I Do What I Want

But I do it for good. Also, Mo Money, Mo Prollemz

[thequintab]

I love cheese.

[miifighter]

[dumbbitchawards]

Crying over these geese.. oh to be a solitary goose finding love and starting a family in an interracial goose relationship

[90s90s90s]

[kyatra]

seeing a black and white cow is always so damn awesome it’s like Hey i know that guy.from my kindergarten abcs

[kyatra]

HASHTAG STUPID HASHTAG IDIOT HASHTAG DUMBASS ?!?!!?

[drcterscut]

Art in Human Form

[ghostlywriterr]

Palace of Versailles.

[suppamicropanchop]

華麗なるパス “Mi gato es un perro. / My cat plays fetch. #cats #catsplayingfetch #kitty #cat #pets #catsofvine”

[kynosourae]

please reblog this dog cat

[salacious-bug]

[beyonslayed]

Gentrification isn’t merely just white people moving in displacing RoC (residents of color) it’s mayors, city councils providing tax breaks to businesses and corporations who establish their base in impoverished cities to line their pockets. It’s landlords who, in turn, raising the rent and evicting residents to attract residents with bigger pocketbooks. It’s legislation meant to stifle poor, local businesses and serves disguised as regulation. It’s capitalism dispossessing the poor, working-class, immigrants of their land, community, and culture in order to increase profits.

[gingin0347]

This is seriously underestimating the complexity of the issue.

If you own the property, you are subject to property taxes. The government, both state and federal, tax people a percentage of their total wealth. If you buy a house, and pay $100,000 for it, that is the value of the house at that time and you are taxed (in Austin, Tx for example) 1.34 percent of that over the year. That equals $1340 a year, which is about $110.00 a month. The mortgage payment would be about $450 dollars a month, plus about $50 in general expenses, such as roof repair and upkeep. So the landlord pays $610 a month whether or not a tenant is in the apartment. So they would be able to rent the apartment at around $700 a month, to give them some incentive.

Now, let’s say the next door neighbor sells their identical house for $200,000. The landlord has done nothing different, but all of the sudden, their property taxes double, because the house is now worth twice as much. The landlord is now being charged monthly $720 just to own the house.  And let’s say that the landlord relies on the extra income they get from their rental to pay their own bills. They have no choice but to raise the rent to accommodate that they now have to pay more just to own the property.

People move around. It’s a natural part of life, is that the population of all area’s ebb and flow. Having been someone pushed out of where I wanted to live because I couldn’t afford it now when I could have two years ago, I can honestly say it sucks, but it’s not so simple as people being greedy and “evicting residents to attract residents with bigger pocketbook”. That’s blaming people for something that they, in reality, have very little control over.

[queernuck]

Ironically enough, you seem to be the one oversimplifying it. By naturalizing this process, by talking about the material conditions that allow for it to be described as natural and for the flows of capital to be controlled through social machines, through the extension of these flows into new neighborhoods, previously poor neighborhoods which are deterritorialized by these flows of capital but then reterritorialized as “new” and “revitalized” thanks to the flows of gentrifying capital. 

The establishment of social-machines that can control this flow begins in legislature, such as when rules for a property tax are set out. You seem to be ignoring that property taxes themselves are a major source of money that the state allows to go right back into the neighborhood, creating a relation where the production of higher-value property leads to a greater availability of city services in an area, which raises the value of property in that area. 

Property becoming more expensive means that business which charge more for their products, businesses that both embody and signify prestige become more common, and companies that are merely looking for space are driven out. For example, how the Meatpacking District in New York has seen a change to high-price luxury retail dominating many of its streets. 

The commonality of how aesthetics of retail stores and office spaces alike can deterritorialize empty factories and warehouses and create signifiers of wealth and luxury upon these previous symbols of working-class life (after all, who works in these buildings?) is itself an expression of how gentrification fundamentally changes a neighborhood. 

That neighborhoods change culturally is distinct from your claim, the naturalization of gentrification. Over time, neighborhoods may change in their culture, or often show themselves as developing distinct but coexisting cultures inside a neighborhood. On the other hand, the flow of white capital from suburban areas back into cities, reclaiming territory and leaving little room for anyone outside of whiteness to live, is not a natural process, it must be invited. And it is through the establishment of laws that allow for this flow of capital, the maintaining and powering of those social-machines by the government and by landlords, and by the unwillingness of the city to stop landlords from targeting tenants they want to push out in order to profit off of these flows is part of an established hierarchicalization and deterritorialization of a neighborhood that creates capital through a process of depossession.

[andhumanslovedstories]

An adaptation of Hamlet that’s filmed like it’s an episode of like Keeping up with the Kardashians, and every soliloquy is just a character doing a talking head interview 

[imperatorkhaleesi]

This is actually so brilliant that when I do a filmed Hamlet adaptation I will do this, pay you for the creative direction, and give you the concept byline.

[andhumanslovedstories]

I’ll be real, this post was like 5% joke, 95% realization that the purest preservation of the soliloquy in modern culture is the reality show talking head, a confessional both private and performative and essential to understanding the emotional underpinnings of the actions being played, all in a format of direct address that we accept.

The reality show as the modern melodrama

[foxphaser]

JUJU ON THAT BEAT

[coconutoilpainting]

I was in the middle of sobbing & this confused me enough to make me stop, & actually smile so thanks

[foxphaser]

that’s what these videos are made for

[odd-peasant]

This dropped my depressive mood a notch or two

[itsteesmallzhoe]

give it up for Caleon , with another great visual 👏🏽✨

[stillirrelevant]

This mans edits are crazy. Teach me your ways shaolin fantastic.

[foxphaser]

it’s not a secret. just live healthy.

[poshhippybitch]

back at it again making me fall in love with your goofy self 😂

[foxphaser]

eee gimme kiss mama

[kingrudegyalchina]

I’m amazed that this nigga dancing in pre school age sears skinny jeans bih….

& he holding the beat down .

Missing nuts and all .

[blackhistoryalbum]

Museum of African American History & Culture, Washington DC

[click image to enlarge]

Opens Fall 2016  [official website]

Photos Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution

[jupitersaurus-deactivated201807]

[dookiediamonds-deactivated20200]

Who is this wonderful person

[juniousuniverse]

Lol

[falulu]

Me

[videos4whatsapp]

[robotlyra]

Me: *watching* What the hell is the point of th- OH MY GOD

[paper-mario-wiki]

Visit Original Link

[hyliandreso]

Kill me

[penn-name]

is this what hell is like?

[wulfriciceberg]

This is like a poorly coordinated middle school band trying to perform it…you can just SEE the loving but slightly cringing parents in the audience, forcing smiles

[imsoshive]

The USA Track and Field team at the closing ceremony.

[with-practice]

I love this!

[tillerboomin]

Left is @body_by_burnhard

On the right @hurricane_gh

[glysunflower]