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I'm at a convention and I just saw Captain America pick his nose. He truly is an accurate mascot for this country.
Falling for scams does hurt people, actually
TW: Human trafficking, SA, torture, discussion of scam farms
I see a whole bunch of people arguing that they would rather risk giving to a scammer than ignore someone's gofundme. I also see people saying things like "I can't believe some sick people are profiteering off genocide" and like, me neither, but I feel like you guys really don't understand who actually runs these kinds of scams and what they are.
Scams of noticeable scale-- like scam asks being sent from hundreds of accounts to every user on Tumblr!-- are typically related to organised crime in poor countries, not Susan from Milwaukee who wants a new coat and has no scruples. People get trafficked by gangs to scam farms in Asia and Africa where they're worked to the bone and tortured trying to get idiots in wealthy countries to part with their money. Genocide profiteering is pretty much the least evil thing these people do.
Here's a UN article on it. Obvious warnings for content related to human trafficking and SA.
Transnational crime syndicates based in Southeast Asia are fuelling the trafficking of people, either forcing them to commit crimes or for s
When you donate to a scammer, you fund these organisations and give them a reason to exist. It's possible some of the fundraisers are legit. I honestly find it unlikely given I'm not seeing any from any other countries where urgent fundraisers would seem to have great reason to exist but which haven't captured the same level of attention on Tumblr-- the number of Sudanese, Congolese, Ukrainian, Burmese or Uyghur fundraisers in my DMs is a fat 0. In any case, there are safer ways to help.
If you want to help (which is great!) you don't have to take the risk of paying for human trafficking. Donate to legitimate charities which have the resources to safely and effectively ensure the money and help is getting to the right people. Funding human trafficking rings in Myanmar is not a good risk to be taking while trying to help.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has caused immense suffering, with countless individuals displaced, harmed, and killed over the years. Tens
Bucky and Wanda both know that things aren't always what they appear to be.
Tel Aviv last night
Following the devastating news of the murder of 6 hostages, us Israelis are striking and protesting for a deal.
Saying we donât want a ceasefire deal is just wrong. There are protests nationwide, school and most businesses are closed in protest.
We want a ceasefire / hostages deal . Bring them home nowâ¤ď¸đď¸
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Can anybody explain to me why the protests are against Israel's policy though?
What do you object to? Benjamin AGREED to the deal already.
He may have agreed to it but unfortunately heâs also delaying it⌠The main issues are
-Him insisting on including the Philadelphi Corridor & not ending the war already
-Thus delaying a deal in may that included the recently murdered hostages and many other hostages (women, children,elderly, injuredâŚ)
Everyone has been saying this- Hostagesâ families, Israeli & us officials, other Members of the knessetâŚ
*Iâm honestly surprised you asked considering itâs all over the news .
Anyways, I hope heâs â¨â¨never elected again and faces prison time â¨â¨
Howâd he get elected in the first place? Genuine question because every single Israeli Iâve had a convo with has been heavily against him. I remember a friend told me it was something about not enough candidates but Idk that didnât make sense. Thereâs also the fact that Iâve been hearing of protest for a while. So are all (or at least non-heavily-right wing) Israelis against him and his actions or is there still a group of people (citizens) who still support and agree with him?
the prime minister specifically is selected by the president, i think based on who they believe is most likely to form a governmentânot always the party that holds the most seats in the knesset. that's why in 2021 we ended up seeing a unity government between yesh atid (17 seats w/ party leader yair lapid) and yamina (7 seats w/ party leader naftali bennett) despite likud holding 30 seats total. in order to form a coalition government you need to hold a majority out of the total seats of the knesset (120, so minimum seats needed is 61).
there are a lot of reasons why bibi keeps being selected as prime minister. his party is the most popular, having received 1.1 million votes in the most recent election and holding 32 seats in the knesset. he's steadily gone further and further right when it comes to the parties he'll work with and imo the standards for who the far right will consider working with are much more relaxed than the standards that left-wing parties will hold. on top of that...other israelis like @homochadensistm would be able to explain better than me how he's sort of "bought out" the haredi voting bloc lol
israel also doesn't have ranked choice voting, so if a party you vote for doesn't meet the electoral threshold then your votes are essentially thrown out. in the most recent election, i think around 325,000 votes between two left wing parties, meretz and labor, were thrown out because they failed to reach the electoral threshold. for some perspective, Shas (right-wing haredi political party), the third largest party in the knesset with 11 seats, received ~393,000 votes. i think it was the leaders of meretz who refused to sign an electoral agreement with labor which would have allowed them to share votes, and they faced a lot of criticism for this decision after the election.
