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✨Caroline✨ Hi! I really love Bucky Barnes. This is a pro-'Bucky gets a hug' zone.

[flawlessgentlemen]

The projects that I end up doing, that I want to be involved with in any way, have always been projects that will be impactful, for the most part, to my people — to black people. To see black people in ways which you have not seen them before. So Black Panther was on my radar, and in my dreams.

[heartofmotherearth]

This is very important, please do not ignore this.

Watch the video till the very end please (the end is when the explosion goes off.)

I live in Lebanon and the fiercest explosion went off in the midst of Beirut today, killing off an ungodly amount of human beings (more and more people are dying as I write this) and injuring up to 5000 people whose cases are immensely critical. Today,, at approximately 6 pm, hospitals were completely torn to shreds, people have been buried underneath fallen buildings, fires have been ignited almost everywhere, blood staining the streets in an excruciating manner, in addition to people that flew and fell to the sea due to the impact of the explosion. And it is certainly worth mentioning the millions upon millions' worth of damages what with buildings and cars and stores. Plenty of people are missing, it's an overall mess that is quite frankly very traumatizing.

What Lebanese people have been undergoing in recent times:

Lebanon has been going through a major economical decline that grows worse and worse by the day. The prices have heightened and the salaries remain the same, scarcely anyone has the capacity of affording basic needs anymore. There has been an unfolding revolution the past year, and the lebanese society has been protesting against the humiliation thrust upon our lives due to our miserable excuse for a government, and though the streets bled with thrashing, screaming citizens fighting for their utmost basic human rights, that caused mere to no change in the way things go around here, in fact, it only made it worse. We're being provided with, metaphorically, a droplet's worth of water and nearly no electricity, a pregnant woman has even passed away recently due to a heat stroke (as there were no means of cooling off)

What caused the setting off of this explosion?

The ignorance, heartlessness, and overall brutality of the government and the people in control.

A critical amount of chemicals (2700 tons of ammonium and other nitrates) were left inside a ship along the port of Beirut, and though the people in charge of this transaction were warned that heat and perspiration have the capability of destroying the whole of Lebanon in ode to a massive explosion, they refused to do anything about it and left the chemicals in there for years on end.

Up until, surprise surprise, the explosion went off and devestated Lebanon almost entirely.

I don't have much followers, and I know that this post isn't going to magically heal what is unfolding in this, priorly gorgeous, magnificent country, but I truly hope with all my heart that you find it within yours to spread awareness on this topic so that it would be more widespread,, so that Lebanon gets the aiding it deserves and the people from outer places slap the 'big bosses' awake, or at least pressure them into resigning, whatever it takes to make this place sufferable, tolerable, somewhere you can picture yourself residing in.

Lebanon is a place of infinite traditions, diversity, creativity, joy, and love. Most of the people here are open-hearted and wholesome. We all deserve far better.

My heart aches for the people that have passed away today, and I shall pray for the ones stuck in hellish suffering.

This is important.

[holochromatic]

Since Colin Kaepernick is an unbelievably awesome person who has offered to pay for the defense of any protester arrested in the Twin Cities, I feel like fundraising efforts might be more effective now if they go to the following:

- Reclaim The Block (organization that fights alongside the city council to take power and money away from traditional law enforcement and put the power to protect people into the hands of the community. How much better and safer would this country be for all if nobody had to worry about police brutality?)

- Black Visions Collective (another organization for taking power back into community hands. Sometimes works on a national level with other organizations, but mostly focuses on the local movement in the Twin Cities)

- North Star Health Collective (provides medical supplies for protesters and mutual aid for the community. Also provides help for people affected by COVID-19.)

- the gofundme for the family and fiancee

I'm not saying a donation to the Minnesota Freedom Fund is a bad thing, but they're getting a ton of support from Mr. Kaepernick (and Ben Schwartz as well, I think. I know he's raising money for the protesters and I assume it's going to the MFF). Lets make sure to support the community organizations that are working to prevent situations that lead to Black people dying at the hands of the police.

[kaiamar]

George Floyd was murdered by police. Just like Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, and far too many others.

White supremacists storm state capitals armed with AR-15 assault rifles and are unharmed. Unarmed people protesting murder by police get tear-gassed and shot with rubber bullets.

Systemic racism is the disease of this country. It must be eradicated. From the white supremacists in the White House to the terrorist vigilantes who hunted down Ahmaud Arbery to the Central Park (Liberal, Buttigieg supporter) woman in New York, calling police on a man who merely asked her to leash her dog.

