfortunately, in Surrey there are 7,000 students who are forced to learn in portables, so this funding announcement won’t even help half of them, and the district is still facing a budget shortfall this year.

I find it rather ironic that the Liberals’ excuse for other districts facing shortfalls has always been declining enrollment, but in Surrey you have a district that is growing in size every year, with schools way over 100 per cent capacity, and facing an even bigger shortfall than other districts who are seeing numbers decline. The latest announcement was for $2.7 million to help select rural schools across B.C. stay open. Many are taking issue with the horrible timing of this announcement, as districts have already been through months of public consultations and school boards have worked hard at balancing their budgets by making tough decisions. All the planning has been done to prepare staff for layoffs and students for the move to a new school, and some school boards have even faced threats of lawsuits for closures. Now just two weeks before their final budget is due, Clark decides to throw money at them. The timing might be bad for school districts as they now scramble to reconfigure their budgets and rearrange plans for closures before the summer. But the timing is seen as perfect for the B.C. Liberals, with the provincial election right around the corner.

This becomes even more obvious when you start looking at what areas are receiving this surprise, last-minute funding and realize that many of them are in swing ridings or in ridings like Quesnel, where the Liberals are facing a very tough re-election bid.

jamiemortara

reaaaaall. so much respect bb.

geekandmisandry

Wow, this is long but well worth the read.

wetwareproblem

This desperately needs transcription, and I’m terrible for it. It’s important; I want to see it hit as wide an audience as possible. Is anyone up to the task?

syntax-forest

[[November 2013: I am hired by the press of atlantic city as a copy editor and told by the copy desk chief that the desk has a “hands-off” culture. “we pretty much just fix spelling and grammar errors and design the pages.” I don’t want to totake the job but I want to move away and to do that I need money.

December 2013: I change the label over a photo of people placing poinsettias onto church pews from ‘preparing for the coming of the lord’ to ‘preparing for Christmas services’ and my coworker ignores my edit and says she doesn’t see the difference.

Spring 2014: disciplined for changing a headline about kara walker’s sphinx from ‘purely sweet homage to black labor.’ Disciplined for calling out the fact the press ran ‘real mother’ in a headline about adoptive kids meeting up with their birth mothers.

August 2014: lay out a nation and world page day after ferguson protests; take a lot of time making sure the page includes historical and social context; (middle-class, white, suburban) copy desk chief pulls article on police militarization and writes on the proof “that dead horse has already been beaten,” then goes on to redo the entire page. Throughout that month I continually reword “riot” as “protest” or “demonstration” and change “was shot by police” to “police officers shot x” substituting the name of the officer whenever I had it.

Spring 2015: An article comes to the copy desk about a man named Philip White who died in police custody in vineland. The story is vague, its only source is the police department’s press release (white, ~30, died in police custody after being arrested for disorderly conduct. No further information is available.) The next few paragraphs were Philip White’s arrest record (he was arrested last year for stealing baby formula from walmart) that was the entire thing. Outraged, I google him to at least get a quote from his friends or family or more information about him for the photo caption. The google search for his name are 12 pages long. It turns out the vineland cops set their dogs on Philip White and they ripped out his throat in front of witnesses, and there’s cell phone footage. He was unarmed, in his early 30s, a dad. Hot fury engulfs me. I call every editor I need to and tell them

we’re changing this story. I’m rewriting the headline and the lede and the first five paragraphs and I’m taking his arrest record out and there’s nothing you can do to stop me. I’m sorry, I will actually walk out right now over this if I have to. All the editors say ok, yes, and the next day I hear that the reported complained I shouldn’t have messed with his story, that he had reasons for not talking to witnesses. Yeah?

Have you ever read an article on an arrest and thought, this is actually just a rewritten press release from a police department? How about an article on a “clash between protestors and police” (note that language) that relies only on police department sources, not acknowledging that the officers are active agents in the clash? Have you ever thought, the only reason police officers release people’s criminal records after they kill them is to try to demonize and blame the victim, to absolve themselves of responsibility, to say, he was dangerous, he had it coming? Have you thought about how disproportionate the policing of black and white communities is? How “disorderly conduct” is a charge that could mean anything (same with “resisting arrest” and a literal suitcase of other charges)? Have you ever thought about how fucked up depictions of women and minority groups in the mainstream media are, how all of this serves to uphold and maintain a toxic and destructive white supremacist heteronormative patriarchal status quo? How trauma is collectivized? How last night my boss told me to “bump up the drama” on a label over a photo of two people who were shot and killed at work yesterday? “try ‘slain on camera’ instead of ‘virginia shooting’” how, also last night, we had to get “his side of the story” after a boxer punched his child’s mother six times in the face, getting her airlifted to the hospital? And then we quoted him- saying “it’s not that serious”- before her? Oh, but we always have to “consider both sides”! Have you thought about the precedent that sets?

