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    Liberty: *Shots of NYC and statue of liberty getting destroyed by the villain/disaster intensifies*
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Liberty: *Shots of NYC and statue of liberty getting destroyed by the villain/disaster intensifies*
                
            

            
            
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    Liberty: Liberty or Death is your own, not someone elseā€™s
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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Liberty or Death is your own, not someone elseā€™s

            
            
        

    



        

        
        

            







    Liberty: Some get liberty others get threats by Kelmo7
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                Liberty: Some get liberty others get threats by Kelmo7
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    Liberty: Give them liberty and then death
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Liberty: Give them liberty and then death
                
            

            
            
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    Liberty: Bell Center employee helps a blind man experiences the Liberty Bell
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    Liberty: Bell Center employee helps a blind man experiences the Liberty Bell
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    Liberty: Mira Jacob
 @mirajacob
 Two things I didn't know until I was
 yesterday years old:
 1) Memorial Day was started by
 African Americans honoring fallen
 Union solders
 2) The Statue of Liberty was gifted to
 America to celebrate freed slaves, not
 immigrants.
 Erasure is real, you all. But that part
 we knew.
 7:28 AM May 27, 2019 Twitter for iPhone
 37.2K Likes
 12.2K Retweets
valquainton:

ms-demeanor:

ms-demeanor:

the-barista-who-became-a-rabbit:

meganphntmgrl:

panic-boy-21:

blckrapunzel:

laughingacademy:

interficio-vos:

thatpettyblackgirl:


The White Wash is real.



One of the Earliest Memorial Day Ceremonies Was Held by Freed Slaves
The Statue of Liberty was created to celebrate freed slaves, not immigrants, its new museum recounts



Just wait until you google what the original Statue of Liberty(that got refused by America)looked like


For those of you who donā€™t want to look it up yourselves:
Lady Liberty is a black woman.

Guys, this has been thoroughly debunkedĀ sinceĀ 2000, and it does the statue on the left there a huge disservice to treat her as an unwanted copy. Thatā€™s Lady Liberty of St. Maarten, an homage from 2007 (post-dating the debunking, even) that was dedicated to the anniversary of the ending of slavery there:
The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor is a representation of Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, with bonus American iconography:
HOWEVER: Lady Liberty in New York is not based on a white woman, either.Ā 
Sheā€™s a Muslim Arab woman, at least in terms of the modeling of her face. Her face was reused from an abandoned project to build a colossal statue of a modern Egyptian Arab peasant woman near the Suez Canal (as verified by the Smithsonian, no less).
While she wasnā€™t originally dedicated specifically for immigrants, the poemĀ ā€œThe New Colossusā€ was added specifically because of the position she occupied in the harbor and the symbolic visual power she would have to immigrants coming in. The author, Emma Lazarus, was Jewish.
Itā€™s important to fight back on the whitewashing of history, because it happens left and right, but it shouldnā€™t happen at the cost of misinformation that treats Lady Liberty of St. Maarten as an unwanted prototype rather than a powerful monument in her own right and, ironically, claims that sheā€™s now a white woman when sheā€™s not while also ignoring the powerful influence of the Jewish-American community on the final version.

Geez, Iā€™m really tired of people trying to spout false shit all over tumblr. Like, this post has 37K notes, But I assure you, that like many other false posts, Ā¾ of the notes are from people who saw the false bit and prefered to reblog it that way and be mad, instead of just making a simple google search

Hi Darling Friends of Tumblr.
Iā€™ve been taking too long to do data entry and Iā€™m not good at actually doing analysis so itā€™s time to start naming and shaming.
@thatpettyblackgirl is a blog that Iā€™ve been observing for a while that has a really interesting pattern of behavior. 
Namely, posting a bunch of shit like this. 
Remember that tweet about Olive Garden supporting Donald Trump that was debunked? Well when it circulated on tumblr two weeks ago it was because of @thatpettyblackgirl
You know the misreported post about the school lunch program that refused donations from a local businessman? That was a different blogger but thatpettyblackgirl has circulated another version of it. 
That other blogger has a posting history thatā€™s full of the same kinds of things thatpettyblackgirl posts - lots of reposts from twitter, lots of screenshots from other sites, not a lot of commentary, and things that are decontextualized enough to make them seem worse than they are or to totally misrepresent the actions depicted (like this reposted video and tweets indignant about a man being arrested when the very specific purpose of his protest was to get arrested).
It reminds me of that post about coconut husks as a wood alternative thatā€™s been circulating recently - a screenshot of a white man above a news article is posted with the complaint that white people ā€œdiscoveringā€ coconuts after disregarding them as useless when the article is about a new method of processing coconut husks that allows them to be put to new uses. 
That blog is fascinating. And has a lot in common with thatpettyblackgirl - both of them reblog their own posts at a rate thatā€™s higher than Iā€™ve seen on most tumblrs (btw, you should know that a while back I asked for volunteers who would let me explore their tumblrs and while my research sample isnā€™t random it is a collection of small and large blogs and none of them have *checks notes* reblogged their own post of a bunch of screencaps of a tweet storm five times in the last couple of days). Both of them tend to post screencaps, neither one really writes much. They reblog a lot of memes, and both have some pretty big textposts that are just straight rip-offs of tweets (ā€bi folks have you eaten today? answer quick and iced coffee doesnā€™t countā€ is one of thatpettyblackgirlā€™s recent popular textposts and itā€™s ripped off from twitter.) They also reblog eachother a fair amount - along with @whyyoustabbedme and @endangered-justice-seeker, who ALSO have really weird posting patterns.
Also all four of those blogs are part of a group of nine blogs that were created in a three-week period of 2017 that Iā€™ve been watching that donā€™t seem to follow a pattern of normal tumblr behavior and that also post an awful lot of incorrect viral posts and are staggeringly popular (for clarity: blackqueerblog is not one of the nine created in that time period). 

