W Is For Tungsten

Some handy responses to people like “The Food Babe” who give you that “Don’t eat anything that has ingredients a third-grader can’t pronounce!” bullshit.

Same with eyeglasses.

The above are photos I took at Auschwitz. The shoes and suitcases were each encased in a hallway - kept behind glass on both sides. And again comprise only a fraction of what the Nazis took.

Now the significance of these collections can not be understated or undermined, the horrors of the Holocaust, the Shoah, are embodied in these piles of stolen clothing and cases.

We look at them and recoil, promising that we’ll never forget and yet the systematic slaughter of human beings continues around the world.

In different places, for different reasons. Who didn’t learn the lesson? Who still needs to be reached? Who needs to be protected?

They also play videos of the liberation of the camps, showing what the soldiers saw when they finally arrived. The museum has hospital beds where they used to do experiments on the mentally ill, most especially those with Autism. 

The impact is astounding, and it’s seared in my mind as if it happened yesterday, tho it was almost a decade ago now. 

voted against the Violence Against Women Act

is wholly anti-choice, stating “right to life is a fundamental one that trumps virtually any other right I can imagine"

is strongly opposed to same-sex marriage

has called for the repeal of Obamacare

opposed medical marijuana initiatives

voted to extend wiretapping under the PATRIOT Act

denies man-made climate change and is against any protective measures

supports increased military spending

opposes net neutrality

(Source 1) (Source 2) (Source 3) (Source 4) (Source 5) 

2015 will be the year Liberal Tumblr learns to hate me because I am going to take every opportunity to call out its hypocrisy. And don’t take that as support far rightwingers, I just know you are all a part of the problem. 

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