I’ve thought about this – all of this – every day for two years

I can’t decide if I’ll remember copy editing at a newspaper as the worst thing I’ve ever done to myself or the best. I will never stop believing that these changes need to be made. Copy editing is political. It’s the most political thing there is, as a copy editor, as a journalist, every day you make an active decision to either uphold or subvert the status quo. Don’t tell me it’s not a decision. Don’t tell me you’re being led around by the newspaper voice and your editors and you just have to quotes that press release, don’t you? The police are the official source, you have to listen to them, yeah?

You don’t. ask yourself: why? Why? Why? You aren’t a mouthpiece for power you’re a fucking human animal and you need to care about what other people are going through. Broad brush depictions of groups of people as they come through the newspaper affect people’s perceptions and as a result they fuck with people’s daily lives and well-being. Even if it is in the most miniscule way, as a copy editor you have the power to change this. Don’t act like it’s just spelling and grammar.

Becky and I got into an argument once about I don’t even remember what but in it she said, “it’s not the words that matter, it’s the attitude behind the words. Changing that word doesn’t matter.” She’s right and wrong. It is the attitude behind words that matters – that is exactly why we change the words.

I’m leaving my job September 4 to move to los angeles. I don’t know if I’ll ever work at a newspaper again but I am proud of myself for showing up every day. I’m proud of myself for the changes I ws able to make. I will never stop believing this is important.

At the journalism program at my college we were taught ‘objective’ we were taught ‘stay out of it.’ If you are reading this and you haven’t figure it out, I want you to know: there is no ‘objective’. There’s only the shit history has given you. You’re either upholding the status quo or disrupting it, but the status quo is not and has never been neutral.]]

actjustly-deactivated20181001

The Oakland Police Department is caught up in multiple scandals right now. They have fired 3 police chiefs in 8 days.

Read about the sex scandal uncovered by the East Bay Express.

allthecanadianpolitics

Also the Senate is about to vote on Bill C-14, the Assisted dying bill.

allthecanadianpolitics

The Senate has passed the Assisted dying bill. It will soon become law:

ipecacandcivetoil-deactivated20

“Appointed senators have bowed to the will of the elected House of Commons, giving up their insistence that suffering Canadians who are not near death should have the right to seek medical help to end their lives.”

“C-14 would allow assisted dying only for consenting adults “in an advanced stage of irreversible decline” from a serious and “incurable” disease, illness or disability and for whom natural death is “reasonably foreseeable.”

allthecanadianpolitics

#i mean???? #at least it’s a start #but i don’t like that they’re gonna force people to drag out their lives in suffering until they’re “near the end”‘ #like fuck that man

gaytheist-dyke

Does the US do this?

allthecanadianpolitics

No the USA has not legalized assisted dying for the whole country, as Canada is doing here.

It is however legal in a few states:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide_in_the_United_States

#bill c-14 #assisted dying #euthanasia #canadian politics

lonewolvesandstarryskies

What exactly are your views of feminism?

Here’s the thing, I want you to picture a little scenario for me….

A tall, blonde woman is walking on her way to work and is carrying a loaf of bread. A homeless elderly woman approaches her and asks if she can have the loaf of bread because she’s starving and hasn’t eaten in days. At the same time a young mother approaches with her child and asks if she can have the bread because her child wants to feed the ducks.

The tall, blonde woman thinks for a second, and then hands the bread to the young mother and sends the elderly, starving woman away. This, for me represents the feminist movement.

The elderly homeless woman represents women in the 3rd world. The women who desperately need help because everyday they are forced into marriage, used as weapons of war, thrown out of their homes because they were raped, having their clitoris taken out in an unsafe way, being sold into prostitution etc but yet nobody talks about/helps them.

The young mother and child represent women in the 1st world. They only wanted the bread to feed ducks, their problem wasn’t anywhere near as bad as the elderly womans problem but they took the bread anyway. Their problems are scant yet they still got prioritized over the elderly woman.

The tall, blonde woman represents today’s feminists. Prioritizing the small, fairly harmless problem (like the young mothers) over the bigger and more important ones (like the elderly womans). Women are being oppressed, abused, beaten, sold and killed in the 3rd world but all modern-day feminists talk about is manspreading, Matt Taylor’s shirt, Video games, male-tears, meninism (which is satarical. Feminists are literally the only people taking it seriously), slut-shaming and bascially trying to make all men inherent abusers and all women inherent victims.

