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“Anything can survive in space. It just dies pretty quickly”
- some dad, to his daughters, as I passed them on a hiking trail
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Home
You were supposed to be my home.
For a while you were.
And I hoped you would be, forever.
But I’ve had to leave
Because you let the rafters cave in
And the walls crumble down.
There’s no home in a pile of rubble.
A flooded basement
Filled with now sunken memories
Lost to the rain that trickles through
Cracks in the foundation.
You were supposed to be my home
But now I am without one.
Lost and alone
And I don’t know where to go
Because I did not have another plan
You were my home
And I was settled in
But you stepped outside
And neglected the house that we built
Then burned it to the ground
Set it ablaze and somehow amazed
When it collapsed and left us both
Out in the rain
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Picture Frame (I broke it like you broke my heart)
Can you fix it?
Can you straighten out that wire frame?
Collect all those pieces of glass?
And glue them back together again?
My heart is this broken picture frame.
You shattered it. Mangled it.
Like it didn’t have any meaning at all.
You want to fix my heart?
Can you fix this picture frame?
They are the same.
If I ever meant to you
Even a fraction
Of what you meant to me
You’d straighten out that wire frame
You’d collect all those pieces of glass
And you’d glue them back together again.
It seems impossible.
Doesn’t it?
Maybe now you might understand
What you did to my heart.
Collect all those thousands of fragments
Try and understand how they fit together
It seems absurd
Doesn’t it?
Are you capable of fixing that?
Will you even try?
Even knowing that the glass
Might cut you?
Even knowing that some pieces
Might never be found?
Even knowing that it will never be
As sturdy as it was before?
Even knowing that the cracks
Will never be seamless?
Permanent scars
Permanent holes
Permanent pain (indescribable pain)
If I ever meant to you
Even a fraction
Of what you meant to me
You’d straighten out that wire frame
You’d collect all those pieces of glass
And you’d put it all back together again.
Or will you just sweep it all up
And throw the mess away?
#heartbreak#love poem#hate poem#heartbroken#loss#relationship#breakup#poetry#ramblings#she cheated on me#I’m going to send her this when she finds the picture frame#pain#emotional damage
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As someone suffering from Crohn’s Disease, this makes me mad. Why did my ancestors have to survive? Fuck those guys. What a bunch of assholes.
source {x}
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My dad said in the same breath that unions are evil but that he wants a president who will give us a 4 day work week…
Buddy my guy, you DO know how we even got the 40 hour week, right? How we got the 8 hour day? Hmm, I wonder what was responsible for that…?
Fucking strong unions. That’s what.
So many average republican American citizens are actually mid-left libertarian socialists, they are just so god damn propagandized to vote against their own best interests, they’ll never know it.
It makes me so mad.
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[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled “immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]
a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”
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How tf did this man really just try to make holding people accountable seem like a bad thing bro what
Matt Taibbi has lost his way.
'Why would a criminal leave his qualified immunity' sounds like corrupt police, BTW.
Trump is not a regular President. He was a conman who never put his business in a trust.
Trump worked for Putin to end US sanctions against Russia.
Trump pled the 5th every time. Trump obstructed every investigation.
No one is above the law.
This is a victory for justice.
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Called it. Price gouging at its finest.
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Capitalism wants to eliminate worker solidarity.
There is nothing radical about providing the basics and respecting labor.
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I keep hearing about gen z suing politicians, unionizing workplaces, coming into skilled trades, taking no shit from anyone, and yet, somehow, gen z is “soft”, gen z is “the worst generation of all time”, gen z is “stupid”, etc.
I’ll tell you what’s soft and stupid- republicans who are so terrified of gay people that they’ll move to ban an elective AP college class they know nothing about simply because the word “queer” showed up somewhere. Regardless of how it was used or why. Republicans who are so terrified of “indoctrination” that they’ll make it a FELONY for an educator to be caught with a book not submitted for approval by the government, even if it’s just on their own desk. Republicans who are so terrified of “the liberal agenda” that a SINGLE SENTENCE BILL that says “terminate the department of education” is considered an acceptable proposal. Republicans who are SO TERRIFIED of “communism” that they think universal healthcare will lead to mass genocide at the hands of the government. Republicans are so god damn soft. They’ll believe any fear mongering bullshit the media feeds them.