ANYWAY this is all reminding me very strongly of bellygangstaboo and lagonegirl. 
I know I probably sound like this image:
But there are excellent, thoughtful bloggers who discuss police brutality, racism in the US, class warefare, and institutional bias who arenā€™t ALSO unflaggingly committed to having their own dedicated Snopes pages. @odinsblog, Franchesca Ramsey, @antifainternational, and @mostlysignssomeportents might be a good place to start. 
My dudes, I donā€™t want to be depressing so Iā€™ll let Vanity Fair do it for me:

That Russian operatives could so effectively engage Americans with 
tactics as simple as Facebook ads, fake-news postings, and Twitter 
trolls, shows how dangerous misinformation is in the social-media age, 
when propaganda can be so easily amplified. More important, it 
highlights how primed Americans already were for manipulation. 
When the ICE raids started up again a few months ago thatpettyblackgirl was posting about how shameful it was that there was nothing that could be done. A lot of these blogs are writing about how itā€™s impossible for black people to succeed in America, theyā€™re writing about how voting is always rigged and you canā€™t fight the system.
And you know what that goes against every fucking principle of my cold little anarchist heart. These blogs are full of despair - they look like theyā€™re full of cute memes and fresh news but theyā€™re a poisoned pill telling you not to bother because you canā€™t fight the system. Theyā€™re not offering help, theyā€™re training you not to bother fighting for your rights (there was a popular post about how the Hong Kong protesters are light years ahead of US protesters - that post didnā€™t talk about mutual aid or sharing tactics, it just said ā€œpeople in the US would neverā€ and left it at that, like we canā€™t learn from each other and share information across borders)
Fucking. Anyway. Iā€™ve been fairly quiet about this because Iā€™ve been trying to be all good and data sciencey about it but Iā€™ve seen this post on my dash fifty times this week. 
Keep your eye out for @thatpettyblackgirlĀ  @uncommonbish @whyyoustabbedme and @blackqueerblog - all of them have large followings and are known to post tweets and news articles out of context and if youā€™re considering reblogging information from one of their blogs please make a point to fact-check the post yourself. 
Not everything they post is wrong. I donā€™t know if these are real bloggers who donā€™t care about the potential negative impact of their tweet thievery or if theyā€™re weird psyops blogs that are intended to make you feel hopeless about your place in the political process. Whatever they are it doesnā€™t matter when they continually post misinformation and donā€™t seem to care about stopping so please be cautious.
Anyway, Iā€™m cataloguing these sorts of posts at @psyops-redux so if you want to keep an eye out for stuff thatā€™s debunked Iā€™ll tag by originating blogger over there.
Stay safe, buds. 

Dammit, I got all fired up and I forgot to add:

THEREā€™S A GAME THAT HELPS YOU RECOGNIZE WHEN PEOPLE ARE POSTING MISINFORMATION AND MAKES YOU LESS SUSCEPTIBLE TO THIS KIND OF PROPAGANDA AND YOU SHOULD ALL GO PLAY IT.


Ah.  The number reposts from their own blogs had puzzled me in the past.  I assumed it was something to do with the way Tumblr runs that I wasnā€™t tech-savvy enough to understand.  But this makes a lot of sense.  Unless someone tells me otherwise, Iā€™m gonna go ahead and unfollow the blogs listed.  Any recommendations for actual historical/current affairs poc blogs to follow instead?

