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recklessmoss

𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 . 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐢𝐭

#ominous positivity

mylovewithdamon

Favorite male characters in no order: Patrick Verona in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

#right?

zootycoon-archive

want a shirt that says YOU SHOULD FEEL VISCERALLY VIOLATED BY THE UNSTOPPABLE CORPORATE ENCROACHMENTS ON YOUR ATTENTION SPAN, BY THE FACT THAT YOU STARTLE LIKE A TRAINED ANIMAL AT EVERY NOTIFICATION, BOTH OVERSTIMULATED AND BORED, LETHARGIC AND JUMPY, WAITING FOR THE NEXT BIT OF VALIDATION WITH THE SAME SICKLY EXCITEMENT AND FEAR AS A GAMBLER AT THE TABLE

halles-comet

#gOD

quoms

The thing about Those White People Baby Names is the way they so poetically express the tension between individuality and rigid conformity. These parents all want to name their child something unique, because they value the concept of uniqueness, yet simultaneously they abhor it in practice… ergo, 30 different spelling variations on the most normative possible names. This homogeneity-masquerading-as-diversity is inseparable from capitalist consumer culture and in fact is directly analogous to the experience of walking into a grocery store and being asked to “choose” between 50 varieties of toothpaste with the same exact ingredients, 12 brands of laundry detergent, etc.

itd-be-gay-if-you-didnt

Somebody’s third eye is WIDE the fuck open??!!!!!!!

#this just made my day

willow

Me after finally replying to the six people who messaged me: amazing. I am so great I love getting back to people

Me when they all reply immediately: goodnight for now I’ll get back to you in the next couple days I’m going on vacation with limited access to emails please do not CC me

#sorry i’m like this

oldersistercore

why are dog lovers so hateful??? like you meet a cat lover and they’re like “oh i love dogs a lot too! i just prefer cats!” but dog lovers are always like “my ENTIRE FAMILY was MURDERED by a CAT, a cat STOLE MY GIRLFRIEND, BURNED MY HOUSE DOWN, TOOK MY JOB AND KEYED UP MY CAR"

#i bring this up a lot #clearly i plagiarized it without realizing #oops

heatandapathy

This is an absolute religious experience that I was not prepared for

but-im-jess-saying

I’ve watched this like ten times laughing my ass off, but its lead to a question. are scots unable to say wank with out making the motion?

fandomsandfeminism

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.

cranberrybogmummy

So you are saying 0% of the world should be billionaires?

fandomsandfeminism

Yes.

caosdth

Why shouldn’t their be billionaires? That makes no sense.

fandomsandfeminism

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.

aflawedmind

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?

fandomsandfeminism

There is a very real difference between “reasonably wealthy” and A BILLIONAIRE

twodotsknowwhy

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.

whenandwhereienter

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.

fandomsandfeminism

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.

fandomsandfeminism

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.

bando--grand-scamyon

$10,000 an HOUR while most of us barely making $12. Can y’all conceptualize now?

glizzygaymer

Will always reblog

randomslasher

Because this is still a difficult set of numbers for some folks to comprehend (legitimately–our brains have a hard time conceptualizing big numbers) a really good example I like to use is the difference between a million and a billion in time.

1 million seconds is approximately 11 days.

1 billion seconds is just shy of 32 years.

tikkunolamorgtfo

Wealth should be universally capped.

grootpoepjeplasjehoofd

Honestly, not to beat a dead horse, but it’s absolutely wild to me that 150 years ago, uptight Brits and the French could go around teaching their colonial subjects that homosexuality is an abomination and in many places causing a much more severe attitude to be taken towards same-sex relations, and today when most western countries are only a few decades into not viewing homosexuality as a mental illness, you have lowkey racists talking about what savages people from so and so country are for their homophobia. This isn’t to say that the people from post-colonial countries upholding homophobia today should not be held responsible for their attitudes, but like, the boldness of using this to talk about The Ethnics having some kind of eternal homophobia ingrained on a genetic level when it was in many cases your ancestor’s societies who imposed their values onto these people, and you somehow get to act like you and your people are the Ubermenschen of empathy and reason and the capacity to grow and others fundamentally lack this capacity