This vicious, nasty little #MarthasVineyard stunt did one good thing: it revealed exactly how the #TantonNetwork operates. It's this, and it's going on all over the country under the very noses of Americans, pushing along an overtly racist and eugenicist agenda.
The network was created by John Tanton, who first was concerned simply with the spectre of "overpopulation," but as so often happens, quickly decided that the people who were "overpopulating" the planet were the ones who didn't look like him
Unfortunately, this is a very lucrative stance as it appears to be shared by a lot of people who never worked a day in their lives for the wealth they did not earn. This was one of his first and most generous funders nytimes.com/2019/08/14/us/…
Which is why I have been yelling about it for approximately eleventy billion years. I watched it developing in real-time during my years reporting on the U.S.-Mexico border
That's why I wrote all those things about the #TantonNetwork, too. That's who is behind every single last one of these evil fucking stunts. Borders and babies, babies and borders. unicornriot.ninja/2022/eugenics-…
(This wasn't intended as a passive-aggressive quote-tweet, it's really good and important information, I'm just using it as a springboard for my own thoughts and failing to clarify that, as usual)
That's what ol' Rudes and his little buddies, all of whom were involved in 2020, told us it was our patriotic duty to do after 9/11, and all the dipshit pundits took them seriously
Because the #TantonNetwork thinks that doing this to families, including little kids, will make Americans come around to their white supremacist lies about "masses" and "hordes" and "invasions"
This is known beekeeping folklore and part of a long European tradition of showing bees, which are considered psychopomps, respect. I know a lot of people think it’s wild but it’s a centuries-old custom and I love that the beekeeper did this