me and my hydrohomies hate nestle
Young girls really are pressured now more than ever to be seen as beautiful and sexy and perfect like IG models and whatever the fuck…..like that’s why you see “me at 14 vs 14 year old girls today” posts……….we didn’t have this constant stream of content like they do…..content telling us to be perfect and to have perfect clothes and sharp eyeliner wings that look photoshopped and shit like that….I mean it’s always been there but not like this…and while I think girls should be able to dress however they want and do whatever they want…..you have to take into consideration the fact that this all stems from a toxic culture where women have to be perfect and beautiful…now at younger and younger ages….and it’s really gross…and the media continues to sexualize and like…make young girls seem older and more appealing than they actually are idk the whole thing makes me so uncomfortable and it’s only going to get worse :/
the fact that society trains women from a young age to be excited about spending thousands of dollars on a dress they will wear in public once…feels a lot like cultural brainwashing
the best way to protest unjust laws is malicious compliance
so... i woke up at 1:30 am bc my brain is full and the first thing that came to mind is... Latinamerica is collapsing and i wonder if the rest of the world knows.
if it doesn't, then maybe it should, so, i wanna explain:
we are actually about to run out of water: 85% of the mexican territory is in a draught, the worst in 30 years, they say. and there's lakes that are disappearing.
government is spreading "tips" and "infographics" about how to save some water when they're allowing companies like coca-cola and pepsi; cemex, bonafont and bimbo to have leverage in aquifers and they let them own basically 70% of the water in the country thanks to the National Waters Law (Ley de Aguas Nacionales)
oh and just last night (may 3rd) the 12th metro line collapsed in México City and 23 people died. everyone is blaming it on the 2 previous governments' corruption for using cheap materials and rushing to finish it and inaugurate it before it was actually ready
same as México, they're running out of water, so far three states are totally out of it, which is around 1.4 million people.
the press has been calling it the worst draught in the history of the country SINCE LAST YEAR
besides the government has stopped buying vaccines and they're leaving around 70% of the population without a vaccination...
there's no space left in the hospitals, the government stole the 1.6k million usd loan that the country got for health care related buys during the pandemic and left the hospitals alone to their luck. people have to sell their things; from their TV's and fridges to their cars, houses, bodies... there's actual people recurring to prostitution so they can buy medicine the government is supposed to be providing
they've been having a hard economic crisis; again, surprise surprise, the government has stolen 14 million quetzales (1.8million usd) that was destined to the healthcare department: since the pandemic started people has been fired by hordes, there's no jobs, there's no money, there's no more safe hospitals or doctors to work in them, or equipment. and the president approved the 2021 budget in the middle of the night and took away money from the health and the education departments, leading to massive protests that, as you have guessed, were repressed with police violence.
government actually created an espionage agency, the UPAD, they're fining people for being outside hiding behind the excuse of the pandemic; which is making hospitals collapse, they passed a recessive tax reform, the Electoral Supreme Court was scammed in the latest elections and they're actually seeking to create a higher rank power, a "superminister", higher than a president, who can hold the three powers of the nation (dictatorship, everyone?)
they're enduring a huge political crisis, they have to chose a president and their only two options are: a leftist man that wants to take all the agricultural land and divide it in equal parts, doesn't support lgbtttiq rights, privatize almost all services and more reforms that would lead to massive firings AND a woman that it's being investigated for fraud and money laundering and that descends from one of the biggest peruvian dictators and wants to get him out of prison.
this uncertainty of course has made the usd price to sky rocket (because what else is new) and now the prices of everything are rising as well, and the wages? they're staying still
reports on the presidential debate
another political crisis: the president along with the congress (which is mostly sitting his party) dismissed and basically fired the judges of the supreme court and the attorney general. and recommended/nominated new ones from his party, opening the way to the totalitarianism and welp, the end of democracy in the country: dictatorship.
the people is outraged and the international community along with the America States Organization are rejecting this horrid violation to the Constitution of El Salvador but the panorama is still uncertain.
