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‘Of course I would accept her help,’ Shanon told DailyMail in an exclusive interview. ‘She hasn’t [offered] it so far. I’m here. I’m okay.’

She said: ‘I would like to make amends with Simone personally – I’m just waiting for her and Adria. I speak to Adria more than I speak to Simone. I would just ask her to forgive me. Can we move forward? Don’t judge me on my past. Let’s move forward.’

impressively tone deaf. doing a tabloid interview and saying “don’t judge me on my past” after your last conversations didn’t work is like the pushiest and least remorseful thing you could do

undercount, it’s described as a conservative estimate

society’s values tend to progress faster than individuals. when a conservative boomer says were “progressive” in their youth, probably all that took was not actively cheering for gay people dying of AIDs. most people’s politics stay the same or even shift somewhat left in certain ways as they age

wasn’t this the lady who was racist and transphobic on the set of AHS

if you wanna tell apart american gen z from gen alpha, ask them if they know what this is:

gen z used these smartboards and the teacher always made someone recalibrate the touchscreen to the projection when it was off

afaik the new spoiled shits all get these in every classroom, they were rolling em out when i was graduating:

at least in places that can afford it. this might be more true in a few years

the og is fucking insane they got Orban’s Hungary (fascist party ruled state with rigged elections) as “flawed democracy” and Cuba (public referendums for amendments to their constitution) as “authoritarian regime”

it’s definintely higher than that, there’s plenty of americans who support israel but don’t want their taxpayer money being spent on things outside the US

not true, in north america she’s actually the 5th elected female president, and 8th elected female leader overall! (maybe many USians don’t know but North America includes everything above South America, including Central America and the Caribbean)

NA countries that have elected a female president (excluding countries where the presidency is only a figurehead role):

• Costa Rica

• Haiti

• Honduras (incumbent)

• Nicaragua

• Panama

NA countries that have elected a female PM (excluding countries where the prime ministry is only a figurehead role):

• Barbados (incumbent)

• Dominica

• Jamaica

unelected leaders:

• Canada (interim PM)

• Haiti (interim president, tried to coup the government)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboula's_Village

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgda34/human-zoo-france-safari-africain

Bamboula’s Village was an attempt to recreate an Ivory Coast village within the Planète Sauvage zoo in Port-Saint-Père, near Nantes, in France.

In 1994, the biscuit brand Biscuiterie Saint-Michel teamed up with the safari park to create the village, naming it “Bamboula’s Village” after its “Bamboula” chocolate biscuits, which had a black mascot with the same name (a racial slur, dating from colonial times).

Twenty-five Ivorians, including children, were hired for six months to build and inhabit the village. They performed every day of the week, and received pay below the French minimum wage. Dancers were forced to work bare-chested despite bad weather. Performers’ passports were confiscated; most lived confined to their huts (the park gate being closed in the evenings), which provided less space than required by labour law. Children were kept out of school, while medical care was provided by the zoo’s veterinarians.

Anti-racist organisations and unions formed the group “Non à la réserve humaine” [“No to the Human Zoo”] and began legal action against the park. By the time that the court had sent an expert to document human-rights violations, the performers had been ordered out of the country. The village was closed in September of 1994. The park had to pay a symbolic one French franc (€0.15) in damages, plus legal fees. Bamboula’s Village was demolished, and the Bamboula chocolate biscuit was no longer sold.

Some of the projects included work from season 3 of the Amazon show Invincible

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