socialist guinea pigs
Politics, animals, humour, and also politics.
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Quote reblogged from My Life as a FeministaWhen you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. When you have poor schools, you have poor teachers. When you have poor teachers, you get a poor education. When you get a poor education, you can only work in a poor-paying job. And that poor-paying job enables you to live again in a poor neighborhood. So, it’s a very vicious cycle.
Malcolm X (via warriorsrise)
Why is this so difficult for some people to understand?
(Source: shedsumlight)
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Photo reblogged from Simply Opinions
Yes. We live in a nation that degrades professions like teaching, and glorifies professions like robber baron. Amerikuhh!
(Source: tankflynn)
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Photo reblogged from Chauvinist Sushi
This is seriously an amazing visual. I always hear people say “healthy food is too expensive”…. well here you go!
A gallon of milk is almost $5 here, peaches aren’t in season so they’re probably $3 a pound, on what planet is chicken that inexpensive because it’s like $4 here and beef is MORE than that.
And if I did have $20 to buy that stuff, how am I going to get it home if I don’t have a car? What if I have to walk for 30 minutes to the nearest bus stop on a hot summer’s day in Florida? What’ll happen to the meat and milk products in 98F when they can’t be refrigerated for several hours? What if I’m by myself? How am I going to heft ten pounds of potatoes (which, it’s not like potatoes are a fucking health food) to where I live with the OTHER groceries. What if I have young children who can’t quite carry things for long stretches? What if I’m disabled? What if I don’t have a reliable place to store these items because I’m a little behind on some of my bills to pay for bus fair and my kids’ lunch money and they need things for school? Who’s going to cook this food when I have a shift in an hour?
It’s not a matter of healthy food being less expensive, because it’s really not. Time, accessibility, and resources keep people from eating healthy food they deserve.
I fucking HATE these posts. Poor people already feel like shit, dude.
Also, can I point out again that when poor people go to KFC, they don’t get the bucket? They get a couple things each off the value menu, and some biscuits if they got a couple bucks left. 10 bucks, family of four. And there is not a single spice, seasoning or sauce in that grocery pile, so those beans and potatoes are gonna be hard as hell to choke down plain, especially for kids.
Boneless skinless chicken breast tenderloins for $0.98 a pound? Take me to your leader, I want to live on this planet.
yeah, those prices are made the fuck up. Seriously, show me where you can buy two pounds of chicken breasts for $1.96 so I can go shop there.
All of those prices hover right around two bucks. Somebody just said “I’m gonna pick ten things and make them all $2 so it’ll add up to the same price.” Prove me wrong.
(granted living in expensive-ass Boston could have warped my ideas about what things cost, but I don’t know anywhere you can get 8 ears of corn for $2. not even roadside stands sell them that cheap.)
note: according to the department of labor, the current cost of a gallon of milk is $3.50
Maybe it’s because I’m in NYC right now
But two pounds of chicken breasts is not $1.96 unless there’s a magical grocery that I am not aware of and I will totally shop there all day everyday instead
These prices are lies D>
Seriously. Nice sentiment, incorrect numbers.
As a New Yorker, I would KILL to get groceries that cheap.
It’s not just New York. I am in Nebraska. The place where food lives. I have never found a place where things like corn and beef and corn are cheaper than here. Every time I go to the coast I shake my head at the price of things. And I cannot buy this stuff for these prices.
Lol the first thing I thought looking at those prices was “WHAT PLANET SELLS SHIT THIS CHEAP?!?!?!”
Seriously, fuck the OP, they’re obviously blinded by economic privilege if they fell for this bullshit. Self-righteous prick.
also, TAX? what about TAX?
wait, they tax groceries where you live? can they do that?
Yeah, they charge tax on groceries. That’s totally a thing. And since tax in Chicago is like 10%, you can add on to that shit. OP is smoking something wonderful.
woooow, i really didn’t know that. they don’t do that here, and I don’t think I’ve ever been anywhere where they did. yeah, that makes it worse.
i really want to know who made this, and where the hell they shop.
Apparently someone named Stephanie Romine at a site called Daily Spark is the originator of this graphic. The article linked has a whole list of obnoxious and fairly misinformed graphics depicting “comparisons” between things you could buy for $X.
According to the fine print at the end of the article “(Grocery prices from Wal-Mart and Meijer in Noblesville, Indiana, and Cincinnati, Ohio; fast food prices from the greater Indianapolis and Cincinnati areas, 2010)” Color me skeptical.
(Source: fitness-is-a-habit)
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- Student: I'm not going to go to college because I don't want to go into debt.
- USA: YOU USELESS PIECE OF SHIT. YOU'RE GOING TO AMOUNT TO NOTHING YOU FUCKING SCUMBAG. YOU'RE THE REASON WHY MY TAXES ARE SO HIGH.
- Student: I'm just going to attend a small community college instead.
- USA: HAHAHA YOU WERE TOO STUPID TO GET INTO A GOOD UNIVERSITY. ENJOY YOUR MCDONALD'S DIPLOMA.
- Student: I attended a four year university and received a diploma in a field I am interested in. Now I am $50,000+ in debt.
- USA: YOU DUMBASS. WHY THE FUCK DID YOU GO TO COLLEGE WHEN YOU KNOW YOU COULDN'T AFFORD IT? YOU DIDN'T EVEN CHOOSE A USEFUL MAJOR EITHER. GOD PEOPLE LIKE YOU MAKE ME SICK.
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Photo reblogged from Illusions of Grandeur
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Quote reblogged from Illusions of GrandeurThere are more than five times as many vacant homes in the U.S. as there are homeless people, according to Amnesty International USA. Since 2007, banks have shuttered about 8 million American houses, almost doubling the previous number, while 3.5 million homeless shiver in the cold. Experts expect 8 million to 10 million more foreclosures in the years ahead.
