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captainsnoop-deactivated2020041

the donald trump animatronic at disneyland’s hall of presidents looks like they made an animatronic for hillary, went “oh fuck” and stretched a hastily-made donald trump skin over hillary’s facial structure

grandmacookie69

that is oddly specific and hauntingly what it really looks like

singforfood

Fun fact... that is EXACTLY what happened.

medieval-castle

Schloss Lichtenstein - Germany by Benjamin Jaworskyj Photography

singforfood

I hate snow, but I extremely fuck with this vibe

guerrillatech

brunhiddensmusings

you put that back in your mouth we're on a prophesy boycott untill shit get sorted or untill people start prophesying something more pleasant

whitepeopletwitter

singforfood

This is my suicide point and nobody can stop me

COVID-19 Math

Do you wanna hear something really fuckin scary?

The population of the USA is 328,000,000

If 10% of the country somehow got sick with the virus all at one time (meaning 90% of the country is uninfected or already recovered)...

and if only 3% of those cases were serious enough need a hospital stay (meaning 97% of cases are cured by resting at home, like the flu)...

there would be 984,000 critical cases of COVID-19 in America.

Every single hospital bed in America would have a COVID patient in it, and there would be more than 50,000 left over. (source) No room for heart attack patients, no cancer patients, no additional COVID patients. No car accident victims, no victims of violent crime. Nobody.

And those are unrealistically conservative numbers. Without major protective measures, the virus is highly aggressive in its spread, with an estimated R0 of over 5. (source) We’re seeing hospitalization rates at or above 10% in most states that are reporting the data. (source)

And people wanna start taking off their masks. And going to bars. And going to movie theaters, beaches, and theme parks.

#coronavirus #covid19 #usa #health

nevaehtyler

This is important.

asgardreid-deactivated20180407

It’s not a “loophole” it’s explicit within the text of the amendment

asgardreid-deactivated20180407

“Loophole” lmfao like it’s a fucking accident, like it wasn’t purposefully structured to reclaim and expand a source of free labor

stele3

We never outlawed slavery in America. We simply transferred ownership of slaves from individual landowners to the government and large corporations.

Other fun facts about prison labor corporations:

-Federal and state-run prisons usually pay their slaves minimum wage; some states, however, like Colorado, pay $2/hour.

-Private prisons pay $.17-.50/hour. The highest paying private prison is in Tennessee, which pays $.50/hour for “highly-skilled labor.”

-You think that hasn’t affected wages in the US? You think that hasn’t removed manufacturing jobs from the economy?

-Companies that contract with private prisons for their slave labor include: IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T, Wireless, Texas Instrument, Dell, Compaq, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Lucent Technologies, 3Com, Intel, Northern Telecom, TWA, Nordstrom’s, Revlon, Macy’s, Pierre Cardin, Target Stores. Many, many products that say “Made in USA” were made in prison.

-Private prisons often have quotas with the states, wherein the states contractually guarantee that they will provide a certain number of prisoners to fill the beds of a private prison, and if they don’t then they owe the private prison millions of dollars. I’m not making this up. It happened in Colorado after they legalized weed.

-States have a financial incentive to lock up their citizens.

-All of the above corporations have a financial incentive to see citizens get locked up.

-This is why Jeff Sessions is going after weed. The prison industrial complex needs slaves.

-To the shock of absolutely no one, private prisons have even more disparate racial demographics than federal/state prisons.

-Where do you think they send undocumented immigrants who have been rounded up? That’s right, private prisons. That’s why so many of them are in the South. So they take immigrants who are earning some kind of comparable wage and paying income tax to the government, and put them in prison where the wages are absurdly depressed and the prison pays virtually nothing in taxes.

-Oh yeah: private prisons pay virtually nothing in taxes. Because they technically manage real estate (prison as housing), they get all sorts of tax breaks and subsidies.

Tl;dr the prison industrial complex removes jobs from the economy, depresses wages, cheats the tax system, and ENSLAVES PEOPLE, usually people of color.

Sources:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/private-prisons-occupancy-quota-cca-crime

http://mfgtalkradio.com/s7-e15-manufacturing-jobs-lost-prison-slave-labor/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/private-prison-quotas_n_3953483.html?1379606057

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/03/13/289000532/why-for-profit-prisons-house-more-inmates-of-color

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/02/27/immi-f27.html

https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/wyden-introduces-bill-to-stop-private-prisons-from-exploiting-tax-incentives-for-profit

strengthins0lidarity

For reference, they’re referring to the clause that goes, “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.”

singforfood

EVERYTHING is connected.

killue

not a cell phone in sight. just people living in the moment. beautiful

ruinedchildhood

tyleroakley

this is what vine was made for

tyleroakley

it’s like looking into a mirror

hashtag animashun

This is so cute!

Soooo adorable

I’M LAUGHING SO HARD OH MY GOD

mikey-xoxo

ME

positivelycrippled

actionjacksonlovesbbq

I wish more cartoons taught young girls that if a man harasses you or annoys you or whatever you should blow him up with a bazooka and feel no remorse :)))

inteligasm

Ivy leaned back to avoid the propulsion blast. They’ve done this before.

90s90s90s

singforfood

This alarm clock was amazing b/c I was a heavy ass sleeper as a kid and this shit would go off like a nuclear missile warning (but like, in a fun and cartoony way?) and it was the only thing that could wake me up.