Practically, there's no way I'm gonna ask my old arthritic dad to take his shoes off when he comes into my house. Even though he somehow always has the muddiest shoes of anyone I know 😂
Any idea how polling protection groups will work this time around? I'm not really sure what it means to nationalize voting, nor the extent of what it means to have ICE outside of polling locations.
Edit: I'm looking into joining up with a group to protect the polls this midterm.
I actually think everyone should have to do two things before they hit their mid-20s in order to fix most of the problems of the world:
The first is to take a hallucinogen. Get out of your own head for a minute and see the world from a different perspective. Too many of us can't do this.
The second is to work as a server in a restaurant. Nuff said.
Curious as to why Common Dreams and others aren't using the term "Internment Camp"? I'm not trying to whitewash the present, but it does seem to me that a large number of people might feel that term "concentration camp" is a dramatization of the current situation. "Internment" is also awful but less loaded, and might get more people on board and thinking about this seriously. Thoughts?
Edit: Upon looking it up, I have a few thoughts. One, some say "internment camp" was white washing in the first place. Two, "internment camps" might specifically refer to U.S. Army run concentration camps during wartime. I'm still not really clear, though, and would love some additional insight.
Not for everybody, but you might check out the enneagram. If only because it's a relief to see yourself, contextualize your personal bs, and see how different the bs of other people can be. I think that framework made me more self-accepting.
Thank you dearly and sincerely for saving the text. I thought it was gone forever after OP deleted their post (internet terrorism imo). Last i saw the comment section was still kicking around, but without being able to see the question.
Should be in a best of archive and saved for posterity. The set up was important, but the comment section was the best sleuthing around. Would love to know if it actually was the haj.
But you can break off fun, quirkly-sized chunks!! Didn't I see somewhere it was supposed to be a map of something?
Also, I had no idea until this post that it wasn't made in the US. I love Chocolonely.
Edit, from the Chocolonely site:
Why are your bars unequally divided?
It doesn’t make sense for chocolate bars to be divided into equal-sized chunks when there is so much inequality in the chocolate industry! The unequally-sized chunks of our 180g bars are a palatable way of reminding Choco Fans and Serious Friends that the profits in the chocolate industry are unequally divided.
And in case you haven’t noticed, the bottom of our bars depicts the West African coastline. The chunks just above it represent the Gulf of Guinea. From left to right, you have Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin (terribly politically incorrect, we know, but we had to combine them to create enough space for a hazelnut), Nigeria and part of Cameroon.
Have you listened to DTmF? Bad bunny is excellent, no opposition required at all.