[wizzard890]

Why the Winter Soldier is Less an Embodiment of Soviet Russia Than I Thought, or: Bucky Barnes, American Cold War Anxieties, and You

As you might imagine, I walked into Captain America 2 ready to get my Soviet Russia on. The Winter Soldier run is one of my favorites in–well, in any comic, really, and from what I’d seen in the trailers and whatnot, it looked like we were going to get a heaping dose of what makes that series so special and so sobering: the bloodstained underbelly of Soviet international politics, a glimpse at the way men and women were fed into the meat grinder of the State, pulped for the greater glory of their nation. In Bucky we’d see a drafted soldier kidnapped, brainwashed, and streamlined into the perfect machine. Not an ideal Soviet man, far from it; but a tool, utilitarian and dispassionate, with the five-pointed martial star on his shoulder; the awful triumph of the State over so-called human frailty.

And we did, we got all of that–insofar that you can't have a Winter Soldier without those things. But as I watched, it became increasingly clear that this movie wasn’t looking to talk about the Soviet Union. There is a reason Bucky only speaks Russian once in the entire film. There’s a reason he’s never addressed in it. There’s a reason his code name is drawn from an investigation into one of the ugliest chapters of American history. And there is a reason that the movie takes this snarling, mechanized, indiscriminate killing machine and explicitly sets him up as Captain America’s other half. 

I’ve seen some reviews going after the film for pulling its punches, of holding up the Greatest Generation as America’s past, and a polluted security branch as its future, absolving it of responsibility for its actions in both cases. It’s HYDRA now and “sacrifices for freedom” then; why aren’t we interrogating ourselves a little harder?

My answer to that is: we did, and the movie is named after what we found.

The Winter Soldier is concerned with security and international supremacy, and the moral compromises America has made (and continues to make) in pursuit of both. It draws a straight line from WWII America to the modern day, where “we did some things we weren’t proud of” becomes drone warfare and Big Brother. Steve is at one end of this timeline, Nick Fury at the other. There’s a chasm of about fifty years between the two points. That’s where the Winter Soldier steps in. 

This film is haunted by an American war, yes. But not the one Steve fought in. The Cold War was “a battle for the soul of mankind”, waged across millions of hearts and minds, and it’s a patched-over burn in the American psyche, barely healed and still tender to the touch. We emerged on the other side of forty-four years as the world’s one and only superpower. And it fucking cost us.

McCarthyism saw Americans turning on one another, fueled by snarling, indiscriminate paranoia. Operation Paperclip recruited Nazi scientists to keep German technology out of Soviet hands. Vietnam, with its thousands dead, was fought to keep the dominoes of Communism from falling across Asia. America, augmented by an unimaginable weapon and ruthlessly militarized, spied, ordered assassinations, irradiated its own children, and dragged the world to the brink of nuclear holocaust. All for the sake of security.  

The Winter Soldier is that America.

Inhuman, bionic, unfeeling, unthinking, the perfect weapon: a creature of progress, powered by pure ideology. The mind wipes? Decades of propaganda in its purest, most undiluted form, administered directly to the brain. The arm? I know a nuclear metaphor when I see one.

If Cap is the potential of America, what we should never stop striving for, the Winter Soldier is what became of us when we fell desperately short. He is what we did to ourselves.

In many ways this film is a ghost story, and like all good ghost stories, it holds up the tragedy of our mistakes and begs us not to repeat them. What SHIELD proposes–Project Insight–is assured destruction, a level of control over a population not exercised since we were staring Russia down over a launch pad. And so the Winter Soldier appears, the long cold shadow of America’s past, and crashes into the hope for its future with the ring of a metal fist against a shield.

Cap can’t destroy him, what’s done is done. Bucky can’t be unwounded, or given back his stolen time; the blood on his hands won’t be scrubbed out. But they can walk slowly together, one helping the other stand. 

Steve can’t progress without Bucky, just as, the film seems to say, America itself is doomed to fester unless it looks to its past and acknowledges what it has done; the things it has ground into dust in the name of a higher cause. In the MCU, the only way Captain America’s country will move forward is if it swears to never, ever go back.

[darlingbenny]

for @incorrectstevebucky <3

based on this

[bhrnes]

HBO's Howling Commandos poster series 3-10//?? [1 2]

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Trump will deliver killing blow to the USPS

The USPS is about to declare bankruptcy. It’s at the center of the longstanding plans for disaster recover and has been since the Cold War. It’s the only institution that could (for example) deliver covid meds to every home in America in one day.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/25/national-emergency-library/#going-postal

But Congress has decided not to bail out the postal service, despite Art 1, Sec 8 of the US Constitution: “To establish Post Offices and post Roads.”

