I Wanna Scream

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
gutt3rb3ar
theartistichuman

A woman is going to be wrongfully executed next month for a crime she did not commit. Her case was used as a political ploy, and a false confession was produced by gross police misconduct.

Her name is Melissa Lucio and she’s going to die this April.

Sign the petition and learn more here->

https://innocenceproject.org/petitions/stop-execution-of-innocent-melissa-lucio-texas/?p2asource=sumo_01282022

Stop the Execution of Melissa Lucio in Texas
Melissa Lucio faces execution in less than 60 days in Texas for a crime that never occurred. Join the Innocence Project by adding your name.
Innocence Project
ninjasonthebathroomfloor
Melissa Lucio could soon become the first Latina executed in Texas despite serious concerns about her case
On Feb. 8, Lucio’s lawyers filed a motion to withdraw or modify her April 27 execution date, arguing she was denied a fair trial and wrongfu
TPR
brydeswhale

Let me explain this:

It’s not just that she did not commit this crime.

THIS CRIME DOES NOT EXIST. IT NEVER HAPPENED.

Ms. Lucio’s daughter was killed in an accidental fall that a corrupt and racist law enforcement agency decided was a deliberate murder.

And she’s not alone.

71% of women who are exonerated in the USA were exonerated of crimes that were later proven to be accidental, suicides, or fabrications.

SAVE MELISSA LUCIO!

elytrians
glittergothdad

Honestly i really hate fat positivity that is centered around 'softness' because i feel like the inevitable outcome is that fat people who dont fit into that borderline infantalised 'soft cuddly cutie' schtick will continue to be treated like disgusting undesirables

Im not soft, much of my body is muscular leaving the fat areas more firm and lumpy than squishy. My skin isnt soft and smooth, its very hairy and frequently riddled with eczema.

A lot of fat people still have bony elbows, knobbly knees, parts that poke and dig in if you try to lay your head on them.

Some fat people have saggy skin, as you age what was once plump and round becomes droopy and wrinkly.

Replacing "fat people are worthless because they are ugly" with " some fat people have worth because i can class them as cute squishy friends" or w/e weird fetishy descriptors people are using these days is completely useless because it will fall apart when you are confronted with a fat person who doesnt fit into the narrow section of fatness you deem romanticizable and therefore deserving of value

mikewytrykus
froody

“one hundred and fifty years ago people didn’t GET cancer”

no you’re right they just had intense pain and died one day leaving their family to wonder what happened

froody

people weren’t actually healthier in the past, they just died of what was killing them faster, long term chronic or terminal illnesses are not new

n0nb1narydemon

They’re only “new” in that we have the science/words to describe them, and we can keep people who have them alive long enough for it to matter. A hundred and fifty years ago people would just suffer and die quickly 🙃

barbeauxbot

Not to mention the fact that cancer-related deaths have been recorded as early as 2500 b.c. Turns out the Egyptians actually noticed when things were wrong with the internal organs during their extensive funerary practices. 

mikkeneko

The other thing you see is that as the average life expectancy starts to extend, cancer rates also started to go up; and as more and more lifesaving treatments are discovered, cancer rates also go up,  because people are for the first time living for long enough to die of cancer.

as my mother the doctor once put it, “everybody dies of something,  and the less they die of other things, the more likely it is to be cancer”

jabberwockypie

This is true for a LOT of health stuff people get freaked out about nowadays.

Heart disease isn’t really a problem (for you) if you die of a fever at age 3, or die in childbirth at 25, or you shit yourself to death because of food poisoning or cholera or parasites because we don’t have germ theory or sanitation yet, and clean drinking water was - no pun intended - kind of a crapshoot. Or you get an infection, but antibiotics haven’t been invented yet. Or you cut yourself, and it goes septic. Or there was a famine and you starved to death.

“We didn’t used to have all these food allergies!” - I mean, we absolutely DID, but if you have a severe reaction in an era without epinephrine or antihistamines, you’re usually just dead.

Be really skeptical when people insist “We didn’t used to have [insert disease here]!” (and therefore it’s a conspiracy, or some kind of consequence of our decadent modern living, and you need to spend money on [insert trendy diet here] etc etc) because yeah, we PROBABLY did, it’s just it was less of a concern when half of people died before they reached adulthood.

mikewytrykus

See also: people who think gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are an invention of the 20th century.