Not just making it illegal, but making being gay punishable with death.
This is one of the many reasons why I walk by every single red bucket in the run-up to Christmas. They’re not getting my money, I don’t care how nice the people ringing bells are.
Ever since the time they threatened to close all their soup kitchens in NYC if a law that did something as simple as allow companies to extend spousal benefits to their employee’s same-sex domestic partners I have refused to buy from them or donate to them.
It’s that time of year again! In case people don’t know… the Salvation Army is shitty peoples.
Also, the married women are not paid (and therefore can’t qualify for assistance if they should ever divorce, etc). And worth “of course” less than a man.
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In the Army’s case, the agreement for compensation is that the officer allowance be paid jointly to the husband—the check is written in his name. Officially, the wife is a “worker without expectation of remuneration,” and her husband receives 40 percent more of an allowance as a married man than he would as a single man.
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To my American followers. Don’t support Salvation Army. Not only are they homophobic as shit, but I’ve also heard that they abuse a lot f homeless people.
They only care about money, please don’t donate to them and give your money to charities that actually help people
Never don’t reblog.
To be clear: this is specific to America. It is not necessarily going to be true for all countries. Please don’t boycott your own salvos without proper investigation: in many countries they do good work.
Sorry but no, the Salvation Army was founded in the UK and even there still are homophobic as hell, to the point that they still refuse to let out gay people hold positions of power in the organisation. This is a callout for the whole group, not just the US. - Purple
AND Canadian salvation army is just as bad! the whole organization is rotten from the core! Canadians are not immune to bad organizations!
Reblog to continue the violent hate against the Salvation Army.
This is my seasonal reminder that when the Salvation Army was founded, it was so hated that people formed a rival group specifically to disrupt them.
So yet again, I’m calling for your support in reforming the Skeleton Army. No, I’m not being silly, that was the name of the organization formed to stop the Salvation Army.
terfs on Tumblr are deranged shut-ins that pal around with fash and terfs on Twitter are exactly the same except with blue checkmarks and a career in journalism
and what about it!! it makes us more interesting
Did you just admit to hanging out with fascists like it’s a cool good fun quirky thing
you fucking bet
Lol
On April 29, 1945 members of the 1st Company, 3rd Battalion, 157th Infantry, under the command of Lt. Col. Felix L. Sparks, entered Dachau. There they discovered a train of 36 boxcars bearing the corpses of prisoners who had been transferred to Dachau from other camps in the last weeks of the war. As the soldiers advanced, they found stacks of bodies in other parts of the camp and thousands of emaciated survivors. They rounded up the remaining camp guards as they found them. At some point, it was reported, one of the Gis blurted out, “No prisoners!” Approximately 60 guards were then lined up against a wall and gunned down by members of the 1st Company.
During the last months of the war when their inevitable defeat was fast approaching in the midst of their hysteria the fascist’s primary objective was to exterminate as many as possible from the groups they wanted to cleanse from society while they still possessed the means to do so. Terfs and fascists have much in common.
the woman in the video is Ola Nababteh, who can be seen crying and clinging to the grave of her son. the cemetery is a source of pride and historical importance, and is home to the graves of many martyrs. it dates back to the Ayyubid dynasty and was constructed under the orders of Salahudin, the liberator of Jerusalem.
free palestine. end the occupation.
If you’re in this situation where you’re an enforcer armed to the teeth tasked with forcibly removing a grieving mother safeguarding the grave of her son to make way for a theme park and you think the correct thing to do is to follow those orders and make sure she’s removed you’re not at all good person you’re such a lost cause you should honestly just be shot.
Hey I’m an architectural designer and I think its smarter for us to assume this is about taking away tenants rights more than it is about some wannabe architect(we shouldn’t call him an amateur because if you’re not licensed using the term architect is fruad) designing a tenement house.
I want to discuss building code: the bane of Landlords and developers alike and essentially our only protection against tenements being recreated. The reason this is called a huge experiment is more than likely that the billionaire is trying to come up with a case to remove the natural light and ventilation requirements for California and probably the International Building Code as well.
