I love this so much.
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BEST
When I saw that this was the title of the next Disney princess film
All I could think was
Is Steve Rogers the next Disney princess?
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oh my god, me everyday.
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The Vegan Quinoa "Superfood" Demand is Destroying Bolivia →
Interesting research
I actually kind of felt like this deserved a post on its own because I think not many people realize that the demand for quinoa, which provides a ridiculously expensive source of all the essential amino acids and central to the “new” vegan diet, is causing near anarchy in Bolivia as the prices get driven up and up.
According to one farmer quoted in the story, “Quinoa was always comida para los Indios [food for Indians.] Today it’s food for the world’s richest.”
Fights over territory previously considered worthless is now being fought over as prime land for growing the new cash crop, and have resulted in kidnappings, injuries, and bombings.
It’s also destroying the environment, since everyone is selling their llamas and planting quinoa instead, which is stripping the soil from overfarming and lack of llama poop for fertilizer.
I’m sick and tired of vegans claiming that their food exists in a vacuum. I mean, are these people THIS far removed from understanding that we all exist in nature? That your stupid fucking quinoa, your excuse to be more militant than ever, more elitist than ever, demanding everyone adhere to your dubious moral convictions, is destroying a country’s economy AND ecosystem? Because of a sudden, insatiable demand for their Indigenous peoples’ food?
Half the world’s quinoa supply is grown in Bolivia.
Also, this article doesn’t mention, but indigenous people were banned from growing quinoa for centuries by the Spanish because it was so connected to their spiritual traditions and ceremonies. They denigrated it as heathen Indian food. So the native people weren’t allowed to eat their own traditional food. And then suddenly white people want quinoa, so now the indigenous people are FORCED to make so much of it it’s destroying their country, but they STILL can’t eat it because it’s all expensive and produced for foreigners.
And this is why when people prompt shit with “homophobic” Steve Rogers on kink memes, I want to punch them in the face.(From Captain America #270 - June 1982)
This is Captain America meeting up with an old friend, Arnie Roth. Though the word “gay” is never used (incredibly awful censorship), it’s pretty obvious Michael is his partner (he stumbles to say they are “rooming” and that they are “friends”, but later canon has firmly established they are in a relationship).
Michael is abducted by the Red Skull, and at the end, the Red Skull mind controls Arnie, forcing him to say that he is a freak and doesn’t know anything about real love.
Cap breaks him out of this, and says “You are not a freak! You are as good and decent a man as I’ve ever known! They can’t corrupt your love for Michael with their lies… They’re the disease!”
I keep having to tell people: Captain America is the kind of patriotic I can SO get behind. You tell’em, Cap!
Put this on parallel with Chris Evans openly saying he’s 100% pro LGBTQ rights, and it’s even more awesome. Both comic!Steve and his actor are great in this sense.
And damn, people really do that in the kinkmemes? D: I’m not even in the Avengers fandom, and yet I still think it’s Le Shitty.
Please note that this is way back in 1982 as well. It’s funny because people think that because Captain America is Captain America he’s this jingoistic and stereotypical patriot, but that could not be further from the truth. Cap is shown to be VERY, VERY socially progressive on many, many occasions and this has been the case since at least the 70s.
But yeah the homophobic Steve prompts? Can gtfo.
Thank. You. Cap is my favorite character, maybe ever, because he’s just so fundamentally good. He can be bullheaded and stubborn (especially given the lovely cocktail of emotional/psychological consequences from his stay in the ice), but hateful and bigoted? No, never.
I just cannot understand that branch of fanon that keeps trying to pigeon hole him as purely a man of his time, of the worst caricatures of his time’s attitudes. He’s really the opposite: such a very bright spark even in the worst, darkest times. The things he reacts badly to in Avengers are whatever he views as inconsiderate, selfish behavior, and even in Cap1 he was progressive and welcoming of difference. He became a super-soldier hero and not a monster after the serum because of his innate goodness/heart, and to me that doesn’t jibe with bigotry. And that’s even in the 40s, and especially as someone signing up to help defeat the Nazis and then battle Red Skull’s superiority complex.
tl;dr I just have a lot of Steve Rogers feels, okay?
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Basically the shortest, yet most accurate, commentary on the differences between ads geared towards men and women I’ve ever seen.
Casual reminder that Mitt Romney physically assaulted a gay man. Santorum was two letters away from calling Obama the n-word on national television. Paul Ryan laughed as an elderly man with a broken arm was tackled to the ground. All three of them have expressed their hatred of women in their policies.
Deadly serious reminder that if you vote for them, you are promoting people that have attitudes think these are okay things to do.
Supermassive Black Hole at Work
Image Credit: NASA, S. Gezari (The Johns Hopkins University), and J. Guillochon (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Back in 2010, astronomers witnessed an explosion of light from a star that was obliterated by a supermassive black hole. This is an accurate computer simulation of the event that took place.
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View Larger with the next aisle being every kind of vodka known to human kindThat’s what I need for my school supplies
oh my god
so wrong, and yet so darkly hilarious
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