A few months before he passed away in 2003, a 74 year old childrenās television host sat down in the same studio where he had filmed 895 episodes over 33 years and recorded one last message. It wasnāt for children. It was for the adults who had grown up watching him.
Fred Rogers hosted Mister Rogersā Neighborhood on American public television from 1968 to 2001. For over three decades he walked into the same set, changed into a cardigan and sneakers, looked directly into the camera, and spoke to children as if each one of them was the only person in the room. He never raised his voice, never talked down to his audience, and never rushed a single moment.
In that final recording, he looked into the camera one last time and said āIām just so proud of all of you who have grown up with us. And I know how tough it is some days to look with hope and confidence on the months and years ahead. But I would like to tell you what I often told you when you were much younger. I like you just the way you are.ā
He passed away from stomach cancer on February 27, 2003. He was 74.
Hey, man, c'mere. Listen. Get in real close, this is important.
You're gonna make stuff again. You're gonna make stuff you're proud of. You're gonna make stuff you're excited to share. You're going to feel that overwhelming drive to create, not just the frantic I want to want to you're stuck in now. You're going to have awesome ideas, and you're going to make them into reality. You're going to create again. You're still an artist. You're still a writer. You're still home to the same passion you had before. You'll find it again. It's not gone. It's just resting. Let it rest. You're going to make stuff again. I promise.
Prison labor is a problem we need to address soon.
Convicts in prison should have to work like the rest of us.
You mean like slavery?
No, weāre giving them 3 meals and a bed, at our expense, while they just sit around and watch TV. They should have to work!
Right. Like slavery.
Itās not like slavery!
Can they leave?
No.
Can they refuse work?
No.
So how exactly isnāt this slavery?
We DO pay them!
Do we pay in accordance with labor laws?
No. We pay them between 33 cents and $1.41/hour with a maximum daily wage below $5, then take up to half of that as room&board fees and victim compensation.
Right. So like slavery.
BUT.
No.
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Prison wages come up again and again in the context of prison conditions and policies. So, we found the most up-to-date information for each
Below URL image reads āfun bonus fact: enough of our labor market currently relies on labor at these depressed rates, that it has a substantial downward pressure on both wages and job availability in low-skilled sectors. Immigrants arenāt taking your jobs. Slavery is.
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Iād also like to add itās not just private prisons. Itās also private detention centers where ICE keeps the immigrants.
a hefty chunk of items with that āmade in americaā sticker are in fact made by prison labor
at the very least anything that is a product of prison labor should be required to have a similar sticker to inform consumers they are taking part of this system, which is difficult to track because prison made manufactured goods include almost the entire uniform of a US soldier, road construction in most southern states, and agricultural goods sold in most stores
(Just to clarify, Iām not saying youāre wrong. Iām just giving you more information because youāre right, and I like your blog, and I want you to have sources in case you need them.)
Itās not even covert. Itās blatant and overt. Itās even called slavery in the constitution.
āSlavery is illegal except as punishment for a crime.ā
SECTION. 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, sh
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
People just donāt care because they think itās all murderers and rapists, despite the fact that the number of violent criminals in jail is so small it might as well be negligible.
As of September 30, 2009 in federal prisons, 7.9% of sentenced prisoners were incarcerated for violent crimes,[39]Ā while at year end 2008 of sentenced prisoners in state prisons, 52.4% had been jailed for violent crimes.[39]Ā In 2002 (latest available data by type of offense), 21.6% of convicted inmates in jails were in prison for violent crimes. Among unconvicted inmates in jails in 2002, 34% had a violent offense as the most serious charge. 41% percent of convicted and unconvicted jail inmates in 2002 had a current or prior violent offense; 46% were nonviolent recidivists.[46]
Itās literally slavery, just dumbass racists and capitalists donāt care enough to figure out why weāre calling it that.
Alsoā¦ even if someone has committed a violent crime, enslaving them isā¦ ya knowā¦ still a fucked up thing to do? How is that even in question?
