I Feel Lensbound. Forever Stuck Wearing Glasses To See The Things Other People Can See Without The.

Reblogging because I am allergic to at least 3 immunizations and don't want to get whatever bullshit disease you are carrying around because you believe immunizations are a government trick or cause autism. I also don't want your lack of care for your safety and that of your children to risk the lives of other people.

Do you guys know why I’m so adamant about you vaccinating your kids?

I’m immunocomprimised. It means my immune system is weakened. I have very weak lungs and I rely on herd immunity to stay safe.

I’m allergic to the shot people get for whooping cough. How do I know? I had a 3 week, painful reaction. Now, this was a while ago, before shit hit the fan with the whole anti-vax movement.

But do you know what my doctor told me? It was safer for me to get the shot that I’m ALLERGIC TO than rely on herd immunity because if I get the shot, I’ll be in moderate-severe pain for about 3 weeks max. If I get the disease, I will die. My lung capacity is bad enough, but my body is too weak to fight the disease.

So not only are you putting your child’s life at risk by not vaccinating them, you’re putting mine and all the other people who cannot be vaccinated at risk because of a selfish decision that isn’t backed by science.

Just in case anyone ends up in a situation with the police and wants to know their rights and how to proceed safely

Master list of U.S. cop statistics

- https://granta.com/violence-in-blue/ 1/3 of people killed by strangers are killed by police

- http://www.killedbypolice.net/ 308 people killed by police as of 29 March 2018 (feel free to check how many there is now. There will be a number right in front of the victims name.)

- https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-officers-who-hit-their-wives-or-girlfriends/380329/ 2-4x more likely to be domestically abused by police officers

- “In one in 11 cases where someone died because someone else intentionally shot them, a police officer pulled the trigger,” or 55,400 people hospitalized in a single year not including 1000 who died.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/landmark-study-police-brutality-problem/

- https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertsamaha/this-teenager-accused-two-on-duty-cops-of-rape-she-had-no?utm_term=.wwmPEZO0J&bftwnews#.uwYxpzr4d cops are allowed to “have sex” aka rape people in their custody in up to 35 states (this link has a demographic of you would like to see if your state is one of them)

- http://projects.buffalonews.com/abusing-the-law/data.html# this database collected over 700 cases of sexual assault by police officers not including in prisons or jails over a 10 year period. But keep in mind 2 out of 3 victims come forward. https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system

- https://boingboing.net/2018/01/22/nice-vs-nightsticks.html Cops get at least 10 get out of jail free cards they can give to their friends (this article is about NYPD but I can’t see why any other department would be different. If you have other articles about different city/town departments feel free to add on).

- https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/xwvv3a/shot-by-cops a helpful article with demographics on how many people were shot at over a 7 year timeline (2010-2016) by the 50 largest police departments in the U.S. it also shows what races were shot at.

- https://nypost.com/2017/10/19/nypd-one-glitch-away-from-losing-track-of-millions-in-civil-forfeitures/ cops are allowed to take whatever they want from peoples houses with no explanation. According to this article it’s impossible to keep up with how much NYPD cops loot because their system would crash but in 2013 alone the system calculated $68 million with of property stolen by police.

- http://thefreethoughtproject.com/2017-safest-year-cops-war-citizens/ according to this article 2017 was the safest year for cops in almost 50 years yet cops killed over 1000 people according to http://www.killedbypolice.net/

- https://mobile.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-police-do-not-have-a-constitutional-duty-to-protect.html as of 27 June 2005 it was legally declared that the police are not here to protect us.

-feel free to add on any other info or correct any info I may have gotten wrong

-Add your own countries. It’s important that cops in every country are a problem not just the U.S.

good job everyone

This is so great

thor and groot

My procrastination cycle

Does research with 2-5 more sources rhan necessary

Outlines like 3 times

Starts writing and gets into a groove hit 700 words

Feel mildly tired.

I'll finish in the morning

Spends 2 more hours reading in bed or wasting time

Goes to sleep late, sets alarm to wake up early

Feels groggy

Takes nap

Wakes up at time I would normally wake up

Somehow almost finish project on time

Turns in 5 minutes late

I'll definitely start on my project early next time

Rinse and repeat

People say “phase” like impermanence means insignificance. Show me a permanent state of the self.

