aid crisis: happens exactly because of reagans administration
donald trump: *becomes president*
the usa:
to all the “we survived reagan we can survive this” folks … a lot of people didnt fucking survive reagan and donald trumps administration is currently on a murder rampage heres a modicum of proof
“Don’t call Trump supporters nazis, it hurts their feelings.”
Yes, this is real (link to tweet). Yes, Tucker Carlson is literally repeating Nazi propaganda that aided the genocide of the Romani during the Holocaust. Yes, I am furious.
(Also, although there is a large population of Romani in Romania, they aren’t indigenous to Romania. They’re a diasporic group originally from northern India.)
Romani and Jewish have been screaming at the top of their lungs for years about neo-fascism in Europe, and Americans were totally aloof.
Then neo-fascism reared its head in America, but Roma and Jews were left out of the conversation in terms of people being impacted, because our oppression was “over.”
Now Tucker Carlson is on live TV using slurs and Nazi propaganda about Romani people, and I’m 90% most people on the left are just going to ignore it.
Any analysis of Democratic losses in red states that doesn’t begin and end with Shelby v. Holder isn’t worth listening to.
seriously, this is fucked up. I live in a town in Ohio that’s only slightly bigger (~30,000) and we have like 16 in the city limits alone, and another 10-15 in the surrounding area.
It is a classic voter suppression tactic, and it is sickening that it is allowed to happen without major repercussions for whomever engages in it.
Hey there US friends! If you’re voting using these machines (Hart eSlate) or similar ones right now or in the near future, make sure that the machine has NOT changed your ballot before casting it, ‘k? It’s apparently an already known problem, and has been for years, but has never been fixed.
“They have guns, wear badges and patrol Michigan’s streets.
They’re even in uniform. But they’re not real cops.
Across Michigan, police departments have enlisted civilians to work alongside licensed officers to patrol communities and even assist real cops with arrests. But unlike the regular officers licensed by the state, these armed civilians are unregulated.
A Detroit Free Press investigation found there are no state-established training requirements for reserve officers, as they are commonly known; no standards for screening their qualifications, and no process for monitoring their conduct. The state agency responsible for police licensing and training is not regulating reserve officers — despite gaining authority last year to do just that — and has no idea how many such unlicensed volunteers there are statewide.”
That vine is pretty funny but actually I do have the answer to that.
Both “Kansas” and “Arkansas” are names of indigenous people in the area, but the lingustic root for both words is different.
Kansas is the English word for the Kansa tribe, and so it’s pronounced according to English pronunciation rules (that is, voicing that last ‘s’).
Arkansas was filtered through a few different languages. The Quapaw tribe was called the ‘akansa’ by the Algonquians, and when the French came through they turned ‘akansa’ into “Arkansas.” The reason we don’t pronounce “Arkansas” like “Ar-kansas” is because it’s a French word, not an English word, and so is pronounced by French rules (here, that would mean that the ‘s’ on the end of a word is silent).
Fun fact: though I’m from Arkansas, spent most of my life living elsewhere, and when I was a kid would get asked this all the time and other kids would tell me that Arkansas is a ‘stupid rip off’ of Kansas, but really it’s the other way around, because Arkansas was a state before Kansas was– AR joined the union in 1836, but Kansas wasn’t admitted until 1861. So really we can argue that Kansas should be pronounced Kan-saw.
Another fun fact: in Arkansas it’s actually illegal to mispronounce “Arkansas” (but the law only applies to official proceedings. you might get beat up on a street corner by angry Arkansans tho don’t risk it)
However there are many funny “Arkansas” puns I’ve heard over the years. My friends in Florida used to accuse me of having “Arkansass” when I was sarcastic, or assured me when I was preparing for a date that I have a nice “Arkanass.” Legally, I don’t know of their currant whereabouts, don’t ask again.
Once I saw a BBQ in Little Rock called “Arkansauce”
wupacing 