Meanwhile, every zoomer I know will gladly lose their job if a customer gets an attitude with them. Give an attitude to a zoomer and they often won’t hesitate to fucking slay you. They don’t give a shit. They aren’t scared of you or anyone, and they have virtually nothing to lose. When it comes to gen z, y’all gonna fuck around and find out. Gen z ain’t the soft helpless babies that everyone thinks they are. Gen z consists of a lot of critical thinkers who most of all, don’t want to be told what to do.
Sure not all zoomers are this way, no generation will ever be solely defined like that, because people are all different, but, I believe that for the most part, these are defining characteristics of most of gen z.
As an older zoomer myself, or what some might call a “zillenial”, gen z is smart as hell. Most of us have been to at least some college. Many graduated college with smart degrees. Many like myself have gone into skilled trades. Many have been in both college and in trades. As a zoomer in an industrial trade, I see a hell of a lot of zoomers coming into all trades around me. And most of my fellow tradesmen are pretty left leaning. Many of them are immigrants, from all over the world. I’ve worked with immigrants from Venezuela, from Mexico, from Nicaragua, from Russia, from all kinds of places, many of them within my age group.
And without all these tradesmen, the factories wouldn’t be running. The roads wouldn’t be expanded. The bridges won’t be built.
I digress.
My point is that gen z is not soft at all. Gen z is called soft for wanting the bare minimum- universal healthcare, stronger labor rights protections, higher wages for all Americans, better education, etc., and they’ll tell you all about it, not giving a single flying fuck if you oppose them. Because they will get their way. Gen z grew up in a world where the only way they could get what they wanted was by being a force to be reckoned with. They’ll go straight to the top of the power structure to make things happen- for example, I learned in middle school that the way that you stop a bully is not by telling your teacher. It’s by gathering fellow targeted classmates in solidarity and going straight to the principles office demanding answers.
In the work place, a zoomer will not talk to their manager about the misbehavior of another manager or another coworker. They’ll go straight to the top, straight to HR, straight to OSHA, whatever, they’ll go right over your head because that’s how you get shit done, and that takes courage.
Someone who is soft would stand around and just accept shit. Gen z does not do that at all. Gen z is willing to reject and fight any social or power construct they have even the most minor beef with.
I think I speak for a majority of gen z in saying these things. Obviously some zoomers will completely disagree, but I think the majority of them would agree with me.
When it comes to us young people, y’all gonna fuck around and find out. Keep fucking around. We see you. And you’re gonna find out.
#gen z stuff#politics#zoomers#gen z post#gen z thoughts#generational#fuck around and find out#lefties#hot take#rant post
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NGL, I come from a place of privilege, given that I am under 25 and have no debt.
I have about $30,000 in assets - just my savings, car, tech, jewelry, and all my worldly goods that could be resold put together, at their current value. If I lost that 30k, which is really just (one) medical emergency away from bankruptcy, I would have to strip everything for the cash. In just cash alone, I'm not even close enough for a downpayment on a starter home, a multi year endeavor.
By comparison, millionaires such as Lady Gaga (130 million) and Keanu Reeves (380 million) are far above me. To be on the same level, I would have to earn and retain in financial or asset form, $129,970,000 or $379,970,000 respectively. Anything I spent on rent, insurance, gas, food, medicine, and other consumables that can't be resold doesn't count towards that net worth total.
That's a lot. But this pales in comparison to billionaires such as Jeff Bezos (117 billion) and Elon Musk (191 billion). I would have to retain $116,999,970,000 and $190,999,970,000 respectively. At my current income of $50k, which is above the median income for people with my level of education, assuming I magically don't need to spend any money on consumables and can just bank it all:
It would take me 2,599 years and 146 days to obtain Lady Gaga's wealth, or almost 26 CENTURIES.