T’challa’s lil eyebrow raise 

all the other characters in my house keep complaining i’m losing house points but looking at the leaderboard, i’m the one that’s gaining us the most points so instead of coming @ me, maybe u should focus on your studies, susan. 

I believe in us. As a country if we can remember what is important (autonomy, acceptance, the economy, human rights etc.) We can make a change and make sure no more awful, corrupt, uneducated, and unqualified people are elected. We as voters hold power.

On another note we really need a way to properly define and eliminate gerrymandering and voter disenfranchisement.

If you’re discouraged about the election results

Don’t be. You’re hearing media do what it does: harp on one person’s lack of enthusiasm and make it seem that that one opinion is held by thousands.

This race went precisely as I thought it would. Precisely.

And it was absolutely a massive success.

So let me tell you why, so that you feel better and can easily put down the annoying crowing that republicans are going to do, because they managed to cling to a few things.

If the votes fall as I believe they will, the democrats will have retaken the house by some 30 seats. This is impressive and somewhat unique in our country’s history. The GOP, upon taking the house originally, gerrymandered these districts in impressively screwball ways. Wherever that rigging has been overturned, the districts have gone blue. Which is, of course, why they did it. Democrats have the house now, 30ish flips in republican rugged districts. 15 of those being female candidates.

That is absolutely impressive.

A few key candidates to whom many people were paying close attention did not perform as people desired. Abrams, O’Rourke, Gillum. Well…I’m not surprised. Abrams faces absolute state wide fraud. Her opponent being the person also in charge of voter registration, withholding some 50k votes of which 70% were black. Voter intimidation. This is blatant corruption. And yet still…her race was very close. So too with Beto. Ted Cruz was a presidential candidate! When he took Texas, he did so with a wide margin in most districts. Last night in Texas he was fighting tooth and nail. Gillum’s gubernatorial race for Florida was a figurative dead heat. 99% of the vote in—49% Gillum, 49.7% DeSantis. These are CLASSICALLY and FULLY republican regions in which Trump took the presidency by huge margins. That these races, with all those challenges, were as close as they were PROVES that something unprecedented happened.

3-400% voter turnout increases for a midterm election. Mostly with the youth.

But let’s talk about what it means to have the house.

Now I know you’re probably concerned about the federal judgeships that are about to pop up for consideration, and it’s true that the Senate was needed to stop approvals of those candidates, but…

Control of the house means that Democrats now take hold of some critical committees. These committees are the very ones that will be overseeing corruption allegations. Ways and Means, energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Intelligence, appropriations, foreign affairs, armed services, judiciary, transportation and infrastructure, and…government reform.

How do you feel now?

The worst political fallout of a GOP controlled government, the worst sound bites that weren’t Trump’s, the worst slaps across the face? All came from footage of those very same committees. Those committees now belong to Democrats.

Massive policy shifts also occurred in many classically conservative states—legalizing marijuana votes, Florida giving the vote back to former criminals who’ve served their time thus giving the vote back to a HUGE portion of the African-American Community that has been held in check by a racist and classicist policing method, then there were upsets in many small ways too.

I promise you…this is all excellent and it will have truly important and forceful impact. In 2020, if we can keep that same enthusiasm and rage, the entire government will shift. But that can only happen if we keep moving forward, if the candidates who won keep their noses to the grindstone and push back hard, if you and I and everyone on the ground continues to talk about this and force out bigots and greed.

Do not be discouraged. I promise you…this was an amazing election. Don’t focus on a few bright stars and think that all is lost because they fell. There is a great deal happening here, and one thing I know from being at sea—when a wave is building, there is first a terrifying shift, as the water level begins to rise. The ship will first dip, surrounded by walls of water, and then of a sudden, the swell. The ship raises and passengers suddenly realize that they are much higher than before, with an incredible view. Then the wave crests and takes the ship with it.

We didn’t see a wave crest tonight. So what? That means it’s a much larger wave than we realized. It will crest in the future. But only if that fluid pressure is maintained.

This is good. It is. So long as everyone keeps working. This is good.

Calm down. Have a glass of champagne. A cup of tea. When they Trumpet all their noise…say nothing. Nothing needs to be said. You’re higher than you were with an excellent view of the ending. So relax. Don’t fret.