They are already doing this, to a certain extent. If you have a Hispanic sounding name, and you were not born in a hospital, the Trump government is no longer accepting an official state issued birth certificate as proof of citizenship to issue a passport. This began near the border, under the claim that perhaps the person was born in Mexico and the midwife only claimed they were born in the US. But others who were born as far inland as Iowa have been similarly denied.
He canât actually do it, but he owns SCOTUS and the Constitution has all the weaknesses of any contract, it is only as strong as the person willing to enforce it.
This isnât just about immigrants. With this, his regime can revoke anyoneâs citizenship. This includes his critics and opponents.
Not long ago, Bolsonaro announced he would purge and imprison Brazilâs leftist population.
i fear the day i become a parent only to have my kid discover homestuck and think theyre edgy for liking an old obscure webcomic or something and trying to subtly get away with like insulting me or saying inappropriate stuff around me by using homestuck terminology and i will be forced to make a decision: allow them to get away with it, or reveal my dark past
Teacher:Â If I took you guys to my farm and showed you a horse showing neurologic signs, and we looked at it and we were all petting it and later we found out it was positive for rabies, what would happen?
Student: Well, I canât afford rabies shots treatment, so, guess Iâll die!
Itâs sad that toxic game culture is so prevalent cuz like. As someone who has ended up in random matches with kids before, I can attest to how fucking easy it is to reverse and un-teach shitty attitudes in kids.
Example: I downloaded Friday the 13th because itâs free on psn. I dunno how to play, so I just enter quick play and Iâm matched with 3-4 kids on mic. Immediately on mic theyâre shitty and disparaging to each other. They laugh at each others deaths, they actively work against team mates and self sabotage, they call each other âfagsâ, etc. From the sounds of the voices they cannot be older than 13-14.
I put on my mic and just decide I ainât havin it. I am nice. I thank them for barricading doors or leaving me items. When they break free from Jasonâs grasp I say âgood job!â or I try to help them. One kid survived for most of the match by himself. When he dies, I tell him he did a fantastic job.
The mood shift is practically INSTANT. These kids almost immediately stop being dick heads. They start encouraging each other and being kind. After the match all of them try to friend request me. Which should tell you a couple of things:
A) kids want to be kind, and they want to have a nice time playing games. But encounters with adults like me or so rare that theyâve trained themselves to instantly put on a toxic, shitty, defensive veneer when encountering any new person online. Itâs literally just THAT EASY to not groom a horrible gaming community, itâs just that NO ONE does it.
B) the speed of which they all tried to friend me was cute, but paints for me such a sad picture? Like these kids are SO desperate to find people to play with who arenât crappy jerks. They played with me for 10 minutes TOPS and all instantly tried to reach out to me.
tl;dr: The kids are alright. Adults are shit heads.
I cant agree with this post more
I witnessed something similar with my younger brother (this was when he was In fifth grade so bear with me here) and his friends. The teacher assigned for them to build a somewhat accurate spanish mission in Minecraft because their school had gotten some iPads and she needed to assign them something other than a PowerPoint.
Now hereâs the thing. Most of these boys, my brother included, have ADD/ADHD. About a week into the project all they had in their shared world was chaos. Somebody filled the place with tnt and lit it up. Holes everywhere. Whenever one would attempt to try and build something (mostly wood huts and not the actual project) it would be destroyed within minutes as the boys began to insult each other heavily and complain that the design was ugly.
I brought my own ipad with me and decided to sit with the boys while they continued their reign of terror. I joined the world and built a hallway out of brick at the very center of this war zone. Immediately one of them tried to destroy it under the impression that âit looks badâ.
âWell, what should I make it out of?â
âDiamond.â
The ten year old mind is a mystery to meâŚ
Anyway, then I showed him some pictures similar to these:
I reasoned that it would be easier to sway this kid toward another pretty block than trying to get him to stick to the materials of the time, so I asked him if he would like to help me replace my brick design with quartz (eh, itâs white).
Bam! One of the ten year old anarchists is dutifully building me a glittering gem hallway for our insanely rich monks.
The other three are off somewhere still yelling at each other and setting off explosives, but we have something built. Much to my surprise the kid asked if he could build the church next because he âwanted to build the most important partâ.
Hereâs where I learned something important. I donât have ADD or ADHD but as I said before my brother does. When he gets fixated on something, heâs really gets into it. Once a few minutes had passed and this kid already had four walls up I decided to grid up the entire mission. One gets the church, one gets the farm, etc.