This is why I am a huge believer in equality, but refuse to call myself a feminist. I’d rather help those who need it rather than those who already have their rights and freedom.

sjwbullcrap

This explains it so well.

raven-against-bullshit

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a better explanation

screechingowlsworld

This is basically all the issues I have with feminism in 1st world countries

sofiee-c-blog

while i agree with this, i do still call myself a feminist (and honestly some people do have the preconceived notions that meninists are joking about)

#feminism #sexism

allthecanadianpolitics

Banks are raising fees on select personal banking services even as many are seeing revenue increases

If you’re already feeling gouged by bank fees, it may be time to check your statements. Almost all of Canada’s big banks are doling out some kind of personal banking fee increase this year.

Bank fee hikes can easily make people angry, especially when those financial institutions are earning multi-billion dollar profits. But some experts argue the charges are just the cost of doing business.

“Banks are expensive to run,” says Carleton University business professor Ian Lee.

They may be costly operations, but some also pull in plenty of cash. Last month, TD reported a second-quarter profit of $2.05 billion, up from $1.86 billion in the same period last year, thanks largely to retail bank earnings.

TD also hiked some fees on March 1. For example, the bank raised non-TD ATM fees by 50 cents to $2. It’s also the last of the big banks to levy a fee — $75 — for transferring a tax-free savings account to another bank. TD said it introduced the fees “to remain competitive in today’s marketplace.”

The changes quickly inspired fury online.

“They make BILLIONS every year forever. But that’s not enough, let’s tack on a few more cents or dollars and let’s make more,” commented one reader on a CBC News story about the new fees.

“They’re getting richer than you think,” echoed another person.

#canadian politics #classism

nepal

The documentary ‘Sherpa’ captures an intense battle between Sherpas and entitled Western climbers—including one very racist American.

When disaster struck Mount Everest in 2014, an unprecedented avalanche wiped out 16 Sherpas but left dozens of wealthy Western climbers untouched. Mourning evolved into a Sherpa strike, and deep-rooted tensions erupted after more than half a century bubbling below the surface.

Who better to showcase the racial standoff than a privileged white American?

aranikothegreat-deactivated2017

This kind of racism is common when westerners come to Nepal actually. They have a sense of privilege they believe they should be bestowed here.

Some had the audacity to tell me that Nepal shouldn’t develop because of the pollution and how they “aren’t able to enjoy the nature and smoke weed” here. Yes, many of the people who travel to Nepal indeed do have a hippy lifestyle yet they don’t truly understand the culture nor try to. It’s saddening to see.

As for words about climbing Everest. Many of you don’t know that much of that money doesn’t even go to helping the Sherpa who guide you or the local community as much as you want to think it does. Much of it is spent on climbing gear (expensive ones), food, plane tickets, and travel expenses, non of which help the community but rather the already wealthy businesspeople.

The money spent on Everest is regarded as “wasted money” because it is spent on a one time products.

That same money from one climber can truly help to change the Sherpa’s community and way of life, yet the westerners that go don’t ever really care about it. These individuals risk their lives so you can have your little moment of ‘glory’ and yet you don’t truly appreciate the life threatening work they do.

zooophagous

I am increasingly of the opinion that Everest should be zoned off from leisure climbing and left alone.

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Fuck Western Everest climbers.

Not to mention that Everest is NOT even its real fucking name. Its name in Tibetan is Chomolungma, which means “Goddess Mother of Mountains.” The British named it Everest after a surveyor with the excuse that they “couldn’t find a local name” which is bullshit because Chomolungma has been named as such for centuries and they probably didn’t even bother to ask.

The Nepalese people worship Chomolungma as sacred. In fact, every expedition must begin with a Puja ceremony to worship the spirits of the mountain or the Sherpas will pretty much refuse to work. They didn’t really go up the mountain until Westerners started doing it because they held it in reverence and felt it should be left alone.

And now feces, abandoned oxygen tanks, and dead bodies have literally destroyed their sacred mountain and are polluting their neighboring communities.

But who fucking cares as long as those rich Western vanity climbers get their selfie at “the top of the world,” right? It’s all worth it no matter how many Sherpas die, how much pain and destruction they leave in their wake, if they get what they want.

#everest #mountain climbing #racism #colonialism

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Obama is following through on his pledge to try to reduce 'weapons of war' after the Orlando massacre. By SARAH WHEATON

The White House is stepping up its efforts to renew the assault weapons ban, while trying to boost separate gun control measures that the Senate plans to vote on next week.

On Monday, White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and Vice President Joe Biden will host a mass conference call for the general public “about the need to renew the assault weapons ban and the different gun safety measures the Senate is set to vote on in the coming week.”

Biden announced the call in a response to a petition on the White House’s “We the People” platform on Friday. The request for a ban on the AR-15 assault-style rifle was posted on Sunday, in the immediate aftermath of the Orlando shooting in which were 49 people were killed, and already had nearly 200,000 signatures by Friday.

“The president and I agree with you,” Biden wrote. “Assault weapons and high-capacity magazines should be banned from civilian ownership.”

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