darlingiknow:

darlingiknow:

a fat person says ‘i want to live my life without ridicule’ and for some people, the answer is ‘no’ and that will never make sense to me.

it should be noted that ‘i want to live my life without ridicule’ is a statement that needs no answer, yet people still won’t leave it alone and truly think fat people DESERVE ridicule.

fullhalalalchemist:

If net neutrality dies we aren’t getting it back. I just hope you guys know that. This government never fixes it’s mistakes until decades later if at all, and especially under Trump, they won’t ever fix their mistakes.

The BEST thing you can do is to call your members of Congress at 202-224-3121. Call three times, because you have two senators and one House representative.

Congress has oversight over the FCC, and they have stopped their votes before. Its vital you call them now, go to their local offices now (chances are there is one right next to you), and pressure them to take action. To actually go over there and stop them. To bring up all the lies the FCC is saying about net neutrality, about how they’re ignoring the lawsuit against them. WE ONLY HAVE 6 DAYS!!.

justsomeantifas:

geekycubil:

justsomeantifas:

diamonddonator:

fullhalalalchemist:

justsomeantifas:

takocos:

justsomeantifas:

justsomeantifas:

justsomeantifas:

it’s socially acceptable to publicly starve kids in the united states. 

honestly i don’t even care if the kids parents are rich, you shouldn’t punish children for not being able to afford to eat when they have no ability or means to pay for such a thing on their own.

by withholding lunches and breakfasts over 2 dollar debts you are abusing a child. there’s no question about this. that is child abuse. 

and say a parent is intentionally not paying these debts to abuse their child, the state is complicit with this abuse. the school systems are actually the means by which the parent does the abusing. under no argument can you defend this without accepting that you think child abuse is okay.

I started a petition about this, because my brother’s school was doing this, and in the state of Ky you’re TECHNICALLY not supposed to.  You’re supposed to keep a tab and send it home as a bill if the student can’t pay.  So to get around it, the school gave the kids who couldn’t pay peanut butter crackers instead of real food.  Like they were technically still FEEDING them, but they had to straight up THROW THEIR TRAY AWAY and take the crackers at the end of the lunchline when they got to the cash register.  They didn’t even take the food back.  They made the kids throw it away.

I got so pissed off.

Not the kid’s fault, btw.  It was almost exclusively kids who were neglected so bad their parents hadn’t filled out the paperwork for the free lunch program.

so we cannot even make the argument that schools simply cannot afford to feed these poor kids, they absolutely can, but instead of feeding these children they choose to throw their food into the garbage. There are no arguments to be made here. This is child abuse. I cannot say that enough.

America 100% has the ability and resources to feed all children (people of all ages, for that matter!)

Doesn’t America have to import a big percent of it’s food? Because if it does then no, it can’t feed 100% of it’s population

lmao no, america does not have to import a large amount of their food, 15% of all food in the usa was imported, we could completely remove all imported goods and still have enough food in the united states for the entire population.

and the nations they do import from they only import because it’s cheaper to import than to produce, which to put that into perspective it’s already cheap to produce most of this shit in the usa they just got a better deal fucking over some other nation. 

You’ll see here it says we import 50% of all our FRESH fruits, but 50% of all fresh fruit in the united states is already substantial to support our population, and this does not account for 100% of fruit, the majority of the fruit in this country is canned, or preserved in some way, so if we took out that import stat we’d still have canned fruits and vegetables within the nation, that would be substantial for feeding people, on top of the 50% already being substantial enough.

and on top of NOT having to import much….america wastes about 40% of all food in country. which is already enough to feed everyone in america 

on top of that the world produces enough food for 10 billion people, when we only have a population of 7.5 billion

theres no fucking excuse.

so … nice try but you’re literally wrong.

Like, what do imports even have to do with it? If they eat too much imported food do they become foreign? If my household Imports all our milk from the store does that mean we have a a household milk deficit? No we buying all the milk we need, so we have enough milk.

REALLY MAKES U THINK

The Times attacks trans teenager for applying to Jo Cox leadership programme

thebeachboys:

rememberwhenyoutried:

rememberwhenyoutried:

The Times isn’t the only newspaper joining in the fun, either.

These journalists know what they’re doing. They remember that the last time the British press hyper-focused on a single trans woman she took her own life (cw #suicide #transmisogyny). So when they put pen to paper week after week to attack a trans woman who has committed no crime except to attempt to involve herself in public life, there is only one goal they can possibly have:

They’re trying to kill her.

This HAS to stop. 

55 Labour activists involved in the Jo Cox Women in Leadership scheme wrote to the newspaper to defend Ms Madigan in response.

The Times declined to publish the letter, in spite of extensive coverage criticising the student.

The Times can publish weeks upon weeks of deeply personal attacks on a teenager, but when people call them out and prove them wrong, the Times ignores it.

This isn’t news. This is a vendetta.

Please support her.

this is what happens on a smaller scale to trans women all the time in jobs/school etc unless they’re stealth

The Times attacks trans teenager for applying to Jo Cox leadership programme