Speaking of Native women being treated like garbage in Canada, this is the picture CTV News Regina decided to use yesterday (April 14th) for a story about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.
How fast things move! Here’s us, suggesting that media people stop using the cutesy term “alt right” to describe Sieg Heiling white supremacists. But they’re already moving onto the panel discussions on the issue of whether Jews are people.
Fortunately, both of CNN’s panelists are in favor of Jews (such as CNN chief Jeff Zucker) being people, and smile beatifically throughout their condemnation of white supremacists. Nevertheless, that chyron is surreal stuff. It presents a Schrodinger’s shitfeast of a rhetorical question that everyone knows isn’t really a rhetorical question for the people being discussed.
Its almost as if there were a cynical fatalism at hand, riding the Trump wave however long it lasts, perhaps even happy at its unexpected persistence.
Slight reminder to my non-Rican friends that the US leeches billions upon billions of dollars from us, we have no say in anything especially anymore with the “reform” that has taken away most of our rights, we pay same taxes as you people in outrageous numbers (right now at 11.5% on everything), AND have the most expensive import embargo that being the USA’s.
All of this is being ignored by the media and CNN, FOX and US media outlets keep pushing that WE’RE the ones leeching off of the mainland and it’ll cost YOU guys money to help us. This is bullshit. They’re killing us here and taking our rights away slowly. Please stop ignoring this.
Listen, I moved away from Puerto Rico because there was nothing there for me besides my amazing friends. And I hate telling people I’m from PR because of some deep seeded hatred of the people, the politicians, the culture, etc. etc. etc. But do I like seeing what used to be my home taken advantage of, and destroyed by big business and big banks? No. Shit like this has got to stop. The import embargo, and the Jones Act are fucking PR royally, besides the effect the “War on Drugs” has had on our citizens. This minimum wage would effectively throw the country into deeper debt, destroy its economy and serve literally no purpose other than to cause an even larger and even faster mass exodus of its people to the continental US and abroad.
Not to mention that Puerto Rico has the most Walmarts and Walgreens per square mile than any other country in the world. AND K-marts employs mostly people within the age this minimum page will affect.
In other words, this lowering the gap will only cause an increase in debts and only benefit foreign US retail stores that already suck us dry. (Which comes to no surprise) And let’s not forget that Wal-Mart sued the island because it didn’t want to pay as many taxes and WON.
Chiming in to say I’m in the same boat. Even in the country’s current state(paging somewhat above this proposed minimum wage) I could not find a job within one year of graduating from a bachelor’s degree. I spent a year looking for work on the island and found nothing, not even fast food restaurants wanted to hire me. Our generation is being slowly forced out of the island with this selfish legislation made so the US can keep profiting off the Puerto Rican people. Every year I hear about more and more friends who have to leave to find a better life, and most of them are young adults our age, with no established careers. Please spread this, please make others aware of the systematic abuses at work that keep my country and my people down.
The United States is an oppressive, colonial force willing to exploit a people so deeply mired in a land fraught with political corruption and economic disparity.
I am very upset, yet not surprised, that this horrific story is not receiving much media coverage.
A White terrorist goes on racist xenophobic attack. First, he kills a father—40 year old Jesus Manso-Perez, in front of his 18 year old son after finding out they’re from Puerto Rico. Tells them they “have to go” before pulling trigger. Tries to shoot at son, but luckily he manages to get away. Then goes on to terrorize another family at nearby apartment complex. A family of four, plus a relative. He killed both parents, the father—36 year old Phia Vue, and the mother—32 year old Mai K. Vue.
This criminal was NOT gunned down by police when he walked out with a rifle strapped to his shoulder, gets $150,000 bond, and is already being granted the “mental illness” defense. White privilege, what’s new? May these people get justice. (Google headline news will come up)
And the media will make this white terrorist seem like a good person but slightly troubled.
It might seem strange for heterosexual men and women to use one of the largest gay dating apps out there, but many have turned to the app for something other than sex: platonic friendship. Perhaps unsurprisingly, some gay men are not happy about this. Why one straight woman designated herself as a “twink” instead of a “jock.”
is probably one of the worst things I have ever read in my life
Like i honestly read the first images thinking maybe this would be a post discussing the problems with queer dating apps and i was so ready for the conversation
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