i think the worst thing ive ever done in my entire life was when i was 13 and on dA i replied with “zomg kira!!!! O.o” to someone informing me that their grandmother had a heart attack and died.
Comedian Nate Fernald came across Geedis pins and a forgotten fantasy universe while he was searching for pins related to the band The Jam.
The pin was in the likeness of a hunched brown monster with crazed green eyes, labeled simply, “Geedis.” Nate bought the pin since he was fascinated but couldn’t find any information on where this strange creature was from. He contacted the sellers who were unable to provide him with answers either.
He finally took to twitter where someone pointed him to
a picture of a sheet of stickers featuring a detailed illustration of Geedis, as well as additional characters, labeled “The Land of Ta.” (bottom left)
Now that he found out where Geedis came from, he had to figure out what The Land of Ta was. After Fernald posted the stickers to his Facebook page, a couple of other sticker sheets that appeared to be from the same series turned up. One sheet is labeled “Women of Ta,” (bottom right) and features variations on the well-worn fantasy theme of absurdly-busty-female-warrior-monsters.
Small print on the sticker sheets indicate that The Land of Ta was created in the early 1980s by a company called Dennison Company, which is today known as the adhesive label company Avery-Dennison.
Taken all together, the designs and character names seem to hint at some lost or forgotten fantasy franchise. No other information can be found on this and it remains unexplained.
It’s what happened to Jews in Germany in 1938 when their passports were declared invalid. That is what is beginning to happen here, now, to Hispanic citizens along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Oh, is it bad to compare the GOP to Nazis? Well, if members of the GOP do not like being compared to Nazis, they should consider not behaving exactly like Nazis.
Hispanic U.S. citizens, some of whom were in the U.S. military, are not being allowed to renew their passports. This is reportedly happening to “hundreds, even thousands” of Latinos, according to a report in the Washington Post. They’re getting letters from the State Department saying it does not believe they are citizens. The government claims their citizenships are fraudulent. “I’ve had probably 20 people who have been sent to the detention center—U.S. citizens,” Jaime Diez, an attorney in Brownsville, told The Washington Post.
The Washington Post also reports on ICE officials coming to citizens’ homes and taking their passports away. This is an escalation from a few months ago, when Americans were detained by ICE officials just for speaking Spanish to one another.
The administration is currently launching an effort to take citizenship from people who they suspect of fraud in obtaining it. Fraud in these cases is exceedingly rare. The last time the government tried to strip people of their citizenship was, according to Columbia Professor Mae , during The Red Scare of the 1950s. As Ngai remarks, McCarthyism is not typically remembered as a good period in American history.
There is good reason to believe that this could portend still worse things to come for the U.S. Hispanic population, unless people begin to speak out loudly, and fast.
2nd Edit: Someone asked “What Can Be Done Abroad?”
Thank you for asking!
1) Get the word out in your home country’s print and broadcast media and internet. People in the USA really don’t get how suppressed our press has become and it’s only getting worse by the day. Part of it is getting any one topic to surface long enough above the churn, which is an intentional tactic being successfully used by the political party in power.
2) The one thing that no one is the USA is not seemingly able to do at all is get attention onto the Republican party as a whole for how complicit they are in all the illegal activity. If anyone can throw some weight in that direction, it’s an elephant in the room that we REALLY need to get lots of attention on.
3) Support sanctions against the US for our human rights violations.
And they are dying. If history has taught us anything it’s that this is the point of a concentration camp. It’s very cheap and easy to allow people to die from neglect.
Legal American citizens,with multiple forms of ID, who ICE spots and decides just don’t look white enough are starting to be arrested and detained with them. They aren’t allowed to contact anyone once they are picked up.
