*slowly reaches for the popcorn*

So I'm realizing a lot of people don't know a ton about RFK Jr who very well may be our new secretary of health. In July of this year he proposed creating "wellness farms." He wants to force anyone on antidepressants, opioid medications, or those who are neurodivergent into farms to forcibly work with no contact with the outside world until they're "cured." I am not kidding. Please see this article with a clip from a podcast where he says it directly. It's not taken out of context. This is his plan.

We can also talk about how RFK Jr is directly responsible for the deaths of 83 children in American Samoa through antivax policies and how that will only get worse if he introduces his ideas to the American population.

We've all rightfully been talking about the dangers of the next president but we also need to pay attention to who he will be appointing to key government positions.

Here is an article about the wellness camps with a video clip of him discussing it.

I have sources about how he directly caused the death of almost one hundred kids in American Samoa too if anyone needs too.

Classic vs. New: The Doctor Who-Off

Modern Who has been going on for quite some time now; 19 years, 7 Doctors (or thereabouts; depends on how you count them), and 14 series/seasons again now I guess. 154 stories, by the official count, and the Christmas special will make 155.

155 is also the number of stories in the classic series, from An Unearthly Child to Survival.

So, in order to commemorate this moment of equilibrium in a very messy continuity, I'm going to be doing polls on it. For the next several weeks, starting tomorrow, I'll be putting up 13 polls per week, pitting Modern Who stories against their classic counterparts in the numbering order; Unearthly Child vs. Rose, The Daleks vs. The End of the World, etc., all the way up to Survival vs. Joy to the World (plus some bonus bits to help round out that last set of 13 because the math wasn't quite mathing. Just go with it.)

And through this highly objective and not at all arbitrary methodology, we will determine once and for all whether modern or classic who is better. (Only kidding obviously, but it should be a fun time regardless!)

To find old polls, search #classic vs new who. Ongoing polls are listed below

The Ambassadors of Death vs. The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood Inferno vs. Vincent and the Doctor Terror of the Autons vs. The Lodger The Mind of Evil vs. The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang The Claws of Axos vs. A Christmas Carol Colony in Space vs. The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon The Dæmons vs. The Curse of the Black Spot Day of the Daleks vs. The Doctor's Wife The Curse of Peladon vs. The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People The Sea Devils vs. A Good Man Goes to War The Mutants vs. Let's Kill Hitler The Time Monster vs. Night Terrors The Three Doctors vs. The Girl Who Waited

three days to go this round!

ok last thing. but what people fundamentally need to get through their heads is the significance of gaza fundraisers not being the same as like mutual aid when you're helping someone get groceries, because it is a genocide. there is insane deliberate scarcity and prices are unmanageable, because there is nowhere nearly enough for everyone, so only people who can pay can eat. and what positioning individual fundraisers as the only course of action does is quite simply give a tiny percentage of random people whose fundraisers take off the ability to pay those prices while thousands of others can't. and every one of those thousands of people without a fundraiser is suffering through the same inconceivably horrific reality. it is giving a few completely desperate people out of hundreds of thousands a slightly more favorable position in a horrific war economy of imposed scarcity. and what grassroots community kitchens do is try to mitigate in some small way that inconceivable hierarchy of who can pay and who can't, by stretching ingredients as far as they can last to cook meals at large scale and give them out at no cost. and obviously people are still going to send money to their friends and families because this is hell what else are we supposed to do but please just think about that before promoting endless individual fundraisers as somehow the most ethical way to help

Operation Olive Branch has a spreadsheet dedicated to mutual aid, local distro, community kitchens, etc. in Gaza.

This is a good place to start if seeking to donate to a community resilience action. Just contact the group(s) directly to make sure they are still active. Life in Gaza and Palestine is full of uncertainty.

^this is literally what op is saying isn't helpful though. there is scarcity and it is man-made. donating to a community kitchen in gaza will help that specific kitchen and take food away from other people. there is literally not enough because aid is not let in. money will not cause food to materialize in gaza

the best ways to help palestine are donating to organizations, political activism, social activism

also (this wouldn't matter if op wasn't right but considering that they are), the rise of posting fundraisers has killed all other palestine posting on this site. we don't see anything about current events or any other actions. the palestine tag is almost unusable

No actually it is exactly what i am saying that you should donate to community aid kitchens because then they buy at bulk for lower prices and stretch ingredients to distribute meals cooked at large scale for free instead of that same food only being available to a tiny number of people at extortionate prices. with big humanitarian aid programs rendered inoperable by the occuption, grassroots community kitchens are some of the ONLY social institutions left to try to serve people with any measure of equity. Donate to the Sameer Project here:

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