just things

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My favorite behind the scenes clip from the making of The Descent

[that-twink-over-there]

Girls’ Night

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i—

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WAIT. THATS THE SOUND THEY MAKE

[withinmywonderland]

[lilpieceofmyworld]

[twiststreet]

[left-reminders]

Down the drain: Wisconsin dairy farmers told to dump milk because of an oversupply in the market

A West Bend farm says it was told to start dumping tens of thousands of gallons of milk per day because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

'It's discouraging for dairy farmers:' Coronavirus' economic impact on Wisconsin

With the first case of coronavirus confirmed in Wisconsin, the impacts could extend further than just health.

This is capitalism's vast irrationality and inhumanity in action. Markets and The Economy™ matter more to capitalism than the concrete distribution of resources according to tangible human need.

Resources exist in abundance -- give them to people. Housing sits empty -- give it to people. The rules of the feast table should apply to our economic system -- no one gets seconds until everyone has gotten a plate.

We stand at a crossroads in these chaotic times: socialism or barbarism! The ruling class repeatedly chooses the latter. We need to organize and choose the former!

[left-reminders]

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

[left-reminders]

People have been reblogging this with some points that seem fair to call attention to -- milk expires quickly, farmers are locked into a situation where they have to throw stuff out, etc. But the larger point we were trying to illustrate in the original post was that this system compels people to do irrational things in the name of market laws. We have a surplus of goods around us and yet we arbitrarily build up social constructs (property laws and exchangability) to prevent people from comfortably living off of these goods. Goods are produced and given away only if profit can be extracted from the process. These aren't immutable laws of nature, though, and most of human history hasn't operated this way. Not to suggest that things were just peachy keen in slave empires or feudalism -- class stratification in general is a big part of this, not just the particular market laws of capitalism. But it's still important to realize that these irrational all-pervasive market forces are a comparatively recent invention and that these historical moments of crisis demonstrate how truly anti-human production-for-profit and class inequality truly are. We believe that the economy should be more broadly democratized and managed on a for-need/for-use basis by the people actually impacted by the outcomes; that would entail workplace/community democracy, as well as a new emphasis on direct distribution of goods (rather than having those goods wait around to be bought).

Goods sit unused -- give them to people. Make sure everyone has the means to live a comfortable life. These seemingly obvious goals are perpetually blocked by billionaires and profit-sharks, who'd rather see people sleeping on the streets in the middle of a pandemic than have their bottom lines suffer any hit. Things are fundamentally top-down; we believe it is a reasonable proposal to start moving things into a bottom-up direction. That requires choosing socialism at this crossroads of human history.

[left-reminders]

Another reminder: capitalism artificially imposes scarcity.

[arinewman7]

Semaine

Leonora Carrington

1956

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[sponesaf]

[artofthegods]

Pedro Requejo Novoa, Minotaur

[vanyaliful]

i blame studio ghibli for making me feel like the only place and time i could ever be happy is one summer day in 1980s japan

[prairiemouse]

it’s time to abandon the responsibilities of school and jobs and move into a Scottish castle to live as hermit witches.

[pdlcomics]

Got Everything

[hydro-homies]

I mean

[my-readinglist]

It’s funny ‘cause he thinks it’ll be the same as movie actors being wacky and messing up their lines, while in actuality it would be women having mental breakdowns on set.

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Fucking disgusting.

[clock-dat-cervix]

They have this shit on EFUKT and it is horrifying. Just compilations of women crying, begging for it to stop, being laughed at and abused. What an idiot manbaby.

[lesbatron9000]

Put a shooting squad at the end of every porn video where they shoot every single man on set and then show the address of the man watching so he knows they’re coming for him next

[user87262893]

Yeah going off the EFUKT thing…my male friends in HS would watch the porn bloopers videos at our lunch table, and by default, I saw some.

Its women freaking out on drugs, babbling, while still getting fucked and laughed at. Its women “going psycho” on a director or male pornstar for changing what was supposed to be done that day and suprising them with something they didn’t agree to (usually anal). Its women curled up in a fetal position sobbing while the men in room mock her or tell her to get back into position. Its young women, teenagers, nervously asking if they really have to do that with that many men. Its women clearly passed out from drugs or alcohol still getting fucked. Its women clearly unstable, speaking nonsense, still getting fucked. Its women talking about childhood molestation on set, and men in the background jokingly yelling out “that’s why you’re here now!” and “that’s hot!” at her expense.

Its fucked.

[theweirdwideweb]

[sheabutterbitch]

Remember when Jenny Slate said “As the image of myself becomes sharper in my brain and more precious, I feel less afraid that someone else will erase me by denying me love.”

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