them: listen the government and big pharma are drugging up the people over medicating them not letting them be themselves the entire structure of capitalism is about drugging people into submission maybe we should just fuck a tree instead
the royal family owe reparations to every single country colonised in their name until then miss me with the cutesy celebrations every time baldy nuts in kate middleton
wanna bring this back seeing as everyone’s pissing themselves cos carrot top got engaged
why are y’all this petty
seriously though, it’s just people celebrating normal things. the british colonialism happened hundreds of years ago and while the effects are still here today, none of these people did anything lol. they don’t have to pay the price for what their ancestors did
when are we gonna start blaming every single country for the bad things they did?
“the british colonialism happened hundreds of years ago”…….. the queen was 21 whole ass years old when India gained independence. Jamaica, Barbados and most of the West Indies weren’t emancipated til after her accession. Churchill who caused a famine that killed millions in Bengal and then chalked it up to “bengalis breeding like rabbits” was her favourite prime minister. The queen is an imperialist, has been an imperialist and would still be if colonised people didn’t fight so hard for their freedom. so jot that down and shut the fuck up
This week, the Office for National Statistics has added ready-made mashed potato to the UK’s official shopping basket, which it uses to measure inflation, and people are up in arms. Who buys a pre-chopped onion that costs three times as much as a whole one? How lazy do you have to be to choose a frozen omelette over a couple of eggs?
These kinds of convenience foods are an easy target. But for the 13.3 million people in Britain with disabilities – and those living with arthritis, chronic illness, recovering from injury or surgery, or undergoing cancer treatment – convenience foods aren’t just convenient: they are a lifeline.
This is an issue close to my heart. I’m a professional cook, but I also have a chronic pain condition, and there are occasions when I can’t even hold a knife. In times like those, I’m never going to opt for the impenetrable whole butternut squash over one that has already been diced for me.
1. “more aid to ireland during the famine than britain” okay let’s clear this up, again– there was no famine, it was a genocide, commited specifically by the british. ireland was literally packed with food. the only crop that failed was the potato crop. the british had no problem with ships FULL OF FOOD leaving british ports on british ships from ireland to other places to make money. IT. WAS. NOT. A. FAMINE. IT. WAS. A. GENOCIDE. and that probably explains why britain didn’t “send aid”. britain was literally using the “famine” they manufactured to clear the land of indigenous irish people.
2. which lends poignancy and power to the attempt by the choctaw nation to send food to starving irish people.
3. there was much fanfair about this in the british press at the time, because of course the british government was lying to its own people about what they were doing. it’s convenient to blame natural disasters like “famine” when in fact it is mass murder– kinda like what’s going on in yemen right now. but to conclude, what didn’t receive a lot of fanfair in the british press is the fact that much of the corn and other food the choctaw nation attempted to send did not go to starving irish people, it was essentially hijacked and went to feed british pigs and livestock.
4. which is why every saint patrick’s day we remember the genocide (one of many the british attempted in ireland) of black ‘47. and we always remember the native americans who responded in such good will and with such generosity to starving people an ocean away from them.
And – all through primary school (until age 12) it was taught as a famine; only in secondary school did we learn that the British caused it deliberately. There’s a fair amount of Irish YA novels about the Famine (can’t remember titles off the top of my head), and they’re all pretty brutal with the facts of what happened. Not to mention most people’s great-grandparents probably lived through it – it’s not that far back.
Also there’s a monument to the Choctaw nation somewhere up the country for the help.
[rain pouring] [thunder rumbling] [car horn blaring] “go on. wheyyyyyyy!! Oh no.” [in distance: “YOU IDIOT”, uproarious laughter] “why would you go through that. what are you doing. ahhh no, he’s actually floating!” “well of course he is. what a fucking bellend!” “what a knobhead!” “fucking hell.”
The UK is the only country in the EU to detain refugees/asylum seekers without a time limit on their detention.
Survivors of torture are detained.
People who came to the UK as children are detained.
During detention, they may be obligated to do menial labour for as little as £1 an hour.
It doesn’t matter if you’re traumatised, disabled, mentally ill – you can be detained, even though it is a human rights abuse and actively makes your condition worse.
The women have asked people to tweet/share on social media people holding signs/messages of support using the #hungerforfreedom hashtag, and to sign this petition:
wupacing 