the government of Ivan Duque just has been in the process of passing a tax reform to collect around 25 billion Colombian pesos (around 6.5k billion usd) through taxes without raising the minimum wages; this would throw the country in an economic crisis that would impact the lower and middle classes and it would take products off the basic market basket.
the people of Colombia have been marching and protesting about this and the government has replied with police violence, they have their own anti-raid police, the ESMAD, and they have orders to shoot to kill, the process now has paused because of the protest.
there isn't yet an exact number on the death count but what the people is sure of is that they're gonna try to hide it along with the number of rapings and tortures the police has been conducting.
in 2019 chilean government rose the price of the metro/subway and there were protests and marches and manifestations, which led, of course, to policial repression, this was a whole ordeal that was condemned by the UN, now, the people is tired that the same government hasn't dealt properly with the sanitary contingency so they starter planing a huge strike; dozens of worker unions planning to march on april 30th to show that they're millions and they want the president out.
then the president was acused of crimes against humanity before the International Court of Human Rights for the repression of the 2019 protests...
well, if you haven't heard about the venezuelan crisis, you've been living under a rock: it's been going on for more than 20 years, venezuelan people live under a dictatorship (fucking incredible we still have those in the world), the police kills people that march and manifest, citizens don't have dignified access to: public transport, gas and gasoline, electricity, food, water, medicine and medical equipment let alone the covid vaccine.
and when the venezuelan people wanna leave the mediocre and deplorable conditions in which their government had made them live? conditions in which if you don't die of sickness, you get killed by a cop or killed in a robbery or killed on a raid? if you don't die of hunger you die of thirst? they raised the passport prices! and so the venezuelan people as a lot of people in Latinoamérica have to illegally migrate; and we all know how that's seen.
an immense femicide rise and Gender Violence alert.
donations and ways to help México and Colombia
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Tumblr user Hailo-c, also known as SquigglyDigg, also known as squigglydigglydoo, has been deleting replies and blocking everyone calling them out on their bullshit.
So here, since I can’t reblog this post anymore, let me make my own:
This is a post made by tumblr user formerly known as SquigglyDigg, best known for their hits of “Lilo and Stitch is a bad movie because Lilo, the 6 year old suffering from trauma of losing her parents, is actually abusive” - this was their biggest hit that led to the reveal they had such amazing /s takes such as: “Immigrant kids belong in cages, actually”, “Kids need to be bullied because it builds character”, “anti-fascists are fascists actually” “White people are oppressed in Hawaii”, “White artists should be allowed to say the n-word” and many, many more racist, homophobic, transphobic statements that while I can’t link to right now because tumblr soft-blocks posts with links, but search the username SquigglyDigg on tumblr or twitter and you’ll find them instantly. I even reblogged some.
They are trying to run a story right now on their tumblr of “I am a victim you guise, twitter mob mentality is just insane, even your friends will turn on you”, meanwhile they support Trump, the attempted coup, joined fash alt-right websites and have a history of being horrible and holding horrible beliefs.
The Mystery Skulls animated already cut them off as soon as they could, along with other artists, musical or otherwise, removing any colabs they had together.
Tumblr is calmer than twitter nowadays so they think they can get away with coming back here but here is the thing: We don’t want you here either. Fuck off. Fuck off all the way to Parler and Gab and your alt right fashy friends there.
has anyone else ever played the 1 2 3 i’m sorry game? it’s where, after having a falling out w/ a friend or loved one, when you see them again after calming down you count to 3 and both of you say “i’m sorry” at the same time. (best followed by you both respectively acknowledging the things you which you’d done or said differently.)
it’s hard to apologize first when you feel like someone else was also in the wrong, but waiting for someone to apologize is the worst game of chicken. the counting-to-3 thing can be a helpful way of letting someone know you’re ready to mutually accept responsibility and move on, together
Racism and classism live within our systems, intersecting under capitalism — they determine how we live and how and when we die