My day is rescued. I started it off running late and then getting stuck behind a cement truck moving at ten miles under the speed limit the entire way to work, but I have gotten to hold a tiny baby basset hound puppy, my meeting has been cancelled, and the day is saved.
Day 1: Favourite scene ‘I suppose you warned me… Didn’t you? To avoid that course through the shipping lanes. Perhaps it was my hubris that drove me to it. To show you I had it in me to lead. But as I sit here, I’m forced to consider another possibility. That course we charted… Perhaps none of us would have thought of it at all had you not raised it in the first place. That you orchestrated it all. The deaths, the destruction, the loss. All to achieve this very moment. Is it possible a man could do such a thing? Congratulations, captain.’
never forget white people did nothing first neither the best, they sleep and eat false propaganda,
Ugh, why the shit does that have to turn into a race thing? Why does EVERYTHING have to turn into a race thing?
because white people have made sure that everything is about race
as proved by the fact that when you say explorer, you think of a bunch of white guys walking the world and discovering it ~exotic wonders~ even though Zheng He travelled through Asia, to the Middle East, and even East Africa. But you’d likely never heard of him before.
Same reason you never heard of Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, an Arab traveller who, as early as the 10th century, went to the Volga area for diplomatic reasons. He wrote about it, much as Marco Polo would do later for his own travels, and is one of our sources on what viking were like (and by all accounts, he wrote about them more accurately than western scholars of the same period did)
Oh, or Ibn Battuta who travelled throughout Africa long before europeans did, and even went to Europe himself.
Everything is about race because white people keep telling everyone that their race is the only one who every got anything done.
i have heard of precisely zero non-european explorers ever in my life, and that fucking sucks. this exhibit is amazing and i need to learn more.
That boat is a frickin aircraft carrier comparatively. Holy crap. And no. Never heard a peep.
Zhenghe went to over 40 countries in Asia and Africa and probably went even further, but I didn’t encounter that in history books before. He brought gifts from China to every country he went to and everyone loved him. It was just like “Hey, I’m here with a water-helicarrier and a gift,” and the kings of every country were lilke “holy shit son well here have a giraffe.” There are paintings depicting him leading a giraffe as well. Check him out guys, he’s really cool
That is so awesome. Fuck western history. This is the real shit.
I only heard about Zheng He when I took a Chinese History class in college. He wasn’t even mentioned in my Asian History class. Western students miss out on an enormous amount of history that is ignored or whitewashed in our textbooks. It’s a travesty.
And the best bit about Zheng He for me is that he was a Hui Muslim by birth (if not so much when he grew up).
Ibn Battuta was a Muslim scholar born in Morocco, who traveled to West Africa, the Middle East, Constantinople, the Swahili States, the Mongol Empire, India,
Spain, Southeast Asia, and even China. And he recorded what he saw every step of the way.
The fact that he isn’t as famous as Chris Columbus or Marco Polo is a crime
Let’s not forget all the Jewish merchants who traversed Asia and North Africa, because unlike Some People, they were more than willing to go and trade with “savage” cultures. They had a massive diaspora scattered all over Africa and Asia as touch-points for their traders. They weren’t afraid to use it.
This Tuesday, The Satanic Temple will be arguing their case in front of the Missouri Supreme Court after convincing an appeals court that the state’s mandatory 72-hour waiting period before having an abortion violates their religious freedom.
The Temple is taking up the case of a member they refer to as “Mary Doe,” who claims the law goes against her religious beliefs. The woman contends that back in May of 2015, she was forced to view an ultrasound of her fetus and required to read a booklet that stated life “begins at conception.”
All of this was forced upon her despite the fact that she “adheres to principles of the Satanic temple and has sincerely held religious beliefs different from the information in the informed consent booklet,” according to her case summary.
“Specifically, her letter advised she has deeply held religious beliefs that a nonviable fetus is not a separate human being but is part of her body and that abortion of a nonviable fetus does not terminate the life of a separate, unique, living human being,” the case summary stated according to NBC News.
The Satanic Temple’s Jex Blackmore says Mary Doe’s religious freedom is being trampled upon.
“The State has essentially established a religious indoctrination program intended to push a single ideological viewpoint,” Blackmore said in a statement. “The law is intended to punish women who disagree with this opinion.”
“Missouri’s state-mandated informed consent booklets explicitly say that life begins at conception, which is a nonmedical religious viewpoint that many people disagree with,” his statement continued. “Forcing women to read this information and then wait 72-hours to consider the State’s opinion is a clear violation of the Establishment Clause.”
Although the state disagreed with the Temple’s assessment, a Missouri appeals court found merit in the Temple’s argument and agreed to let the case go the Missouri Supreme Court and even commented on the urgency of the case’s constitutional implications.
*starts handing out bags of popcorn* Oooooh, this gonna eat up the pro-lifers…
Satanists hold the line
May the Lord’s and Ladies of reason and wisdom bless them and their efforts.
I made a digital painting of Captain Flint, far from perfect, but I feel good about it anyway. I’m getter way better at getting facial proportions right.
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