kinomiya:

I dont usually tell personal stories but I feel I have to share this one.

Last night around 11:30PM I was outside checking out the pokestops/gyms in my community, there’s two gyms and two stops less than a block from my house, my community is known for being a safe middle-upper class community with multiple schools and parks. I didn’t think much of it outside someone may call the police over some person skulking around a church tbh.

Well I wasn’t even a block away from my home. Like 3min walk away and as I’m walking up to the community hall/ sports arena (both stops) a car oncoming pulled over into the shoulder/bike lane and the driver stared at me. I turned into the parking lot of the arena (which has a back gravel access road to dumpsters that happens to come out two houses up from my house on my street)

The car had a middle aged white man in it and drove forward pulled into someone’s drive way turned around and pulled into the school parking lot beside the arena and stayed there. I walked up the back access onto my street and got home. But this car had a bad muffler and you could HEAR him driving up and down the street and through the parking lot (possibly up the back access). He did this for probably 10-15 min before he turned up the road I live on and then down the street literally across from my home as I sat on my front deck.

I have no doubt the intentions of this person were less than savory and I’m telling this story to urge people playing Pokemon Go to stay very close to home or be accompanied by someone after dark. If I can have this kind of experience 3min from my home in a community generally regarded as safe it means it can happen absolutely anywhere.

So please please please stay safe if youre out pokemon hunting after dark.

alrightanakin:

If you’re ever somewhere past closing time and an employee says “it’s no problem take your time :)” they’re lying through their fucking teeth it is 100% a Problem and you need to go

rhodanum:

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crimsoncat21:

I was talking to an American friend today, who is a huge Bernie supporter. He won’t be voting for Hilary. He’s voting for some third party candidate. (Because fuck Hilary!) I was told I couldn’t understand because I’m not American. Oh, sweet child.

Sit down dearest, I’m going to teach you a thing.

In 2011 Canada had an election. The majority of us were tired of our conservative PM. He didn’t have enough support to win another term. There was absolutely no way this was going to happen. Except it did. Do you know how it did? We split the vote. I’m not going to bore you with details and Canadian politics. Basically, there were three parties. And the conservative PM got re-elected with only 39.62% of the vote. Because the other 60.38% was split between two other parties.

Fast forward to the 2015 election. Many of us voted outside of our political parties to make damn sure that didn’t happen a second time. Let me repeat that for you. I voted OUTSIDE of my political party for the good of my country. It was physically painful for me to do it. But it worked. We got rid of our conservative PM who was destroying our great nation, and we got Justin Trudeau. Who, honestly, luckily, is a damn delight.

Canada literally JUST went through this. We suffered four years of absolutely horrible leadership because our vote was split three ways. So don’t tell me I can’t understand because I’m not an American. And please, for the love of everything good in this world, don’t throw a temper tantrum because you can’t vote for Bernie. Suck it up. Be a grown up and don’t throw your vote away. I’m all for voting third party and supporting the little guy. But not this year. Not just because you didn’t get your way. You aren’t five.

Originally posted by yourreactiongifs

Thank you. Don’t let Trump come close.

I have a feeling that Bernie supporters are going to protest by not voting, which is almost as bad as voting for a nobody candidate…,

Another Canadian seconding this. I held my nose and ovted Liberal, because the alternative was four more years of active destruction. Trudeau has huge faults, but he’s better than Harper - and the same is true of Hillary and Drumpf. Vote third party. In droves. Build it up to the point where third parties are actually viable threats in the US. But do it when literally everything isn’t at stake.

Any time I see US Americans going ‘I’m voting Green!’, ‘I’m not voting at all!’, I want to fucking HOWL. 

Let me tell you a story of Romania in the Year of Our Lord 2000. This presidential cycle is seared into my memory, for one particular reason. 

We. Were. Fucked. 

We were fucked harder than that dolt who thought he could climb Mount Everest with zero high-altitude and acclimatization training. 

Our choices for future president had been whittled down to Corneliu Vadim Tudor, an ultra-nationalist, far-right poet and senator, a personage much in the vein of Trump as far as sheer bigotry is concerned…. and Ion Iliescu, former Communist Party official, former president and a man whom many of us still consider guilty of crimes against humanity for the fact that he called down thousands of miners upon anti-Communist, pro-Western protesters shortly after the 1989 Revolution:

He, along with other figures in the leading FSN, was allegedly responsible for calling the Jiu Valley miners to Bucharest on 28 January and 14 June 1990 to end the protests of the citizens gathered in University Square, Bucharest, protests aimed against the ex-communist leaders of Romania (like himself). (source)

The Romanian miners of Jiu Valley were called by the newly elected power to Bucharest to end the riots that broke up on 13 June 1990. As President Ion Iliescu put it, the miners were called to save the “besieged democratic regime” and restore order and democracy in Bucharest. The government trucked in thousands of miners from the Jiu Valley to Bucharest to confront the demonstrators. The rest of Romania and the world watched the government television broadcasts of miners brutally grappling with students and other protesters. 

