10 Things They Won’t Tell You About the Flint Water Tragedy. But I Will. | MICHAEL MOORE

funnyinseconds:

africanmelanin:

dmc-dmc:

feelingwomanish:

Really. You should read this.

@dmc-dmc you should REALLY read this

This is pure evil. @feelingwomanish i don’t even know what to say.

Anyone who sees this PLEASE READ and fill out the petition!!!!!

  1. While the Children in Flint Were Given Poisoned Water to Drink, General Motors Was Given a Special Hookup to the Clean Water. A few months after Governor Snyder removed Flint from the clean fresh water we had been drinking for decades, the brass from General Motors went to him and complained that the Flint River water was causing their car parts to corrode when being washed on the assembly line. The Governor was appalled to hear that GM property was being damaged, so he jumped through a number of hoops and quietly spent $440,000 to hook GM back up to the Lake Huron water, while keeping the rest of Flint on the Flint River water. Which means that while the children in Flint were drinking lead-filled water, there was one — and only one — address in Flint that got clean water: the GM factory.
  2. For Just $100 a Day, This Crisis Could’ve Been Prevented. Federal law requires that water systems which are sent through lead pipes must contain an additive that seals the lead into the pipe and prevents it from leaching into the water. Someone at the beginning suggested to the Governor that they add this anti-corrosive element to the water coming out of the Flint River. “How much would that cost?” came the question. “$100 a day for three months,” was the answer. I guess that was too much, so, in order to save $9,000, the state government said f*** it — and as a result the State may now end up having to pay upwards of $1.5 billion to fix the mess.
  3. There’s More Than the Lead in Flint’s Water. In addition to exposing every child in the city of Flint to lead poisoning on a daily basis, there appears to be a number of other diseases we may be hearing about in the months ahead. The number of cases in Flint of Legionnaires Disease has increased tenfold since the switch to the river water. Eighty-seven people have come down with it, and at least ten have died. In the five years before the river water, not a single person in Flint had died of Legionnaires Disease. Doctors are now discovering that another half-dozen toxins are being found in the blood of Flint’s citizens, causing concern that there are other health catastrophes which may soon come to light.
  4. People’s Homes in Flint Are Now Worth Nothing Because They Cant Be Sold. Would you buy a house in Flint right now? Who would? So every homeowner in Flint is stuck with a house that’s now worth nothing. That’s a total home value of $2.4 billion down the economic drain. People in Flint, one of the poorest cities in the U.S., don’t have much to their name, and for many their only asset is their home. So, in addition to being poisoned, they have now a net worth of zero. (And as for employment, who is going to move jobs or start a company in Flint under these conditions? No one.) Has Flint’s future just been flushed down that river?
  5. While They Were Being Poisoned, They Were Also Being Bombed. Here’s a story which has received little or no coverage outside of Flint. During these two years of water contamination, residents in Flint have had to contend with a decision made by the Pentagon to use Flint for target practice. Literally. Actual unannounced military exercises – complete with live ammo and explosives – were conducted last year inside the city of Flint. The army decided to practice urban warfare on Flint, making use of the thousands of abandoned homes which they could drop bombs on. Streets with dilapidated homes had rocket-propelled grenades fired upon them. For weeks, an undisclosed number of army troops pretended Flint was Baghdad or Damascus and basically had at it. It sounded as if the city was under attack from an invading army or from terrorists. People were shocked this could be going on in their neighborhoods. Wait – did I say “people?” I meant, Flint people. As with the Governor, it was OK to abuse a community that held no political power or money to fight back. BOOM!
  6. The Wife of the Governor’s Chief of Staff Is a Spokeswoman for Nestle, Michigan’s Largest Owner of Private Water Reserves. As Deep Throat told Woodward and Bernstein: “Follow the money.” Snyder’s chief of staff throughout the two years of Flint’s poisoning, Dennis Muchmore, was intimately involved in all the decisions regarding Flint. His wife is Deb Muchmore, who just happens to be the spokesperson in Michigan for the Nestle Company – the largest owner of private water sources in the State of Michigan. Nestle has been repeatedly sued in northern Michigan for the 200 gallons of fresh water per minute it sucks from out of the ground and bottles for sale as their Ice Mountain brand of bottled spring water. The Muchmores have a personal interest in seeing to it that Nestles grabs as much of Michigan’s clean water was possible – especially when cities like Flint in the future are going to need that Ice Mountain.
  7. In Michigan, from Flint water, to Crime and Murder, to GM Ignition Switches, It’s a Culture of Death. It’s not just the water that was recklessly used to put people’s lives in jeopardy. There are many things that happen in Flint that would give one the impression that there is a low value placed on human life. Flint has one of the worst murder and crime rates in the country. Just for context, if New York City had the same murder rate as Flint, Michigan, the number of people murdered last year in New York would have been almost 4,000 people – instead of the actual 340 who were killed in NYC in 2015. But it’s not just street crime that makes one wonder about what is going on in Michigan. Last year, it was revealed that, once again, one of Detroit’s automakers had put profit ahead of people’s lives. General Motors learned that it had installed faulty ignition switches in many of its cars. Instead of simply fixing the problem, mid-management staff covered it up from the public. The auto industry has a history of weighing the costs of whether it’s cheaper to spend the money to fix the defect in millions of cars or to simply pay off a bunch of lawsuits filed by the victims surviving family members. Does a cynical, arrogant culture like this make it easy for a former corporate CEO, now Governor, turn a blind eye to the lead that is discovered in a municipality’s drinking water?
  8. Don’t Call It “Detroit Water” — It’s the Largest Source of Fresh Drinking Water in the World. The media keeps saying Flint was using “Detroit’s water.” It is only filtered and treated at the Detroit Water Plant. The water itself comes from Lake Huron, the third largest body of fresh water in the world. It is a glacial lake formed over 10,000 years ago during the last Ice Age and it is still fed by pure underground springs. Flint is geographically the last place on Earth where one should be drinking poisoned water.
  9. ALL the Children Have Been Exposed, As Have All the Adults, Including Me. That’s just a fact. If you have been in Flint anytime from April 2014 to today, and you’ve drank the water, eaten food cooked with it, washed your clothes in it, taken a shower, brushed your teeth or eaten vegetables from someone’s garden, you’ve been exposed to and ingested its toxins. When the media says “9,000 children under 6 have been exposed,” that means ALL the children have been exposed because the total number of people under the age of 6 in Flint is… 9,000! The media should just say, “all.” When they say “47 children have tested positive”, that’s just those who’ve drank the water in the last week or so. Lead enters the body and does it’s damage to the brain immediately. It doesn’t stay in the blood stream for longer than a few days and you can’t detect it after a month. So when you hear “47 children”, that’s just those with an exposure in the last 48 hours. It’s really everyone.
  10. This Was Done, Like So Many Things These Days, So the Rich Could Get a Big Tax Break. When Governor Snyder took office in 2011, one of the first things he did was to get a multi-billion dollar tax break passed by the Republican legislature for the wealthy and for corporations. But with less tax revenues, that meant he had to start cutting costs. So, many things – schools, pensions, welfare, safe drinking water – were slashed. Then he invoked an executive privilege to take over cities (all of them majority black) by firing the mayors and city councils whom the local people had elected, and installing his cronies to act as “dictators” over these cities. Their mission? Cut services to save money so he could give the rich even more breaks. That’s where the idea of switching Flint to river water came from. To save $15 million! It was easy. Suspend democracy. Cut taxes for the rich. Make the poor drink toxic river water. And everybody’s happy.

