you know that dumbass Forbes article advocating for Amazon stores to replace public libraries? It was taken down cause the author got dragged so hard by like everyone who has ever entered a library in their life & now Forbes released a statement basically calling the author of the original op-ed “deeply misinformed” lmao
You know, mabes we socialist types should proactively do something to help our local libraries before capitalists find ways of shutting them down for good. Some kind of mass fundraiser or something, I don’t know what. But they seem like the last holdout for people who believe that everyone has a right to resources, no questions asked.
For many people, the library is the one place they can access the internet, which may in turn be the only way they can apply for jobs or get schoolwork done.
Other technology is also available for use at a library, such as a copier or a printer (ours even has a 3D printer open to the public).
The library is a safe place to go if it’s raining or really cold outside.
Children are enabled to read more books than their allowance could ever possibly afford, and for kids from lower-income backgrounds, it might be their only access to books at all.
Lots of libraries provide classes that are needed in their community, whether it’s ESL or literacy or parenting or what have you. Free of charge.
You can even borrow movies or seasons of TV shows instead of springing for Netflix.
And there is no shame whatsoever in visiting one. There is no social stigma attached to the library, it’s for everyone, period.
Any librarians with ideas for how we could help keep them going?
Support the Library Defense Network! They’re a leftist org made up of library workers and they organize communities to prevent public library closures.
Do any of you have any stories about times you were hurt by an extrovert?
extroverts kidnapped me while I was brooding alone in the forest and dragged me under a hill, where I was forced to dance to their enchanted fiddles for what felt like a few hours but was actually many years… when I returned home, my wife had remarried and my children were grown and did not recognize me.
another time an extrovert paid me in cash that turned into dead leaves the next day. fuckin hate those guys.
and how could I forget that time I went flower-picking and came back pregnant with an extrovert’s child? smh. and extroverts are always fucking up my crops and livestock and spoiling my milk. have they no boundaries?!
i swear, introverts are so TOUCHY. all we try to do for you people is add beauty, excitement, and intrigue to your dull, brief little lives, and what do we get in return? complaints, complaints, complaints. “oh, an extrovert seduced me, and in the morning i found myself lying next to a loathly worm.” “waah-waah, extroverts keep abducting my finest livestock and returning them inside-out.” “the eldritch music of the extroverts out in yonder pines has been keeping me awake for weeks.” pfft. suck it UP.
You all, fools: *getting tattoos based on the ancient tattoos they find on bog mummies and the other ancient dead that for all you know will bind you to a forgotten god that now by all rights has a claim on your life for better or for worse*
Me, and intellectual: *doesnt fucking do that*
A forgotten god cannot run my life any worse than I am currently running it myself.
If you have $1,000 in cash and spend 1 penny, that’s the equivalent of Jeff Bezos spending $1.5 million
Good for him. Money doesn’t just fall from the sky. He had to do something to be that wealthy.
like have parents who could give him $100,000 without breaking a sweat then working people literally to death?
“He had to do something to be that wealthy.” should be a very ominous phrase not a positive one.
i like that this person says “he had to do something to be that wealthy”
like. they aren’t sure, they have absolutely no idea about how he acquired all of his wealth, they know nothing about the topic, and yet they will continue to firmly believe that mr. bezos would never do us wrong
Al Capone was the first American to make $100 million, and he had to do “something” fof his money too.
Al Capone actually cared about poor people, though. He came from a family of immigrants and took care of his own, donating to charities and even running a soup kitchen (x, there are better sources but I’m lazy). Some people even characterized him as a kind of modern Robin Hood.
Let me be clear: I’m not saying Al Capone was a good guy. I’m saying he might’ve been a better guy than Jeff Bezos.
And I’m saying that while Al Capone wasn’t a great guy, he was DEFINITELY A better guy than Jeff Bez-ass. This is on mobile, so I can’t do resources right now, I’ll add them later.
Capone, even though he didn’t fire the bullet, once paid for the hospital bills of a woman that had been caught in the crossfire of a scuffle. And while he was there, after paying her medical bills and giving her over $100 of flowers to cheer her up, he paid off all the bills of the children in the hospital. Which he did regularly. He sent flowers to the families of his dead enemies. HE IS THE REASON MILK HAS AN EXPIRATION DATE! His son (or nephew or something) died from complications from bad milk. And he got to work and made the milk and dairy industry hold to a much tighter standard, with included sell by dates and expiration dates. Not because it was family that got sick (or died), but because he found out that a lot of kids were getting sick off of bad milk products.
Capone was always a gentleman, he paid his workers well, treated his women good, and protected his own. If one of his workers got hurt or died, he would pay the bills and expenses, and help out their families.
He wasn’t a good guy, but the dude had a moral standard that Jeff Bez-ass doesn’t even pretend to have.
