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@ taika waititi pls make a live-action “avatar: the last airbender” film,, only you can heal the wounds that m. night shyamalan left i know you can pls taika hear my call i beg you
Taika will only do it if he can be the cabbage vendor
THERE IS NO ONE MORE SUITED TO BE THE CABBAGE VENDOR
anyway I don’t think the story of the 2016 election is that America wanted Trump.
I think the story of the US election is that a supreme court decision allowed states with a history of totalitarianism to arbitrarily change voting law in ways that made it disproportionately difficult for people likely to vote Democrat to vote while a foreign country was running an intelligence campaign to discourage voting on the left and, real time, prod right wing voters in important districts to vote during the election in a race with massive question marks about the security of voting infrastructure, with a widely unpopular Democratic presidential candidate–
And Trump still lost. By roughly three million votes.
That’s six times the loss George W Bush had when he won the electoral college without winning the popular vote in 2000.
Hilary Clinton won the popular vote by a larger margin than Jimmy Carter or Richard Nixon or John Kennedy; she just won it in the wrong places.
Trump is now president because the electoral college assigns more weight to rural states, which are also states with more discriminatory voter laws and more disenfranchisement and therefore states in which it is harder to vote for people likely to vote Democrat.
And all of that is what I mean when I say the biggest problem with the American system is gerrymandering.
West Hollywood unanimously approves permanent removal of Trump's Walk of Fame star
Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame has become a honeypot for vandals, MAGA-hat cretins, and all sorts of shenanigans, so the West Hollywood City Council unanimously voted to remove it permanently.
https://boingboing.net/2018/08/07/west-hollywood-unanimously-app.html
Honestly, the McElboys are so refreshing in times like these.
Thought: I do NOT think that 50% of the world’s billionaires should be women. I think there shouldn’t be any billionaires at all.
So you are saying 0% of the world should be billionaires?
Why shouldn’t their be billionaires? That makes no sense.
Because the existence of billionaires is predicated on the exploitation of human labor and unsustainable environmental harm. That level of wealth hoarding is harmful to economies, as it reduces the amount of money in circulation. No one person, no family, could ever conceivably even SPEND a billion dollars anyway, and it is inherently immoral to accumulate wealth so narrowly while so much of the world lives in abject poverty.
Better then to create a wealth ceiling, a point at which all wealth over a certain point is taxed at or very near 100% to incentivize people to actually spend their money rather than hoard it, stimulating the economy and bettering the lives of far more people. Better even still to create and regulate economic systems that protect workers and the environment in a way that such extreme levels of wealth accumulation aren’t even feasible.
The problem with this is that it reduces the incentive to actually do fiscally well. What’s the point of starting a business if you can’t become wealthy?
There is a very real difference between “reasonably wealthy” and A BILLIONAIRE
No one is saying you shouldn’t have a nice house, we are saying that having multiple really, really ridiculously nice houses while your employees are either homeless or at serious risk of becoming homeless is immoral.
I’ll never understand why this concept is hard for people. I think it’s because they can’t actually fathom how much $1 Billion is.
Seriously.
Let’s say you have a badass job. A great job. You make $100 AN HOUR. You work 10 hours a day ($1000 A DAY), 5 days a week ($5000 a week!!!), every week ($20,000 A MONTH), thats $240,000 Every Year.
It would take you 4,167 years to make a billion dollars.
Keep in mind then, that if you got paid $1000 an hour, 10 hours a day, five days a week, every week, all year, it would still take over 400 years to make a billion.
You want to make one billion in a human lifetime? If you made $10,000 an HOUR, 10 hours a day, 5 days a week, every week, all year, it would take you 41 years to hit a billion.
(And that’s not counting, ya know, money you spend to stay alive on food or rent or anything. )
Jeff Bezos currently has 140 billion dollars.
Introduction Howard Reece Costner, currently employed as a Deputy Sheriff/detention officer in Spalding County, Georgia, is a participant in the Alt-Right who believes that racism is “normal” and …
Cops and the Klan go hand-in-hand.
