It’s not the point, but the “Third World” doesn’t exist anymore. It requires the “Second World” - the Eastern Bloc countries and their allies.
The term has been nonsensical since the fall of the Soviet Union.
It’s now just a racist pejorative. Was then, too. But at least it had a perverse logic.
Like… the lady doth protest too much?
Seems extra relevant now:
In the background is the Virginia Memorial at Gettysburg, with the statue of Robert E. Lee atop it. In the foreground is a replica of the 1890s cast iron war department signs that dot the battlefield with the inscription “These men fought to preserve owning humans as property.”
Since it’s the anniversary the surrender of Lee at Appomattox, figured I should share a photo from an art series I show a few years back… #otd
White linen dish towel used as a flag of truce by Confederate troops during Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. Picture from National Museum of American History, which also holds the original towel.
Celebrating Appomattox Court House Day!
How scared was I?
I assiduously made sure that I took these photos when I was unemployed - it was in the week-long gap between when I quit the NPS and when I onboarded at the college.
*shot - damn you autocorrect!
I haven’t shared them widely because of fear - of impact to my reputation? Of burning bridges?
But I’ve realized more and more that history without activism - like faith without works - is dead.
In the background is the Virginia Memorial at Gettysburg, with the statue of Robert E. Lee atop it. In the foreground is a replica of the 1890s cast iron war department signs that dot the battlefield with the inscription “These men fought to preserve owning humans as property.”
Since it’s the anniversary the surrender of Lee at Appomattox, figured I should share a photo from an art series I show a few years back… #otd
RIP German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was hung by the Nazis today.
“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.”
Buc-E’s
Specifically, the Buc-ee’s at exit 170 on 95 in Florence, South Carolina.
Sounds like it’s Tima to read the other comments (that’s what did, because like you I’m not cool…)
Nance’s Hot Mustard
Walmart Salsa Verde
Heinz Malt Vinegar
*talking to teenage militant atheist self*
current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church
teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government
current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one
I mean, I’m one of those who honestly believes that Truman should have faced consequences for the major war crime that was the double bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki…
"I can not believe America has becom--"
bitch, we have Andrew Jackson on our money. our default money. the only money the bank robot knows how to hand out.
Over the past few weeks, the UMD Bulldogs, Merrimack Warriors, Wisconsin Badgers, Texas Longhorns, and Santa Clara Broncos, all flew their teams on this particular jet - Eastern Air Express's N808TJ.
Today it flew shackled ICE detainees between Texas, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Louisiana. 🧵
Why was I not informed Richard Ayoade voices a droid in this!?
The poster for Star Wars: Maul Shadow Lord.
Since the world is not - in fact - ending tonight, I’m going to enjoy a Star Wars or two.
I mean, he *did* promise it would end with unconditional surrender, so... promises made, promises kept?
just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him
For the record, I had Taco Bell for lunch today. You may lay your accolades at my feet for manifesting this now.
do not let the abuser take credit for the situation they controlled
Someone thank Merrick Garland for his commitment to "norms" and refusing to do his job and prosecute a rapist who appears in the Epstein files 1M+ times.
I'm so glad that as Trump promises literal genocide, we can take comfort in knowing that Garland stuck to "norms," lest democracy be harmed.
If anything big goes down tonight, assume I’m gone.
Living 5 miles from a primary retaliatory strike target’s hypocenter has its drawbacks, I suppose.
Biggest patches are the ironworks, the block northeast of those has four refineries/petrochem facilities, the block northwest of that has another three or four. The cluster lower left is another Aramco refinery. So this is +8 different major manufacturing facilities on fire by the looks of it.
This is the fundamental stress I’ve felt for years, too - how do you plan for a month or two from now when tomorrow will yield such new horrors?
“In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.”
“Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.”
