She's In The DM Chair

Is It Weird To Feel Empathy For A Place That Isn’t Your Home?

-K.A.

Is it weird to feel empathy and sadness for a place that isn’t your home? Is it wrong to feel a pit in your stomach and a hole in your heart when many of your friends and acquaintances, many of the people you admire and many of the people who have served as your mentor in life have once called the island home? 

There’s a full scale riot in Puerto Rico and you’re probably hearing rumblings about it on your timelines. To summarize, there was a leaked conversation on the Telegram app (think WhatsApp) in which the governor of Puerto Rico and other members of his administrative team held conversations of insensitive, misogynous, homophobic and criminal nature. The nature of these message, which officials found humorous and worthy of applause, were abhorrent, embarrassing and downright heartbreaking.

These officials went through painstaking details to reveal how throughout the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and during the months where Puerto Rico was dealing with an ever-rising death toll, humanitarian aid that was sent to Puerto Rico; aid such as necessary potable water, food and sanitary items; were withheld from citizens that needed it most. These provisions were left to spoil, expire or become unusable in exchange for political propaganda and public relations stunts that these officials could “sell” or “promote” to the population and “sell” or “promote” them as benevolent and doing everything they can for the Puerto Rican population, thus earning them the 2020 re-election. That’s right, they were using the suffering of Boricuas and their desperation for clean food and water to lock down those crucical re-election votes. The motherfuckers.

In the midst of these details, they took their time to make many politically incorrect, hateful, cruel and abhorrent messages about the poverty level of their people; finding humor in saying a man paid for more for a shirt than he makes in a month. They found the time to make fun of women protesting the treatment of Boricuas post-Hurricane Maria, finding humor in their plight alongside the amount of female deaths due to domestic violence. They found time to make fun of the LGBTQ community, because hey, why not at this point, they joked about the #MeToo movement, and general misrepresented themselves to the point they appear to be the worst people on Planet Earth. Still, that’s not the sole reason the people have reached the boiling point.

The people of Puerto Rico have come to realize through these conversations the degree of unforgivable cruelty that these officials are seemingly capable of, knows no limits and knows no bounds.

Hundreds upon thousands of people have died. They have died horrible deaths from starvation, lack of water, and lack of sanitary conditions that no one considered a US citizen should ever experience. Yes, Puerto Ricans are considered US Citizens. Yet, these elected officials cared more about hiding the facts, placing a PR spin on it, and manufacturing information in order to  securing their place in the next election than doing their civic duty.

Soon after the conversations leaked, Boricuas and independent Puerto Rican media (because as revealed by the leak, state media is mostly, if not entirely, taking money from the officials, which is another story), many members of the administration resigned and the governor began a series of manipulative damage control tactics that he and his father, a previous Governor himself have employed in the past to great success.

Ricardo Rosselló, Governor of Puerto Rico exploited people’s most basic and deeply-rooted traditions and beliefs and manipulated Latin belief in religion and Christianity to his benefit.Using history as a crutch, he keyed on the fact that Latino culture is susceptible to religious stunts and manipulation and he relied heavily on Puerto Rican history; pulling from their history as an island nation that was colonized by the Spanish in the name of Catholicism to the dismay of the Taino people and then not as egregiously converted to Protestantism when the US made it a commonwealth. Religion has been the one constant that has brought both pain and healing to the souls of those who’ve been deprived of liberty and education in many ways in Puerto Rico, and ever the scumbag, Rosselló honed in on it.

Reportedly, Rosselló ran to a church the day after this all blew up, to seek “forgiveness from the Almighty” and have the churchgoers pray for him, using that Christianity as a crutch and banking on the most deeply-rooted of Latin beliefs and ideals. Want me to make it more fucked up?  It’s on good authority that the governor and his family have always professed the Catholic faith. Inside of the official home of the Governor,  the equivalent of the White House for Puerto Rico’s governor, “La Fortaleza”, there is a chapel where he could’ve gone to “get right with God” and have his “come to Jesus” moment.

 Instead, this “mamabicho” went to a Protestant church that streams their service online so everyone would see him “humiliating himself before God” in a last ditch effort to detract the angry mob that now wanted him to resign. Once again, he tried to manipulate his population with another PR stunt. 

Puerto Ricans thankfully, saw right through it.