Vacant Houses Outnumber Homeless People in U.S.
i am going to be sick. i am going to be fucking sick. (via guerrillamamamedicine)
“In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially ourselves.”—Derrick Jensen
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Photo reblogged from listen to the rain
No. There is no overpopulation problem. There’s an over-consumption problem, a racism problem, a blaming-the-poor problem.
What countries are responsible for the most environmental damage? The wealthy countries, with low population growth rates.
What countries are responsible for exponential resource depletion? The wealthy countries. The US, for example, has 5% of the world’s population and consumes 25-30% of the world’s resources, and contributes 30% of the world’s greenhouse gases.
The population growth rate is slowing down, and we will reach our peak in approximately 2050, at 9 billion. There is enough food produced right now to feed that many people.
People aren’t starving because of our population. The environment isn’t being destroyed because of population. So why are we blaming our problems on population? The only reason I can think of is to lift the blame from the wealthy nations, from ourselves. Treat people in the Third World like over-breeding cattle who can’t think for themselves. Force sterilisation on unwilling women. Breathe a sigh of guilty relief when a few of those cattle die from a natural disaster (that was most likely caused by global warming, a problem created by industrialised nations).
Stop playing the anti-PC game: You know, the one where you claim that anybody who suggests being humane and looking at facts is just being “politically correct.”
I’m glad some of you found solace in the fact that the OP feels the same way you do. Just know that that doesn’t make you any more of a moral person.
I just think that the number of people on the planet is too much, especially with the growth rate.
Population growth rate has been decreasing for a while now.
We don’t kill people off. We just have to be careful. You cannot ignore that we have a population that is threatening to tip us over the edge because we take and take and take. It doesn’t matter who takes.
Of course it matters. When one group steals from another, do you say, “It doesn’t matter who has stolen”?
Take less, share what we have. If we reach our peak population, even if we have the ability to provide for that many people, what happens when we surpass that, even if we have come to a place where we can provide?
Peak population: When the population peaks. By definition, it won’t be surpassed.
I just don’t want to see this planet lost - regardless of the place we are at. Even in an ideal situation - where our resources are evenly distributed - we can surpass the amount of people our planet can handle. What happens then?
There is no fixed carrying capacity. Carrying capacity is based on resource consumption. And as I said, we will likely not surpass 9 billion.
We need to fix our population problem, and be more responsible about reproducing. (The crazy tv families with 20 kids? Yeah. None of those.)
Most large families are poor, which means that they consume up to 70 times fewer resources per capita. That means that a family in some countries would need 70 children in order to equal your or my resource consumption. So unless you’re planning on condemning reproduction in Developed nations completely, we may just have to abandon the whole “population control as a solution to resource depletion” thing altogether.
This is just as important, though, as fixing our over-consumption problem (which is part of why the over-population problem is so bad - because the minority takes more than the majority.)
As I already explained, no it’s not. If we all consumed the amount of resources that some people in this world do, then our peak population could live happily on this planet. So how is this still a population issue?
It is also just as important as fixing our racism problem. Nothing will ever come of our progress until all people are treated equally, and with equal respect towards their human lives.
Population control is not as important is stopping racism. I agree with the rest of that paragraph.
It is also just as important as fixing our blaming-the-poor problem. Nothing will ever come of blaming the poor, and the rich will only reap the rewards that should be equally dispersed.
ALL FOUR OF THESE THINGS ARE IMPORTANT PROBLEMS THAT NEED TO BE SOLVED, but without first fixing our tendency to blame the poor, fixing our racism, and fixing our over-consumption, we will never be able to solve our population problem and get the human race under control, preventing us from using all our resources and fucking ourselves over beyond repair.
If we control population only, we will still destroy this planet, guaranteed. If we work on all those other things you mentioned, without focusing on population at all, we will solve the world’s problems, since 9 billion will be easily sustained. That is why population is not a concern.
(Also, the OP’s pic. What the fuck is wrong with you? No one deserves to die, even if it would help solve a problem.)
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Quote reblogged from speak, girl
It is ludicrous to say you oppose the war but support the troops. It is the troops that invaded a foreign country. It is the troops that are occupying a foreign country. It is the troops that are dropping the bombs. It is the troops that are throwing the grenades. It is the troops that are launching the missiles. It is the troops that are firing the mortars. It is the troops that are shooting the bullets. It is the troops that are destroying homes and infrastructure. It is the troops that are injuring, maiming, and killing people, including thousands of civilians.
If more Americans who don’t support U.S. wars and interventions would also quit expressing support for the troops then perhaps more of the troops would quit participating in these wars and interventions.Lew Rockwell. (via anarchyagogo)
Sorry, this is bullshit. The military is one of the only ways that a lower-class person can secure a stable income and health insurance. So many people I went to high school with were told they didn’t have the money or the smarts for college, but the military was waiting for them with a sign-on bonus and a GI Bill. We’re talking about eighteen year old kids here, who have parents who work at factories if they still have a job at all. People don’t join the military for the thrill of invading other countries. They do it because there’s no other option for them in the job market here.
(via speakgirl)
^What she said. The OP seems to have a very ignorant view of the military industrial complex.
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Photo reblogged from Social Uprooting
The damage of prolonged unemployment goes deeper than dollars. Skills deteriorate, anxiety and depression set in, and sometimes an outlook changes forever. Megan McArdle argues that the true cost of unemployment is even worse than we thought.
Butbutbut…they’re just lazy! They should just get off their bums!