Link to petition

Guys if ur gonna scroll past this at least read number 5. I haven’t seen stuff to confirm this but i just looked it up and it’s true, and they didn’t even warn the community that they were going to be doing military testing. This is unprecedented torture by the government.

10 Things They Won’t Tell You About the Flint Water Tragedy. But I Will. | MICHAEL MOORE

ass-warship:

geekandmisandry:

aunt-mimi:

When somebody says that “a man likes to feel like a man,” all I hear is “A man likes to feel superior to you and it’s your job to make him believe it.” 

Someone said this to me once, that a man needs to feel like a man, I replied “well I’m not stopping him” and had to watch this fragile creature try to explain to me that my strong personality could demean men.

Like, if I have to pretend you are a strong man and cater to that then clearly you’re not that strong dude.

This post has the most weapons grade dick energy ive ever seen.

women’s clothes have fake pockets

ravenclawclarinetist104:

airagorncharda:

or don’t have pockets at all, or if they DO have pockets they’re not big enough to actually hold anything useful. 

And that seems like a really ridiculous side effect of sexism, which seems fairly innocuous.  Annoying but not a real problem right? And I’ll give you that it’s not as bad as many other issues of institutionalized sexism, but the more I think about it the more messed up it actually is.

Without pockets women have no way of carrying their wallet, keys, phone, tampons, loose change, or anything else. The solution is, of course, a purse. Pants not having pockets means women are forced to buy and rely on purses (which men then mock them for). 

Women (who are paid less than their male counterparts, and are less likely to be hired for high paying jobs they are qualified for to begin with) are required to spend extra money on purses (which are expensive), yet another expense men do not have. 

