i NEED people to STOP comparing dyınġ from poverty to Darwin’s “survival of the fittest.” Poverty is a social construct driven by wealth hoarding in the post industrial age, not by any natural shortage of resources.
There was woke 1 and pre-woke, if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years
1903 - THE MATCH GIRLS WITH ROTTING JAWS, LONDON 🇬🇧
Look at the young women's faces. Their jaws are swollen, rotting, glowing in the dark. They are teenagers — 14, 15, 16 years old. This disease was called "Phossy Jaw."
Their job was dipping matches into white phosphorus. White phosphorus is poison. Every day they breathed it. First their teeth fell out. Then their gums turned green and black. Then their entire jawbone rotted and had to be cut out by a doctor with no painkiller. Some died screaming.
The factory owners knew. They knew since 1880 that white phosphorus kills. But it was cheap. Safer red phosphorus cost 3 times more. So they kept using white.
These girls worked 14 hours, 6 days a week, for 4 shillings. If they talked, they were fined. If they dropped a match, they were beaten. Their faces glowed at night from the phosphorus — they called them "ghosts" on the streets of London.
In 1888, 1,400 of them went on strike. All teenagers. Led by a 16-year-old girl named Sarah Chapman. They marched to Parliament with their swollen faces and said: "We would rather starve than rot."
London was shocked. And finally, in 1908, Britain banned white phosphorus — because of these girls.
This was not medieval times. This was 1903 in London, the richest empire on earth.
#drthehistories
Something that radicalised me was learning that the "carbon footprint" concept was popularised by the fossil fuel industry to shift public focus on climate change towards individual consumers n their lifestyle instead of at the corporations that are knowingly destroying the earth
If Homer was alive today, he would live in the suburbs, have a wife called Marge, 3 kids called Bart, Lisa and Maggie and a hyper religious neighbour called Ned Flanders, he would also eat lots of donuts, drink lots of beer and work at a nuclear reactor and go on wild adventures
"HE WAS AN EXTROVERT WHO BRAGGED ABOUT MEETING PEOPLE. AND HE PROFESSED AND CONFESSED TO BEING A FRIEND"
"He was that bruh. If he wanted to befriend you he'd just walk up to you and do it himself on feet by himself!"
Look up WEB Du Bois, Paul Robeson, Eslanda Robeson, Louise Thompson Patterson, William Patterson, and Charlotta Bass, and their passports in the 1950s. Compare it to Rubio’s recent visa statements. Then let’s revisit “cancel culture.”