Maybe it’s because without a USPS we couldn’t have a postal vote in 2020?

https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/27/just-asking-questions/#save-usps

The proximate cause of the post office’s bankruptcy is the pandemic, but that is merely the finishing blow. The USPS was murdered in 2006, when Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/04/will-the-united-states-post-office-become-a-victim-of-covid19.html

The Act gave the USPS a mere 10 years to “prefund its future health care benefit payments to retirees for the next 75 years.” That is, to set aside cash to pay medical bills for future employees who hadn’t been born yet.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-6407

The Act gave the USPS a mere 10 years to “prefund its future health care benefit payments to retirees for the next 75 years.” That is, to set aside cash to pay medical bills for future employees who hadn’t been born yet.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-6407

The USPS’s murder is straight out of the neoliberal playbook: “1 Defund, 2 claim crisis, 3 call for privatizatization, 4 profit!”

As Lambert Strether points out, it was a bipartisan act of murder, cosponored by the “centrist” Democrat Henry Waxman.

Killing the USPS looms large in the Trump admin’s (nonmetaphorical, actual) privatization playbook, “Delivering Government Solutions in the 21st Century Reform Plan and Reorganization Recommendations”:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Government-Reform-and-Reorg-Plan.pdf

The proposals are for USPS to become a Wework clone or franchisee, but not to become a publicly owned bank - a common line of business for other nations’ postal services, natural based on the amounts of cash they handle.

The USPS is the nation’s second largest employer of veterans, with 630,000 employees. Trump is about to allow it to collapse so that UPS, Fedex and other private firms can skim off the most profitable parts of its business and leave rural Americans totally isolated.

The loss of the USPS would mean the loss of the last truly universal federal program in America and would unduly hammer the people whom Trump claims to love – veterans and rural voters.

https://twitter.com/lildipshit3/status/1248741868440940544

[wilwheaton]

I read a diary at Daily Kos which suggested that if half the households in America bought 2 sheets of Forever Stamps, for about 16 bucks, it would provide enough funding to keep the USPS alive. How fucked up is this? We’re trying to save the fucking Postal Service, which is in the fucking CONSTITUTION, from Republican sabatoge. There is no such thing as a moderate, or patriotic, Republican. They are anti-American Fascists.

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

don’t miss the fact that this is coinciding exactly with the push to increase mail-in voting, which would seriously jeopardize Trump’s reelection. you can’t have mail-in ballots if there’s no postal service, right?

Americans, please text USPS to 50409 and ResistBot will send a message to your senators and congressperson telling them to save the Post Office.

i did it yesterday and it couldn’t have been easier. my senators are both pieces of shit, but that doesn’t mean i’m not going to give them an earful about this.

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Texting resistbot was SUPER easy, and I got an email reply from my senator’s office today confirming my email went through. Please do at least that!

[fuckyeahasexual]

Bad headline. Let’s save the USPS

[afronerdism]

I txted, it was really simple. Please do it

[fandomshatepeopleofcolor]

Please text and boost!

[brokencharcoal]

happy birthday, bucky!

[spider-mann]

@imsebastianstan: New year. New me. #BuckytakesEurope

[brolinjosh]

#go off

[mytwistedexperience]

Didn’t he like refuse to call Steve despite the fact that Steve gave him his phone number and was on the run?

Didn’t he jump aboard an alien space ship and went off into space?

Didn’t Bruce have to man up and call Steve the moment he thought they needed his help, using Tony’s phone despite the fact that he only recently got back to earth?

Didn’t Steve, Sam and Natasha risk their freedom and life to show up as fast as they could to help the nearest people in danger from the villains(Wanda and Vision)?

So despite the fact that the entirety of Civil War was Tony pretending to feel remorse for creating Ultron(a megalomaniac robot who committed an act of terrorism in Sokovia and attempted genocide of the people there, with plans to continue his serial murdering until they stopped him) and the deaths and murders it caused, leading to his support of the accords and several attempts to force Steve, Natasha, Sam and several other Avengers to sign it, he finally comes clean here and admits that he doesn’t regret his creation of Ultron and the deaths he caused because his idea to play god with a robot was right. And it’s somehow Steve’s fault that Steve has an opinion about the immorality of playing god, even though they all had to defeat a rogue Ultron together and barely survived.

Despite all that, he is yelling at Steve, a man who actually lost many loved ones to the snap, including two of his best friends while Tony himself still has his best friend with him and his wife. Not to mention, as old as he is, he is not embarrassed to be acting like the only victim of Thanos, and the only one who has suffered and zero self awareness as to how self centered he sounds, especially since he is actually older than Steve.

