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August 11, 1917 – Teddy Roosevelt Calls for Censorship of German-language Newspapers

Pictured – The US government encouraged anti-German sentiment in the press and the media, as we see here in a scene from the Liberty-Loan endorsement film “Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand.” For the country’s significant German-American population, however, this anger led to censorship, hostility, and in a few horrific cases, even lynching.

Former president Teddy Roosevelt made a speech in August 1917 in which he called for the muzzling of America’s significant German-language press. “I trust that Congress will pass a law refusing to allow any newspaper to be published in German or in the language of any other of our opponents… let [German-Americans]] talk in a language ordinary Americans understand – so we shall all know just what they are saying and doing.

Although not on the level of racialiized hostility to Japanese-Americans during WW2, anti-German sentiment was a serious issue during World War One, particularly in America’s very Germanic Midwest. Patriotism was conflated with anti-Germanism. In Ohio, for example, Governor James Cox created an Americanization Committee that censored German language newspapers (of which there were very many in American at the time), and removing “pro-German” books from libraries.

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2018 Grinch has no edge. He’s got no bite. He’s not even that much of an asshole. He’s just a sassy gay furry with unusually nice teeth despite his famous theme song declaring otherwise.

1966 Grinch? Now that was a mean, scary bastard. He was a crusty old fuck who hated society so much that he only came off his shitty frozen mountain to commit crimes and terrorism out of spite.

Bennyhoo Cumberland Grinch comes down from his mountain to buy groceries.

You can round the edges off a character to make them more “relatable” or whatever, but you also run the risk of losing what defined them in the first place. The end result is bland and generic.

2018 Grinch is a reflection of modern society’s rejection of real character flaws in the interest of being “unproblematic” and in this essay i will

I’m sorry, are you insinuating that the 1966 Grinch committed acts of TERRORISM against the town of Whoville??

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This is really not okay.

I think some people fail to realize that men can be sexually assaulted, too, and not just by other men. This girl shoves him against the wall and slaps him three fucking times when he pushes her away. Heck, he has to push her away twice before she backs off for a moment. Then she goes right back to kissing him.

If the genders were reversed, everyone on this site would be flipping a shit. And if anyone dares to tell me that it’s different when a girl does it to a guy, I will personally write you a three-page essay on why it is still not okay.

I’m just going to REBLOG this all the fucking time

I SWEAR I WILL ALWAYS REBLOG THIS.

This is not okay. Gender does not matter. Forcing someone will never be okay. Never.

I’m looking at every single one of my 290+ followers right now, and I’m expecting you to reblog this.

Hey I hope you all reblog this AND DON’T IGNORE THIS.

Women can be just as abusive as men, despite what society tells you.

This is the post that brought my attention to the abuse of men. I hope it can help someone else.

Someone who follows me better reblog this.

SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!!

P REACH!!!

She hits him and still thinks she’ll get some? Abusive AND dumb!

If you see this post then you need to STOP SCROLLING because you can look at the cute cat pictures later. REBLOG and spread the word because this is VERY IMPORTANT. Everyone should be aware that forcing someone and making them do things without their consent is wrong regardless of their gender.

does anyone know if he ended up getting away safe?

Holy Love Message – 11/12/2018

Once again, I (Maureen) see a Great Flame that I have come to know as
the Heart of God the Father.  He says: “Children, listen!  I want only
what is best for you, as any loving Father would want for his children.
I do not look forward to exercising My Wrath upon you.  The Truth is,
you try My Patience with your reluctance – even refusal to answer My
Call to personal holiness.  Do not make the allurements of the world
your be all, end-all.  Once again, I tell you that your salvation is
your own responsibility – your own free choice.  Once again, I tell you,
your salvation is the Holy Love in your heart as you take your last
breath.”

“Do not suppose you can delay in responding to My Call to you to
change your earthly priorities.  Titles, high-powered positions or even
wealth, mean nothing when you come before the Judgment Seat of My Son.  
What does matter is how you used every asset I allowed in your life to
please Me and to help others.  No one can know the exact time and date
of his demise – his last judgment.  If I predicted a great disaster
would visit earth, only a fool would not prepare.  Yet, you know with
certainty your final judgment comes closer with every breath.”

“Prepare now by living in Holy Love which is the embrace of all of
My Commandments.  Your perspective will change.  Your priorities will
change.  I will be King of your heart seated on the throne of Holy
Love.”

Read Luke 11:27-28+

True Blessedness

As he said this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to
him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts that you
sucked!” But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God
and keep it!”

+Scripture verses asked to be read by God the Father. (Please note:
all Scripture given by Heaven refers to the Bible used by the visionary.
Ignatius Press – Holy Bible – Revised Standard Version – Second
Catholic Edition.) 

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Hi, Ember hater here. Did she ever get verbally called out for being such a cruel, self-involved hosebeast? Not only did she let Benjamin think his wife was dead, she made him experience the loss TWICE because she wanted a minute to still be his friend. Not to mention she took Reid’s virginity and then dumped him for not becoming enslaved to her thoughts and opinions. If they had been gender reversed we’d be calling for her head on a stick for that last part,

emeralddodge:

Hi Ember hater! 

I’ve been waiting for this message. I didn’t know who was going to send it, but I knew it was coming. Frankly, I’m surprised it took as long as it did. This might surprise you, but I completely agree. Ember is kind of a jerk. Her trick in the helicopter to hurt Benjamin was nothing more than cruelty. It fell in line with the main theme of Mercury–the horrible, foolish things people do when they’re in pain.

Gonna be blunt: Ember is selfish. Ember is emotional, manipulative, and her morality is deeply Ember-centered. I’d hinted at this in the first two books, but Jill’s narrative filter always explained away Ember’s choices. Jill is love-starved and responds to kindness; watch carefully how she describes people. If she perceives someone as a friend/force for good, she’ll describe them as attractive. Benjamin, however, did not worship Ember the way Jill does, and what we see of Ember is a much more neutral depiction. Ember is at the end of her rope in Mercury, and what we see of her is truly her worst side. But it’s definitely her.

As for Ember dumping Reid, I’ll say that I’m kind of on both sides with that. For one thing, the Sentinels were an extraordinarily violent and unpredictable group of men, and I’d be deeply concerned if Mr. Dodge were to suddenly join them and start gunning people down, no matter the reason. Ember’s goal from book one, page one was to keep herself safe. She had to wonder if Reid would even turn against her for some reason. After all, he’d turned against his upbringing at the drop of a hat, and the Sentinels were openly hostile to superheroes. 

As for the gender reversal, I’d argue that the pain of his personality transformation was underlined by the fact that he’d taken her virginity days before. She’d given herself completely to him, believing that they’d always be the same, and that he’d keep his promises to her. And he was being a hypocrite–he’d been so anti-criminal for so long, and he had been against Benjamin joining the team merely on those grounds, despite the extenuating circumstances. There was no way around the fact that he should’ve been against the Sentinels on the same grounds.

On the other hand, Reid at least apologized. He tried to understand where Ember was coming from. He tried to protect her even after the breakup, never once choosing the easier path of letting Ember handle her own affairs. 

So, what’s the verdict on Ember? I say: very, very flawed. Far more gray than white. She never did get the verbal dressing-down she needed, but the reason for that is explained by the arc words I chose for Mercury: we don’t always get what we deserve.