hey if you’re a man i’m gonna need you to never approach a woman who’s alone at night time. don’t care what your intention is– unless it’s an emergency, don’t. you probably have no idea what the jolt of cold terror and/or the gnawing dread feels like in these situations. thanks
Unless he’s good looking, well dressed, well spoken, and driving something expensive, right?
1) pigtails arenāt long enough to āpull onā anymore
2) her bangs are more choppy and fun rather than seductively āframing her faceā
3) her boobs arenāt half a foot off her ribcage (Iām guessing they made her wear a padded bra in Suicide Squad)
4) Her skimpy clothing looks more like a choice rather than the tired āwomenās clothes strategically rippedā trope
5) sheās not wearing a fucking dog collar
it looks like she dressed herself and had fun with it as opposed to it being painfully obvious a man dressed her
6) The camera is centered on her face not her chest.
You see this is what people should be talking about when they say itās a characterās āchoiceā to dress a certain way. Skimpy clothing doesnāt have to scream āIām here for you to consumeā it can be āIām wearing this because itās fun and whether you like it or not isnāt my problemā
Also we all know Harley is a disaster bisexual and that gloriously hideous outfit is perfect for her
ā¢ Her shirt no longer literally labels her a manās property.
Also that figure is way too low, modern population estimates might be as much as twice that. There were between 25 and 40 million in central Mexico alone, almost as many people in the North Amazon, almost as many in the Andes, and almost as many in the American South. All saw 80 to 99 percent population loss in the period of 2 to 3 generations.
The Greater Mississippi River Basin had a population somewhere between 5 and 12 million, the Eastern Woodlands had about as many, about as many in the Central Amazon, and almost as many on the American West Coast and North West Coast respectively. All of which saw 85 to 99 percent population losses in 2 or three generations after the others.
Multiple factions if European interests killed all the natives they could and destroyed all the culture and history they could. They were not limited by gender, language, religion, culture, ethnic group, nationality, geography, or time period; just every single person they could.
That’s not even genocide, it’s apocalypse.
Why are you all omitting the well known fact that it was not purposeful genocide but simply new microbes introduced that no one knew about at that time.
Cuz that’s not true.
Tw genocide, tw violence
When Columbus realized the pigs they brought were getting the Islanders sick he arranged to loose as many as possible ahead of them primarily into the Benne region, I believe. Cortez loaded sickened corpses into Tenochtitlan’s aqueducts, Spain deliberately targeted the priests of Mexican society first because they knew it would severely undermine the public ability to treat disease. When the post Incan city states developed a treatment for malaria, the Spanish deliberately targeted the cities producing the quinine treatment and made it illegal to sell it to non-christians. The Spanish took all the sick and forced them at sword-point to go back to their homes instead of to the sick houses or the temples throughout the new world, and forced anyone who wasn’t sick to work in the mines or the coin factories melting and pressing their cultural treasures down into Spanish coins. The English were just as bad, they started the smallpox blankets. A lot of the loss was not deliberate infections like this but it was preventable at a million different crossroads and every European culture took the opportunity to weaponize the plagues when they could.
They knew what they were doing, just cuz they didn’t know what germs were doesn’t mean they have some accidental relationship with it. Alexander the great used biological warfare after all, so it’s not like you can pretend the concept was alien to them, they wrote about it.
Besides they did plenty of old fashioned killing too, there were Spanish conquistadors that estimated their own personal, individual killings might have numbered over the ten thousands. They were sure they’d killed more than ten million in “New Spain” alone. They crucified people they smashed babies on the rocks, they set fire to buildings they forced women and children into and cooked their meals over the burning corpses, they loosed war dogs on people. They sold children into sex slavery to be raped by disease riddled pedos back in Europe and if taking their virginity didn’t cure the sick creeps the native children would be killed or sometimes sent back.
