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I am Alaa, a mother of two children. I lost my home and everything I owned, and I am fleeing from one place to another in search of security.

I lost my home and everything I owned while trying to survive. I fled from one place to another in search of security. Until now, I am fleeing and have not found security.

I want you to support my campaign, please. I want to reach a goal of 40,000 euros within two days. Can you do that?

I need 10 People donate They donate 100 euros

I need 20 people to donate 50 euros

I need 40 people to donate 25 euros

I need 80 people to donate 15 euros

Please, any amount will help me bear this war and the costs of survival and living. There is no home and no shelter. Please save me.

Donate and share any amount will help me 🫂🙏

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cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

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"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan

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"How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints." --C.S. Lewis
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The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition.
It was Christmas Eve 1926, the streets aglitter with snow and lights, when the man afraid of Santa Claus stumbled into the emergency room a
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Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people. [...] By mid-1927, the new denaturing formulas included some notable poisons—kerosene and brucine (a plant alkaloid closely related to strychnine), gasoline, benzene, cadmium, iodine, zinc, mercury salts, nicotine, ether, formaldehyde, chloroform, camphor, carbolic acid, quinine, and acetone. The Treasury Department also demanded more methyl alcohol be added—up to 10 percent of total product. It was the last that proved most deadly. The results were immediate, starting with that horrific holiday body count in the closing days of 1926. Public health officials responded with shock. “The government knows it is not stopping drinking by putting poison in alcohol,” New York City medical examiner Charles Norris said at a hastily organized press conference. “[Y]et it continues its poisoning processes, heedless of the fact that people determined to drink are daily absorbing that poison. Knowing this to be true, the United States government must be charged with the moral responsibility for the deaths that poisoned liquor causes, although it cannot be held legally responsible.” His department issued warnings to citizens, detailing the dangers in whiskey circulating in the city: “[P]ractically all the liquor that is sold in New York today is toxic,” read one 1928 alert. He publicized every death by alcohol poisoning. He assigned his toxicologist, Alexander Gettler, to analyze confiscated whiskey for poisons—that long list of toxic materials I cited came in part from studies done by the New York City medical examiner’s office. Norris also condemned the federal program for its disproportionate effect on the country’s poorest residents. Wealthy people, he pointed out, could afford the best whiskey available. Most of those sickened and dying were those “who cannot afford expensive protection and deal in low grade stuff.” And the numbers were not trivial. In 1926, in New York City, 1,200 were sickened by poisonous alcohol; 400 died. The following year, deaths climbed to 700. These numbers were repeated in cities around the country as public-health officials nationwide joined in the angry clamor. Furious anti-Prohibition legislators pushed for a halt in the use of lethal chemistry. “Only one possessing the instincts of a wild beast would desire to kill or make blind the man who takes a drink of liquor, even if he purchased it from one violating the Prohibition statutes,” proclaimed Sen. James Reed of Missouri.

This isn't particularly relevant to anything specific. I just wanted to remind everyone this is something the US government did.

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oh, i clicked on the article to see if this book was mentioned, and hey its DEBORAH BLUME!! aka the author of the book I was just about to reccomend about this Exact Thing:

if this article is interesting to you, i highly reccomend this book. It doesn't just discuss prohibition of course, but it goes even more in depth on this stuff.

I would also reccomend her newer book...

this one is about the history of food safety in the united states, and I cannot emphasize enough how disgusting some of this is. wanna find out what embalmed milk is? wanna learn about how much random bullshit from sawdust to coconut shells to dust was put into spices? wanna learn about all the ways food was left to rot and be sold before the FDA? wanna learn how HARD food manufacturers fought regulation, for their right to not be inspected and put borax and formaldehyde and unlabeled ingredients in their products? read this book!

this book takes its name from the IRL poison squad, which was a bunch of healthy young men who were purposefully fed common food additives like borax to see if they were as safe as manufacturers claimed.

This, of course, is also not at all relevant to current events or to claims that deregulation is unneeded because companies will self regulate. nope. not at all.

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For anyone curious about the history of antiregulation and antiscience additudes in the United States, I read this paper for a class I am taking on the sociology of science as an institution. It was written by historians of science and it chronicles a century long campaign by industry and American conservatives to push for deregulation. They used propaganda to tie the idea of a “free market,” (without regulations on businesses) to Americans’ already deeply held beliefs about freedom. The authors also show how during the Regan administration (because so many of todays problems trace back to this fucker) this “anti-regulation,” stuff expanded to also be “anti-science,” because science started to show that stuff like climate change and acid rain exist that kind of demand regulation of some kind. And also that Trump’s response to Covid was deeply tied to all of that.

They also use public opinion data to show that prior to the 1980s, conservative and liberal trust in science in America was about the same. After the 1980s, we see a growing decline in conservative trust in science while liberal trust has stayed steady, and even grown during the Obama administration and the first Trump administration (they don’t have any data after that because this was only published in 2022 and probably written and researched even before that, because academia can take a while to go from research to publication.)

Anyway, I think the paper is open access so you can download the pdf from that link if you wanna read it.

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