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    America, Facts, and Trash: afloweroutofstone:

shituationist:

radical-eirini:

rossjm:

higher-order:

China: *does this*Inept activists in western countries: “Banning plastic straws in our bars and restaurants will save the planet guys :))))))”

This chart is extremely misleading because basically the whole world dumps its trash in china and other countries at the top of this chart. This isn’t the same as how much trash each country produces - if that were what the chart was measuring, it would look FAR different. I’m not saying this to defend China, but if you’re looking at who produces the most waste per capita you should look at countries like the United States of America, Switzerland and New Zealand - countries that all produce FAR more waste per capita than China does.
Like do you people SERIOUSLY think Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Vietnam have even close to the consumption capacity to produce 5 or 6 TIMES more waste than the US?
The reality is that first world countries pay poorer countries to dispose their waste there because disposing of this waste in a cheap way is now mostly illegal there (at least in Europe I’m pretty sure you’re not allowed to burn it anymore) and any ways to do it in an environmentally friendly way are way more expensive. And of course, poorer countries don’t have the capacity (or the resources) to dispose of this waste in an environmentally friendly way (although this is actually changing for China specifically, if you look at the chart its somewhat old), so of course for them to get rid of it, it goes into the sea.

First world: *exports trash and pollution-causing industry to the third world, consumes products dependent on these facts*
Inept first worlder: “wtf China stop polluting”

Imagine seeing a chart that claims Sri Lanka produces 82 times more waste per capita than the dramatically wealthier United States and just rolling with it

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                America, Facts, and Trash: afloweroutofstone:

shituationist:

radical-eirini:

rossjm:

higher-order:

China: *does this*Inept activists in western countries: “Banning plastic straws in our bars and restaurants will save the planet guys :))))))”

This chart is extremely misleading because basically the whole world dumps its trash in china and other countries at the top of this chart. This isn’t the same as how much trash each country produces - if that were what the chart was measuring, it would look FAR different. I’m not saying this to defend China, but if you’re looking at who produces the most waste per capita you should look at countries like the United States of America, Switzerland and New Zealand - countries that all produce FAR more waste per capita than China does.
Like do you people SERIOUSLY think Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Vietnam have even close to the consumption capacity to produce 5 or 6 TIMES more waste than the US?
The reality is that first world countries pay poorer countries to dispose their waste there because disposing of this waste in a cheap way is now mostly illegal there (at least in Europe I’m pretty sure you’re not allowed to burn it anymore) and any ways to do it in an environmentally friendly way are way more expensive. And of course, poorer countries don’t have the capacity (or the resources) to dispose of this waste in an environmentally friendly way (although this is actually changing for China specifically, if you look at the chart its somewhat old), so of course for them to get rid of it, it goes into the sea.

First world: *exports trash and pollution-causing industry to the third world, consumes products dependent on these facts*
Inept first worlder: “wtf China stop polluting”

Imagine seeing a chart that claims Sri Lanka produces 82 times more waste per capita than the dramatically wealthier United States and just rolling with it

                
                

                
            

            
            
afloweroutofstone:

shituationist:

radical-eirini:

rossjm:

higher-order:

China: *does this*Inept activists in western countries: “Bannin...

            
            
        

    



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            




    Internet, Fish, and Vietnam: Meet The Cutest Fish Vendor In Vietnam Who Is Taking The Internet By Storm With His Adorable Pics 😻😍😂
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Internet, Fish, and Vietnam: Meet The Cutest Fish Vendor In Vietnam Who Is Taking The Internet By Storm With His Adorable Pics 😻😍😂
                
            

            
            
Meet The Cutest Fish Vendor In Vietnam Who Is Taking The Internet By Storm With His Adorable Pics 😻😍😂

            
            
        

    



        

            
        
        

            




    Internet, Fish, and Vietnam: Meet The Cutest Fish Vendor In Vietnam Who Is Taking The Internet By Storm With His Adorable Pics 😻😍😂
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Internet, Fish, and Vietnam: Meet The Cutest Fish Vendor In Vietnam Who Is Taking The Internet By Storm With His Adorable Pics 😻😍😂
                
            

            
            
Meet The Cutest Fish Vendor In Vietnam Who Is Taking The Internet By Storm With His Adorable Pics 😻😍😂

            
            
        

    



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            




    American, Giant, and Vietnam: The Wave as performed at American Sporting events, was actually invented by Bees
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                American, Giant, and Vietnam: The Wave as performed at American Sporting events, was actually invented by Bees
                
                

                
            

            
            
The Wave as performed at American Sporting events, was actually invented by Bees

            
            
        

    



        

            
        
        

            




    Dad, Internet, and Saw: My dad (front) in Vietnam 1971. Didnt know this photo existed before i came across it randomly on the internet. He cried when he saw it.
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Dad, Internet, and Saw: My dad (front) in Vietnam 1971. Didnt know this photo existed before i came across it randomly on the internet. He cried when he saw it.
                
            

            
            
My dad (front) in Vietnam 1971. Didnt know this photo existed before i came across it randomly on the internet. He cried when he saw it.

