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what if people wrote author notes in essays like people do in fanfics
A/N: omg here comes the thesis statement!! >_<
A/N: almost at the minimum word requirement this was soooo hard
professor: shut up and write idiot -__-
me: eep o_o!!
I forgot to post this from earlier too. Whoops.
you know what? fuck it, man. the world is held in the fists of people who like to break things. at this point i’m saying who gives a shit. wear that victorian dress you don’t have an excuse for. dress up like a witch, pointed hat and all. who cares anymore. why worry about it when there’s bigger stuff to worry on. i’m saying. yeah, this lipstick is too dark, wanna share? i’m saying go talk to her, tell her that you like her hair. i’m saying she’s out of my league but i’m still swinging, i’m saying yeah i’m in a ballgown and it’s a pta meeting. what about it. eat the extra brownie, tell her your feelings. i’m saying if nothing matters than we might as well give nothing meaning.
This is so inspiring
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i wanna disconnect from all social media and go herd sheep and sell berries and mushrooms and herbal salves on the side of some mountain road for a living
you know these moments when a friend just casually says something that validates your friendship, like just refers to something as “our place” or “our thing” and suddenly your heart is auditioning for Cirque du Soleil and days later you’re still thinking about it
Lewis Black - Black To The Future
Funny thing? He almost certainly did it on purpose.
And I don’t mean that as “actually he knows what he’s doing.” I mean it as “he has been committing one of the longest running and most blatant cases of fraud in the history of business and it’s only due to the limitations of our legal system that his entire business history is not classified as a Ponzi Scheme.”
Because he didn’t just bankrupt a casino.
He bought two casinos in Atlantic city, exaggerated the shit out of their profits to lure in investors, and began work on building a third casino. He was overextended in the market in a way that had him competing against his own businesses. He also snubbed contractors, threatened and litigated a ton of small businesses out of their jobs, and raised capital through issuing hundreds of millions of dollars in junk bonds (high risk high reward, they’re below investment grade but some people like to bet on them because the interest rate in the case of a payout is very large).
So what happened? He leveraged his ownership in a way that allowed him to strip out a ton of assets (which he legally owned), while leaving the corporate side totally overloaded with debt financing from the junk bonds, and then he drove all of it into the ground. Hard.
He went to bankruptcy court like 3 separate times over casino projects. While in bankruptcy court, he relentlessly fled from personal liability (his equity stake in the companies was extremely minimal because of the debt financing strategy) and managed to pay back a tiny fraction of his actual debt (this is why he always handles his debt in bankruptcy court; you can get away with paying back pennies on the dollar when you supposedly have no money). He also issued like 300 million more in junk bonds to pay himself and his legal fees, then went back to bankruptcy court and frauded all of THOSE investors.
Now you’ve probably heard the term Ponzi Scheme before, but if you’ve never heard a proper explanation of how one works, here’s a basic breakdown. First, you borrow money from one investor. Then, you borrow money from a second investor, and use that money to pay back the first investor at an impressive interest rate. Then you can start selling the scam to people by showing them how good your investors are doing, and hook more people in. You pay back earlier investors with the influx of cash from the new ones, while raking in the profits for yourself.
Now think about this business model. Use debt financing to start up a business. Litigate, fraud, or drive your contractors out of business so they don’t have enough money to sue you for what you owe them. Leverage the capital structure so you have minimal liability personally invested in the company. Strip out assets before a collapse because hey, you own it. Raise more debt capital to keep the illusion running as long as you can, and when you can’t keep up with what you owe your investors anymore, file for bankruptcy and pay them back scraps. You’ve made a ton of money, frauded a ton of investors, and they can’t come after you for it because you were leveraged behind a corporation and your personal liability was very small. You make more money off a flop than a hit. Rinse and repeat.
