#american lies

[ausetkmt]

#american lies #white lies #economics #american games #disinfranchisement of Americans #Freedmen #Black Lives Matter #Black History Matters #Redlining #Economic Issues

[briteredoctober]

42 Minutes Ago: US pushes for temporary Gaza ceasefire at UN Security Council

29 Minutes Ago: US vetoes UN resolution demanding immediate Israel-Gaza ceasefire

Judge actions, not false words.

#American genocide #amerikkka #israeli genocide #israeli apartheid #free palestine #palestine #ceasefire #American lies #western lies #US lies

[reasoningdaily]

https://x.com/ThatsAlpaca1/status/1702224625717961154?t=uFNEu7WzrNo37nOF_UaRYQ&s=09

#Badges and Incidents of Slavery #Reparations #Vestiges of slavery #us congress #13th amendment #Black Freedmen #american lies #white lies

[repostedpoliticalarts]

The Bob’s Burgers movie really got to me, man.

Like Sunny Side Up Summer is just SO optimistic but there’s the constant threat underneath. It’s “Smile” by Charlie Chaplin. Just trying to make it through when it feel like absolutely no one is on your side.

And how does it end? It cuts off abruptly with the bank representative just flatly saying No. he won’t even TRY the burger and fries Bob made JUST for him. These are people who did ALL the right things. They followed their passion and bootstrapped their little hearts out, skrimped and saved and did EVERYTHING they could, and the system NEVER rewarded all that self-determination and hard work.

For the next two hours we watch each of these characters pour themselves into pursuing their goals. If no one’s going to help them, if no one’s going to be on their side, then they’ll each have to fight tooth and nail for what they want. And as Tina shows, what if they do ALL of that, and it STILL isn’t worth it.

And you know what? They do everything they can and some things DON’T work out. But what they can do at the end of the day is lean on each other.

Sometimes we have to acknowledge that things are never going to go the way we planned or hoped for. But what we HAVE is each other. If we just reach for one another. It doesn’t mean that EVERYTHING will have the happy ending we want. But no matter what the outcome, we can choose to find the good in it.

#the bob's burgers movie #bob belcher #bobs burgers #🍔 #capitalism #american dream #american lies #the myth of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps #optomism #non toxic positivity

[news4dzhozhar]

Biden lied about seeing photos of beheaded Israeli children | The Electronic Intifada

"It should be recalled that the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, ending and destroying millions of lives, based on lies about “weapons of mass destruction” – lies that then Senator Joe Biden had himself pushed for years. In an earlier notorious incident used by the United States government to justify its 1991 war to expel Iraqi occupation forces from Kuwait, the American public were fed totally fabricated stories of Iraqi troops tossing hundreds of Kuwaiti babies out of incubators."

#israeli war crimes #palestine #genocide #apartheid #free palestine #save palestine #open air prison #ICC war crimes #boycott israel #stop israel #israel are not the victims #propaganda kills #iraq #american lies

[intersectionalpraxis]

#feminist #social justice #free palestine #palestine #free gaza #freepalastine🇵🇸 #current events #settler violence #settler colonialism #tw child death #israeli lies #israeli propaganda #american propaganda #us propaganda #us imperialism #end the occupation #end the genocide #ceasefire now #gaza genocide #gaza strip #gaza #gazaunderattack

[runalongprincevaliant]

#palestine #free palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #gaza #free gaza #the west bank #free west bank #west bank #genocide #education is important #israel is an apartheid state #this is a genocide #israel is a terrorist state #propaganda #keep talking about palestine #antizionism is not antisemitism #american lies #Instagram

[isawthismeme]

#this is why we can't have nice things #lies and the lying liars who tell them #democrats #republicans #american horror story #american revolution #health care #tax dollars #slavery #child labor #priorities #media literacy #media #media analysis #media bias #what radicalized you? #radical ideas

[hometownangels]

capitalism is really truly the death of everything

#watcherrrrr pleaseeee eueueuueuw #this is so sad wtf #the comment about watching ur dog walk into traffic. yeah man #5.99 a month...did they even think about non american viewers? #li talks #watcher

[slightly-gay-pogohammer]

dark fantasy retelling of fairytales that talk about childhood and trauma and being your true self and not following the rules in order to grow and (blows up)

#lies of p #american mcgee's alice #alice madness returns #the path #the path game #alice liddell #pinocchio #the girl in white #my drawing

[misstitched-doll]

Look at them!

