went to a "No Kings" event today. saw a sign that said
NEVER FORGET GHORMAN
and that was my queue to leave. tho there was an indigenous woman in traditional dress and that fucking ruled.
Abracadaniel
joined 2 years ago
can confirm that at least one of those locations has some pretty good farm land.
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has fully mapped the entire lunar surface, far side included! you can even look at the moon on Google maps/earth.
watch the Wide Maya visit to Burkina Faso. these cars have been out for a few months now. they also have built state owned(?) tomato processing plants to start export finished goods rather than raw goods. the government has also engaged in a massive infrastructure (paved roads) campaign.
a (white) friend of mine, probably the least sinophobic person I know (maybe even sinophilic), dropped a slur
out of sheer airheadedness and ignorance, in new company. it was in reference to their chinese ex. they were with their partner traveling to visit/meet that partner's old roommate and her (black) girlfriend. they realized in the moment that it was not an appropriate term to use and apologized profusely (bumbled that too but I'll skip the details). Afterward there was a lot of talk about the incident by the other 3 involed.
Now my friend's partner (obv quite embarassed) will not be having my friend around any of her friends for the forseeable future because they "can't be trusted to keep a safe space for black people"CW: slur
china + man
this friend already has deeply seated issues with shame and white guilt and this incident obviously severely exacerbated that. It's fallen to me to help them through this. While I understand their perspective and believe this was just a stupid brain fuckup, there's some complaining from them about having received zero grace and about unrealistic standards of language "policing" that I think need to be deconstructed a bit.
This person is very much an ally but deeply chaotic/anarchic (Think Jacques Gonsoulin). Hopefully this can be a wakeup call that what they say does actually matter and they can learn to be a bit more careful from now on.
what can I say but yikes? like godamm, what a mess.
They're both good!
why are they doing the America 250 years thing a year early? its 1776 not 1775. I legitimately don't understand.