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Liberty: Mira Jacob
 @mirajacob
 Two things I didn't know until I was
 yesterday years old:
 1) Memorial Day was started by
 African Americans honoring fallen
 Union solders
 2) The Statue of Liberty was gifted to
 America to celebrate freed slaves, not
 immigrants.
 Erasure is real, you all. But that part
 we knew.
 7:28 AM May 27, 2019 Twitter for iPhone
 37.2K Likes
 12.2K Retweets
valquainton:

ms-demeanor:

ms-demeanor:

the-barista-who-became-a-rabbit:

meganphntmgrl:

panic-boy-21:

blckrapunzel:

laughingacademy:

interficio-vos:

thatpettyblackgirl:


The White Wash is real.



One of the Earliest Memorial Day Ceremonies Was Held by Freed Slaves
The Statue of Liberty was created to celebrate freed slaves, not immigrants, its new museum recounts



Just wait until you google what the original Statue of Liberty(that got refused by America)looked like


For those of you who donā€™t want to look it up yourselves:
Lady Liberty is a black woman.

Guys, this has been thoroughly debunkedĀ sinceĀ 2000, and it does the statue on the left there a huge disservice to treat her as an unwanted copy. Thatā€™s Lady Liberty of St. Maarten, an homage from 2007 (post-dating the debunking, even) that was dedicated to the anniversary of the ending of slavery there:
The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor is a representation of Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, with bonus American iconography:
HOWEVER: Lady Liberty in New York is not based on a white woman, either.Ā 
Sheā€™s a Muslim Arab woman, at least in terms of the modeling of her face. Her face was reused from an abandoned project to build a colossal statue of a modern Egyptian Arab peasant woman near the Suez Canal (as verified by the Smithsonian, no less).
While she wasnā€™t originally dedicated specifically for immigrants, the poemĀ ā€œThe New Colossusā€ was added specifically because of the position she occupied in the harbor and the symbolic visual power she would have to immigrants coming in. The author, Emma Lazarus, was Jewish.
Itā€™s important to fight back on the whitewashing of history, because it happens left and right, but it shouldnā€™t happen at the cost of misinformation that treats Lady Liberty of St. Maarten as an unwanted prototype rather than a powerful monument in her own right and, ironically, claims that sheā€™s now a white woman when sheā€™s not while also ignoring the powerful influence of the Jewish-American community on the final version.

Geez, Iā€™m really tired of people trying to spout false shit all over tumblr. Like, this post has 37K notes, But I assure you, that like many other false posts, Ā¾ of the notes are from people who saw the false bit and prefered to reblog it that way and be mad, instead of just making a simple google search

Hi Darling Friends of Tumblr.
Iā€™ve been taking too long to do data entry and Iā€™m not good at actually doing analysis so itā€™s time to start naming and shaming.
@thatpettyblackgirl is a blog that Iā€™ve been observing for a while that has a really interesting pattern of behavior. 
Namely, posting a bunch of shit like this. 
Remember that tweet about Olive Garden supporting Donald Trump that was debunked? Well when it circulated on tumblr two weeks ago it was because of @thatpettyblackgirl
You know the misreported post about the school lunch program that refused donations from a local businessman? That was a different blogger but thatpettyblackgirl has circulated another version of it. 
That other blogger has a posting history thatā€™s full of the same kinds of things thatpettyblackgirl posts - lots of reposts from twitter, lots of screenshots from other sites, not a lot of commentary, and things that are decontextualized enough to make them seem worse than they are or to totally misrepresent the actions depicted (like this reposted video and tweets indignant about a man being arrested when the very specific purpose of his protest was to get arrested).
It reminds me of that post about coconut husks as a wood alternative thatā€™s been circulating recently - a screenshot of a white man above a news article is posted with the complaint that white people ā€œdiscoveringā€ coconuts after disregarding them as useless when the article is about a new method of processing coconut husks that allows them to be put to new uses. 
That blog is fascinating. And has a lot in common with thatpettyblackgirl - both of them reblog their own posts at a rate thatā€™s higher than Iā€™ve seen on most tumblrs (btw, you should know that a while back I asked for volunteers who would let me explore their tumblrs and while my research sample isnā€™t random it is a collection of small and large blogs and none of them have *checks notes* reblogged their own post of a bunch of screencaps of a tweet storm five times in the last couple of days). Both of them tend to post screencaps, neither one really writes much. They reblog a lot of memes, and both have some pretty big textposts that are just straight rip-offs of tweets (ā€bi folks have you eaten today? answer quick and iced coffee doesnā€™t countā€ is one of thatpettyblackgirlā€™s recent popular textposts and itā€™s ripped off from twitter.) They also reblog eachother a fair amount - along with @whyyoustabbedme and @endangered-justice-seeker, who ALSO have really weird posting patterns.
Also all four of those blogs are part of a group of nine blogs that were created in a three-week period of 2017 that Iā€™ve been watching that donā€™t seem to follow a pattern of normal tumblr behavior and that also post an awful lot of incorrect viral posts and are staggeringly popular (for clarity: blackqueerblog is not one of the nine created in that time period). 