 Rosselló would address Puerto Rico and it’s people as a whole on television saying he reaffirmed his commitment to see his job through and that he would not resign, but would instead “get rid of those that have wronged us” as if he had NO part in the damn thing, as if he didn’t say that stories about the Hurricane needed to be killed, that “crows needed to be fed corpses to keep them appeased”, as if he didn’t say that Ada Monzón (a respected meteorologist who went the extra mile and then some to keep us informed during and after Maria) should suck his dick. As if he didn’t sit there and say, along with his cronies, that they needed to make this whole Hurricane Maria situation work for them instead of against them. As if they didn’t laugh at the men, women, children, and elderly who suffered, got ill and perished under his watch. As if he didn’t let necessary and essential provisions go to waste for a fucking electoral vote. The motherfucker.

So that’s why they riot in Viejo San Juan right now. Because people had enough. People suffered enough. Enough people died. Enough manipulation happened. Because this hijueputa pushed it too damn far and worse? Found it funny. That’s why they march. To get their damn home back from the people in charge.

They took so much from these people, that they took the one thing they didn’t count on.

Their fear.

I will know those words anywhere!😂😂😂

Thomas Sanders is amazing!😂

And then with the egos,👌perfect!

Jack: So you like her now?

Chase, with Stacy: Yes.

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Jack: Wait, so you like them now?

Chase, with Anti and Schneeplestein: Yes.

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Jack: Wait, so which one? Boys?? Girls??

Chase: Yes!

February 5th: A message for Sean: What would you say to Sean if you could talk to him?

Thank you! Thanks for being there, just a clic away. You brought a smile to my face. There could be something else but I think that if it weren't for you, I would still be that shy, quiet girl. Because of you, I connected with my cousin. You became someone I'm able to talk about and fangirl over when I'm alone or with my friend, and it doesn't matter if others stare, judge or think we're crazy. I hope I can meet you day...💚💚

My Math Teacher

He has been my math teacher since 8th grade! He has such good humor (in my opinion at least).

Example #1: 9th grade, we had a test and told ud that he wrote an example on the board but actually he just wrote the word "example" on the board.

This made me laugh which was good because I was so stressed. I had forgotten that the test was that day and I only had a couple minutes to study but that simple joke calmed me down alot. Surprisingly, I ended up with 100%.

Example #2: This was today.

January (√10²+√25), 2019

He wrote the date like that!!!😂😂😂

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Silent members of the community!

Hello!

This is an appreciation post for you!💚

We can see you liking posts, reblogging posts, and we know that you’re here having just as much fun as the rest of us, and I just want to say that I hope you all know that we love you and we never forget about you! Just because you don’t make text posts, gifs, screenshots, art, anything like that- it doesn’t make you any less part of this lovely community! Just by being here, you are a part of this family and we appreciate the heck out of you!

So I hope you all know that! Thank you for being here and keep being awesome! 💚💕 PMA!

I just woke up from a dream and OMG MY MIND HATES ME!!! LOL!!

It was a Philza Qsmp stream, I don't know where in the server he was but he entered a clearing in a forest...

And wolves! So many tamed wolves, just like Techno did in Dsmp. And so many crows as well, perching in every single tree!!! And right in the middle of it all, KRISTEN, THE GODDESS OF DEATH!!!

AND YOU KNOW WHAT, PHIL ENDS THE STREAM, RIGHT THERE!! CLOSES THE GAME, GOES FULL WEBCAM AND BEGINS LAUGHING AT US FREAKING OUT IN CHAT!!!!

So yeah, that's how my morning started.

Chase deserves better.

Reblog if you agree. That’s all.

Awe so sweet!! @bluepatient

@unicornwaterfall @sandersidesquotes @septicjamie @septicjpeg @saturnthewolfyt @cocoabats @archivefullofyoutubers @ego-centrick @jellyfishdoodler and alot more!!

not naming any names here but i think some of my followers might be

very kind and sweet and beautiful and ones I love and care for very much

Lunch time the first day of school!! Every new school year, the seniors bring all sorts of instruments and gang up on the new kids (9th and 10th grade) and make them dance!😂😂 That day was our turn in this "senior tradition" at school and it was fun!! If you were a new kid, you better run and hide or try not to run in to us unless you really want to dance!😂 It was pretty crazy! If you want I can post some video of the gang ups and laugh at the craziness of the students of Manuel Garcia Perez High school, Rincon, Puerto Rico! Lol!😂

You know, I'm having alot of nostalgia right now! I'm re-watching Mianite!

I started watching it with Jordan's pov, then one I decided I was going to re-watch it. So I did but with Tom's pov.

Now I just finished season 1 and started season 2 with Tucker's pov.

I'm way to excited! I'm laughing, slightly screaming and basically fangirling way to much.

I miss it, so much...