C.K. Burch's Blog, page 69
December 30, 2015
brownboilovely:
jewlsies:
those little things on ur nose aren’t blackheads, don’t try and get rid...
jewlsies:
those little things on ur nose aren’t blackheads, don’t try and get rid...
this is the only way to watch this
this is the only way to watch this
putitinmybutte:
silensy:
2005-2014
Good lord, this is the...
Good lord, this is the most stark portrayal I’ve seen of this.
“If they wanted to get out of poverty, they should just go to college instead of buying all those iphones!”
December 29, 2015
For Christmas, my love gifted me a hand-stitched leather bound...
For Christmas, my love gifted me a hand-stitched leather bound journal. This is inscribed on the first page. On days like today, when I haven’t had nearly enough sleep, and my anxieties are telling me I can do no right, I can look at this. I am enough – enough for her, enough for my family, enough for myself – I am enough.
I love you. You are enough for me.
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From the pages of HELLBOY IN HELL # 7The...
From the pages of HELLBOY IN HELL # 7
The Hounds of Pluto, part one.
Story and art by Mike Mignola
Colors by Dave Stewart
A sickness eats away at Hellboy. Though he’s dead, he risks losing
himself and becoming one of the hollow phantoms that haunt Hell. A team
of doctors promise a cure, but they need something from him first …Hellboy is dead, sick, and in hell. Join us in Hell!
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"The colored people of America are coming to face the fact quite calmly that most white Americans do..."
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Holy shit, this experiment is so exploitative of low-income children.
But ultimately this is hardly a positive lesson, tearjerker though it may be, nor is it some grand insight into children’s decision making processes. It’s an advertisement with a very pointed, clear message. As Becca Day-Preston wrote at The Debrief, where she called the video “Christmas poverty clickbait,” it’s cruel to impart such a choice on children in the name of exploiting their supposed kindheartedness. As Day-Preston put it, “…it doesn’t matter that the kids got to keep both gifts in the end. In the second that they thought they wouldn’t, when they were made to make a Santa’s Choice, they would have felt a combination of emotions I wouldn’t wish on anyone. All for the sake of going viral with a heartwarming tale of Christmas spirit.
@salon‘s story, which you can read here.
what the actual fuck
I’m so angry about this
It becomes clear how fucked up this is when you realize it would never work with rich kids. A wealthier kid would know that, whichever choice they made, either they or their family members would probably get what they wanted at some point. This only works by exploiting the anxiety poorer people feel when they are forced to make choices with limited means. Also just think about how much power the people giving the kids gifts have compared to how much power the kids have. The people doing these ads have the resources to give these kids meals and gifts year round in all probability. So now they are just using these kids for a few minutes like guinea pigs for a social experiment. It’s just nasty. Why not ask rich kids to give up gifts they got for Christmas to poorer kids they meet? And try to teach THEM a lesson in gratitude and Christmas giving?
And the idea that kids are selfish and would pick their own present only makes sense if you think kids never work to support their families. Or have never given up things because they know bills need to be paid. Kids recognising their parents deserve gifts is normal when you’ve watched your parents scrimp and save and work 7 days a week to make ends meet.
let’s experiment on poor people for some sort of poor people altruism porn.
Forcing poor children to prove their virtue on camera so everyone else can have a feel good moment. As if it’s a video about cute animals
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