It would take me 7,599 years and 146 days to obtain Keanu Reeve's wealth, or almost 76 CENTURIES.
It would take me 2,339,999 years and 146 days to obtain Jeff Bezo's wealth, or almost 2,340 MILLENIA.
It would take me 3,899,999 years to obtain Elon Musk's wealth. It would take me nearly 3,900 MILLENIA.
Oh, this is after having paid off all my debt and with my existing assets, by the way. For even Lady Gaga, the least wealthy of this list, I would have to work tirelessly from before the Roman Empire was even founded.
But that's just me, a college-educated middle-class American citizen who is both debt and child-free.
It's much more fascinating to compare these to each other.
Lady Gaga makes $25 million a year.
Keanu Reeves makes $40 million a year.
So, if I deduct what these millionaires already have in assets and divide the total of the billionaire's assets by their income to find how many years of just banking money (no consumables):
Lady Gaga would have to bank another $116,870,000,000 to have Jeff Bezo's wealth. Assuming she stops spending on consumables like food or whatever and every penny of her $25 million income goes into future asset wealth, it would still take Lady Gaga 4,674 years and 293 days for her to obtain Bezo's wealth.
Keanu Reeves would have to bank another $190,620,000,000 to achieve Elon Musk's wealth. Again, in a fantasy world where Keanu doesn't have to feed and clothe himself, it would take him 4,765 years and 6 months to obtain Elon Musk's wealth.
The gap between the assets of famous multimillionaires like Lady Gaga and Keanu Reeves (who make MILLIONS every year) and that of famous multi-billionaires is a little less than HALF what it would take me to become as wealthy as Lady Gaga at my income level, which is, again, above the median. I could never achieve that wealth in my entire fucking lifetime, because, even if I assumed my income would go up and actually outpace inflation, I still need to eat and I can only use my body for labor until I'm 80, tops, which is only 56 years of work and nowhere near the thousands.
This sounds very conspiracy-brain, but sometimes I think the United States deliberately undermines math education and the corresponding understanding of how to problem-solve and comprehend magnitude of these kinds of numbers. Because if kids sat down and did the math, they just might realize that there is no way to become this rich on your own hard work.
Sure, you can invest in the stock market - but that's gambling. Most people might be able to hamper the effects of inflation on their asset values with stock investment.
The American dream is a lie.
The middle class is closer to becoming homeless than they are to becoming multimillionaires.
Even multimillionaires are closer to becoming middle class or even homeless than they are to becoming multi-billionaires.
Don't fucking tell me to budget and I'll become a millionaire. It's more likely I'll get hit by lightning or lose it all to medical bills.
If this doesn't radicalize you, I don't know what will.
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In the wake of Eli Lilly losing $30 million in their stock tank after a Twitter impersonator of them said insulin was now free, Eli Lilly announces that they will be dropping the price of insulin from nearly $300 a vial to $60 or so a vial, and capping out of pocket costs to $35 at participating pharmacies.
Now obviously I’m still a loud advocate for the fact that big Pharma and healthcare as a whole need to be completely nationalized and made universally free, but,
This shows us that we have power. The internet’s little stunt might have had something to do with this. They got exposed and lost out big time and now they might have to actually take steps in the right direction.
#big pharma#healthcare#insurance#private insurance#nationalize healthcare#universal healthcare#eat the rich#fuck big pharma#big Pharma can eat shit#politics#medicine
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A response to my mother after she told me she is worried about my current direction, worried that I have been indoctrinated by school, worried that I will regret my decisions and that she wishes she homeschooled me:
I know won’t regret my current beliefs because I know they will lead to legislation that will benefit me.
As someone who has unfortunately developed a chronic disease beyond anyone’s control, I don’t believe that makes me deserve to go bankrupt at the hands of greedy private insurance and drug companies, who charge up to 10 times more for the same medications, treatments, and tests as the nationalized healthcare systems in most developed nations.