ANYWAY this is all reminding me very strongly of bellygangstaboo and lagonegirl. 
I know I probably sound like this image:
But there are excellent, thoughtful bloggers who discuss police brutality, racism in the US, class warefare, and institutional bias who arenā€™t ALSO unflaggingly committed to having their own dedicated Snopes pages. @odinsblog, Franchesca Ramsey, @antifainternational, and @mostlysignssomeportents might be a good place to start. 
My dudes, I donā€™t want to be depressing so Iā€™ll let Vanity Fair do it for me:

That Russian operatives could so effectively engage Americans with 
tactics as simple as Facebook ads, fake-news postings, and Twitter 
trolls, shows how dangerous misinformation is in the social-media age, 
when propaganda can be so easily amplified. More important, it 
highlights how primed Americans already were for manipulation. 
When the ICE raids started up again a few months ago thatpettyblackgirl was posting about how shameful it was that there was nothing that could be done. A lot of these blogs are writing about how itā€™s impossible for black people to succeed in America, theyā€™re writing about how voting is always rigged and you canā€™t fight the system.
And you know what that goes against every fucking principle of my cold little anarchist heart. These blogs are full of despair - they look like theyā€™re full of cute memes and fresh news but theyā€™re a poisoned pill telling you not to bother because you canā€™t fight the system. Theyā€™re not offering help, theyā€™re training you not to bother fighting for your rights (there was a popular post about how the Hong Kong protesters are light years ahead of US protesters - that post didnā€™t talk about mutual aid or sharing tactics, it just said ā€œpeople in the US would neverā€ and left it at that, like we canā€™t learn from each other and share information across borders)
Fucking. Anyway. Iā€™ve been fairly quiet about this because Iā€™ve been trying to be all good and data sciencey about it but Iā€™ve seen this post on my dash fifty times this week. 
Keep your eye out for @thatpettyblackgirlĀ  @uncommonbish @whyyoustabbedme and @blackqueerblog - all of them have large followings and are known to post tweets and news articles out of context and if youā€™re considering reblogging information from one of their blogs please make a point to fact-check the post yourself. 
Not everything they post is wrong. I donā€™t know if these are real bloggers who donā€™t care about the potential negative impact of their tweet thievery or if theyā€™re weird psyops blogs that are intended to make you feel hopeless about your place in the political process. Whatever they are it doesnā€™t matter when they continually post misinformation and donā€™t seem to care about stopping so please be cautious.
Anyway, Iā€™m cataloguing these sorts of posts at @psyops-redux so if you want to keep an eye out for stuff thatā€™s debunked Iā€™ll tag by originating blogger over there.
Stay safe, buds. 

Dammit, I got all fired up and I forgot to add:

THEREā€™S A GAME THAT HELPS YOU RECOGNIZE WHEN PEOPLE ARE POSTING MISINFORMATION AND MAKES YOU LESS SUSCEPTIBLE TO THIS KIND OF PROPAGANDA AND YOU SHOULD ALL GO PLAY IT.


Ah.  The number reposts from their own blogs had puzzled me in the past.  I assumed it was something to do with the way Tumblr runs that I wasnā€™t tech-savvy enough to understand.  But this makes a lot of sense.  Unless someone tells me otherwise, Iā€™m gonna go ahead and unfollow the blogs listed.  Any recommendations for actual historical/current affairs poc blogs to follow instead?

                
            

            
            
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ms-demeanor:

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    Liberty: anarchy404x 1d
 You must understand the weird logic of the left. To
 them life is priceless and should always be
 prioritised over property. They would literally let the
 statue of Liberty burn to save one person. Through
 inaction let one person starve? You monster, you
 literally murdered them.
 Reply Vote
tsunderepup:
randomslasher:

pastel-selkie:

lesbianshepard:
stupid leftists and their belief in *checks notes* the intrinsic value of human life