Basically, when he says “we lost, and you weren’t there” I guess the Wakandans who died in Wakanda fighting Thanos and his crew, all the avengers, including Thor fighting in Ealanda against Thanos don’t count. Also the actual final battle against Thanos where the actual losing of the battle against Thanos happened is somehow not important.

Which leads me to ask, isn’t it actually Tony who wasn’t there with them in Wakanda where they actually lost and the snap happened?

If he refused to call Steve out of his butthurt pride over Steve refusing to bend to his will in civil war, isn’t it him that did not want to do it together despite having all the opportunities in the world to call Steve?

The sheer audacity he has to open his mouth and yell at another person about literally anything when his ass should have been in jail for Ultron alone is beyond me.

[thehollowprince]

What gets me about all of this is Tony’s ego in thinking that his “suit of armor around the world” would have worked in the slightest sense. Let’s be honest here, this bullshit rant is nothing more than attempt to blame others for the fact that he lost and he doesn’t know how to process that at all. It was the same thing during the fight in Siberia - “That shield doesn’t belong to you. My father made that sheild. You don’t deserve it.” Putting aside the fact that Tony has never said a good word about his father to anyone, especially Steve, it proves a pattern of behavior here. We see someone, in this case Steve, not pick his side and he lashes out the only way he knows how because he can’t accept the reality that he’s not the best, that others would pick anyone over him.

So this whole rant above makes zero cents, in that, by this point in time after the Snap, he knows - knows! - that Vision is dead. They’ve caught him up to speed on everything that happened, and still, Tony can’t accept the fact that his plans or idea wouldn’t have worked. That’s why he’s yelling at Steve, because he can’t accept the fact that he was wrong about anything, so he puts the blame somewhere else.

But the whole subject of Vision and Tony’s Ultron Initiative and him thinking it would be a good idea or that it even would have worked baffles me. What was Vision but not the upgraded version of Ultron that Ultron himself made? Dude was literally made of vibranium, the strongest metal on earth, and the Black Order, and then later Thanos, tore through him like he was nothing. Let’s be honest here, out of all the Avengers and Avengers associates, Vision was one of their heavy hitters. Right up there with the likes of Thor and the Hulk, with only Wanda and Carol surpassing them. The fact that Vision was that strong and they were still able to kick his ass like he was nothing says that, had Ultron done and been what Tony intended him to be, he would have been, at best, a nuisance to them.

But no, we have to get this bullshit rant where its framed like Tony was right because it makes him feel better. And this is the problem with Tony that has been prevalent since he first showed up. He’s emotional. He’s an overgrown manchild who, despite being one of the wealthiest people on the planet, has never sought any kind of therapy or help for his mental health. The result is that we get things like this, where he feels the need to lash out and alienate others because he can’t comprehend that he could have been in the wrong. And its because he’s emotional in that way that he should have never been able to don the suit in the first place, but that’s a different topic for another time.

[aquamarine-w]

AO3 is banned in China on 29th Feb, 2020.

You are going to see less and less Chinese fics on the website

You are probably never going to see Chinese readers commenting in your fics anymore

They are the best readers, they never give negative comments and are always supportive. Although you probably don’t know, they talk about your fic in their small communities or group chats and recommend them to other potential readers. A large proportion of Chinese readers love to translate your fic into their language, that’s why you see quite some fics have Chinese translation.

I don’t want to talk about why it is banned. It’s just sooner or later. One more window closed for the voice of freedom.

I’m a Chinese writer. I write in English. I’m currently living overseas. But if I go back to the country, there’s a large chance you are not going to see me updating again.

I want to remember this day. This day the last Utopia is taken away. This day the iron fist on our throats tightened again.

[flerken]

Guidebook to The Marvel Cinematic Universe: Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

Character(s): The Howling Commandos

[cyberdelph]

❤️ by Fe铁

[punkeduppirate]

fave dudes (not) chillin

[incorrectstevebucky]

[thestovetops]

The page is super well written too tbh 

[winterofthedarkestlight]

This has some great stuff…

[maxiekat]

The Falcon & The Winter Soldier #1 preview (W) Derek Landy (A) Federico Vincentini (CA) Dan Mora

An office of dead government agents. A gifted new killer. Two ex-Captain Americas…

When a dramatic attempt on the life of Bucky Barnes reunites him with Sam Wilson, the two old friends are plunged headlong into a race to uncover the new leader of Hydra before a mass casualty event announces the terror group’s resurgence to the world. The clock is ticking…

In Shops: Feb 26, 2020 x