The English were just as bad, shooting children in front of their mothers and forcing them to mop their blood with their hair. Turning human scalps into currency. Feeding babies to dogs in front of their mothers and fathers. Killing whole villages and erasing them from their maps so that historians would think God had made it empty just for the English.
The Americans after them burned crops and drove several species of bison to extinction just to starve the plains tribes. They pushed the blankets too. On top of the wars of extermination and scalp hunting and concentration and laws defining natives as non-persons so that we’d never be protected by the Constitution.
And even if you wanna live in some dreamy fairytale where God just made a whoopsie and then there were no natives left, nobody forced them to erase our history. The Spanish burned every document they found to erase the literacy and literary tradition of the Central and South Americans. There are essentially three Aztec documents left and some excavated pottery, and some archeological inscriptions and that’s it. The single most advanced culture in math and anatomical medicine erased probably forever. Same to the Inca, the most advanced fiber and alloy engineers and economists gone forever. Nobody made them do that. Nobody forced the American colonizers to steal political technology and act like they invented democracy or sovereignty. Nobody forced them to build their cities on top of native ones and erase them from history forever. Baltimore was built on Chesapeake, which translates roughly to “city at the top of the great water” in most Algonquin tongues. My favorite example is Cumberland in Western MD, they didn’t even reshape the roads or anything, they paved the steps and walking paths natives had used for hundreds of years and now it’s almost impossible to drive cuz the streets are too narrow or steep. The culture that built them didn’t have horses. Phoenix AZ, called Phoenix cuz the settlers literally found an old city and “brought it back to life.” Did they save any history or cultural artifacts? No. Most cities on the east coast are like this. Nobody forced them to erase that history.
Colonizers are not innocent just cuz the germs did a lot of the work of the apocalypse.
@ minors STOP making anti map blogs im begging you
there’s something REALLY alarming about bloggers who are 13-17 actively seeking out discourse with these people. maps are PEDOPHILES. they’re fucking PREDATORS. they are extremely dangerous to you!! it doesn’t matter what you are trying to accomplish with your discourse blog, arguing with a community of pedophiles and their supporters can put you in DANGER. block them, get angry that they exist and hate them definitely, but please stop getting into arguments with them.
[Image text: “#autismawareness How would you feel if your parents were raising money to research how to make sure nobody ever has a child like you?”]
Cancerwareness: How would you feel if your parents were raising money to make sure nobody ever has a child like you?
Cysticfibrosisawareness: How would you feel if your parents were raising money to make sure nobody ever has a child like you?
Taysachsawareness: How would you feel if your parents were raising money to make sure nobody ever has a child like you?
Do you realize how ridiculous this sounds?
Maybe your fucking parents care about the troubles and issues you’ve suffered and hope another child doesn’t have to suffer you absolute morons.
You’re making a common but very dangerous mistake by comparing autism to cancer and chronic illnesses. Unlike cancer, autism is a fundamental part of how our brains are built, which means that autism cannot be separated from who we are as people. Autism isn’t an illness, it’s a neurotype - it’s something we are, not something separate like cancer that is happening to us and which is inherently negative. When you want to remove or cure our autism, you’re saying that you want to cure or remove a central part of who we are, a defining part of our personalities and how we experience the world, and that’s a very dangerous sentiment to have towards your child.
The suffering associated with cancer is caused by cancer.
The suffering associated with autism is not caused by autism, but by how society treats autistic people.
Stop comparing them.
If you don’t want an autistic person to suffer, just stop making them suffer.
“If you don’t want an autistic person to suffer, just stop making them suffer.”
Can we get this printed on billboards? Make special ed teachers write it a hundred times before they’re allowed into a classroom? Burn it into the flesh of the people running autism speaks?
THISSS abled people can not understand why some people want cures and some don’t. It’s not THAT hard to explain it’s just difficult when you haven’t experienced these perspectives personally, but I mean, is it that hard to just LISTEN to what people WITH THE ACTUAL THING ARE SAYING?