The official figures say that during the third Mineriad, seven people were killed and more than a thousand were wounded. The opposition newspaper România Liberă claimed that on 29 June 1990 over 40 bodies were buried in a common grave in Străulești, near Bucharest. Conspiracy theories and rumors circulated as to the origins and development of the mineriad, with some believing that both the Romanian Presidency and Secret Service had a hand in it. Later parliamentary inquiries into the potential role of the Secret Service contributed to the widespread public mistrust of the post-Ceaușescu intelligence service.

Government inquiries would show that the miners had indeed been “joined by vigilantes who were later credibly identified as former officers of the Securitate”, and that for two days, the miners had been aided and abetted by the former Securitate members in their violent confrontation with the protesters and other targets. (source)

As for Corneliu Vadim Tudor….

In 1991, [Corneliu Vadim Tudor] founded the Greater Romania Party, the platform of which Time magazine described as “a crude mixture of anti-Semitism, racism and nostalgia for the good old days of communism”. Some statements and articles by Tudor and his colleagues can be described as ultra-nationalist, anti-Hungarian, anti-Roma, and homophobic. (source)

Tudor’s and his party’s change from national communism to ultranationalism took place after 1996. In 1999, Dan Corneliu Hudici, a former reporter at România Mare, claimed there was a “secret blacklist” of dozens of politicians (including then-president Emil Constantinescu), journalists, and businessmen to be arrested if Tudor’s party came to power.

On 18 October 2012, while speaking on the talk show Romania la Raport, Tudor said that “in Romania there was never a Holocaust … I will deny it till I die because I love my people.“ (source)

These two fine gentlemen were our two options for president in 2000. I was too young too vote then, so all I could do was watch on with a sense of muffled, resigned horror. And my people, foolish though we can be, limited through we can be, ridiculously racist through we can be, painfully homophobic through we can be, decided that out of the two, the former autocrat and presumed mass-murderer was still a better option than the goddamn fascist – so Iliescu got the vote with an overwhelming majority. 

Even people who loathed him with every fiber of their being grit their teeth and voted for the old bastard, because at this point most of us would have voted for a steaming turd, rather than Vadim! We couldn’t unleash someone like Vadim upon our partners, we still had access to the European Union to fight for – so we were pragmatic about the whole thing and went with Iliescu instead, even those among us who believed he should end up in jail for the rest of his life. 

And then I see US Americans going on and on about how they’ll vote for no one other than Bernie, they’ll never vote for Hillary, not in a million years… People, if your complete lack of political pragmatism and your ‘ideological purity at all costs’ bullshit unleashes Trump upon your country and the rest of the world, you will have no one to blame but yourselves. 

Nota Bene: since this is Tumblr, I feel I need to specify this. In Eastern Europe, ‘anti-Communist’ as a political position is so widespread that it tells you almost nothing about the rest of the person’s politics. They could well be social-democrats like me. They could be centrists. They could be right-wing. So i don’t want to hear any ‘oh they were probably just a bunch of fascists, they deserved it’ in regards to the protesters injured and killed during the Mineriads. I’ve already had people on here laugh at / dismiss my father’s torture at the hands of NKVD and my great-grandfather’s murder in the Aiud gulag, so I put nothing past some. Understand that we came with deep scars out of what were totalitarian regimes, we’re never going to look at them as Americans do. 

new-xkit-extension:

If you’ve been active on tumblr lately, you may notice that they’ve started running a new type of ad in the right-hand sidebar unit. Specifically, there’s been an uptick in ads that auto-play loud audio, some of which are even un-mutable.

We’ve addressed this in Anti-Capitalism version 1.3.0, which adds a new option:

(small mea culpa: the naming here is slightly confusing. this will *always* remove the sidebar ad, even if it doesn’t happen to be one that plays audio, because we don’t have the ability to distinguish between them. the other difference is that it does it in a way that also takes care of the audio-visual component instead of just hiding the ad, like some adblockers have been doing)

(EDIT: yes, you’ll have to refresh the page after installing the extension/enabling the option. It sounds like this might also conflict with other ad-blockers, so let us know if you have any issues and/or try disabling other adblockers first and see if that fixes the problem)

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undeadmammal:

big shout out to the non-mutual followers whove been following me for a long time and like lots of my posts and have been around for months or even years. sorry i never gave u the followback but i see you guys consistently supporting me and enjoying or vibing with my content and i appreciate you, so thanks for stickin around