            
            
        

    



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            




    Vietnam, Vietnamese, and Vietnam War: A vietnamese soldier hiding in the bushes during Vietnam War (1971)
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Vietnam, Vietnamese, and Vietnam War: A vietnamese soldier hiding in the bushes during Vietnam War (1971)
                
            

            
            
A vietnamese soldier hiding in the bushes during Vietnam War (1971)

            
            
        

    



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            




    Christmas, Reddit, and Tumblr: historicaltimes:
Two American GIs decorating a Christmas tree at their fighting position, South Vietnam, 1967 via reddit

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Christmas, Reddit, and Tumblr: historicaltimes:
Two American GIs decorating a Christmas tree at their fighting position, South Vietnam, 1967 via reddit

                
            

            
            
historicaltimes:
Two American GIs decorating a Christmas tree at their fighting position, South Vietnam, 1967 via reddit


            
            
        

    



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            




    Dad, Internet, and Saw: My dad (front) in Vietnam in 1971 . Didnt know this photo existed until I came across it randomly on the internet. He cried when he saw it. Hope this is the right place to post it.
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Dad, Internet, and Saw: My dad (front) in Vietnam in 1971 . Didnt know this photo existed until I came across it randomly on the internet. He cried when he saw it. Hope this is the right place to post it.
                
            

            
            
My dad (front) in Vietnam in 1971 . Didnt know this photo existed until I came across it randomly on the internet. He cried when he saw it. ...

            
            
        

    



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            



        

            
        
        

            




    Donald Trump, Driving, and God: gay victim soul
 @tragicgay
 Whenever I see news about how SNL or
 John Oliver or John Stewart "destroyed"
 Donald Trump my mind instinctively goes
 to this Vonnegut quote
 "During the Vietnam War,
 every respectable artist in
 this country was against
 the war. It was like a laser
 beam. We were all aimed
 in the same direction. The
 power of this weapon turns
 out to be that of a custard
 pie dropped from a
 stepladder six feet high." -
feathersescapism:

Every time I see this quote I realize how poor even very smart people are at looking at the long game and at assessing these things in context. 
One of my favourite illustrations of this was in a First Aid class. The instructor was a working paramedic. He asked, “Who here knows the stats on CPR? What percentage of people are saved by CPR outside a hospital?”
I happen to know but I’m trying not to be a TOTAL know it all in this class so I wait. And people guess 50% and he says, “Lower,” and 20% and so forth and eventually I sort of half put up my hand and I guess I had The Face because he eventually looked at me and said, “You know, don’t you.”
“My mom’s a doc,” I said. He gave me a “so say it” gesture and I said, “Four to ten percent depending on your sources.” 
Everyone else looked surprised and horrified. 
And the paramedic said, “We’re gonna talk a bit about some details of those figures* but first I want to talk about just this: when do you do CPR?” 
The class dutifully replies: when someone is unconscious, not breathing, and has no pulse. 
“What do we call someone who is unconscious, not breathing, and has no pulse?”
The class tries to figure out what the trick question is so I jump over the long pause and say, “A corpse.”
“Right,” says the paramedic. “Someone who isn’t breathing and has no heartbeat is dead. So what I’m telling you is that with this technique you have a 4-10% chance of raising the dead.”
So no, artists did not stop the Vietnam War from happening with the sheer Power of Art. The forces driving that military intervention were huge, had generations of momentum and are actually pretty damn complicated. 
But if you think the mass rejection of the war was as meaningless as a soufflé - well. 
Try sitting here for ten seconds and imagining where we’d be if the entire intellectual and artistic drive of the culture had been FOR the war. If everyone thought it was a GREAT IDEA. 
What the whole world would look like. 
Four-to-ten percent means that ninety to ninety-six percent of the time - more than nine times out of ten - CPR will do nothing, but that one time you’ll be in the company of someone worshipped as an incarnate god. 
If you think the artists and performers attacking and showing up people like Donald Trump is meaningless try imagining a version of the world wherein they weren’t there. 

(*if you’re curious: those stats count EVERY reported case of CPR, while the effectiveness of it is extremely time-related. With those who have had continuous CPR from the SECOND they went down, the number is actually above 80%. It drops hugely every 30 seconds from then on. When you count ALL cases you count cases where the person has already been down several minutes but a bystander still starts CPR, which affects the stats)

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Donald Trump, Driving, and God: gay victim soul
 @tragicgay
 Whenever I see news about how SNL or
 John Oliver or John Stewart "destroyed"
 Donald Trump my mind instinctively goes
 to this Vonnegut quote
 "During the Vietnam War,
 every respectable artist in
 this country was against
 the war. It was like a laser
 beam. We were all aimed
 in the same direction. The
 power of this weapon turns
 out to be that of a custard
 pie dropped from a
 stepladder six feet high." -
feathersescapism:

