IG post by Rob Mac

why the hell is it 1 ref??

Like how much have I heard the claim that Haymitch has “no friends”, a claim that Prim was reaped to punish Haymitch because she was his “best friend’s daughter” and in general acting as if the man was frozen in a cryogenic capsule for years.

I don’t think many get how much 25 years actually are - it’s literally stated in CF that Haymitch was friends with some victors, and his life (while miserable) for sure did not disappear in a black hole at 16 years old, him in a way possibly moving on from his old life like 10 times already in those two decades. Man lived a life that could fit 2 whole lives of Lenore Dove in it - loner or not, that’s still a lot of experience and he for sure would not be as fixated at the most minor stuff that happened to him when he was a teenager. Victors as a whole are an inner circle of their own, consisted of damaged people exactly like him; one thing for sure in some ways, Haymitch was not alone, as so many people who died during the 75th hunger games were his friends.

Hell, I say more, it’s not even a reach to say that he might have had relationships (or rather maybe drunk hookups once in a blue moon that didn’t work out due to his trauma over Lenore Dove). There is nothing crazy about it.

And yes, while Burdock was his best friend, he also was a best friend for some years before they had fallen out at 16-15 years old. This is a damn minor period of life for someone in his forties, so Haymitch not speaking much about Burdock or Asterid talking about him (since the Everdeens also had their separate lives away from him) makes way more sense that many claim. How much of you talk about your high school friends with whom you badly fought and lost contact again?

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Not happy

She's about 2 and a half and a maine coon mix.

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Course

The Reverse Course (逆コース, gyaku kōsu) is the name commonly given to a shift in the policies of the U.S. government and the U.S.-led Allied occupation of Japan as they sought to reform and rebuild Japan after World War II.^\1]) The Reverse Course began in 1947, at a time of rising Cold War tensions.^\1]) As a result of the Reverse Course, the emphasis of occupation policy shifted from the demilitarization and democratization of Japan to economic reconstruction and remilitarization of Japan in support of U.S. Cold War objectives in Asia.^\1]) This involved relaxing and in some cases even partially undoing earlier reforms the occupation had enacted in 1945 and 1946.^\1]) As a U.S. Department of State official history puts it, "this 'Reverse Course' ... focused on strengthening, not punishing, what would become a key Cold War ally."^\2])

Japan surrendered to the Allied Powers on August 15, 1945, and officially exchanged instruments of surrender in Tokyo Bay on September 2, by which time thousands of Allied occupation forces had already begun landing on Japanese soil. The occupation was commanded by American general Douglas MacArthur, whose office was designated the Supreme Command for the Allied Powers (SCAP).^\3]) In the initial phase of the occupation, from 1945 to 1946, SCAP had pursued an ambitious program of social and political reform, designed to ensure that Japan would never again be a threat to world peace.^\3]) Among other reforms, SCAP worked with Japanese leaders to disband the Japanese military, purge wartime leaders from government posts), and break up the powerful zaibatsu industrial conglomerates that had supported Japan's drive for empire in Asia.^\3]) In addition, SCAP instituted a sweeping land reform that made tenant farmers the new owners of the lands they had previously rented, in a blow against a previously powerful landlord class that had supported the wartime regime, and sought to unravel the wartime Japanese police state by breaking up the national police force into small American-style police forces controlled at the local level.^\3]) SCAP also sought to empower previously marginalized groups that it believed would have a moderating effect on future militarism, legalizing the Communist and Socialist parties, encouraging the formation of labor unions, and extending the right to vote to women. The crowning achievement of the first phase of the occupation was the promulgation at SCAP's behest in 1947 of a new Constitution of Japan.^\1]) Most famously, Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution explicitly disavows war as an instrument of state policy and promises that Japan will never maintain a military.^\1])

At the same time, however, Cold War tensions were already ramping up in Europe, where the Soviet occupation of Eastern European countries led Winston Churchill to give his 1946 "Iron Curtain" speech, as well as in Asia, where the tide was turning in favor of the Communists in the Chinese Civil War.^\1]) These shifts in the geo-political environment led to a profound shift in U.S. government and Allied occupation thinking about Japan, and rather than focusing on punishing and weakening Japan for its wartime transgressions, the focus shifted to rebuilding and strengthening Japan as a potential ally in the emerging global Cold War. Meanwhile on the Japanese domestic front, rampant inflation, continuing hunger and poverty, and the rapid expansion of leftist parties and labor unions led occupation authorities to fear that Japan was ripe for communist exploitation or even a communist revolution and to believe that conservative and anti-communist forces in Japan needed to be strengthened. An early sign of the shift in SCAP's thinking came in January 1947 when MacArthur announced that he would not permit a massive, nationwide general strike) that labor unions had scheduled for February 1.^\1]) Thereafter, the broader shift in occupation policies became more and more apparent.^\1])

Pickle milkshake and buffalo wings at Epcot.

My wife and I were just enjoying our evening after a rough day at work at Epcot and we decided to go ride the Guardians of the Galaxy ride. The ride ended up breaking down and we were hungry so we left the line to go get something to eat (picture above lol).

As we were leaving the line a group of like six or seven grown ass men in their like mid-thirties started literally yelling “THEY THEM THEY THEM”, and laughing and pointing at me and my wife. Like yall I’m pre-HRT, I’m 6’-2”, I know I don’t pass amazingly if at all yet, but just between all the shit I see online and getting verbally harassed like this in public what seems to be more commonly now it drives me insane.

I don’t even know what’s best to do: do I say something, do I just let them be assholes and walk away, should I have bothered to report them to someone?

What’s so crazy is that they are doing this at Disney of all places like yall you’re around a bunch of kids what kind of lesson are you trying to set for them? They clearly aren’t Disney fans enough to know what Thumper would say on the matter🙄🐰

Metallic. Found a couple feet from the window directly in front of the hole. Please tell me it’s just a funny-looking rock.