Malala Yousafzai is a famous activist for education of young girls who the Taliban attempted to murder for her activism. Hence her comment “Boo 👎” on this young girl’s post about skipping classes.
Young girl is just shocked she got called out by a famous person.
Yes. Literally.
If the United States Constitution were really being respected, extrajudicial killings would be exceptionally rare events.
Never. Leave. This baby. Again. Lol
Haha, I have a blanket burrower too. Bedtime = “you’re letting me explore the blanket cave now, right?”
Yeah, this is my takeaway as well. I’m willing to bet teens aren’t opposed to Android itself, but rather “oh your mom only got you the $200 budget phone lol”
Sadly the cat summoning ritual only works on half of the cats in my house. Which is one. It only summons me one cat
This for real. I feel like some very recent history is being erased (on purpose) by those who want us to believe there’s no way to reform our current system into something more sane and sustainable.
When I started my management career about 25 years ago, the prevailing mantra was to treat your employees well because while loss of expensive, experienced employees might net more in the short term, it degrades the long-term, sustainable growth of a corporation because you end up in a never-ending cycle of expensive hiring and training, which degrades your product and the customer experience and your brand.
Then we allowed this unfettered, competition-destroying consolidation of monopolies that allowed companies to stop caring about the quality of their products and the customer experience because where else are you gonna go when they have you trapped in their proprietary ecosystem? So why should a company worry about employee satisfaction and retention, if they’re going to have customers anyway.
We need a new round of trust-busting and strong anti-monopoly legislation, consumer protections, labor protections. There is a way.
But here we are stuck battling impending fascism instead because the corpos would like to have their monopolies forever, please and thank you.
100% a conversation the flock of blue jays who frequent my bird feeder are having about me
Third verse, same as the first:
This is an actual conversation I had with my oldest nephew when we went to the Boston Tea Party Museum last week.
“If you ever hear people complaining that damaging commercial property during a protest is unacceptable, remember what you learn about the Tea Party today. Our country was literally founded on protests trashing commercial property. And remember that some people complained to them that it was unacceptable too.”
See also Dr. King:
“who constantly says “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action” who paternalistically feels that he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom”
Second verse, same as the first:
"IIt was the Sons of Liberty who ransacked houses of British officials. Threats and intimidation were their weapons against tax collectors, causing many to flee town. Images of unpopular figures might be hanged and burned in effigy on the town’s liberty tree.
Of course, the winners write the history books. Had the American Revolution failed, the Sons and Daughters of Liberty would no doubt be regarded as a band of thugs, or at the very least, outspoken troublemakers."
I’ll let Dr. King do the talking:
“A riot is the language of the unheard. And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again. Social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention”
“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White citizens’ “Councilor” or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direst action” who paternistically feels that he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
https://billofrightsinstitute.org/primary-sources/letter-from-birmingham-jail
I’m not getting into how overly exaggerated incidents of property damage during the BLM protests were. You’re not interested in facts
This is an actual conversation I had with my oldest nephew when we went to the Boston Tea Party Museum last week.
“If you ever hear people complaining that damaging commercial property during a protest is unacceptable, remember what you learn about the Tea Party today. Our country was literally founded on protests trashing commercial property. And remember that some people complained to them that it was unacceptable too.”
Mine knows when I’m eating ice cream. No matter where she is in the house, somehow she knows
Now this is the kind of antique meme I’m looking for
Oh hey, I have one of those! So looooooooooooong and yet only 6.5lbs
Looks like the kid from the Limbo game
My 4yo feral-born still prefers her interactions at arms length…unless I’m eating ice cream. And then within seconds from any corner of the house, she’s immediately right in my face. I have no idea how she even learned what ice cream is lol
That’s a nice looking Nebelung you got there. They’re such beautiful cats