We honor 150 years since the abolition of slavery in the United States. These portraits of black American men and women who had been slaves were taken in the late 1930s. [via]
Just like my $500 2nd car mentioned earlier–diseased urine factory paint job with the finish long gone and all! Except this one is way less banged up around the front end than mine was when I got it ca. 1992. (A large part of why I got it so cheap. Had to replace the front bumper myself.)
Also minus the neon green dual windshield wipers I added, because you may as well go full goblin style with a machine like this! The wipers were actually bought to match a Halloween goblin bucket mascot for trash 🤗
Surprised I found any photos of those, tbh. Mine was named Kevin, as part of some joke I don’t even remember now. But, shame Kevin isn’t still around too. He was a good mascot.
Not the most attractive vehicle ever–or fastest, with the shitty automatic transmission gearing on that one–but I do kinda miss it. It did keep going until my dad managed to kill it around 2005.
So somebody tagged “2 GENDERS” on the graffiti wall. And like…that was it. I can’t even be mad it was so lazy.
Anyways spraypaint is a dollar so now it says “OVER 9000 GENDERS” and has an antifa tag underneath it. You’re welcome.
Now I’m just trying to wrap my head around the inscrutible mind of the absolute fucking nerd who thinks “2 GENDERS” is edgy or subversive. Like I’m gonna come back to the wall tomorrow and this fool is gonna have tagged “GO TO CHURCH” or “I SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT.”
Like I said, I’m not offended as a queer. I am offended, as a punk, on behalf of taggers everywhere.
I know you were joking, but I literally saw graffiti right after the election that said “give Trump a chance”
That’s the sad part is that I’m not even joking. It probably will happen.
Right after the election the 34th st wall was absolutely ruined with Trump bullshit (some of these no-goodniks even put them *over the memorial panel for the victims of the Gainesville Ripper* because these folks was NOT raised) so what we did was we left them alone except we covered all the Ts so they all said “RUMP” something.
Get on the Rump train. Rump 2016.
I am also pretty mad at my uncle and some thoroughly ingrained scapegoating family dynamics after that mail earlier. One of the reasons I hadn’t gotten in touch with him for years before this came up, tbqh.
He’s trying to be nice, and I have never been the Designated Family Scapegoat myself. Just her kid. (I actually thought I might have inherited the role with her gone, especially as bad as I am at staying in touch. But, it’s not sounding that way.)
What got me today was that we were having an only tangentially related e-mail conversation, with him making an effort to get along because he was glad to hear from me. And that thinking is still so deeply ingrained that he had to get in a barely veiled victim-blaming dig at his dead sister anyway.
To make it even better–and more exasperating–a dig that directly echoed some horribly abusive shit my Mamaw said to my mother in front of me when I was 6 and my parents had just finally split. That scene was bad enough that I still remember it pretty much verbatim–and then my mom further got blamed for making her mother that upset 😡
My uncle probably doesn’t even know where he got that specific line of crap, other than Everybody Knows. Which honestly just makes it worse. There’s not a lot of room for reflection or insight, and I just get so tired. It’s not even directed at me, but jfc I do get tired.
Anyway, I know I’m not in the best emotional state, even without that. And I know I’m a little too prone to jumping into anger as a distraction from worrying about other matters. Anger is easier to deal with in some ways. (My uncle is also the same way, whether or not he’s as aware of what’s going on with it. I recognize the pattern too well. Yay, Family OCD Brain on trauma! 😵)
One reason I am just sitting on that message for a while, yeah. Not that I think hollering at him would do much good anyway. Definitely not when it comes to behavior like that.
Besides setting myself up as Unreasonable, of course. I know that pattern too. I’m more exasperated right now because I don’t think he is always even consciously aware that he’s baiting. As was just demonstrated again.
im sorry did i miss something or are people advocating for the actual real life mafia right now
is this a mad lib
I saw that thread, he said the Mafia shows how you don’t need hierarchies and can be successful in commiting crimes purely on a system of honor. He missed a few things:
1) the honor stuff is mostly bullshit, they’re psychopaths who murder each other all the time, it’s how John Gotti came to power.
2) The Mafia is completely hierarchial, even the glamorized movie versions, which is clearly where his image of them was coming from.
3) To the extent they do follow any of their own rules, they do it because they’re afraid of being murdered and because they make shitloads of money. They put up with the chain of command because this is the only job where a high school dropout with an IQ of 85 can make high six figures.
4) They’re not successful, they barely exist anymore. They were already in decline when Sammy The Bull put the final nail in the coffin and turned over the entire Gambino family. In the middle of the 20th century that had an estimated half a million members, now it’s down to roughly 2,000, and with no political power or central coordination.
But sure, go ahead, mimic this extremely successful organization without giving anyone any money and with people who have economic opportunities that won’t get them killed.
how much of an absolute dipshit do you have to be to think the Mafia isn’t hierarchical. How do you look at an organization where people are literally referred to as ‘Don’ and go “oh yes, this strikes me as following anarchist principles”
Historically, nearly every generation’s economic status was nearly identical to their parents’. The way the baby boomers did exponentially better than their parents was an historical anomily. Millennials are not the first generation to be less well-off than their parents, they’re just not experiencing the rare and specific set of circumstances that lead to a sudden burst of upward mobility. And needless to say all of this is only for white people.
London had several streets named Gropecunt Lane including one in the parishes of St Pancras, Soper Lane and St Mary Colechurch, between Bordhawelane (bordello) and Puppekirty Lane (poke skirt)[26][27] near present-day Cheapside.
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