If you didn’t know all apartments are required to have a certain amount of natural daylighting and ventaliation, here is a snip of California’s code regarding that:
Daylight is also another important factor and that’s calculated by room usually, if it’s designated a living space you have to provide windows.
Per example have you seen the tik tok of the insane apartment in New York city? Its so crazy because in new york bedrooms and living rooms require a certain amount of light to be legally sold. If you lack these chances are you’re in an illegal unit. So they angled the walls to capture windows within minimum space requirements.
So back to the windowless dorms. (And yes dorms are different than residential housing but nation wide the rules are still apply to these occupancies). If you’re rich enough you can basically sue for a variance to get around code. Usually this allows you to get away with designing more on a site but judging by the fact that he’s also a Developer who has done this before in michigan: an area with weaker city inspectors/reviewers and donates to schools for the sole purpose of creating his downright evil psychological experiments…odds are pointing to the fact that he wants to “prove” legally that you can torcher people and still charge exuberant fees on space you couldn’t sell before.
This all rightfully received outrage, please feel free to email the school, the zoning department, the mayor, the municipality, as well as the office of any future architects who are willing to create this and let them know this is not ethical.
I read the article and Munger (who is Warren Buffets business partner btw) claims the tiny windowless rooms are to encourage students to use the common space more which is the dumbest excuse I’ve ever heard. Like looking at the rooms it’s clearly attempt to prove that you can stuff a small university into a windowless dorm building with tiny ass bedrooms and only two exits in the whole building. Like it’s such an obvious attempt to recreate tenement housing. UC Santa Barbara students need to organize against this fast because they want to have people living there in the next few years and possibly build more as Munger is EXTREMELY confident this venture will be successful. Student organizers can be powerful, don’t let yourself be placed in this building if it is built, make sure it’s an abject failure and a stain on the campus so nobody ever tries it again. Here’s a quote from the original architect who quit because the design was unethical (Munger has since hired some fancy design firm to do it all for him):
McFadden wrote in the letter that the population density of Munger Hall would be slightly lower than a portion of Dhaka, Bangladesh, one of the most densely populated cities in the world. There are only two points of entry and exit.
“The project is essentially the student life portion of a mid-sized university campus in a box,” McFadden wrote. “Munger Hall is an experiment in size and density with no precedent in student housing at that scale.”
They plan on having over 500 students per floor? Beyond his attempts to use this in a potential future challenge to building codes it’s also just insanely unethical for the school to agree to this. I feel like UCs will basically just agree to any terms they’re dictated these days as long as they get a few hundred million out of it. This is the UCI School of Alternative Medicine fiasco except 100 times worse
As a side note, of the UC schools, UCSB is notorious for having THE absolute WORST housing.
You know why you need windows in CA?
BECAUSE OUR STATE IS ON FIRE OR FALLING DOWN AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR!
If you do not wish to die when your ass can’t get to a window the fire department can pluck you out of, oppose this piece of shit building.
no that is NOT why. these building codes pre-date the seasonal extreme wildfires CA is now subject to because of climate change. fire escapes are important for in case the BUILDING catches on fire, less so for your surrounding landscape.
the CA building codes are the result of decades of dedicated work by unions and organizations like the ICC
this isn’t a paradise wildfire situation waiting to happen, this is a Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire waiting to happen. it’s the Ghost Ship fire waiting. it’s one small electrical fire away from killing thousands in a single night. because if they’re willing to fuck around and skimp on those regulations, you bet your ass they’re going to fuck around with the wiring and insulation and other safety measures.
combined with things like COVID where *ventilation is fucking important*, that building is a deathtrap
Extremely dubious anyone will be able to prevent him from making this abomination in light of how corrupt both the school and the courts are even if he’s faced with student opposition so my recommendation is someone just assassinate the guy go storm his house with a mob and hang him next to his dead security staff right now before its too late and there’s a thousand dead giving you a real reason to do that militant resistance is the solitary phenomenon our plutocratic rulers are actually concerned about anything else can be repressed domesticated or ignored.