Oh, and Capone also heavily supported local shops, went to baseball games with his kids, funded his workers’ children to go to school, and was the kind of guy that wouldn’t sucker punch ya unless it was absolutely necessary.
How many rich assholes do we know of that does that kind of stuff?
Mafia Tumblr I knew you were out there somewhere
reblogging for the mafia side of tumblr
The thing is, the reason why the Mafia is as romanticized as it is, especially from that era, is because Al Capone wasn’t alone in that kind of thing. Yes, they murdered people and broke the hell out of the law in hundreds of other ways, but they had codes of honor, and tended to realize that helping out their communities was a good way to keep the common folk on their side instead of going to the cops.
what she says: “Oh I don’t mind; we can eat anywhere. I’m not picky.”
what she means: “For my entire life, I’ve been called bossy/picky/selfish/arrogant/bitchy for voicing my own opinions and making my views known, so now when someone I care about asks me about what I want, my immediate gut reaction is to defer to the other person’s preference. it’s less of a hassle to capitulate to someone else’s desires than to risk having someone verbally berate me for being truthful about what I want.”
SCREAM THIS FROM THE MOUNTAIN TOP
whereas I know I’m a weirdo because it goes:
“For my entire life, I’ve been called picky/selfish/arrogant/bitchy for trying to get a group to follow or even acknowledge any of my own opinions, so now when someone I care about asks me about what I want, my immediate gut reaction is to go:
Wait I GET TO CHOOSE OKAY I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE WE ARE GOING I’VE HAD CRAVINGS FOR A MONTH LETS GET THERE BEFORE A STRONGER VOICE SHOUTS DOWN MY IDEA GO GO GO WE HAVE TO DO THIS, MY CHANCE AT FREE WILL WILL NEVER COME AGAIN wbahahahaah THE POWER IS MINE I GET TO CHOOSE I GET TO CHOOSE
But the oil industry and its authoritarian pals didn’t just buy muscle,
they also bought ideas: hiring firms like Delve and Off the Record
Strategies to secretly develop talking points and coordinate PR strategy
to discredit the water protectors.
These PR firms worked with DCI Group – a GOP PR favorite – who created
an astroturf organization called the Midwest Alliance for
Infrastructure Now (MAIN) (now called Grow America’s Infrastructure Now,
or GAIN).
Significantly, the PR apparatus mobilized to discredit the water
protectors cut its teeth selling America on George W Bush’s Iraq
invasion. For example, Off the Record principle Mark Pfeifle was GWB’s
communications advisor for justifying the invasions of Afghanistan and
Iraq. That’s just the tip of the iceberg: the rogues’ gallery of PR
flacks who worked to justify the poisoning-at-gunpoint of the Standing
Rock water supply are a who’s who of GWB-era dark arts practitioners,
and leaks of their talking points documents show that they originated
the fake news that the right-wing press circulated about the water
protectors.
One thing that a lot of transmasc people struggle with before they fully realize they’re trans is the question of “do I hate being treated like a woman because women are treated like shit, or do I hate being treated like a woman because I’m not a woman?”
and one method (though not entirely foolproof) to figuring that out is asking “would I be upset if another girl was treated like this?”
like, I’d be just as mad if some dude said “you can’t do math because you’re a girl” to a female classmate as I would if he said it to me
however, I never got uncomfortable at waiters calling my female friends “m’am”, I was only uncomfortable when they called *me* that
and obviously everyone’s feelings are different and there’s tons of variables at play, but if you find that there’s a lot of the second scenario going on with you, there’s a good chance you’re not entirely cis
Where was this post 18 god damn months ago.
I think this is important and can be helpful for many people, and I don’t want this reply to come off as In Conflict but rather complicating/adding to:
I think some people who have deep set trauma around womanhood and misogyny do start to have very visceral and upsetting reactions & dysphoria(s) in reaction to being called “ma’am” or treated like a woman even in “normal” non-misogynistic ways, because being a woman itself has become deeply entrenched with the trauma and discomfort. there are also gnc women who dislike being called “ma’am” and some other “typical woman things” but who do not end up coming to the conclusion that they are not a woman.
this is in no way to say it is less good or “correct” to figure out you are not a woman/don’t want to be a woman, or that people should identify as a woman over other things- I think transmasc experiences are beyond “valid” (to be cliche) and that for many people being transmasculine is right and healthy and healing (and the final verdict on how “right” and healthy and accurate that is ultimately up to no one but the person themself). I just think that for many of us who have struggled between (often gnc) womanhood and transmasculinity and some of the very blurred experiences in between, it’s not as simple as discomfort with overtly misogynistic treatment versus discomfort with “normal women treatment” because for a lot of people across this whole span of identifications and experiences who’ve had traumatic experiences with assigned womanhood, “normal woman treatment” can feel equally out of place, painful and hard to separate.
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