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I hate this idea people have that if a parent walks in and turns off the tv while their kids are watching or playing something it’s evidence of some unhealthy attachment or addiction to technology if they get pissed off. If you walk up and slap a book out of my hand while I’m reading I’m going to have the same reaction, fuck off you’re not making some great social commentary you’re just being an ass hole.
If you slap a sandwich out of my hands and I get pissed it doesn’t mean I’m addicted to eating it just means I was enjoying something and then you had to be an asshole lmao
“DO NOT, MY FRIENDS, BECOME ADDICTED TO WATER.”
“IT WILL TAKE HOLD OF YOU AND YOU WILL RESENT ITS ABSENCE.”
learning that most trees do not derive from a single lineage but actually only look and function superficially similarly due to convergent evolution is one of the most fucked up things i’ve ever learned and i will never be the same person as i was before i learned that
Oak trees are quite a bit more closely related to roses than they are to pine trees.
So are apple and cherry and pear trees! But palm trees are basically grass
Like many animal lines have gotten Huge and Lumpy in the ocean, so have plants gotten Tall and Woody in the sunlight.
I started watching The Good Place and in the slideshow where they explain the value points for “good” and “bad”, one of the most prominent things on the “good” list was “ate vegan” followed immediately by “never talked about veganism unprompted”
@lauralot89 you’re definitely going to the Good Place
ya’ll headcanoning Miles shoplifting art supplies on the regular when canonically he can’t even get away with tagging a postal box with a removable sticker…is very sus…
Whites: so he uhhh is black…so they STEAL but he does it artistically….UwU
It shows they really want to apply racist stereotypes to miles even though it doesn’t make any sense whatsoever lol. First of all Miles is a good kid who would never steal and his family clearly has enough money to buy art supplies, even the expensive kind lol. And even if he wanted to steal something, you think Jefferson would let him get away with it?? Never have I heard someone headcanoning Spiderman as a thief. Spiderman, the friendly neighborhood hero who walks people home and stop people from robbing stuff, is gonna steal stuff from art stores????
miles wouldn’t steal anything ever. he’s too good a kid to
Miles stole a pencil from ikea by accident and cried about it for a week probably who do you think he is!!!
sandy cheeks would’ve voted trump that evil southern rat ass bitch
Sandy Cheeks is a pro-science feminist who lives in a foreign land that she respects the customs of and she would be offended you would even accuse her of this.
mr krabs would’ve voted trump
Mr Krabs absolutely would’ve voted trump.
Mr. Krabs would not have voted for Trump because Mr. Krabs earned most of his money through hard work (and being a cheapskate and get rich quick schemes but those still require some effort on his part) whereas Trump inherited most of his wealth and thinks a million dollars is a small loan, Mr. Krabs would consider him an insult to richness for which he could not stand.
Plankton would’ve voted Trump.
You think he needs competition taking over the world? Face it folks. No one on Spongebob would vote for Trump. None of them. Face it.
Bubble Bass
Shit. Dammit. Goddammit. Shit. God. Dammit. Fuck.
Squilliam Fancyson would vote for Trump
okay im just gonna put down my things here
- Plankton would not want competition, he would not vote for him
- Krabs would never respect a guy who bankrupted himself four times, he would not vote for him
- Sandy Cheeks is an independent scientist receiving grants from academies to further her research in foreign lands, so she would never vote for him. Also, she would never respect a man who made such sexist comments since Spongebob did that once (to motivate his pet snail like a traditional sports coach) and she kicked HIS ass over a fucking field.
- Patrick can’t spell so he couldn’t vote for anyone
- Spongebob is too nice and would never vote for anyone who used such inappropriate “bad words” during their campaign.
- Squidward is too lazy and defeatist to even vote because he thinks there would be no point.
- Pearl is a teenager and therefore too young to vote
- Larry Lobster is a trained medic and custodian and would not vote for anyone that crippled such services.
- Bubble Bass WOULD vote for him because Bass is an arrogant self-entitled prick who enjoys deceiving others just for the sake of humiliating them, and would approve of such a person.
- Squilliam Fancyson would also vote for him because he’s a wealthy narcissist.
- Mrs. Puff has a criminal record and is therefore not eligible to vote.
Squidward is a full time minimum wage retail worker who is pro-union and anti-capitalist, and also a firm supporter and member of the fine arts community. He would actively vote against Trump, defeatist or not, and you can’t convince me otherwise.
“Her full name was Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquín, and she was from Guatemala. She turned 7 days before her death
on December 8 from septic shock and cardiac arrest in the custody of
the US Border Patrol. As public outrage mounts over reports of
negligence on the part of the Border Patrol in delaying medical care for the child, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen blamed Jakelin’s family for their choice to “cross illegally.”
Jakelin was Q’eqchi’-Maya, from the Guatemalan town of Raxruhá, in
northern Alta Verapaz. Here, as in much of rural Guatemala, Maya
communities have struggled for over a century to remain on their lands.
For much of that time, US governments intervened on the wrong side of
those struggles. The result was a vortex of violent displacement that
continues to this day.
