Alldragonsarelesbian - We're All Human

I have no tumblr post ideas right now so I'm just gonna list off some good things

frog

potato

trans rights

hand hold

avatar: the last airbender

you

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it is very immoral to have that much money and not use it to stop people from dying of hunger and preventable disease

this is the Good Shit

you know what’s good? when characters are on a last-name basis, but something terrible’s happened and they start calling for the other by the first name.

41.  i wish i was kidding

I’m at 5 what about you?

716 billion dollars.  Seven hundred sixteen billion U.S. dollars.

One billion is equal to a thousand millions.  This is seven hundred sixteen billion.  This is an insane amount of money.

Think of the millions of human beings on this planet who don’t have homes, who don’t have jobs, who wonder whether they’re going to be able to afford to eat tomorrow.  Then think about the seven hundred sixteen billion dollars that we spent on the military.  Just in 2019.

https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0053_defense-comparison

This ^ source says it was 732 billion dollars from October 2018 to September 2019.  I’m sure you could find different sources listing 705 billion, or 720 billion.  The exact number does not matter.  The fact is that there are people dying of hunger while this unfathomable amount of money goes to the military.

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

This ^ source isn’t related to the military budget or other government spending, but I found it to be useful in helping to understand exactly how much a billion is.  We could help so many people with 716 billion dollars.