Howard Reece Costner & Jesse A. Jones - Georgia cops/full-on neo-nazis. A list of other white supremacists and nazis in law enforcement here. Cops and the Klan go hand-in-hand.
UPDATE! THE MOTHERFUCKERS GOT FIRED!
Sometimes around like 95 he said he didn’t need more money. He’s given away literally millions to his town (he had a little league field(?) build so his kid’s team could play) and to other notable charities for decades. He said, and has written in his books, that there’s only so much money a person needs and the rest is just vanity. He was taught that as a child and lived it as a multi-millionare (which he never truly was – bc he gave it away). He and his family lived in the same modest suburban house in the same modest Maine town since the 70s.
And then there’s Jeff Bezos.
sometimes is heart-warming to see that indeed good people still exist
Me on Fourth of July like
Anyway, stop spreading white nationalist rhetoric and toxic nationalism thanks
Nobody said anything about race. Stop that.
It’s nationalist to state facts now?
How is this toxic?
Show me countries better than the USA.
economically
x
human freedom
x
quality of life
x
social progress
x
income equality (america was among the worst)
x
healthcare
x x
gender equality
x
what exactly makes america the “best country” here? america doesn’t excel in anything.
I was gonna say aren’t we like #1 in a bunch of bad stats? Like aren’t we the top for rape and abuse?
We are #1 in prisoners, Military Spending, Mass Shootings and Corn 🌽
thank god we have corn
observant pregnant jewish woman goes to r/legaladvice because her coworker tricked her into eating treyf, turns out said coworker was posting in the subreddit a week earlier trying to find ways to get her fired for “not fitting into company culture”
This is so horrifying and upsetting. I hope she is successful in bringing legal action against these people.
good news - she was!
“She just doesn’t fit into our office culture.”
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve drawn the ire of a white woman for not assimilating enough into her idea of culture.
PLUS!!:
Toxic for rabbits: Anise, Clove, Oregano, Tea Tree, Wintergreen Safe for rabbits: Lavender, lemon, orange, fennel, eucalyptus and peppermint, all should be diluted with water!
We haven’t had a real autumn in like three years now. It’s been 80-90 F through October ….. I’m worried this will be it from now on . It hurts me in a deeply genuine way
The last three years I’ve though “oh it’s just a hot fall, next year will be the autumn i had growing up” but in my classes and job, looking at the predicted temperatures….it seems like no the fall we grew up with where I am may be gone for my lifetime and it hollows me out somehow to consider that
If this is the case I wonder how long we’ll hold on to our idea of autumn as it was. Will we keep making sweater weather October moodboards even when October’s been summer heat for ten years? Or will the idea of autumn just change? Aghck it makes me ache.
This all was perfectly okay and my heart wasn’t torn out of my chest at all. That Pearl’s big fantasy, her wild dream, her very personal little thought-rebellion, is that she got to run away for real and came to Earth and met a lovely Rose Quartz, who was never her owner or a diamond or anything of the sort (you know, all that stuff I was and am horrified ASPR went and foisted on these two and everything between them, that Pearl is so painfully aware of here all along), and she got to have and explore this Very Not Allowed relationship on her terms. How she tries to grasp and talk about feelings and relationships that she has no context or reference or terminology for because they run from discouraged or unacknowledged to actively forbidden in her awful society, and struggles to express herself using terms that don’t really fit but she doesn’t have any better ones, not yet. That she is terrified and expects - suggests! - to be “replaced” for daring any of this.
Could you imagine?
Well, according to Rebecca Sugar in the new podcast, this really is a whole Thing.
Rose is the person she [Pink] wants to be so badly… and she’s not really good at it. She’s very ambitious about being this person that really cares about people, but it’s really difficult for her. She’s trying, she’s always really trying. But it’s hard for somebody with that much power to, you know, get that.