This falls in line with women’s clothes being much more expensive AND less durable than men’s clothes, women’s clothes cycling through fashions much faster, and women’s fashion requiring more layers and more variation from day to day, women being expected to have a variety of different shoes (also expensive), women (especially in professional settings) being expected to comply with fashion standards in order to be considered respectable (while men can go their whole career wearing the same generic suit/outfit and no one makes a judgement), etc.

With all their essentials in a purse, it becomes easier to steal from women, and easier for women to lose their belongings (ID, credit cards, phone, money, etc). Women are then stereotyped as being both easy targets, and less competent/reliable. 

Women are forced to be hyper vigilant, cautious, and fearful of being stolen from/attacked, and then blamed when they are targets of theft, despite it not being their choice. 

I think it’s likely that companies don’t think past “if they don’t have pockets, they’ll have to buy a purse” or even “they don’t need pockets, they’ll just use a purse” but the effect is the same. Another potential reason for clothing companies to put fake pockets (or no pockets or useless pockets) on women’s pants is that putting things in your pockets changes your silhouette. 

Men’s ability to control/consume women’s appearance is valued over women’s practical needs, and ultimately over women’s autonomy and safety.

Fucking preach

radjuniper:

obviously I support het-attracted women who choose to abstain from relationships with men, but it would be really nice if they’d quit it with the lesbophobia and call it “political celibacy” rather than “political lesbianism”

“Febfem” is also cool for bi women (female exclusive bisexual female), but yeah “political lesbianism” is annoying. You’re not one of us lesbians, and you hurt our community by pretending you are.

On an unrelated note I once saw one of those buzzfeed “older lesbians respond to…” videos where one young woman asked if terfs were always hated in the community, and gave a vague description of what terf was, and the older lesbians were like “yeah political lesbians are what we called them back in the day and that’s not cool” and I died of laughter bc the young ones didn’t realize they had been completely misunderstood and were happy with being “valid”

forshitsandcackles:

rejectingfemininity:

heresuddenly:

spencer-shayy:

w0manifest:

europeanrenaissancehater:

Why do adults keep trying to destroy children’s sex segregated spaces like have you all forgotten how cruel and genuinely sexually violent little boys can be to little girls??? Why are we not allowing girls to have extracurricular activities or like any privacy away from boys when they so desperately need it?? If I didn’t have the option of all girl activities then I wouldn’t have ever left my house as a kid

I used to be a group leader at an overnight church camp in the 11-13 year category, and all the activities were co-ed (not housing obvs) but one year we had so many campers in that age group that we couldn’t get them all in the arts and crafts room same time, so we had the boys and girls split up and the girls would be in the pool while the boys did arts and crafts and then they’d switch. And let me say – everyone, boys, girls, and counselors were soooo much happier and better behaved, and they wouldn’t stop talking about how much they liked it. Girls didn’t feel self-conscious at the pool and actually splashed around and had fun instead of sitting on the edges chatting while the boys played. Boys didn’t roughhouse in arts and crafts and paid attention to the instructor, and it was the first time I actually saw boys enjoy being creative like that. 

Because it’s “progressive” now to completely undo everything women have spent decades fighting for.

Because everyone these days thinks in extremes. Sex segregated spaces used to mean women weren’t allowed most places, then new sex segregated spaces were created to protect and empower women, but the fact that anything is segregated by a certain class is a big no no to conservatives and liberals alike. Because to liberals, all segregation is bad. They aren’t able to think outside the box anymore. They don’t understand that things are complex and that there’s different reasons for these things.

Also, liberals think sex is “fake news”, so they’ve lost all ability to comprehend why female only spaces are needed, nor can they comprehend socialization, or really, anything.

I don’t know how it happened, but from what I’ve observed and heard in my short years of life, liberals have somehow managed to actually dumb themselves down. Their thinking didn’t used to be so simplistic and black and white.

My coworker has a 9 yo daughter who came home from school horrified because she overheard two of her classmates talking about her friend, one of the boys liked the girl but she would not take his advances, so the other boy adviced him to (and I quote) “drug her and rape her” again this are 9 year olds

I will only ever have kids (daughters) if I have enough money to have them attend an all girls school. Making girls live around boys in ANY circumstances (including having brothers) is cruel and misogynistic. And if you disagree just remember how shitty your childhood was because of boys hitting you, touching you, and harassing you. And how even shittier it was to spend puberty around teenage boys who would objectify the changes in your body before you even understood what they meant. This is universal.

Protect little girls from males of all ages.

Protect little girls from males of all ages.

this will get you called misogynist, manhater and boyhater, heterophobe etc in radfem spaces. also bitter, extremist, having a superiority complex, condescending, who wants to see the human species go extinct etc