that's my understanding of why he keeps being chosen for prime minister anyway. currently, his coalition government only holds 64/120 seats in the knesset. this is by no means a huge majority, which explains why you're seeing such large protests against decisions the government makes, and also why you'll meet so many israelis who are against bibi + the current government.
This is a great explanation of Israeli politics! Thank you, I wrote a bit as well but itâs so much to explain Xx
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Lurking in the depths of the Sokovian Sea...Â
Happy Festivus everyone! This year, the Feats of Strength will be hosted by the Grandmaster.
Happy Festivus everyone! This year, the Feats of Strength will be hosted by the Grandmaster.
The Soldier and the Witch
Just for the record, you can love Tony Stark AND Wanda Maximoff at the same timeâŚ
Be careful this Saturday the 24th
The reason would warrant a trigger warning, and this post might not reach people who have that subject filtered in their tags.
Some sickos have declared April 24th to be the "National Day" for something very sick. It may be a sick joke, but be careful all the same.
Women especially, but men and intersex people too, and definitely kids, be careful. Stay safe.
Vision died again
I think the reason why I donât like Vision is because⌠he was sort of a letdown? He said he was what Ultron was meant to be, but they never really⌠show it? Forgot being a suit of armor around the world, he didnât do anything close to overpowered enough to be the protector of Earth. I mean he was useless all through Civil War and Infinity War, and was basically used as a plot tool in both movies. And I would have been fine with it, because okay, I have to admit I donât watch the MCU for the fight scenes, but he had no personality to make up for it. His character development was basically becoming Wandaâs boyfriend. I canât figure him out and heâs just kinda lame.Â
The fact that in addition to being boring, he's here instead of Jarvis, and is in the way of Wanda hooking up with Loki or Bucky, just makes me like him even less.
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Pov: wanda was not alone, she had bucky
Comission for: @witchkobikâ¤ď¸â¨
Bucky is not afraid of Wanda's powers, on the contrary, he asks her to show him
I worship Shuri and Wakanda, but I'm still dying mad that Wanda Maximoff didn't use her powers to cure Bucky and Tony Stark didn't make him that new arm.
Scarlet Legilimens
House: Ravenclaw
Species: Human/phoenix hybrid (formerly human)
Blood Status: Pureblood
(Pointless) Wand: Cherry, 13 inches, phoenix feather Â
(Pointless) Broom: Firebolt Supreme
Patronus: Red-billed firefinch
Specialty: Legilimency, Occlumency, Flying, Dark Arts, Wandless Magic
Sorting
Wanda Maximoff is a living example of how the traits of Ravenclaw House may be applied to the most heinous villainy, and the most self-sacrificing heroism. As a villain, she is crafty and manipulative; as a hero, clever and intuitive. Her fighting style, for good or evil, is always more sneaky and innovative than âbold.â Ironically, her mind is also her weakest point as well as her strongest, as poor wanda continuously ends up as the manipulated as often as the manipulator. A born Legilimens, her abilities, strengths and flaws are all mind related.
Note the âclevernessâ and âready mindâ mentioned by the Sorting Hat neednât always come in the form of a bookish nerd, as Luna Lovegood, Sybil Trelawney, Profeesor Quirrel and Professor Lockheart are all Ravenclaw. Wanda may not spend her free time studying or watching the Discovery Channel, but she does spend much of it experimenting with her powers, and letting her imagination loose. When faced with unbearable loss, she wasnât immediately able to face her grief head-on, like a Gryffindor; nor, as a corrupt Ministry leader lied, did she try to resurrect her lost lover; instead, she escaped into her own mind, imagining up an (almost) complete fictitious life for herself and Vision, in a matter of seconds, without even realizing she was doing it.