After playing the game with them for an hour, I had a pretty good idea of where each kid should go.
Church kid, I found, was very particular about materials and shape(hence his hangup over the brick). I gave him free reign over the outer walls of the mission and showed him the reference pictures to get him started.
My brother liked the farms most (he was building dirt domes over the cows donât ask me how I made this connection it just worked, okay), so he was in charge of building pens for the animals.
Another kid was, at first glance, very loud and bossy when it came to decorating (constantly said we were making chairs wrong). Turns out he likes interior design, like putting benches and beds in the little rooms, so his bossiness was just frustration with my brotherâs artistic sense I guess.
Another was very good with placing trees and plants around the exterior (I guessed this because he covered the place in a ridiculous amount of trees and I asked him if he would like to know where they are supposed to go). He got to make a vineyard for us and organized how the crops should go.
So how did it turn out?
Actually very nice!!
So what did we learn? Kids actually like to play games and be praised for their creativity and intuition. If I had just told them to stop messing around rather than direct their attention to areas within their interests, they never would have gotten anything done.
After an hour of gaming they:
Mirrored my language; âthank you!â, âwhich part are you working on?â, âI like this block.â
Realized each otherâs strengths; âhey [kid name] can you help me with the roof?â âHow do you make the big trees [kid name]?â
Were able to articulate exactly what they did or didnât like without using force; âthat looks good!â, âhow about we put it there?â, âI donât like that block, how about this one?â
On the plus side, since we moved the game file to my device for safekeeping, I now have a cute little souvenir of the time I played Minecraft with four ten year olds.
This is a really long post, but itâs super important. In games like Fortnite where youâll find lots of kids, itâs important (if you can) to steer them away from toxicity. I canât tell you how many times Iâve run into kids who talk like toxic adults and the act of just being nice to them completely turns them around.
IF YOU NEED TO CALL 911 BUT ARE SCARED TO BECAUSE OF SOMEONE IN THE ROOM, dial and ask for a pepperoni pizza. They will ask if you know youâre calling 911. Say yes, and continue pretending youâre making an order. Theyâll ask if thereâs someone in the room.
You can ask how long it will take for the pizza to get to you, and they will tell you how far away a dispatcher is.
My flat-mateâs date for the night was almost as drunk as her. She had passed out in her room and locked the door. He refused to leave because he wanted to have sex. He also demanded food because he was dealing with âwhiskey dickâ. He didnât like the lack of food in the fridge. I called 911, did the stuff stated above, and he was getting PISSED about how long the âorderâ was taking. He took my phone, demanded they âhurry the fuck upâ. Police arrived two minutes later, arrested him, and helped me file a police report. Pressing charges wasnât necessary because he had warrants on him from THREE different states for the very thing he planned to do to me. Several months after this happened one of the officers informed me he was charged with two felonies because he crossed stay lines, and will be serving no less than 35 years in prison. The officer ripped into my flat-mate about her bringing home complete strangers, while drunk, knowing full well this shit could happen.Â
This was 14 years ago. Â
Do the pizza order, do it as calmly as you can. The dispatcher I spoke to said things like this:
âIf heâs drunk say you want mushrooms.â I said I want extra mushrooms.
âIf heâs threatening you with sexual assault say you want onions.â I said I want onions.
She went like this with different toppings and sauces for a description of him, like pineapple if heâs blonde, black olives if heâs tall, extra large if heâs tall, etc.
Theyâve heard this sort of coded call before. Theyâre trained for it. They will understand what youâre saying. Order the pizza.
Really though. Iâm in training for dispatch and this was one of the first things they taught us. Pretend youâre talking to a friend or relative, pretend youâre ordering pizza, weâll figure it out. Weâll word questions so you can answer in an easy, casual way. Please, just make the call and we will do everything we can to help you.
listen, mankind has been anthropomorphising animals and presenting them as sexy LITERALLY as long as mankind has been making art. media that anthropomorphises animals and imagines them in romantic and sensual contexts is extremely normalized. the entire style of anime was inspired by none other than SCROOGE MCDUCK and his Big Shiny Eyes, and that style has become nearly synonymous in the western world with a fetish! and furthermore, absolutely EVERYONE had a crush on at least one of the lion king lions, and if you claim otherwise then youâre a fucking liar!!!!
my point is that every last one of us is to some extent a âfurryâ and you all just need to get over your fear of the truth and ACCEPT it
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