In 1943, a team of ingenious Italian doctors invented a deadly, contagious virus called Syndrome K to protect Jews from annihilation. On October 16 of that year, as Nazis closed in to liquidate Rome’s Jewish ghetto, many runaways hid in the 450-year-old Fatebenefratelli Hospital. There, anti-Fascist doctors including Adriano Ossicini, Vittorio Sacerdoti and Giovanni Borromeo created a gruesome, imaginary disease.
The doctors instructed “patients” to cough very loudly and told Nazis that the disease was extremely dangerous, disfiguring and molto contagioso. Soldiers were so alarmed by the list of symptoms and incessant coughing that they left without inspecting the patients. It’s estimated that a few dozen lives were saved by this brilliant scheme.
The doctors were later honored for their heroic actions, and Fatebenefratelli Hospital was declared a “House of Life” by the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation.
bro, a lot of men NEED to go to therapy not just for their own sake but for the sake of every person they have power over in their lives
if you are a grown ass adult man and you refuse to handle your personal issues that directly negatively impact the people around in varying degrees of harm, even leading up to abuse, that’s YOUR responsibility to fix. no one is saying abusive men dont have ‘reasons’ to be the way they are, but that doesnt change the fact that no one who isnt them can fix their shit
Don’t let anyone forget the fact that the President of the United States skipped out on visiting military graves for Armistice Day’s 100th anniversary.
Because of rain.
He has golfed in the rain. He was inaugurated in the rain. Other leaders–and his own subordinates–made it out there in the rain.
President Trump, though? The man who loves our troops and our country? Yeah, it’s weird that he didn’t go to the ceremony and chose to stay in his hotel room. He left our country on Veteran’s Day weekend to visit Paris for the reunion, but could not be bothered to face a little rain in order to pay his respects to the troops.
He forgets the names of the fallen. He cuts funding for veteran welfare programs. He sends our soldiers to the border for needless exercises in intimidation. Then he claims that others are weak on the military and don’t respect our troops?
What a joke.
How do you make a celebration all about other people into something all about you?
….. by not going.
He skipped visiting Arlington Cemetery yesterday as well. Like seriously, he is the biggest piece of shit.
HEY KIDS! WANT TO LIVE IN A PANOPTICON?! YOU SURE DO!!
HEY PARENTS! WANT TO NORMALIZE INTRUSIVE SURVEILLANCE AND MINIMIZE PRIVACY RIGHTS?
WELL YOU ARE GOING TO LOVE THIS!!
CW/TW for under the cut:
abuse, child emotional abuse, mental health,
I feel like vomiting.
Its like someone took all the toxic, disgusting, vile, broken aspects of capitalist society and *distilled* them into one product.
Maybe I’m a bit sensitive to this in particular. But I was an intensely anxious child. My parents consistently and grossly invaded my privacy as a child to the point where I started to suffer from delusions that people around me could read my mind.
When I was out of the house mum would occasionally go through my room, my draws, cupboards, bags, school books, and pockets.
I never knew when it was coming. I wouldn’t know until I got home and she presented the “evidence” of wrongdoing and demanded explanation (anything from unfinished schoolwork to empty food packets).
To this day I start to feel severely I’ll if I stay away from home for more than one night. Even though I no longer live with parents.
So I think I probably feel more strongly than most about the necessity of privacy and agency for children.
But this right here feels like it was custom *designed* to induce paranoia.
Fuck. I am so angry and sad and sick.
Gods protect these kids. ❤
There’s plenty of similar products and the reviews just get worse.
Please please don’t do this sort of thing to your kids. I cannot stress just how damaging creating this atmosphere in your home is.
It might seem like a funny joke or a great parenting tool, but believe me your kid will deeply feel that lack of trust.
Teach your kid good morals, teach them compassion and empathy, teach them to be “good” purely because its the best way to be.
Kids need room to make mistakes. They need room to fuck up, realise their own fuckup, and fix it *without* authority figures finding out and taking control.
Otherwise all they’ll ever learn is that rules must be followed blindly, and authority figures must be feared and obeyed rather than respected.
And for the love of god don’t teach your kid that their privacy can justifiably be violated by authority figures based on the suspicion of “bad” behaviour.
Don’t teach them that the constant threat of punishment is the only reason to be good.
This is what these “toys” do.
Please don’t buy them.
‘tis the season to show kids love, compassion, and to be better human beings, not scar them for life
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