Dear Moneymakers, (an open letter)
And by this, I mean all corporate “persons”, executives, super-rich and basically, everyone who is making their money by just having money.
You’re doing it wrong.
A joke for the 99%
The government today announced that it is changing its national symbol to a condom because it more accurately reflects the government’s political stance. A condom allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks, and gives you a sense of security while you’re actualy being screwed.
TARP quick to bail out banks, slow with homeowners.
Yet another reason to be pissed off with the system.
Autism linked to industrial food, environment.
Past time for all autistics and parents of autistics to begin a class action suit against the Monsan-toe-rags and all others who profited by pushing “better living through chemistry”…
Texas versus Planned Parenthood, re: women's health
Just when I think humanity is fixing itself, I find shit like this.
Thanks a bunch, Texas. Way to put humanity back into the stone age for the sake of a few foetii…
Zimmerman to be charged in killing of Trayvon Martin
Took them long enough.
I’d like to say, “better late than never,” but there’s also the hundreds [if not thousands] of other deaths caused by pallid police shooting at innocent brown people. There’s too many of those and not enough outrage IMO.
One small step towards good progress, anyway.
And yes, I also got a picture with Vermin Supreme. He’s an anti-capitalist wizard who’s been known to glitter bomb conservative politicians… how could I not?
I freaking love Vermin Supreme. Vermin Supreme for next POTUS.
(Source: thirdeyeontheprize-blog-blog)
More police atrocities
There needs to be a full inquisition. There are so many “why’s” unanswered.
Like: why is it looking like another pointless “race war” in the midst of a strictly economic crisis?
Dear Haters
You need to stop. Seriously. Anger destroys yourself, your family and the things you care for. While I understand that you have an innate fear/dislike of everything “different”, I have to impart some shocking news.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS “NORMAL”.
There is “average”, which is a nebulous enough to encapsulate a group, but the “average” person is brown, a little under 6 feet tall, most likely bi and not christian. Shocker, that. [And yes, I pulled those statistics out of my butt. I’m adult enough to welcome corrections from a statistician]
“White privilege” exists. It is the privilege of pretending that other melanin-deficient folks are not allowing or causing horrible things to happen to the melanin-enhanced. It is the privilege of denial. It is the ability to say, “Nothing is wrong where I’m standing” because you - yes you - have invisible advantages.
Acknowledge this. Open your eyes and turn around. Learn the thousands of unthinking or hateful things you do each day to the “different” and make a conscious decision to at least cut down.
Learn.
In knowledge, there is the ability to say, “I know.” You can never say “I understand,” because as a “white”, you can’t. You can say, “I’m trying to understand,” or “I’m learning about this,” because that’s the best we can do.
You can become better.
About fifty years ago, it was legal to refuse service to the “different”, even though they were the majority of the population. We do not celebrate the day that the very last “No Coloreds” sign went permanently down from a shop window because we know that that is just one step on a very long road to moral recovery.
I refuse to say “white” or “black” when talking about people’s skins, since they are hate words. They divide a marvellous spectrum into two very dull groups. They trivialise a difference that, although superficial, encapsulates a can of worms the size of this entire freaking planet.
I have difficulty with labels and pigeon-holes. I am, as far as I’m aware, “white”. Except I’m not white. I’m mostly beige. With mottled spots of darker skin where the sun has repeatedly touched it. Even the whitest of “whites” are not white. Albinos are pale, yes, but not white. Snow is white. Clouds can be white. People aren’t.
As a “white”, I have the ability to ignore the horrible things other “whites” are doing to the rest of the world. But I don’t. I’m well aware of what people of my skin tone are doing. I am ashamed, so I don’t speak out. I am afraid of retribution from those who would group me with the ones who actually do the evil. I feel like I’m not allowed to say, “I see this as horrible, too,” or, “how can I help?”
The minute you stick a label on someone, you diminish them. The minute you acknowledge a label on yourself, you accept the assumptions others make because of that label.
And I’m talking all of them. Especially the hateful ones. This is not limited to colour or nationality. All the labels. The ones about sexual preference, body type, weight and even creed.
Islam is not terrorism.
Fat is not ugly.
Black is not criminal.
Christian does not have to be oppressive.
White does not have to be normal.
Straight does not have to rule over everything else.
You - yes, you - are different. You are unique. So is your neighbour. Instead of reaching for the vitriol and pouring your hate into the aether, stop. Search out information and knowledge that challenges your point of view.
It’s a big world. Full of both the horrible and wonderful.
If we each made the effort to learn, instead of boxing things up in ugly labels, I think the world would be a better place.
There’d be less reason to hate, for starters.
So, to everyone who is offended by “whites” and the things they do:
How can I help?
A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto (by aConcernedHuman)
Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan’s nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea’s two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear).
Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the screen. Hashimoto, who began the project in 2003, says that he created it with the goal of showing”the fear and folly of nuclear weapons.” It starts really slow — if you want to see real action, skip ahead to 1962 or so — but the buildup becomes overwhelming.
http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/
Multimedia artwork
“2053” - This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe.*
Profile of the artist: Isao HASHIMOTO
Born in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan in 1959.
Worked for 17 years in financial industry as a foreign exchange dealer. Studied at Department of Arts, Policy and Management of Musashino Art University, Tokyo.
Currently working for Lalique Museum, Hakone, Japan as a curator.
Created artwork series expressing, in the artist’s view, “the fear and the folly of nuclear weapons”:
“1945-1998” © 2003
“Overkilled”
“The Names of Experiments”
About “1945-1998” ©2003
“This piece of work is a bird’s eye view of the history by scaling down a month length of time into one second. No letter is used for equal messaging to all viewers without language barrier. The blinking light, sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many experiments each country have conducted. I created this work for the means of an interface to the people who are yet to know of the extremely grave, but present problem of the world.”
Contact the artist:
Should you have any query regarding this artwork, please contact e-mail address below:
hashi123@amy.hi-ho.ne.jp
* The number excludes both tests by North Korea (October 2006 and May 2009).
What I find really scary is the length of time the Americans spend setting off nukes on their own soil. And then they wonder why so many Americans have so many medical problems, these days. Yikes.
Also scary for me is the number of nukes good ole “mother England” set off in the useless allied territory of Australia. /snark
(Source: youtube.com, via dialectics8)