Reblog if you would burn down the statue of liberty to save a life

Hereā€™s the thing, though. If you asked a conservativeĀ ā€œWould you let the statue of liberty burn to save one life?ā€ theyā€™d probably scoff and say no, itā€™s a national landmark, a treasure, a piece of too much historical importance to let it be destroyed for the sake of one measly life.Ā 
But if you asked,Ā ā€œWould you let the statue of liberty burn in order to save your child? your spouse? someone you loved a great deal?ā€ the tune abruptly changes. At the very least, thereā€™s a hesitation. Even if they deny it, Iā€™m willing to bet that gun to their head, the answer would beĀ ā€œyes.ā€Ā Ā 
The basic problem here is that people have a hard time seeing outside their own sphere of influence, and empathizing beyond the few people who are right in front of them. Youā€™ve got your immediate family, whom you love; your friends, your acquaintances, maybe to a certain degree the people who share a status with you (your religion, your race, etc.)ā€“but beyond that? People arenā€™t real. Theyā€™re theoretical.Ā 
But a national monument? Thatā€™s real. It stands for something. The value of a non-realized anonymous life that exists completely outside your sphere of influence is clearly worth less than something that represents freedom and prosperity to a whole nation, right?
People who think like this lack the compassion to realize that everyoneĀ is in someoneā€™s immediate sphere of influenceā€“that everyoneĀ is someoneā€™s lover, or brother, or parent. Everyone means the world to someone. And itā€™s the absolute height of selfishness to assume that their lives donā€™t have value just because they donā€™t mean the world to you.Ā 
P.S. I would let the statue of liberty burn to save a pigeon.Ā 


    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Liberty: anarchy404x 1d
 You must understand the weird logic of the left. To
 them life is priceless and should always be
 prioritised over property. They would literally let the
 statue of Liberty burn to save one person. Through
 inaction let one person starve? You monster, you
 literally murdered them.
 Reply Vote
tsunderepup:
randomslasher:

pastel-selkie:

lesbianshepard:
stupid leftists and their belief in *checks notes* the intrinsic value of human life

Reblog if you would burn down the statue of liberty to save a life

Hereā€™s the thing, though. If you asked a conservativeĀ ā€œWould you let the statue of liberty burn to save one life?ā€ theyā€™d probably scoff and say no, itā€™s a national landmark, a treasure, a piece of too much historical importance to let it be destroyed for the sake of one measly life.Ā 
But if you asked,Ā ā€œWould you let the statue of liberty burn in order to save your child? your spouse? someone you loved a great deal?ā€ the tune abruptly changes. At the very least, thereā€™s a hesitation. Even if they deny it, Iā€™m willing to bet that gun to their head, the answer would beĀ ā€œyes.ā€Ā Ā 
The basic problem here is that people have a hard time seeing outside their own sphere of influence, and empathizing beyond the few people who are right in front of them. Youā€™ve got your immediate family, whom you love; your friends, your acquaintances, maybe to a certain degree the people who share a status with you (your religion, your race, etc.)ā€“but beyond that? People arenā€™t real. Theyā€™re theoretical.Ā 
But a national monument? Thatā€™s real. It stands for something. The value of a non-realized anonymous life that exists completely outside your sphere of influence is clearly worth less than something that represents freedom and prosperity to a whole nation, right?
People who think like this lack the compassion to realize that everyoneĀ is in someoneā€™s immediate sphere of influenceā€“that everyoneĀ is someoneā€™s lover, or brother, or parent. Everyone means the world to someone. And itā€™s the absolute height of selfishness to assume that their lives donā€™t have value just because they donā€™t mean the world to you.Ā 
P.S. I would let the statue of liberty burn to save a pigeon.Ā 


                
            

            
            
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randomslasher:

pastel-selkie:

lesbianshepard:
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    Liberty: English Pronunciation
 If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will
 be speaking English better than 90 % of the native English speakers
 in the world.
 After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months of
 hard labour to reading six lines aloud.
 Dearest creature in creation,
 Study English pronunciation.
 I will teach you in my verse
 Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
 I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
 Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
 Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
 So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
 Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
 Dies and diet, lord and word,
 Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
 (Mind the latter, how it's written.)
 Now I surely will not plague you
 With such words as plaque and ague.
 But be careful how you speak:
 Say break and steak, but bleak and streak
 Cloven, oven, how and low,
 Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
 Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
 Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
 Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
 Exiles, similes, and reviles;
 Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
 Solar, mica, war and far;
 One, anemone, Balmoral,
 Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
 Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
 Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
 Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
 Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
 Blood and flood are not like food,
 Nor is mould like should and would.
 Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
 Toward, to forward, to reward.
 And your pronunciation's OK
 When you correctly say croquet,
 Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
 Friend and fiend, alive and live.
 Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
 And enamour rhyme with hammer.
 River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
 Doll and roll and some and home.
 Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
 Neither does devour with clangour.
 Souls but foul, haunt but aunt
 Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
 Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
 And then singer, ginger, linger,
 Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
 Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
 Query does not rhyme with very,
 Nor does fury sound like bury.
 Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
 Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
 Though the differences seem little,
 We say actual but victual.
 Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
 FeOffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
 Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
 Dull, bull, and George ate late.
 Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
 Science, conscience, scientific
 Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
 Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
 We say hallowed, but allowed,
 People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
 Mark the differences, moreover,
 Between mover, cover, clover;
 Leeches,breeches, wise, precise
 Chalice, but police and lice;
 Camel, constable, unstable,
 Principle, disciple, label.
 Petal, panel, and canal,
 Wait, surp
 Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
 Senator, spectator, mayor.
 Tour, but our and succour, four.
 Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
 Sea, idea, Korea, area,
 Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
 Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
 Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
 Compare alien with Italian,
 Dandelion and battalion.
 plait, promise, pal.
 Sally with ally, yea, ye,
 Eye,I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
 Say aver, but ever, fever,
 Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
 Heron, granary, canary.
 Crevice and device and aerie.
 Face, but preface, not efface.
 Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bas.
 Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
 Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
 Ear, but earn and wear and tear
 Do not rhyme with here but ere.
 Seven is right, but so is even,
 Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
 Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
 Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
 Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
 Is a paling stout and spikey?
 Won't it make you lose your wits,
 Writing groats and saying grits?
 It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
 Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
 Islington and Isle of Wight,
 Housewife, verdict and indict.
 Finally, which rhymes with enough,
 Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
 Hiccough has the sound of cup.
 My advice is to give up!!!
 you should probably go to TheMetaPicture.com
lolzandtrollz:

