#Current Events
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the-artificem
the-artificem
heres some random updates so you can get a grasp on whats happening here in the philippines:
- professors are urging their students to let them know if theyre not gonna come to class so theyll know that theyre still alive
- parents are telling their kids not to come home late, or if they will, to take an uber even though its priced like 5x more
- people are sharing constitutional rights on twitter, to teach everyone what to say to the popos just in case
- nobody trusts the police anymore
- police have a QUOTA of “drug addicts” they need to kill
- almost 13k dead without due process, but chines drug lords and presidents son who were involved in a drug smuggling worth 6 billion are still walking free
- all it takes is a facebook rumor to put you on the hit list
- politicians who are criticizing the administration are being impeached
- politicians who love the administration admit that their duty is to the president, NOT to the people
- theres been talks in extending the presidents term
- It literally feels like an unofficial dictatorship
- please help us
travelingmindlostsoul
travelingmindlostsoul
does anyone have any news sources and dates for people to be better informed??
the-artificem
hiya i made that post on mobile so i wasnt able to add links but here are some sources on whats been happening in the ph for the last few months:
numbers of people dead and arrested because of the war on drugs as of january 2017
17 and 19 yr olds tortured and killed by the police
presidents son involved in 6 billion drug smuggling has charges suddenly dropped
twitter thread on what to do in case the police accuses you of being a drug dealer
what to do in case the police demands to search your stuff
police suddenly shows up at bars near a university demanding to search students bags
president orders police NOT to share case files with the commission of human rights
talks about extending the presidents term until 2025 bc federalism
house of representatives votes to give commission on human rights a budget of $20 for the WHOLE YEAR
im p sure i missed a lot since something bad happens literally EVERYDAY so like feel free to add more
weavemama
weavemama
ladies and gentlemen we have officially reached the “in case a nuclear attack happens” phase……. [x]
tripprophet
tripprophet
This shit is wild.
goodshinyhunter
goodshinyhunter
There should be an amber alert or something to warn us, hopefully. But if you’re so close to the blast that the entire outside flashes white your first priority is to get underneath the blastwave any way you can.
After that you have 2 options: drive away or protect yourself from the radiation.
Option one is tough because literally everybody else is going to want to do this, and you could get stuck right in the fallout. And lemme tell you, if you’re stuck out there when the ashes first fall for more than 15 minutes, you’re dead. Radiation poisoning.
Option two is harder, but has a better success rate. Get underground. Most houses have a crawlspace, but in this bad time just saw a fucking hole in your floor. Put table over hole. Pack some large containers (like tubs), with dirt, tight, and stack them on your table or wherever you’re going to be directly underneath. you need 36 inches if dirt to be protected from the radiation poisoning. You could preemptively buy lead and stick that in a container with a lot of serface area, i forget how many inches you need vertically.
How ever much serface area the dirt/metal/lead covers is how much you and your party will be able to move around. As long as there’s enough inches vertically you’ll be good so long as you stay under it.
You gotta stay under there for at least 2 weeks, 3 to be sure.
lime-vodkaaa
lime-vodkaaa
Also, if you can see the mushroom cloud, stick your arm out as far as you can. Do a thumbs-up and close one eye. If your thumb is bigger than the cloud, you are safe. If the cloud is bigger or the same size as your thumb, then that means you are in the radiation zone and should evacuate immediately.
magic-owl
magic-owl
I cannot believe I actually have to freaking reblog this but here y'all go just in case
shit-editor
shit-editor
Take a break from the humor for just a second and read this.
pagan-hulse
pagan-hulse
Sorry, what year is this again??
darkheartdarksoul
darkheartdarksoul
I can’t believe its come to this. Reblogging for everyone’s safety.
wilwheaton
wilwheaton
maybe it’s time to remove trump from office.
hedaclara
hedaclara
Guys, the first images of Irma’s level of devastation are coming out of Barbuda and it’s heartbreaking. The President of Barbuda says that 90% of the island is uninhabitable, upwards of 60% of the TOTAL population are now homeless because the hurricane destroyed virtually every building and home on the island, and that the estimated damage is valued at no less than $200 million dollars. That’s money a small island like that doesn’t have. They’re saying it’s going to take years to rebuild and Hurricane Jose is right behind Irma on the same path which means they could be hit twice. This is just one of the islands being affected.
Please, show up for the Caribbean like you did for Houston. There is no safety net for any of these islands including mine. They’ll rely also entirely on foreign aid. Find local charities or global trustworthy charities (NOT the Red Cross) and make a donation asking them to aid the Caribbean. There’s entire countries being turned into rubble with no financial means to repair their infrastructures. They’re going to need help.
elite-millenial-influencers
elite-millenial-influencers
oh good they’re finallly fucking catching up t o what i’ve been shrieking aobut for six thousand years
elite-millenial-influencers
One the report’s authors, Dr Alice Marwick, says that fascist tropes first merged with irony in the murkier corners of the internet before being adopted by the “alt-right” as a tool. For the new far-right movement, “irony has a strategic function. It allows people to disclaim a real commitment to far-right ideas while still espousing them.”
Marwick says that from the early 2000s, on message boards like 4chan, calculatedly offensive language and imagery have been used to “provoke strong reactions in outsiders”. Calling all users “fags”, or creating memes using gross racial stereotypes, “serves a gate-keeping function, in that it keeps people out of these spaces, many of which are very easy to access”.