As someone making a statistically lower wage adjusted for inflation and productivity in a skilled trade than compared to 40 years ago, I want a return of strong labor unions that will help me fight companies who report record profits while wages continue to stagnate and prices continue to inflate. Corporations put profits over people, because workers are nothing but human capital to them, and they continue to aggressively lobby obscene amounts of money to bribe politicians to allow increasing violations of both domestic and international labor laws such as the Wagner Act and the UN Bill of Rights.
We are currently living in a recession not quite as bad, but nearly as bad as both the Great Depression and the time leading up to the French Revolution, with the added current threat of the nation defaulting on its debt entirely.
Income inequality in the United States is higher now than it has ever been in history, and this downward spiral of the last 40 years correlates to a couple key events:
Reagan’s cutting of FDR’s New Deal tax bracket, which placed very low taxes on the middle and lower class, and astronomically high taxes on any amount of income that exceeded a $4.2 million cap. This was a 94% tax rate on excessive wealth, and it allowed the government to employ and pay millions of Americans to build great new infrastructure, fund public education, and the middle class grew to include 60% of the American population. We had strong labor unions and strong solidarity as a unified American people, gaining high wages, high productivity, high levels of innovation, and high levels of health.
As labor rights have been weakened by Reagan and his followers, as the highest tax bracket has been reduced to only 40% above the cap, our productivity has continued to rise but wages have stagnated and remained almost completely level for 40 years, with less than 8% growth, while the pay of CEOs has now gone from 30% more than the average workers pay in the 50s and 60s to over 400% more than the average workers pay in 2022, and many corporations increasingly get away with illegal retaliation against unionizing or striking workers by using these excessive profits of stolen wages to lobby and buy our elected officials, bribing them to do corporate bidding against the needs and wants of the people.
The average American worker has gone from working 40 hours a week and being able to provide for a family on one income to two people with more than three, maybe four full time jobs between them barely being able to afford to rent a small house.
Our country can afford to fix these issues. The money is there, and the math supports it. All we have to do is reform our tax system back to New Deal standards and get corporate money out of politics. Bring the power back to working Americans.
And under the New Deal, there was enough money to fund public universities for free or nearly free. Free public university is not a radical idea. We had it before, and it worked well. Other nations have it.
All of our allies have universal healthcare and free public university, and nearly every single one of them completely outclasses the United States in education, health, life expectancy, and happiness. And they have less money than we do as a nation to accomplish it. And they do it while working half the amount of hours that Americans do. Y’all have been indoctrinated into believing that this makes them lazy, but you’re wrong. It makes them strong. They have these things because they are strong. Because they are unified. They are a United people who possess more power together in solidarity than their government can ever dream of having.
The United States is the wealthiest nation on earth. The problem is that 90% of this wealth is held by a small handful of multi-billionaires, who use their money to buy politicians and the media, when they aren’t storing it in offshore accounts to evade what little taxes they should be currently paying.
I entered into the world to make it on my own as a skilled tradesman and quickly learned that trickle down economics was a lie, and the numbers and policies that prove it are readily and vastly available and have lead us full speed into failure.
None of this is anything I learned in school. All of this is what I’ve learned trying to enter the work force, trying to live on my own, and from reading actual policies rather than taking the media and the politicians at their word. The actual policies speak volumes. The numbers speak volumes. And they often contradict our elected officials’ word.
School taught me to read and to write, and how to collect and read data objectively, how to read historical events so that we can avoid past disasters that are prone to repeating.
And home schooling promotes individualism and weak social skills, which are a disaster, as they weaken American solidarity, and therefore weaken the American people’s’ ability to be United and powerful.
School did not teach me my current political and economic beliefs.
I learned them on my own, mostly within the past three years of trying to make it in what has increasingly become apparent as a rigged, classist system currently engaged in an incredibly aggressive class and culture war fueled by corporate money.
Privatization is not the solution. It is the problem.
We need strong leaders like FDR, now. We need a return of New Deal style policy, now.
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Terminate the department of education?