Wanda is capable of impressive courage, ambition and loyalty, to be sure; but all of those things have wavered, when her reality was turned upside-down. She shed years of indoctrination after reading Ultronâs mind and seeing the grim truth. (And yes, she can read a machineâs mind! Thatâs a Ravenclaw right there.)
Durmstrang Experiments
Wanda and her twin brother Pietro were born to wizarding parents, in the tiny European nation of Sokovia. Wanda was a born Legilimens, like Queenie Goldstein, able to peek into othersâ minds without having to perform any spells. A poor family, their father made ends meet by enchanting posters and lobby cards of old Muggle sitcoms to play out entire episodes, which he then sold to Muggle-enthusiasts in the wizarding world. Their home was decimated by a spell invented by Tony Stark, who never intended for it to end up in the claws of banshee terrorists. The twins ended up in a crap Muggle orphanage, which only intensified their prejudices. By the time they entered Durmstrang, a school infamous for professors that supported Dark Magic and even Voldemort, they were ripe for indoctrination and radicalization.
Due to wandaâs being a Legilimens, the twins were selected for a dangerous experiment by their headmaster Professor Beowulf Von Stucker. Using the Mind Stone, the twins were to be fused with their wands. Wandaâs first name suddenly became very appropriate, a la Remus Lupin. Wanda merged with her phoenix-feathered wand, transforming the born Legilimens into a powerful human/phoenix hybrid. Her telepathic powers were enhanced, and she gained many powers of a phoenix, including flight, inhuman strength for her levitation spells, and being nearly indestructible. Being part wand also made her able to do wandless magic with no effort. Pietro, meanwhile, was merged with his Veela-hair wand, making him a human/Veela hybrid, and gifting him with a Veelaâs dancing speed and silvery hair.
(A very special thanks to AlasterBoneman for the idea about Wandaâs wand being integrated into her body.) Order of the Avengers Wanda and Pietro are finishing up their first year when they cross paths with the Order of the Avengers, and they donât exactly make a good first impression. Their vitrol against the Avengers and Tony Stark makes very little sense, especially given that Wanda is a telepath, and should easily see they arenât the villains (not to mention how much she has in common with Natasha, whose life story Wanda pesronally digs up). But, the twins are still only about eleven, and kids that age can be pretty stupid. The Avengers trace Lokiâs confiscated broom-scepter to Durmstrang, where the dark wizards from the Order of Hydra are keeping it. Wanda, having recently studied with a Boggart, uses her Legillimency to make the Avengers relive their traumas. Tonyâs fear shows Wanda that he clearly wants to protect the world, and yet she makes the very un-Ravenclaw decision to keep pursuing ârevenge.â Her plan inadvertently leads to Tony and Bruce accidentaly creating a dangerous and ear-bleedingly-irritating gargoyle named Ultron, who the twins personally work with. Wanda even shocks Bruce into green-wolf form, and sends him on a rampage through one of the dormitories at Durmstrang (but itâs not her or Pietroâs House, so she could care less). Finally, after much too long, she puts her mental powers to some use, and reads Ultronâs mind. Thatâs when she puts two and two together. By then, Ultron has unleashed an army of Cornish Pixies to levitage Durmstrang Castle miles into the air, planning to drop it in an explosion of magic that will alert the Muggles to the existence of wizards. Huddled in a swaying castle tower, she confesses her guilt to Hufflepuff Clint Barton. Clint invites her to redeem herself by joining the Avengers. Durmstrang is saved, but sadly, Pietro takes a killing curse for Clint and another first year. wrought with grief and guilt, wanda begins her second year of schooling at Hogwarts, whereâafter an unusually long time on the stoolâshe is sorted into Ravenclaw. Her lonely mood is raised slightly when she finds the attractive new Golem, Vision, hovering to the Ravenclaw table alongside her.
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The therapist asking what their trauma coping mechanisms are and Wanda just saying "I made my own reality based on sitcoms from my childhood to remind me of happier times and in the process took an entire town hostage by accident. But I'm studying a new book that corrupts the mind of whoever reads it so that's fun!". The therapist is like WTF and Bucky's just like "Good on you. Moving past the 7 stages of grief albeit with unorthodox methods but hey, you made it through girl!"