Violating the standards of political correctness and the rules of polite interactions “also functions as an act of rebellion” in spaces drenched in adolescent masculinity.
This was played up by Milo Yiannopoulos in an infamous Breitbart explainer last year, in which he insisted that the “alt-right” movement’s circulation of antisemitic imagery was really nothing more than transgressive fun.“Are they actually bigots?”, Yiannopoulos asked rhetorically. “No more than death metal devotees in the 1980s were actually Satanists. For them, it’s simply a means to fluster their grandparents.”
What Yiannopoulos left out, according to Marwick, is that these spaces increasingly became attractive to sincere white supremacists. They offered them venues for recruitment, and new methods for popularising their ideas.
“Fascism is more or less a social taboo. It’s unacceptable in modern society. Humour or irony is one of the ways that they can put forward their affective positions without having to fall back on any affirmative ideological positions.”
He adds: “They’re putting forward the anger, the sense of betrayal, the need for revenge, the resentment, the violence. They’re putting forward the male fantasies, the desire for a national community and a sense of unity and a rejection of Muslims. They’re doing all of that, but they’re not stating it.”
@baroquespiral i’ve literally never read a better article on this topic. nobody else has gotten it before now. “troll culture as a means to disguise fascism” fucking holy shit, the PERFECT way to put it.
ddestr0yedd
ddestr0yedd
Polygon also did a similar article recently about how many multiple player online communities have succumbed to this
also the comments in the article have been flooded with alt-right supporters because they have nothing better to do
hooligan-nova
hooligan-nova
THANK YOU!
Maybe now that the Guardian is saying it liberals will start taking us more seriously when we tell them that these “ironic” nazis are still NAZIS!
I also have written in the past about the long-standing pastime of the chan boards, namely an almost cultish hazing ritual of desensitization.
They like sharing the most disgusting and disturbing content they can find among themselves and it spreads like fandom content does here. It’s EVERYWHERE.
So like mentioned in this article, it’s psychologically damaging to try to enter their spaces because they are simply that fucking toxic.
They’ve weaponized this in a few ways. First they used to raid communities in forums by flooding them with disturbing content and driving users off.
Also they’ve sometimes incorporated disturbing images into the designs of their info sites to make people who aren’t desensitized leave without reading their info.
silensy
silensy
Shorter for the people in the back: Whatever you’re into “ironically” or “for lulz”, you’re sharing space with people who are sincere.
The Art of the Trump-Putin Deal
robertreich
robertreich
Say you’re Vladimir Putin, and you did a deal with Trump last year. I’m not suggesting there was any such deal, mind you. But if you are Putin and you did do a deal, what did Trump agree to do?
1. Repudiate NATO. NATO is the biggest thorn in your side – the alliance that both humiliates you and stymies your ambitions in the Baltics and elsewhere. Trump almost delivered on this last week by pointedly not reaffirming Article 5, which states that an attack on one NATO ally is an attack on all.
2. Antagonize Europe, especially Angela Merkel. She’s the strongest leader in the West other than Trump, and you’d love to drive a wedge between the U.S. and Germany. Your larger goal is for Europe to no longer depend on the United States, so you can increase Russia’s influence in Europe. Trump has almost delivered one on this, too. Merkel is even saying Europe can no longer depend on America.
3. Take the U.S. out of the Paris accord on the environment. This will anger America’s other allies around the world and produce a wave of anti-Americanism – all to your advantage. Nothing would satisfy you more than isolating the United States. Trump has already delivered.
4. Then unravel the accord. Russia is the world’s second-largest exporter of oil after Saudi Arabia, and biggest exporter of natural gas. And the oil and gas industry contributes about half the revenues to your domestic budget. The last thing you want is for the world to shift to wind and solar, so you’d love for the whole Paris accord to unravel. Trump has promised to help.
5. Embark on a new era of protectionism. Or at least anti-trade rhetoric. This will threaten the West’s economic interdependence and loosen America’s economic grip on the rest of the world. Trump is on the way to delivering on this one.
6.. End the economic sanctions on Russia imposed after the annexation of Crimea and Russian backing of separatists in eastern Ukraine. Oil production on land is falling, so you want to tap the vast petroleum and gas reserves offshore in the Arctic. In 2011, you and ExxonMobil’s Rex Tillerson, signed a $500 billion deal to do this. But sanctions imposed in 2014 by that damned Obama administration stopped the project. Tillerson, now secretary of state, and Exxon lobbied against the sanctions. Trump has promised to lift the sanctions, so you can get on with oil and gas extraction in the Russian Arctic.
No delivery on this as yet, but you understand why. Trump has got to cope with all the suspicions in America about his deal with you. (Why can’t he stop all those leaks?) Once that business dies down, he’ll end the sanctions. In the meantime – as a symbolic down payment – he’ll hand back to you two diplomatic compounds in America that were taken by the U.S. government in late December as punishment for Moscow’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.
And what did you agree to do in return, Vladimir? What was your side of the deal? Two things: You’d help him win the presidency. You’d also shut up about your help so Trump wouldn’t be impeached and convicted of treason.
In other words – if you did do a deal (and I’m not suggesting you did, Vlad) – Trump has delivered part of it but is still in the process of delivering the rest. And you’ve delivered part but are also still delivering the rest. That way, each of you can maintain pressure on the other. It’s what’s so beautiful about the art of the deal.