Every time I see this quote I realize how poor even very smart people are at looking at the long game and at assessing these things in context. 
One of my favourite illustrations of this was in a First Aid class. The instructor was a working paramedic. He asked, “Who here knows the stats on CPR? What percentage of people are saved by CPR outside a hospital?”
I happen to know but I’m trying not to be a TOTAL know it all in this class so I wait. And people guess 50% and he says, “Lower,” and 20% and so forth and eventually I sort of half put up my hand and I guess I had The Face because he eventually looked at me and said, “You know, don’t you.”
“My mom’s a doc,” I said. He gave me a “so say it” gesture and I said, “Four to ten percent depending on your sources.” 
Everyone else looked surprised and horrified. 
And the paramedic said, “We’re gonna talk a bit about some details of those figures* but first I want to talk about just this: when do you do CPR?” 
The class dutifully replies: when someone is unconscious, not breathing, and has no pulse. 
“What do we call someone who is unconscious, not breathing, and has no pulse?”
The class tries to figure out what the trick question is so I jump over the long pause and say, “A corpse.”
“Right,” says the paramedic. “Someone who isn’t breathing and has no heartbeat is dead. So what I’m telling you is that with this technique you have a 4-10% chance of raising the dead.”
So no, artists did not stop the Vietnam War from happening with the sheer Power of Art. The forces driving that military intervention were huge, had generations of momentum and are actually pretty damn complicated. 
But if you think the mass rejection of the war was as meaningless as a soufflé - well. 
Try sitting here for ten seconds and imagining where we’d be if the entire intellectual and artistic drive of the culture had been FOR the war. If everyone thought it was a GREAT IDEA. 
What the whole world would look like. 
Four-to-ten percent means that ninety to ninety-six percent of the time - more than nine times out of ten - CPR will do nothing, but that one time you’ll be in the company of someone worshipped as an incarnate god. 
If you think the artists and performers attacking and showing up people like Donald Trump is meaningless try imagining a version of the world wherein they weren’t there. 

(*if you’re curious: those stats count EVERY reported case of CPR, while the effectiveness of it is extremely time-related. With those who have had continuous CPR from the SECOND they went down, the number is actually above 80%. It drops hugely every 30 seconds from then on. When you count ALL cases you count cases where the person has already been down several minutes but a bystander still starts CPR, which affects the stats)

                
            

            
            
feathersescapism:

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    Bando, College, and Fake: THE GOVERNMENT WANTS YOU
 TO REMEMBER SCHOOL'SHOOTINGS
 UST NOTTHIS ONE
pussysoupforthesoul:

jheselbraum:
hekeepsmeworm:

wuh2k:

bando–grand-scamyon:


saurons-optometrist:


captain-rez:

solarpunkcast:

anarchistcuddles:

ineversurrender:

Kent State University

“The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)[3][4][5] were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[6][7]”
“There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of 4 million students,[10] and the event further affected public opinion, at an already socially contentious time, over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.[11]”
Student strike of 4 million students! Let’s do that again lol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings


Don’t forget that basically half the country thought the students deserved it…

Another picture from Kent State.
But it was not just Kent State, eleven days later Mississippi Police fired 150 rounds into a dormitory at Jackson State College, killing 2 and wounding 15 black protesters.


Btw half of the students killed at Kent State weren’t even protesting, they were just there


What in the absolute fuck 


When the Irish guy has known about this since he was like 8, but it’s suspiciously hard for Americans to learn about…


I literally only know abt this bc my parents are hippies it’s fucked up


I only had a vague idea of what this was and what happened until I did my own research on it.
When I was 21.


i only found out about in high school when urban outfitters was under fire a few years back for deciding to sell a kent state sweater with fake blood spattered on it 
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Bando, College, and Fake: THE GOVERNMENT WANTS YOU
 TO REMEMBER SCHOOL'SHOOTINGS
 UST NOTTHIS ONE
pussysoupforthesoul:

jheselbraum:
hekeepsmeworm:

wuh2k:

bando–grand-scamyon:


saurons-optometrist:


captain-rez:

solarpunkcast:

anarchistcuddles:

ineversurrender:

Kent State University

“The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)[3][4][5] were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[6][7]”
“There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of 4 million students,[10] and the event further affected public opinion, at an already socially contentious time, over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.[11]”
Student strike of 4 million students! Let’s do that again lol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings


Don’t forget that basically half the country thought the students deserved it…

Another picture from Kent State.
But it was not just Kent State, eleven days later Mississippi Police fired 150 rounds into a dormitory at Jackson State College, killing 2 and wounding 15 black protesters.


Btw half of the students killed at Kent State weren’t even protesting, they were just there


What in the absolute fuck 


When the Irish guy has known about this since he was like 8, but it’s suspiciously hard for Americans to learn about…


I literally only know abt this bc my parents are hippies it’s fucked up


I only had a vague idea of what this was and what happened until I did my own research on it.
When I was 21.


i only found out about in high school when urban outfitters was under fire a few years back for deciding to sell a kent state sweater with fake blood spattered on it 
                
            

            
            
pussysoupforthesoul:

jheselbraum:
hekeepsmeworm:

wuh2k:

bando–grand-scamyon:


saurons-optometrist:


captain-rez:

solarpunkcast:

anarc...