I was being screamed at by a client at the front desk. I had refused to treat her dog’s diarrhea for free and for that grave transgression I was being cursed at and berated in front of my staff and other patrons. The list of foul things being hurled at me included phrases like “hope you burn in hell”, “you don’t give a shit about the animals”, and “you have no compassion”. For the dog’s sake I relented and told her I would give the antibiotics to her dog for free, but she must pay the office visit. More expletives. She left without getting anything or paying her bill.
The receptionist mouthed “I’m so sorry” at me as she was nodding her head while on the phone. “Line two is for you” she said and I picked it up. It was the owner of a dog I had spayed a few days ago. This man had refused pain medications or an E-collar for his dog because they were too expensive. I felt bad for the dog having to go without pain control so I gave him the medication for free and discounted the e-collar. He refused both “on principle”. Almost pleading I had asked him to please take both for the health of the dog. Refusal. Without an e-collar to prevent her from doing it and pain meds to keep her from being bothered by it the dog had chewed her incision open. On the phone with me now the owner was yelling at me that I had done a “shitty job” and “fucked up” his dog because her guts were hanging out. I told him to bring her in ASAP so I could take her to surgery and fix it. He asked if it would cost anything and I told him he would have to pay the surgery fee as well as anesthesia. He refused. “You don’t give a flying fuck if she dies! Have you no compassion you asshole?!” He never showed up.
Still reeling from the phone call and the other angry client I went into a room to see a woman’s chihuahua that had a dental cleaning a few weeks ago. At the time I had noticed a very rotten tooth that needed to be pulled. The fee for removing the tooth was more expensive than usual because it needed surgery and radiographs. The owner did not want to spend the money. I asked her what price she would pay to have it done and she said a number. Knowing it must come out I told her I would do it for that price but the compromise would be no radiographs because it would for sure need the pain meds, antibiotics, and surgery so the x-rays were the only thing that weren’t 100% needed. She had to understand that without taking films I could not see if I had removed all of the tooth and there could be problems and she agreed. Sitting in the room now was the dog who had an abscess because part of the tooth root had been left behind. This was my fault because I am a “crack job” and just wanted her to come back in to make more money. I told her now I absolutely had to do radiographs to find the broken piece and when I wouldn’t do it for free was told that I “shouldn’t be a vet because you don’t give a shit about the animals”. I offered to discount the surgery cost as well as give her more antibiotics for free but was told if it wasn’t all free she wouldn’t do it. I explained to her that she was not the only client that wanted free things and that if I did everything for free as was asked I would lose the practice around $1,000.00, and we had only made $1,800.00 that day. She told me she knew I was rich and just wanted more money. I thought about my ‘94 Honda Civic with no a/c and a broken side view mirror I drove to work, the 15 year old mattress I sleep on, and looked down at the dress pants I bought at a thrift store for $3.00 and just stared at her.
As I came back into the treatment area my tech told me there was another appointment in a room. I went in and saw a woman and her young son sitting on the bench holding a very still guinea pig. Doing a quick exam I found that the guinea pig had a very large abdomen. I asked her if I could do radiographs. She asked for the price and when I told her she began to cry and then said “ I understand it is important, but I can’t afford it. I’m sorry”. I stared at her for a moment, and then I told her I would do them for free. Radiographs showed that the guinea pig had severe ileus and what was likely a ruptured intestine. The best thing to do would be to put it to sleep. I told the owner and she started to cry again, he son started too. After it was done I got some paint out and made a paw print on some card stock for them. I wrapped the guinea pig in a colorful bandana and put it in a box and closed the lid. When I presented the paw print to her she cried and said it meant a lot to her that I took the time to do it. As she was leaving she turned back and said “may I give you a hug?” I said yes and we hugged and she cried on my shoulder. Heading to the door again she looked at me saying “Thank you. You have so much compassion and love for the animals, I can tell you really care about them and us and I appreciate it. We will be coming back with our other pets so you can see them.” With that she walked out. It is because of clients like that that I come to work.