They ✨️match✨️

Also!

They like cats!🐱🐈‍⬛

#Check out Lies of P if you haven't yet #the story is interesting and it's very fun to play #also the aesthetics!!!! #reminded me so much of Madness Returns #now I want a crossover😭 #Alice and P should be friends #they look like twins with matching clothes🥺 #lies of p #alice madness returns #american mcgee's alice

[ausetkmt]

#Black Twitter #Black Lives Matter #white supremacy #nixon #70's and cointelpro #crack war #systemic racism #american lies #white hate #dismantle white supremacy #urban destruction #Woke

[distinguishedhoundflapauthor]

#american holocaust #american lies #white supremisist

[reasoningdaily]

DCist: Art Installation Calls Out Community Erasure, Past And Present

In what is now known as Metropolitan Park — created in phase one of Amazon’s headquarters in Arlington —  a red brick tower stands resolute, reminding passersby that nearly a century ago a community was erased nearby.

The simple structure, which stands 35 feet tall in an area filled with high-rises and office buildings, seems lost in time. Its red brick exterior evokes a long-past, industrial era — one similar, maybe, to the era  East Arlington residents lived in.

When visitors step inside the sculpture, they’re greeted by 903 ceramic teardrop-shaped “vessels” — one for every displaced community member.

The space is quiet, intimate and — above all — inspiring. According to Durrett, who spoke in an interview with Street Sense Media, that’s exactly the point.

“I try to leave space for the viewer to experience awe,” Durrett said. “First you see this mundane brick structure that looks like it’s from some bygone period. And then you enter the space and you’re met with something completely unexpected. The viewer then has all of these questions, and then hopefully feels inspired to find the answers and then learn this history that so many people don’t know.”

That history is a tragic one. East Arlington was a victim of displacement long before the 1940s, according to a 2011 presentation by the Arlington Public Library. Many of its residents previously lived in Freedman’s Village, a post-emancipation attempt to house enslaved people, before they were forced out by the government — this time to build the Arlington National Cemetery.

The construction of the Pentagon, at the time the largest office building in the world, initially offered a welcome source of work for men in Queen City, according to Dr. Nancy Perry’s 2014 lecture at the Arlington Historical Society.

East Arlington residents worked on the construction of the Pentagon for months before they were informed that the project would unseat them from their home, Perry said. The Black Heritage Museum of Arlington notes that Queen City was specifically displaced for construction of the transportation corridor that would ferry commuters to the Pentagon.

Without the means to move their belongings, many families were forced to leave behind almost everything they owned, according to the lecture. They fled — first to different temporary housing sites, and then to different parts of the country. Many of them never saw their neighbors again.

It was that side of the tragedy — the human suffering — that the artist said she wanted to evoke. In addition to researching the historic community, Durrett arranged a meeting with one of its last living residents. Her conversation with 92-year-old William Vollin, she said, taught her more about Queen City than archives ever could.

“Being able to identify and speak with someone who has been carrying that history since they were 12 years old further humanized the experiences that those people would have gone through,” Durrett said. “When I was speaking to [Vollin], he didn’t recount losing his home or any material possessions. What he did speak about was the loss of his community. About how he never saw most of those people ever again. He speaks about the destruction of Queen City as though it just happened yesterday.”

But the sculpture is about more than a single community, Durrett said. According to data from the housing search site Apartment List, D.C.’s cost of living is 53% higher than the national average — one of the least affordable cities in the nation.

