Idiot in hiding

thank you to everyone who has written to me here. i completely forgot to come here, and i apologize for that because i know this social media platform hasn't abandoned me in my most difficult moments. i'm okay, as are my family, friends, and acquaintances (i'll probably ask for help for a friend, but he's still deciding what to do; his sister's house was severely damaged, but they are physically fine).

after this tragedy, i only ask that you please not ignore us, and, if possible, because every little bit helps, donate to people who need it and to legitimate organizations where the donation reaches people who truly need it.

someone on twitter named ale compiled a page where you can find legitimate organizations that offer help to victims in need of all kinds: donarseguro (there are even reasons why they are reliable)

vicente zavarce (the ceo of yummy rides) is raising funds and it goes directly to the families affected by the earthquakes (they are matching 25% of your donation); you can help even if you're outside of venezuela: dona.yummyrides (explanation in english of how it works by fairlygab/twitter)

trans afab venezuela are asking for a helping hand (more info: instagram) + their post offering and requesting help for those most affected)

a compilation listing venezuelan artists who need commissions/donations and reliable websites to donate to: google docs/ayuda al hermano venezolano (+44 pages)

mariel lozada posted several helpful links on twitter, among them are organizations such as: caritas venezuela, save the children, world central kitchen, and alimenta la solidaridad.

i'm not a person with many resources, but if you can match my donation [$20; two people i know have already done it with $50 and i thank them for it] so yanne can buy menstrual kits, every little bit helps. if you have any questions or want to talk directly with yanne, you can do so via whatsapp (check her twitter).

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Sabrina The Teenage Witch's Salem the Cat: I'm gonna force feminize Archie.

like bro did you legit just tell someone "erhm have you considered that based on my distorted and superficial view of your country's history (which I assume I know more than you about) your grandparents displaced by the holocaust were probably actually secretly nazis? ☝️🤓". such a feat of yankee arrogance

Phyrexian Revoker

“These skittering creatures were created to hunt the one true threat to Phyrexia: dissent.” —Venser, journal

In just the past two months, Sony has:

Said the PS6 will be more than $1000 at launch

Announced the end of all physical PS game releases

While simultaneously announcing the end of two of their console game stores — ensuring multiple games will die forever

Declared that they are wholly dedicated to (A) leveraging A.I. when making games and (B) creating live-service games above all other game types

Announced that if you bought any movies through their PlayStation Store, over 550 of them will soon be deleted from all users' libraries — with no restitution offered of any kind

Gamers, it is time — to paraphrase Robert Vann — to turn Sony's picture to the wall. Any one of these insults would be bad, and taken alone? Maybe it could be swallowed. But this is an ongoing campaign of disdain towards customers, with each declaration worse than the last.

I mean there *were* cases of nazis being smuggled into brazil, argentina, chile, and paraguay through illegal escape routes colloquially referred to as ratlines. That is a thing that did happen.

However, the way americans in particular seem to latch onto this fact to dismiss any latin american that pisses them off, either in a "well whatever your country gave refuge to nazis" sense, or in a "I'm directly implying your family were escaped nazis" sense (another example I remember seeing once was a post about US imperialism in latin america where a yankee replied that OP had no business bitching about imperialism because she was probably "a white brazilian called Helga or something") is a bit ironic to me, considering that:

The vast majority of german immigrants to these countries in the 20th century were jewish refugees fleeing the nazis

The US took in thousands more nazis after ww2 than the entirety of Latin America combined

A lot of the nazis that *did* escape to latin america did so with the direct help of US intelligence agencies

Nazis that escaped to the US were treated as valuable anti-soviet assets, and many of them were given cushy jobs by the US government. Most of the nazis who escaped to latin america spent their entire lives hiding from the authorities under false identities, and those who were discovered were extradited or jailed