I’m only just hearing of this now, but HR 899 is a bill put forward by a Republican congressman, backed by 20 other republicans, and I shit you not, it’s one sentence:
“Terminate the department of education”.
That’s it. That’s the bill. Just delete the department of education. Straight up just delete it and that’s it.
Many prominent GOP members cosponsored this bill.
You cannot make this up.
Demented.
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People always say “who is going to pay for it?” as if it’s some profound “gotcha!”
The rich. The rich can pay for it. They did in the past and they can do it again.
In the 1930s and 1940s the United States was facing a debt crisis much like todays. The government was running out of money coming out of the Great Depression and going into World War 2, and the economy wasn’t doing too well. Everything was falling apart, much like it is now. What was the solution?
And it worked. The US working middle class and the economy did awesome well through the 50s and 60s. The working middle class was wealthier than ever before and wealthier than it’s ever been. Regular people like you and me. Public infrastructure flourished. States had the budgets to build free colleges. College used to be free by the way. It wasn’t until Ronald Reagan’s advisors warned him how “dangerous” an “educated proletariat” was (those are his words), that major universities started to see cuts in public funding and had to start charging tuition.
Today, the top 1% is only taxed at 43% and has been dropping since Ronald Reagan’s presidency. Reagan also set the precedent of ignoring labor and union rights, violating both domestic (NLRA, Wagner Act) and international (United Nations bill of rights) law. This too has only ever been made worse by Republican policy as time has gone on with yet more tax cuts for the wealthy. Look up the actual policies. Don’t take a politicians word, read their actual policy. They will and do lie to you.
Do y’all understand now why the US debt is going up so fast? It’s because Trump cut that tax rate even more, amassing a whopping 20% of our current total national debt within only 4 years. The debt ceiling was raised THREE TIMES during Trump’s presidency, the uppermost tax bracket was cut even more, and massive corporate bailout loans were forgiven. Research the PPE loans. This has been Republican policy for 40+ years.
The systemic deconstruction of the middle class and the government in favor of corporate control. We are living in a repeat of the Gilded Age of the Industrial Revolution. The railroads and the banks own and control everything, including the government.
These are facts. Read it in any history book.
Or you can just ban those books too and pretend it didn’t happen. That would be a mistake though.
If you wanna know how our economy has REALLY been doing for the last 40 years, I suggest looking into the Economic Policy Institute. Or ask any working class American how they have been doing lately, especially those of us who are young, trying to make it.
Our current struggle is not caused by the “Woke Mob” as propaganda outlet Fox News will tell you.
(Do any of you even know what “woke” means? It means you are aware and attentive to the fact that systematic societal issues and flaws exist. Wether it be race issues, income issues, whatever. Being “woke” literally means you’re not a sheep who follows along anything that the media and government tell you. Thats what it means. Literally look it up. I grew up as this word came to popularity. It’s been around for a very long time. The GOP is taking advantage of the fact that you don’t know what it is, and using it as a fear mongering tactic to channel your anger at your neighbor instead of the corporations pulling the strings. It is corporate propaganda).
Our current struggle is caused by the class warfare waged by corporate scum as they buy all of our politicians in return for bailing out the government’s debt. Both left and right, our politicians have been bought. None of them work for you. They work for the big corporations lining their pockets through unlimited lobbying.
So, when y’all say “I don’t wanna pay for it”- don’t worry, you aren’t going to be paying for it. The middle class will not be paying for it. The multi-billionaire corporations stealing your labor will be paying for it. The rich goons who increase the price of your groceries and lay you off all in the name of making a few extra bucks will be paying for it.
Do some research and you’ll see exactly why and when we got into this mess.
It’s not that complicated. It really isn’t.
Tax. The. Rich.
#anti capitalism#capitalism#eat the rich#eat the 1%#tax the 1%#tax the rich#die corpo scum#end corporate lobbying#politics#economy#economics#taxes and taxation#wealth redistribution#socialism#woke agenda#wokity wokity woke#woke mob#reaganomics#ronald reagan#FDR#recession#working class#class war#capitalism sucks#corporations aren’t people
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