BUT YOU CAN’T GET CAUGHT FOR SETTING UP A PYRAMID SCHEME BECAUSE IT DOESN’T LAST LONG ENOUGH. YOU NEVER SET UP THE CYCLE OF INVESTORS AND INSTEAD YOU GET OUT OF PAYING THEM BACK BY ACTING LIKE YOUR BUSINESS WAS AN ORDINARY FAILURE INSTEAD OF BY STEALING MONEY FROM SUBSEQUENT INVESTORS.
That’s what happened in Atlantic City.
Now think about the rest of his business failures. Trump Airlines? That’s an industry that requires huge startup investment (debt financing) and the owner gets to sell off expensive assets when it fails. Trump Steaks? He sold those at THE SHARPER IMAGE, where it was guaranteed to fail because it was completely the wrong market for that kind of business. Trump University? Never even TRIED to be successful with that, he just tricked people into giving him as much money as he could squeeze out of them, and provided no actual service in exchange. He paid a $25 Million settlement on the lawsuit, but MADE $175 Million off the actual scam, so he walked away with $150 million for doing absolutely nothing. A LOT of his businesses, if you look closely, were practically DESIGNED to fail.
Because that’s how he operates.
Donald Trump is not a good businessman. He never even tried to be a businessman. What he is, is a con artist. Everything he ever made was fake.
The only really successful business he owns is the real estate business … which he inherited from his father and has grown at a slower rate than inflation even as he drives contractors out of business and targets undocumented laborers so they have no legal grounds to sue him for fair wages or working conditions.
Donald Trump is the CEO equivalent of The Producers.
Further reading and WILDLY paraphrased (from memory, from last year) source for the above commentary:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/nyregion/donald-trump-atlantic-city.html
And FYI, for those of us who live in the tri-state region…..this was fairly well known. Everyone knew his casinos were shady trash and bankrupt.
Wow I’m so glad I’m not a cis person
Wow I’m so glad I’m not a straight person
I’m so glad I was born the way I am
Cause gosh golly, I wouldn’t be me otherwise
And gosh golly, I freaking love myself!
What a beautiful day to remember that who you are isn’t inherently tied to suffering and you can love who you are; cause that’s you baby! You gotta love you!
Why does being in your early 20s feel so much like only having 5 years of your life left in which you need to achieve as much as possible? why do I feel like I have an approaching deadline for success?
most people my age: I love starbucks!!
me: I want to swim in the arctic ocean, feel the sting of the ice caressing my shoulders as I plunge further into the dark abyss
Recovery is hard, recovery is ugly.
Recovery is crying at night because you don’t think you can handle it. It’s relapsing, sometimes to the point where you feel you are back where you started.
Recovery feels like you take two steps forward and fall one step back.
But, recovery is worth it.
Recovery is worth for those days when you can go out with your friends, and not think about your mental illness for just one night.
Recovery is worth it for those moments when you just feel alive, and for those moments you feel that everything is worth it. Those times when you don’t feel like you’re on death’s bed.
Recovery is worth it because you finally have your life back, even if you still struggle.
bdsm stands for
Bees Do So Much for the environment
me, gently pulling my consciousness back into my body: please keep your arms and legs inside the ride at all times
even when distracted, he’s cute
(still working on my haddotin train fic but here’s a doodle in the meantime @micaxiii)
here he comes!!
Witchblr, we need to have a talk.
It’s about paying people for their time and effort.
Now, let’s rewind a moment. Let’s step towards more common religious beliefs.
What happens when there is a Christian who offered devotional efforts and such? What are those called again? Pastors? Right! And they’re paid! Because offering your time and energy towards offering devotional practices for others takes time AWAY from other work, and time with families.
Now let’s hop step back to paganism. Why do we have SUCH an aversion to paying our religious workers? They put as much effort into their efforts as anyone else. In some points, it could easily take more learning and emotional energy. Magic isn’t exactly easy! It can be incredibly taxing!
So why do we do this to them?
Pay the people you ask things from. We don’t have a centralized church, so what would be put into the collections plate should go to the people you demand effort from.
Help them with their lives so they can help enrich your’s.
Simple as that.
