Guys, the first images of Irma’s level of devastation are coming out of Barbuda and it’s heartbreaking. The President of Barbuda says that 90% of the island is uninhabitable, upwards of 60% of the TOTAL population are now homeless because the hurricane destroyed virtually every building and home on the island, and that the estimated damage is valued at no less than $200 million dollars. That’s money a small island like that doesn’t have. They’re saying it’s going to take years to rebuild and Hurricane Jose is right behind Irma on the same path which means they could be hit twice. This is just one of the islands being affected.
Please, show up for the Caribbean like you did for Houston. There is no safety net for any of these islands including mine. They’ll rely entirely on foreign aid. Find local charities or global trustworthy charities (NOT the Red Cross) and make a donation asking them to aid the Caribbean. There’s whole countries being turned into rubble with no financial means to repair their infrastructures. They’re going to need help.
For the hundreds of people replying or in my inbox asking “Why not the Red Cross?!”:
Seriously, guess where I found all of those in two solid minutes of searching? Google. Even better, they didn’t charge me a penny for it.
Stop wanting things to be spoonfed to you. While you waited for someone to link you to sources, you could’ve done it yourself and already donated to people who desperately need it.
Because people are also asking where to donate instead of the Red Cross:
Habitat For Humanity [83% rating on Charity Navigator // Because with islands like Barbuda 90% destroyed and French St. Martin said to be 95% destroyed then people are going to need homes built]
Catholic Relief Services [90% rating on Charity Navigator // For those who would want to donate to a religious organization]
If there is a note or comments section on their donation page please do let them know that you would want your money to go to their Caribbean relief efforts. Houston and Florida have the US government backing them in whatever they will need but these islands will have very little except for these charities to fall back if they have any hope of rebuilding what seems to be entire countries in some cases. For the people who lost everything even a few bucks will go a long way.
For the most part I would suggest staying away from privately launched GoFundMes unless you know the person directly. Ultimately, you just never know where those funds are going to end up and if your money will be used wisely. Sure, the same can be said for charity organizations but at least there is a better shot at possibly helping through them. The five listed above are world known and have been studied by charity oversight organizations. It’s as close to perfect as we’re going to get.
I won’t speak for all liberals, but I’d like to see a future where it isn’t a big deal for a woman in full modesty garb to sit next to a drag queen in NYC. It’s become a bit of a sensation, but her and I were just existing. The freedom to simply be yourself in a sea of people who aren’t like you is a freedom we all deserve.
The central irony is that this isn’t some hypothetical future–it’s just present day reality. This is a picture of two ordinary people going about their normal lives despite how haters want to politicize it lmao. So the underlying message is not “future liberals want” it’s “people conservatives want to eradicate”
the underlying message is not “future liberals want” it’s “people conservatives want to eradicate”
Chronic illness in movies: I’m writing poetry from my sickbed and watching the seasons change out my window…
Chronic illness in real life: My meds kinda fucked me up and I couldn’t get out of bed so I just watched two solid hours of vine compilations
david rockefeller finally died this year i had no idea
Is this the same dude who had something like 10 heart transplants
6. but yeah.
you can’t hang up on the reaper forever.
THIS MOTHERFUCKER!
God my crippled ass never gets a chance to rant about how much I hate this asshole and his family because apparently it’s not common practice to sit in the line at Dunkin Donuts only to start ranting about him. So thank you for this opportunity.
It’s 9:00 AM, I’m half-asleep, but here we go.
This asshole’s entire family are almost single-handedly responsible for literally the entire modern eugenics movement! See back in the early 1900s, it was the Rockefellers who were so proud of their white able-bodied elitism that they got it into their heads that anyone who wasn’t white or able-bodied needed to die. They usually publicly focused more on the disabled Americans. Frankly, I think we were easier targets but I digress.
The Rockefellers, Carnegies, Davenports, and other super rich families chipped in to create the Eugenics Records Office on Long Island which began cataloging the genetic makeups of every single family in the nation. I’m dead serious. There was a building out there that housed all of your ancestors’ breeding information. Legally. Funded by millionaires. Only a century ago.
Now this asshole was only a kid at the time so he escapes most of the initial blame but here’s the thing. Like any good pioneering millionaires, these guys didn’t just talk about wanting to get rid of the disabled population. They actually started putting it in action. We’re talking doctors injecting milk with TB to give to disabled babies. Disabled women (and black women and Native women, it’s also important to remember that too, I’m just disabled so this is the demographic I’m focusing on more here) were forcibly sterilized against their will. Scientists began talking about gas chambers that could be used to kill disabled adults. Yep. That’s right. Gas chambers. And all of these projects were funded by families like the Rockefellers. That’s why I can say with a straight face that the Rockefellers were worse than Hitler. Why? Because Hitler saw them as his heroes! He sent these scientists/families fan letters gushing about how he wanted to be just like them. And guess what? A few years later, he happened to get some power (just a smidge) and started Aktion T4 – a Germanwide eugenics movement that killed half a million disabled individuals. Half a decade later, he would use the killing methods to start the Holocaust.
All because of this guy up here and his family.
Who continued to fund Nazi experiments.
And even up to his death, David Rockefeller talked publicly about eugenics and what a great idea it was. The same guy who had six heart transplants went up onto stages to talk about how we need to kill everyone else who he deemed unworthy to live.
Here’s a bunch of sources because you can’t make this shit up:
tl;dr: David Rockefeller and his family singlehandedly led to millions of people dying and if they had gotten their way, would have led to millions more. And as far as I’m concerned, he can rot in hell.
Does that answer your question?
ARR WE RANTING ABOUT ROCKERFELLERS??
Because if so olease let me share this quote about there thoughts on education:
“We shall not try to make these people [poor peoole getting free education] or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, educators, poetd, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, or statesmen” -Rockerfeller’s general education board.
Literally the funded and promoted public education to make sute the poor were smart enkugh to work for them, but not s.art enough to rise above them.
The Rockerfellers are part of why public education is as bad as it is.
i never thought i’d get the let me learn you a thing stuff on one of my posts but yeah i’m cool with it
I don’t believe in hell, but people like the Rockefellers make it seem like not such a bad concept
I sincerely fucking hope that he was in absolute agony and full of fear and misery when he died
And if I worked at the funeral home that got his body, I’d stuff the coffin full of rocks and then toss his actual corpse in the trash
Henry Kissinger called him his friend that should tell you everything right there.
And this doesn’t even touch on how their family knew about the coming collapse of the stock market in ‘29 and, along with their rich friends, removed their money and accelerated the oncoming crash. Then, in the absence of public funds since you know, the economy collapsed, they “donated” a bunch of money and put their names on everything, making themselves seem like heroes. It’s part of why I loathe the lauding of the 1% for their “charity” when they’re the ones crippling our public entities through tax evasion and oligarchical manipulation of our economy and government.
Oh! Or how the Rockefeller Laws in the 70s and 80s devistated people of color and hippies in New York and assisted in the mass incarceration boom of the drug wars.
People wouldn’t really fake needing mobility aid, when people who need it will literally often neglect using it or not have access to it..
Because disabled people feel shamed, feel worried they’re exaggerating, or people will always get really invasive or stare..
and you’re telling me when this is the case, people who need shit will neglect themselves.. that somehow a bunch of abled people would just somehow deal with that shit and feel like they should pretend to need mobility aid??
how about addressing ableism and people doubting disabled people and diagnoses/medication/aid/treatment being inaccessible.. than to go around accusing disabled people of being fakers…?
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