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[ID: Tweet thread by @LunaOi_VN, broken up into three images. Tweet 1:
Sometimes I forgot that I was born when Vietnam was still being comprehensively embargoed by the US.
The economic sanction was lifted when I was 15 and my life change drastically since then.
Lemme tell ya, sanction sucks.
[Tweet 2:
In the sanction time:
- No fresh milk except this condensed milk. It was like super fancy at that time.
- No soft drinks like Coke, pepsi…
- Virtually no candies or cookies except when I was sick or it was Tet holiday, my mom would buy me some Hai Chau cookies.
[images of condensed milk and the aforementioned cookies]
[Tweet 3 (beginning of second image):
- No clean water. We had to drink yellow water from our well.
- No stable electricity so of course there was no fridge, no oven, no electric rice cooker…
- No gas/electric stove. I had to cook with straw/wood stove my whole childhood.
[Image of a pot of something being cooked in a fireplace] [image of two people getting water from a well]
[Tweet 4:
- No new clothes. I had to wear old clothes from my older brother.
- When I was 10, I was chosen to study in art class but I could not join because my mom could not afford new art supplies for me.
- Meat was somethign very fancy at that time. I could only eat beef twice a month.
[image of a set of colored pencils]
[Tweet 5:
- Virtually no medicine except for some basic anti-biotics and vitamins.
- Mostly all the vaccines we had were from Cuba. Thanks, Cuba! And yes, Cubans vaccines are running through my veins to this day.
[Tweet 6 (beginning of third image):
After the sanction was lifted:
- I finally could have some fresh milk.
- Instant noodles became affordable.
- Finally new clothes! Hell yeah!
- More medicine, more vaccines.
[images of consumer food products, IDK]
[Tweet 7:
My final thought:
Fuck the US and its sanction!!!
And fuck YOU if you think sanction doesn’t affect a whole country’s economy and the life of millions of people just because the US says so.
[Tweet 8:
Vietnam was under US sanction for just 25 years, meanwhile Cuba has been under US sanction for 60 fucking years!!!
That is I am so pissed at any fucking bootlickers and CIA-sympathizers who blaimed Cuba for what they has been going through.
#HandsOffCuba
[End of thread. End description.]

The Hugo Awards Undermined Themselves Being Sponsored by Raytheon »

antoine-roquentin:

The annual Hugo Awards were this weekend, celebrating sci-fi and fantasy literature (and some non-literature) that enchanted audiences through the ever stressful year of 2021. But as creators got together to bask in the accomplishments of their peers and were honored just to be nominated, the awards show found itself under fire for one of the companies that was sponsoring it.
Specifically, the US defense contractor Raytheon Technologies. Founded in 2020 after a merger between the Raytheon Company and United Technologies Corporation, their primary focus is weapons for the military, and they’re one of the largest defense manufacturers in the world. (A lot of their revenue comes from the US government.) The company made their presence known when WorldCon, the sci-fi convention in Washington, DC where the awards take place, announced Raytheon’s Intelligence and Space division as a sponsor to take photos with during the red carpet event that opened the ceremony.
Amongst the sci-fi author community, the backlash has been sharp. Most of the comments in the tweet above are pointing out the bleakness of war profiteers finding a way to profit off a celebration of the typically forward thinking speculative science fiction genre. Some have been quick to point out that it’s just one arm of the company that’s doing the sponsoring, but to many more, the fact that a company who specializes in missiles and drones has a space division in the first place is troubling all on its own. It easily brings to mind how Marvel Comics planned to “team up” with defense contractor Northrop Grumman in an attempt to “focus on aerospace technology and engineering in a positive way.” What ended up happening instead was Marvel canceling the partnership soon after it was announced, and the comic intended to promote this was as in bad taste as it sounded if you knew who Northrop Grumman was.

thefugitivesaint:

Merry Christmas (says the heathen)

holiday memes thread

spontaneousmusicalnumber:

cluster-prime:
autisticgonzothegreat:
hoshizoradestination:
weirdmageddon:
jinglefucker:
weirdmageddon:
post your favorite holiday memes
go
add more
im on mobile but someone add the:
-guy with a mohawk who has tiny santa hats on each spike
-“swedish christmas goat burned down for 27th time”
-sleigh my name sleigh my name
shitscram
(Originally from @shotacatboys although the blog seems defunct now. This is my favorite holiday image set)