Excellent English Pronunciation Poem
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Liberty: English Pronunciation
 If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will
 be speaking English better than 90 % of the native English speakers
 in the world.
 After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months of
 hard labour to reading six lines aloud.
 Dearest creature in creation,
 Study English pronunciation.
 I will teach you in my verse
 Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
 I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
 Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
 Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
 So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
 Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
 Dies and diet, lord and word,
 Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
 (Mind the latter, how it's written.)
 Now I surely will not plague you
 With such words as plaque and ague.
 But be careful how you speak:
 Say break and steak, but bleak and streak
 Cloven, oven, how and low,
 Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
 Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
 Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
 Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
 Exiles, similes, and reviles;
 Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
 Solar, mica, war and far;
 One, anemone, Balmoral,
 Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
 Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
 Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
 Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
 Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
 Blood and flood are not like food,
 Nor is mould like should and would.
 Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
 Toward, to forward, to reward.
 And your pronunciation's OK
 When you correctly say croquet,
 Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
 Friend and fiend, alive and live.
 Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
 And enamour rhyme with hammer.
 River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
 Doll and roll and some and home.
 Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
 Neither does devour with clangour.
 Souls but foul, haunt but aunt
 Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
 Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
 And then singer, ginger, linger,
 Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
 Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
 Query does not rhyme with very,
 Nor does fury sound like bury.
 Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
 Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
 Though the differences seem little,
 We say actual but victual.
 Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
 FeOffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
 Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
 Dull, bull, and George ate late.
 Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
 Science, conscience, scientific
 Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
 Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
 We say hallowed, but allowed,
 People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
 Mark the differences, moreover,
 Between mover, cover, clover;
 Leeches,breeches, wise, precise
 Chalice, but police and lice;
 Camel, constable, unstable,
 Principle, disciple, label.
 Petal, panel, and canal,
 Wait, surp
 Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
 Senator, spectator, mayor.
 Tour, but our and succour, four.
 Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
 Sea, idea, Korea, area,
 Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
 Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
 Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
 Compare alien with Italian,
 Dandelion and battalion.
 plait, promise, pal.
 Sally with ally, yea, ye,
 Eye,I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
 Say aver, but ever, fever,
 Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
 Heron, granary, canary.
 Crevice and device and aerie.
 Face, but preface, not efface.
 Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bas.
 Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
 Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
 Ear, but earn and wear and tear
 Do not rhyme with here but ere.
 Seven is right, but so is even,
 Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
 Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
 Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
 Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
 Is a paling stout and spikey?
 Won't it make you lose your wits,
 Writing groats and saying grits?
 It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
 Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
 Islington and Isle of Wight,
 Housewife, verdict and indict.
 Finally, which rhymes with enough,
 Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
 Hiccough has the sound of cup.
 My advice is to give up!!!
 you should probably go to TheMetaPicture.com
lolzandtrollz:

Excellent English Pronunciation Poem
                
            

            
            
lolzandtrollz:

Excellent English Pronunciation Poem

            
            
        

    



        

        
        

            







