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716 billion dollars.  Seven hundred sixteen billion U.S. dollars.

One billion is equal to a thousand millions.  This is seven hundred sixteen billion.  This is an insane amount of money.

Think of the millions of human beings on this planet who don’t have homes, who don’t have jobs, who wonder whether they’re going to be able to afford to eat tomorrow.  Then think about the seven hundred sixteen billion dollars that we spent on the military.  Just in 2019.

https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0053_defense-comparison

This ^ source says it was 732 billion dollars from October 2018 to September 2019.  I’m sure you could find different sources listing 705 billion, or 720 billion.  The exact number does not matter.  The fact is that there are people dying of hunger while this unfathomable amount of money goes to the military.

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

This ^ source isn’t related to the military budget or other government spending, but I found it to be useful in helping to understand exactly how much a billion is.  We could help so many people with 716 billion dollars.

“I’ve told the kids in the ghettos that violence won’t solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; “Why does the government use massive doses of violence to bring about the change it wants in the world?” After this I knew that I could no longer speak against the violence in the ghettos without also speaking against the violence of my government”

—

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  (via deliciouskaek)

waiting to hear what the whites and new blacks have to say about this one

(via pan-tastic)

this is really important

compare.

these were simpler times

𝚆 𝚘 𝚛 𝚖   𝚘 𝚏 𝚏   𝚝 𝚑 𝚎    𝚜 𝚝 𝚛 𝚒 𝚗 𝚐 

 𝚆 𝚑 𝚊 𝚝   𝚂 𝚒 𝚗 𝚜   𝚠 𝚒 𝚕 𝚕   𝚑 𝚎   𝚌 𝚘 𝚖 𝚖 𝚒 𝚝

Whoops!

I’ve been

Called Out

honestly the amount of crushes I had on girls as a youth but didn’t recognise because the only option offered to me was heterosexuality is mind-blowing

the legendary post... I’ve only ever seen screenshots

I’ll never not be amused by the fact that I can drop the words “crucifix nail nipples” into a conversation and some of you who have been with me since the livejournal days will join me in the flashbacks, screaming and crying all the way.

home of the Bog Witch

Bog Trail by Shane Garlock

this is cat anatomy

its fun to draw cats when you dont know cat anatomy 

he’s got a point

this image just appeared in my subconscious and I felt compelled to put it into the world

Ready for spring

ladies invented your favorite science fiction subgenres

Margaret Cavendish - Mary Shelley -  Emma Orczy - Catherine Lucille Moore

halloween should be every day change my mind

TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!

if someone gave me these i would probably fall in love

*whispers softly* he’s a special boi

in light of recent events, i must know: do boyporridge and girlgruel support trans and non-binary folk?

Thursday will unhinge his jaw like a snake and digest transphobes whole

i diagnose you with 

yes

historians be like

is the tall girl in all your cooking videos your girlfriend?

um no that is becky my good christian gal pal we were simply baking bread for our husbands together

I’m honestly kinda surprised he hasn’t caught it yet

hmmmmm

it is very immoral to have that much money and not use it to stop people from dying of hunger and preventable disease

I’m laughing but it’s in pain

Y’all want to see something wild?

and summer homework!!!  why is summer homework a thing?  like oh you only have three months off in the whole year?  let’s give you 5 different projects that should take about a month each if you still want to do other fun things such as sleep, eat, and breathe oxygen