The whole discourse of āwell theyāre not even all violent offendersā has this weird undertone of āif theyāre good people they shouldnāt have to be slavesā that horrifies me. Even if 100% of them were violent, Slavery. Is. Wrong. All humans have rights.
i would highly recommend āAmerican Prisonā by Shane Bauer. itās a sickening read, by a journalist who went undercover as a prison guard and the things he saw and was made to do and did voluntarily. but extremely good, and in many ways necessary. he has some articles that are basically abridged versions as well, if you donāt want to or canāt read the whole book
What if you agree with prison labor? I hope that wonāt apply to any of my followers, but I want to speak to people who see this and think āgood.ā
The US has one of the highest recidivism rates in the world. The men and women forced into this slavery donāt learn āthe consequences for committing crimes is slavery.ā They learn trauma and abuse. They learn that the authorities do not see them as people and will not treat them well. They learn that they have to do whatever they can to survive and sometimes thatās resorting to violence. They learn paranoia.
We torture these people and for what? It doesnāt stop them from committing crimes. It encourages them. It ruins their mental health and their ability to function in the real world. It puts them in horrific economic positions where they canāt get jobs and have to resort to crimes to survive. There are people who go to jail and are acquitted of their charges, and then commit crimes because thatās how traumatized they are. And this isnāt only victimless crimes; a lot of them go on to commit violent crimes. The threat of prison doesnāt dissuade anyone from committing crimes. Honestly, it pushes a lot of folks to commit suicide-by-cop. They escalate until theyāre killed, because dying is better than prison.
In Scandinavia, prisoners are allowed to decorate their cells. Theyāre given books and games and are treated like human beings. Theyāre taught how to handle their emotions and given therapy. And look, they have some of the lowest recidivism rates in the world!
This doesnāt help anyone except the fat cats who own the prisons. They make money off this slave labor and government contracts, and they benefits from the revolving door of convicts. It helps them immensely.
Brutal punishment helps no one. It harms our society. Prison labor hurts all of us.
in the age of ozempic, take my hands...its okay to gain weight and to want to be fatter. Normalize talking about gaining weight for no reason other than you want to. Heal your relationship with your body and with food. Its okay to want to be fatter.
I hope that someday we can talk as casually and positively about wanting to Gain weight as people do about losing it. Its not disordered. Its not harmful. You dont need to justify gaining weight or getting fatter. We should be celebrating healing our relationships with food and our bodies and the word Fat.
For anyone confused about why this "sweet ad" is actually evil:
ring is passing the surveillance they collect to ice
ring is using these ID features to search for/identify people that ice wants to deport/kidnap/disappear, & using it to spy on Americans in general.
This ad is the company's gross & sneaky attempt to appeal to humans' kindness [ I'll be helping people find their pets!" ]
They are trying to trick more people into buying this tool that will be used as surveillance on people living in the USA
AND~!!!
also probably trying to trick people into turning on features/settings that will make it easier for them to pass information to ice and other hostile governmental authorities
I called this ad propaganda the second I saw it and my dad got annoyed with me. Excuse me for not wanting to live in a fucking surveillance state. Itās too late. My parents already have a camera. But at least the street isnāt visible because we have fence around the front yard. People walking by are safe. They would have to come all the way up the driveway to be seen. But still.
i can't stop thinking about that scene in the beginning where simon is at the control panel and that shadowy figure darts off to the side where the computer is. and then parallel to that scene towards the end where simon is at the back of the sub and looks over to the control panel and sees that horrific (almost humanoid?) creature with too many teeth sitting in the chair and simon quickly darts over to hide by the computer almost like what that shadowy figure did in that earlier scene
idk maybe i'm still iswm pilled but that felt like some eldritch time loop shit. or simon literally seeing himself for the monster he is (or thinks himself to be)? or both???
Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like "posts that a gnome would make" or like "are you a phone"
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