    Liberty: I THINK,
 I THINK WE ALL
 KNOW THAT'S
 NOT THE REAL
 QUESTION,
 ANDREW...
 -REGARDING
 THE PRIME MINISTER'S
 RESPONSE TO THE
 THREAT?
 ...THE REAL
 QUESTION IS
 WHETHER OR NOT
 HE'S MAN ENOUGH
 TO STAND UP
 TO US
 YES, I'M WONDERING IF
 THERE'S BEEN ANY REACTION
 TO THE PIECE THAT WAS RUN
 IN THE DAILY PLANET THIS
 MORNING
 HAVEN'T
 READ IT,
 HAVEN'T
 SEEN IT
 LET'S
 SEE...
 COLBY?
 -IT'S
 THE LOIS LANE
 PIECE, IT RAN THIS
 MORNING ABOUT
 THE REFUGEE
 CAMPS
 CAN'T
 COMMENT IF I
 HAVEN'T READ
 IT, COLBY,
 CAN WE
 TALK ABOUT THE
 NUMBERS THAT
 WERE RELEASED
 TODAY? DOES
 ANYONE HAVE A
 QUESTION ABOUT
 THAT?
 I DO
 ACTUALLY,
 LEE-ANNE..
 NOW D
 ...I ACTUALLY
 DO HAVE A
 QUESTION
 ABOUT THE
 NUMBERS
 ABOUT THE
 NUMBERS
 LOIS?
 SPECIFICALLY
 ABOUT THE ONES
 REPORTED THIS
 MORNING, YES
 ALL
 RIGHT
 PRESS
 ALCESS

 -ALL PAID
 TO INDIVIDUAL
 MEMBERS OF THE
 ADMINISTRATION
 IN EXCHANGE
 FOR-
 9.4 MILLION DOLLARS
 FROM MERRICK
 UNROE, 10.7 FROM
 LEXCORP ANOTHER 8.5
 FROM AGGER AND
 SHAW
 THAT'S
 ENOUGH,
 THAT'S
 NOT-
 WAIT,
 WAIT-
 THE
 GRANTING OF SPECIFIC
 CONTRACTS, INCLUDING
 AN ADDITIONAL 22
 MILLION EARMARKED
 FOR QUOTE-UNQUOTE
 TENDER CARE
 CAMPS
 WHERE
 ARE YOU GETTING
 THIS? WHERE ARE
 YOU GETTING THESE
 FIGURES?
 YOU'RE
 MAKING IT UP
 THAT'S ALL
 THIS IS
 I'M NOT
 AT LIBERTY TO
 DIVULGE MY
 SOURCES
 ...I THINK
 YOU NEED TO
 ANSWER THE
 QUESTION.
 I'M NOT
 GOING TO DIGNIFY
 LET'S TAKE
 ANOTHER
 DO YOU DENY THAT
 THE ADMINISTRATION
 IS MONETIZING THE
 SEPARATION OF
 CHILDREN FROM THEIR
 FAMILIES?
 IS THAT A
 DENIAL? MS
 MCCARTHY?
 ANSWER
 THE QUESTION,
 LEE-ANNE
 GLORIA,
 DO YOU-
 ANSWER
 THE QUESTION.
 WE'RE
 TALKING ABOUT
 CHILDREN
 AS YOUNG AS
 EIGHTEEN
 MONTHS...
 A REMARKABLE
 EXCHANGE TODAY BETWEEN
 PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING
 JOURNALIST LOIS LANE AND
 WHITE HOUSE SPOKESPERSON
 LEE-ANNE MCCARTHY..."

 CULMINATING
 IN LANE'S EJECTION
 FROM THE BRIEFING
 AND THE REVOKING OF
 HER CREDENTIALS
 WHEN THE PRESS
 SECRETARY REFUSED TO
 ANSWER ALLEGATIONS
 PUBLISHED IN THE DAILY
 PLANET THIS MORNING
 DESPITE REPEATED
 REQUESTS TO DO SO...
 "LUPON RESUMPTION
 OF THE BRIEFING
 MCCARTHY AGAIN
 FACED QUESTIONING...
 THIS TIME BY OTHER
 MEMBERS OF THE PRESS CORPS
 WHO CONTINUED LANE'S LINE OF
 INQUIRY RESULTING IN MCCARTHY
 CALLING A PREMATURE END TO
 THE BRIEFING
 "AT THIS TIME, THE
 ADMINISTRATION
 HAS OFFERED NO
 FURTHER COMMENT
 ON THE EXCHANGE...
 MORE ON
 THIS STORY AS
 IT DEVELOPS..."
why-i-love-comics:

Lois Lane #1 - ā€œEnemy of the Peopleā€ (2019)
written by Greg Ruckaart by Mike Perkins & Paul Mounts