“Queen City” tells a story of Black displacement at a time when, according to analysis by the Urban Institute, the District’s Black population has been declining for decades. The sculpture, according to Durrett, teaches more than just history.

“The value of learning that history is connecting the dots, it’s seeing how this sort of erasure persists into the present day.”

To create the 903 teardrops that line the interior of “Queen City,” each representing a displaced resident, Durrett commissioned 17 Black ceramicists from across the country.

“One thing that I asked them,” said Durrett, “was to bring forward stories of a Queen City in their own community. Each and every one of them had one.”

Although the artists might have been aware of each other’s work, this was their first opportunity to work together, Durrett said. Each ceramicist had varying abilities and experience, especially with the teardrop-shaped vessels Durrett was requesting.

This led to a “beautiful thing” happening, Durrett said. The ceramicists, rather than working independently on their portion of the commission, collaborated. Artists with more expertise met with less confident ones, creating an atmosphere of compassion and partnership.

In the process of memorializing a community, Durrett said, they had become one themselves.

“Using community, the very thing that was destroyed when East Arlington was razed, to actually create something as grand and long-lasting as ‘Queen City,’ was beautiful,” Durrett said. “It’s not just about the thing, the object — it’s about the process of making it. It’s about showing what we’re all capable of when we work together.”

#Freedmens Village #Queen City #Arlington #Black Cities raised for nothing #pentagon #Black Lives Matter #real estate fuckery #american lies #american hate #white supremacy #imminent domain #East Arlington VA #Black Communities #Black History in america #american history

[saturnrin]

I love the idea that everything (positive) that Lila lies about somehow comes true for Marinette.

Lila lies about having connections to the queen of England? Suddenly, Marinette is getting regular commissions from the queen herself and forms quite the acquaintance-ship w the royal family.

Lila "is practically family" to an Italian mafia? Marinettes grandmother has quite an eccentric background, and through her, Marinette somehow manages to get a local Italian Mafia to pseudo-adopt her. (Only because she refused to actually be adopted, much to their disappointment)

Lila "went on tour" with Jagged Stone? Guess who wants his favorite designer to accompany him for his U.S. tour during the summer?

Oh, Lila says she acted in a movie for Graham de Vanily Films? Guess who ends up accidentally staring in a Graham de Vanily film?

I just want all the positive things that Lila lies about to happen to Marinette, who is sufficiently surprised every time (you'd think she'd be used to it by now), meanwhile, in the background, Lila gets progressively more pissed.

And the worst part? Every time she tries to upstage Marinette with something even bigger and grander than Marrinettes' own accomplishments? No matter how ridiculous, Marinette somehow ends up stumbling upon That. Exact. Opportunity.

It's incredibly frustrating.

You could say Marinette has some miraculous luck, despite how adamantly Tikki denies any involvement in these increasingly ridiculous turns of events.

All in all; Lila is frustrated, Marinette is frustrated, and Tikki is very amused (as are Adrien and Plagg, who watch this shit-show from the background).

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous #mlb #marinette dupain cheng #adrien agreste #ladybug #chat noir #lila rossi #tikki #plagg #tikki and plagg #tikki blames marinettes luck on her finding a face up penny on the ground two months ago #marinette thinks tikki is full of shit #tikki knows shes full of shit #this is tikkis way of protecting her lil' bug #adrien catches onto the patten and encourages lilas more ridiculous lies #adrien asks lila about her relations to american superheroes just to see how the fuck fates gonna pull that shit off #then their class wins a month long trip to gotham and/or New York #adrien thinks its funny #marinette wants to smack adrien across the head everytime she sees him talking to lila #because she just knows hes asking her about something thats gonna flip her life around for the hundreth fucking time #Marinette is so done #she wants out of this hell hole #tikki says no #all luck au

[weepingwidar]

Amanda Ba (Chinese-American, 1999) - Cover art for Love Lies Bleeding OST (2024)

#amanda ba #art #painting #chinese art #american art #love lies bleeding #clint mansell #kristen stewart #katy o'brian