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For many years, few people paid much attention to Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico – until the murder of a journalist led to his downfall and revealed the morass of corruption inside his administration. Now, after making a comeback by spreading COVID-19 conspiracy theories and pro-Russian narratives, he appears to be going after his perceived enemies: independent media, political opposition, and upright law enforcement.
For many years, few people paid much attention to Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico – until the murder of a journalist led to his downfall and revealed the morass of corruption inside his administration. Now, after making a comeback by spreading COVID-19 conspiracy theories and pro-Russian narratives, he appears to be going after his perceived enemies: independent media, political opposition, and upright law enforcement.
For many years, few people paid much attention to Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico – until the murder of a journalist led to his downfall and revealed the morass of corruption inside his administration. Now, after making a comeback by spreading COVID-19 conspiracy theories and pro-Russian narratives, he appears to be going after his perceived enemies: independent media, political opposition, and upright law enforcement.
Reblog to hug prev poster (they need a hug)
you ever feel like you were born with something rotten inside you and if people get close enough they’re gonna find out
“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”
— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“ (via gothhabiba)
Yes.
Here, have a study (x) showing that mothers underestimate their daughter’s physical capacity from as young as 11 months old (though in reality it’s identical to that of their son’s at the same age). And if you think that parents acting on those expectations won’t alter their children’s development, then I have a sloped bridge to sell you.
I remember being told the way I looked at my nails was gay. I remember being called gay because I didn't like changing for gym. I remember being called gay because I actually talked to girls and didn't just treat them like sex objects. I remember being afraid of talking about how I liked the color pink, to the point when one of my characters in a game had pink on, I suffered paranoia fits my mother would catch it and scream at me for being a faggot.
I was at a courthouse once, and saw an indigenous australian woman in a dressing gown very carefully and gingerly making her way down the steps outside the courthouse, surrounded by family who were helping her down the stairs. We asked if she was OK, because she looked awful. She looked like she should have been wrapped up in bed with blankets and hot soup, not on the steps of a courthouse.
One of her family told us that she had given birth yesterday evening, but that Child Protection services had taken her baby away with no warning, claiming that she wasnt prepared to look after him. What had happened, is that she'd literally only just given birth -- hadn't even passed the afterbirth yet, is holding her blood-coated, crying, newborn baby to her chest -- and a nurse asked what her feeding plan was. She was tired from the birth and distracted by the brand new baby in her arms and thrown off by the timing of the question, but still, she managed to answer, and said she planned to breastfeed him whenever he was hungry.
Well apparently that wasn't enough of a plan for the hospital staff, who reported her and claimed that she was unprepared to look after the child, and claimed that had no social supports, and that the baby was at risk if left with her. All because a brand new mother, 30 seconds after giving birth, didn't have a PowerPoint presentation ready to go that cited the timing cycle she would feed her kid on, and instead simply said that she would feed him when he was hungry.
Child Protection services showed up, took her kid, and she was told to show up to court the next day to contest custody if she wanted her baby back.
So a woman who had given birth less than 24 hours prior was forced to rally her family and show up to court to prove that she a) had a feeding plan for the child, and b) had enough social supports to justify reclaiming her baby.
It was one of the most appalling things I'd ever seen. I don't even know if she won her case. They didn't know at the time we saw them, and after that brief interaction on the stairs, i never saw them again. I sincerely hope she got her newborn baby back.
That was about 5 years ago. And the exact same kind of thing is still happening today.
News broke today from a South Australian whistle-blower of the appalling treatment new mothers frequently receive, including hospital staff taking the baby away from the mother "for medical tests," only for the mother to then be told, with absolutely no prior warning, that the baby was not going to be returned to her.
Here's the article, and here are some excerpts:
also a problem in Canada: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/from-the-60s-scoop-to-now-canada-still-separating-indigenous-children-from-families-1.5606935
This is genocide! It is an effort to destroy culture by stealing children away from their parents.
“Sunset over the Grocery Box,” by me. The view from my father’s front yard in January 2014.
'you just won't quit until everyone's trans' correct
'are you IN GOOD FAITH and with CLEAR CONSCIENCE asking for a QUEER SHOW to be CANCELLED?' lmao you know what just because of this yes, yes i am. just because you're annoying
loving this new tiktok trend of 14 year olds thinking 1998 was actually the 1800s
"what do I do if I have theories" will always be the fucking funniest reddit post
top tier comedy