At the beginning of the 1900s, Q’eqchi’-Mayas lived mostly in
Guatemala’s lush, fertile northern highlands. But during the 20th
century, many were pushed out. First, coffee planters, who were members
of Guatemala’s colonial and military elite, as well as new European and
North American investors, dispossessed them of their lands through
violence and legal chicanery. When Q’eqchi’ villagers tried to fight
back, they were killed or exiled.
The CIA-orchestrated 1954 coup
against a democratically elected president, Jacobo Arbenz, was a
turning point in the Q’eqchi’ region. An ambitious land reform, which
had widespread beneficial effects
in Alta Verapaz, was reversed, and poor Q’eqchi’s began a great
migration—fleeing political repression and hunger—to the lowlands,
either east toward the Caribbean or north into the Petén rainforest.
Raxruhá, Jakelin’s home town, was founded in the 1970s by these internal
migrants.
Caal and Maquín are common surnames among the Q’eqchi’, with strong historical resonance. Adelina Caal Maquin,
also known as Mama Maquín, is an icon of political struggle in
Guatemala. Like Jakelin, Adelina was a refugee, having fled her mountain
village after the 1954 coup for the lowland town of Panzós, where she
became a leader in the fight against land evictions. On May 29, 1978,
she was murdered along with scores of other protesters. The Panzós
Massacre kicked off a brutal period of violence: over the next few
years, the US-backed Guatemalan military
murdered over 100,000 Mayas. The military especially targeted Q’eqchi’
communities for massacres, and then rounded up the survivors into
military-controlled model villages. A women’s refugee organization
honored Mama Maquín by adopting her name for its organization.
The end of the Cold War in the 1990s brought no peace to the
Q’eqchi’. Policies pushed by Washington brought new afflictions: The
promotion of mining, African palm plantations for “clean” biofuels,
hydroelectric production, and hardwood timbering destroyed their
subsistence economy and poisoned their water and corn land.
Meanwhile, Q’eqchi’ communities were caught in the crosshairs of an escalating international drug war. As Washington spent billions of dollars
shutting down South American trafficking routes, Q’eqchi’ communities
were turned into a transshipment corridor for cocaine moving into the
United States. Throughout the 2010s, drug-related crime and violence
that had previously been concentrated in Colombia engulfed Central America, including Jakelin’s birthplace,
accelerating migration north. In 2010, narcotics-related violence grew
so bad, with the Mexican Zetas cartel effectively controlling large
parts of Alta Verapaz, that the government placed the department under
an extended state of siege.
Q’eqchi’ men and women fought back, organizing social movements to
defend their communities. But the repression continued. In 2011,
soldiers working with private paramilitary forces evicted hundreds of Q’eqchi’ families, turning their land over to an agribusiness financed by international development loans. One study estimates
that between 2003 and 2012, 11 percent of Q’eqchi’ families lost their
land to sugar and African palm plantations. By 2018, the situation was
even more dire, with a wave of murders of Q’eqchi’ peasant activists.
And, so, growing numbers of Q’eqchi’ refugees are forced to leave
communities founded by their parents and grandparents, taking their
chances on migration to the United States. Why would a father bring his
young daughter on a perilous trek to reach the United States? CNN
Español interviewed
Jakelin’s relatives in her hometown in Guatemala, who said that her
father, Nery Gilberto Caal, 29, did all he could to “stay in his land,
but necessity made him try to get to the US.” According to the World
Bank, the Q’eqchi’ are among the poorest of the poor in Guatemala,
suffering from chronic malnutrition.
The past two decades brought changes in US border policy, with
dire consequences for Central Americans. The militarization of the
border since the 1990s, especially the sealing off of urban entry
points, has pushed migrants to cross in remote and treacherous desert
areas, where thousands have died. Border militarization also helps
explain why people would bring their children on such a dangerous trek.
In the past, men usually migrated alone. They would work for a while in
the United States and then return to visit their families. But now,
border militarization has ratcheted up the cost of making the journey.
Where it used to cost around $1,000 to make the journey from Central
America, it now costs up to $12,000, making shuttle migration
impossible. The only way for families to stay together is for women and
children to migrate. Yes, it’s dangerous, but so is staying in
Guatemala.
Jakelin and her father were among a group of 163 Guatemalans who
turned themselves in to the Border Patrol at a remote entry point in the
New Mexico desert on the night of December 6, intending to request
political asylum upon entering the United States. This is legal. No
matter how or where people enter the country, US law says they may make
an affirmative claim for asylum.
Of course, it’s far safer to make an asylum claim at a well-trafficked
border entry point, rather than a remote one in the middle of the night.
But we’ve all seen the brutal displays of how the Trump administration
has blocked asylum petitioners at the US border, from shutting down bridges, to stringing razor wire, to tear-gassing children.
Jakelin’s death puts into harrowing relief the brutal consequences of Trump’s crackdown on border crossers, and the inhumane conditions
of immigrant detention. But the story of how this 7-year-old girl ended
up dead has deeper roots in the patterns of US-backed violent
displacement in Guatemala, as well as in decades of border
militarization. If it takes a village to raise a child, sometimes it
takes a nation to kill one.
Who killed Jakelin Caal Maquín? Decades of US policy did.“
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