Marguerite Bennett's Blog, page 100
May 18, 2017
imaginarycircus:
“Yesterday, we reported that a passel of...
“Yesterday, we reported that a passel of grotesque Dickensian
caricatures gathered in the House of Representatives to vote, by a
margin of 217-213, to let poor people die and to punish women for the
blasphemy of having a vagina, effectively putting some 24 million
Americans at the perpetual risk of poverty should they fall victim to
accident or debilitating disease—a monstrous display of selfishness
that, by their own admission, many of them performed solely out of
adherence to partisan dogma and unabashed spite, and a ghoulish,
symbolic bloodletting ritual that they then commemorated by drinking Bud Light. However, we have now learned that they did not, in fact, drink Bud Light.
We hereby offer this retraction.
Amid
the rush to report on the passage of a bill that removes mandates to
insure people with pre-existing conditions—which now includes everything
from alcoholism to sexual assault—essentially defunds Planned
Parenthood, and rolls back Medicaid protections for low-income families,
and cover the celebration that President Trump had subsequently
organized in the Rose Garden so that he and his fellow gloating
jackasses could laugh at all the people whose wellbeing they’d put into
jeopardy, just to prove that they’re big, strong boys, many
writers—ourselves unfortunately included—seized upon sightings reported
from inside the Capitol of a cart laden with Bud Light, and we
irresponsibly repeated it.
We assumed, incorrectly, that this Bud Light was intended to be the
cheap swill that would briefly douse the taste of brimstone licking the
throats of these pasty wraiths as they boarded a bus headed toward their
feast of bones, where they would cackle over their selfish destruction
of millions of lives while slapping each other on the back, the utter
hollowness inside creating a reverberating, tympanic sound that was
barely discernible over their thick-tongued clucking about all the blood
money they would reap and the aluminum crush of beer cans against
skulls.
However, it turns out the Bud Light wasn’t actually for them.
In this era of “fake news,” it’s more important than ever to not let
unverified rumor or libelous insinuation get in the way of the facts of
the matter, which is that a bunch of soulless, greedy, waterlogged
copies of Atlas Shrugged stuffed inside ugly suits stood around
the White House yesterday, laughing and jacking each other off about how
they’d successfully sentenced so many of their constituents to die just
so they and their cronies could get a huge tax break, but while doing
so, they most definitely did not drink Bud Light.
We regret the error.”
AV Club retraction is a thing of beauty and a joy forever
May 17, 2017
javert:
one problem with education (one of many many many) is that schools keep on saying ‘we want...
one problem with education (one of many many many) is that schools keep on saying ‘we want to make outlr students successful regardless of their home life’ and then they just… don’t even put in the batest effort towards doing that. If you want students to be successful at school if they have a bad home life, you need to stop relying in the home for A N Y T H I N G
for example: you cannot depend on a child’s home to provide a good environment for doing homework –> kids with poor home wnvironments will be punished because they cannot do their homework –> this is not supporting children regardless of their home environment
stop punishing children for not having their parents sign forms (esp academic ones- reading logs, report cards, etc). stop making field trips opt-in-by-parent-signature, make them opt-out
don’t assume that every child (or any child) eats at home. at the very least, offer free breakfast and lunch to every student. ideally offer a dinner, too.
stop requiring out of school commmitments like community service hours, group projects that require meeting out of school, anything that requires bringing supplies in to school
stop only offerring ‘extra curriculars’ [things like band/chorus, sports, enrichment classes or clubs] outside the school day. it makes a whole segment of the population unable to attend
ideally, schools would have a place where students can tend to their personal hygeine, like showers etc
if you require students to bring a book to read, you better provide a library
there’s like so much more, too. but making the student’s school success at least /theoretically/ not depend on their home life is the absolute bare minimum of treating disadvantaged students with dignity and not kicking them when they’re down
tldr if you say ‘we want our students to succeed at school regardless of their home life’ stop making academic success depend on things that happen at home or out of school
science-fiction-action-hero:
me: I wish I wasn’t so anxious all the time
my brain: girl I got you...
me: I wish I wasn’t so anxious all the time
my brain: girl I got you *switches to the depression*
me: uh….
my brain:
sushinfood:
otterly-riddikulus:
becausebirds:
Playing fetch...
Playing fetch with an emu.
look at this dumb dog
THAT DINOSAUR IS STOKED TO PLAY WITH YOU
slythwolf:
hollowedskin:
And speaking of gross bros thinking of nerd girls like fucking unicorns…
I...
And speaking of gross bros thinking of nerd girls like fucking unicorns…
I was actually talking to a female client once about cannon-fannon and how much I love listening to her talk comics, and had a male client interupt us to tell me he has never met a chick that is into comics before, he’s never even heard of a girl being into comics before, and he has always wanted a nerdy girlfriend and that i absolutely MUST give him her number.
I actually had to explain to him that I wasn’t joking when I said she was out of his league.
Yes, she is incredible, she is beautiful, she is intelligent, successful, highly knowledgeable and enthusiastic about comics, and she’s also not even going to look twice at you because literally all you got is that she fulfills a fantasy of yours.
Yes bro i get it, she’s your ideal girl.
Trust me, she’s a lot of people’s ideal girl. And you’re not even on her radar. You’re not special because you’re into comics. She has a very wide range of potential partners to choose from and ‘never having met a nerdy girl before’ isn’t a good character trait, because it means you know zero women. Or zero women have trusted your creepy ass with the knowledge that they are into comics.
The most concerning part of that entire conversation was his complete inability to grasp the concept that she wouldn’t date him and his insistence that she would.
He insisted that I give her name/number/fb/actually call her and ask her to come to the studio (wtffff???) because he needed to meet her.
And then just could not fathom that I refused.
He seemed to be running on this idea that if she met him, she would like him. For no other reason than that he was into comics and he wanted a nerd girlfriend.
And I was somehow out of line for refusing to give my best freinds deets to this creepy nerdbro because I couldn’t possibly know that she wouldn’t be into him.
He got really upset.
He was in my studio for 45 mins arguing with me on and off about this and trying to push me into giving her number.
Out. Of. Your. League. Not on your level. Too fucking good for you. Not a possibility. You’ve got nothing she wants. You’re one of literally thousands who would want her. You have nothing to offer her. You tick zero of her boxes. You do not even meet the minimum requirements for me to even ask her.
NOT
HAPPENING
MATE.
This is why women don’t say they’re women in WoW, this is why women don’t say they’re into games irl. This is why women don’t hang out in comics stores. This is why nerd women hide one of these two aspects of themselves when interacting with nerd men.
Because you creepy as FUCK about us.
‘never having met a nerdy girl before’ isn’t a good character trait, because it means you know zero women.
truuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuth
florenceandthepoutine:
charactersofcolour:
stele3:
asgardreid:
...
This is important.
It’s not a “loophole” it’s explicit within the text of the amendment
“Loophole” lmfao like it’s a fucking accident, like it wasn’t purposefully structured to reclaim and expand a source of free labor
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.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
Pretty much just watch the 13th
And read The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander!
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