And “there’s a big piece that people don’t have yet about why she’s like this, which I can’t talk about yet”. Then an, uh, interesting half-joking way of explaining the PD identity matter:
Well, Rose is Batman. Pearl is Alfred if Alfred were in love with Batman, but not Bruce Wayne! That’s an important distinction. She loves Batman.
My brain on Eurovision, instantly:
I was actually fairly convinced after ASPR, based on stuff like what seemed to be very deliberately different body language before and after Rose shapeshifted in the reveal scene, that they were going to go for some shade of “Pearl was in love with Rose Quartz but not Pink Diamond”. But I hadn’t anticipated this whole… Rose Quartz as a fairytale and completely constructed narratives being played to the hilt to this extent, and not the way NWOFA explicitly brought it up and had Pearl talk about it (in hindsight though it plays right into episodes like Your Mother and Mine - “Don’t be silly, Rose Quartz isn’t real” indeed).
They go on to say how a lot of Pearl’s neurotic nature is because she knew and had to keep this deep secret. How ASPR communicates via visual metaphor how much Pearl has been repressing. And then, more about Rose, and I want to mention @meskime here because she was right about so, so many things (and I have to bring this post back since I’m talking about these two again):
This is very much in the margins, but it’s all there, because when you hear Garnet tell the story, that’s the story that Rose told. And when Garnet, this is in Your Mother and Mine - the story that Rose would tell was about this cowardly horrible monster, this manipulative cackling evil, but Garnet isn’t making that up, Garnet never saw that person. And I mean you see Pink and she’s like… a dork. But this is what Rose was telling everyone. And this is very subtle, but I kind of want people to be aware that this is a character that put herself in a situation where everyone around her was saying “destroy yourself”. And she made that reality for herself. And tried to! Tried to leave that behind as much as possible. I’m trying not to colour this with any right or wrong here, I’m just trying to say this is what this character did.
Even Pearl, the embodiment of loyalty and devotion and concerningly self-effacing love, the one person who knew the truth about who she was, didn’t actually love her - and really, how could she have, what kind of love can there possibly be when there is no choice? - but her alter ego (that Pearl had come up with in the first place!) in that great big fairytale they were constructing on Earth. In which their “status and purpose” and the deeply fucked up power dynamics between them never needed to actually be addressed and properly dealt with because of course they didn’t actually exist, right? If they wished and pretended hard enough it would just… go away? And we know Rose, notoriously bad at actually confronting things. Just, the way she so obliviously says “We’ll both finally be free!” as if they were ever in the same position and the burden was the same on both of them never fails to get me.
And maybe some kind of “power of imagination” thing, “believe something into becoming real”, could have happened there in kinder circumstances, I don’t know. But at the supposed point of no return to their old lives, this big act that was going to “change everything”, when it was going to be “just Rose” forever after… Rose drops the ball in a very lasting way by forcing Pearl to keep the secret and using the power over her that “Rose Quartz” could and should never have had (by Pearl’s very deliberate design, remember, I’m not yours). In doing this Rose also isolates herself further and ensures that nobody can ever really help her with becoming that person she so wants to be, when getting that help is absolutely necessary, especially if you don’t have any acceptable frame of reference for anything, like she doesn’t.
So in some sort of conclusion, Pearl was deeply in love with a person who didn’t exist in a pretty extreme variant of the old “loving an idealised version of someone”, was in a mess of a relationship with someone who really wanted to be that person but kept failing at it very badly and hurting her and a lot of other people as a result, and Rose lived in a very particular hell of her own making, bemoaned gemkind’s apparent inability to change even during her relationship with Greg, and orchestrated her own death in one last attempt at real reinvention.
I don’t know if that’s meant in a metaphorical way as in, “their insults have no bite” or a literal sense as in “someone was talking shit so he got his fucking teeth knocked out” but I like it either way
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“How many times does history have to repeat itself before mankind finally gets the message? The Earth is a living being, and will rebel if too much damage is done. And it has the power to counteract if mere mortals think they have the power to try to rule it.”
The Convoluted Universe Book II (via wanderlust-utopia-blog)