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Liberty: I THINK,
 I THINK WE ALL
 KNOW THAT'S
 NOT THE REAL
 QUESTION,
 ANDREW...
 -REGARDING
 THE PRIME MINISTER'S
 RESPONSE TO THE
 THREAT?
 ...THE REAL
 QUESTION IS
 WHETHER OR NOT
 HE'S MAN ENOUGH
 TO STAND UP
 TO US
 YES, I'M WONDERING IF
 THERE'S BEEN ANY REACTION
 TO THE PIECE THAT WAS RUN
 IN THE DAILY PLANET THIS
 MORNING
 HAVEN'T
 READ IT,
 HAVEN'T
 SEEN IT
 LET'S
 SEE...
 COLBY?
 -IT'S
 THE LOIS LANE
 PIECE, IT RAN THIS
 MORNING ABOUT
 THE REFUGEE
 CAMPS
 CAN'T
 COMMENT IF I
 HAVEN'T READ
 IT, COLBY,
 CAN WE
 TALK ABOUT THE
 NUMBERS THAT
 WERE RELEASED
 TODAY? DOES
 ANYONE HAVE A
 QUESTION ABOUT
 THAT?
 I DO
 ACTUALLY,
 LEE-ANNE..
 NOW D
 ...I ACTUALLY
 DO HAVE A
 QUESTION
 ABOUT THE
 NUMBERS
 ABOUT THE
 NUMBERS
 LOIS?
 SPECIFICALLY
 ABOUT THE ONES
 REPORTED THIS
 MORNING, YES
 ALL
 RIGHT
 PRESS
 ALCESS

 -ALL PAID
 TO INDIVIDUAL
 MEMBERS OF THE
 ADMINISTRATION
 IN EXCHANGE
 FOR-
 9.4 MILLION DOLLARS
 FROM MERRICK
 UNROE, 10.7 FROM
 LEXCORP ANOTHER 8.5
 FROM AGGER AND
 SHAW
 THAT'S
 ENOUGH,
 THAT'S
 NOT-
 WAIT,
 WAIT-
 THE
 GRANTING OF SPECIFIC
 CONTRACTS, INCLUDING
 AN ADDITIONAL 22
 MILLION EARMARKED
 FOR QUOTE-UNQUOTE
 TENDER CARE
 CAMPS
 WHERE
 ARE YOU GETTING
 THIS? WHERE ARE
 YOU GETTING THESE
 FIGURES?
 YOU'RE
 MAKING IT UP
 THAT'S ALL
 THIS IS
 I'M NOT
 AT LIBERTY TO
 DIVULGE MY
 SOURCES
 ...I THINK
 YOU NEED TO
 ANSWER THE
 QUESTION.
 I'M NOT
 GOING TO DIGNIFY
 LET'S TAKE
 ANOTHER
 DO YOU DENY THAT
 THE ADMINISTRATION
 IS MONETIZING THE
 SEPARATION OF
 CHILDREN FROM THEIR
 FAMILIES?
 IS THAT A
 DENIAL? MS
 MCCARTHY?
 ANSWER
 THE QUESTION,
 LEE-ANNE
 GLORIA,
 DO YOU-
 ANSWER
 THE QUESTION.
 WE'RE
 TALKING ABOUT
 CHILDREN
 AS YOUNG AS
 EIGHTEEN
 MONTHS...
 A REMARKABLE
 EXCHANGE TODAY BETWEEN
 PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING
 JOURNALIST LOIS LANE AND
 WHITE HOUSE SPOKESPERSON
 LEE-ANNE MCCARTHY..."

 CULMINATING
 IN LANE'S EJECTION
 FROM THE BRIEFING
 AND THE REVOKING OF
 HER CREDENTIALS
 WHEN THE PRESS
 SECRETARY REFUSED TO
 ANSWER ALLEGATIONS
 PUBLISHED IN THE DAILY
 PLANET THIS MORNING
 DESPITE REPEATED
 REQUESTS TO DO SO...
 "LUPON RESUMPTION
 OF THE BRIEFING
 MCCARTHY AGAIN
 FACED QUESTIONING...
 THIS TIME BY OTHER
 MEMBERS OF THE PRESS CORPS
 WHO CONTINUED LANE'S LINE OF
 INQUIRY RESULTING IN MCCARTHY
 CALLING A PREMATURE END TO
 THE BRIEFING
 "AT THIS TIME, THE
 ADMINISTRATION
 HAS OFFERED NO
 FURTHER COMMENT
 ON THE EXCHANGE...
 MORE ON
 THIS STORY AS
 IT DEVELOPS..."
why-i-love-comics:

Lois Lane #1 - ā€œEnemy of the Peopleā€ (2019)
written by Greg Ruckaart by Mike Perkins & Paul Mounts

                
            

            
            
why-i-love-comics:

Lois Lane #1 - ā€œEnemy of the Peopleā€ (2019)
written by Greg Ruckaart by Mike Perkins & Paul Mounts