yknow theres a lot of pressure to be successful, particularly on artsy kids whose professions are seen as useless unless theyre famous, but life is fucking hard and sometimes things dont turn out
but i think thats not bad. my dad has wanted to be a musician forever, and hes rly pretty good. but then he joined the military to get away from an abusive family, and then he got married, and then he got divorced, and a lot of horrible shit HAPPENED. he has ptsd and severe anxiety and he could never really get back on the horse. and he never made it as a musician, and now hes 53
but i grew up in a house full of instruments, and he can play all of them, and some of my earliest memories are of him playing guitar on the front porch and me thinking there wasnt a better musician in the world. so. even if you dont get to the stars, exactly, what you do isnt worthless. its not a waste of time if life is difficult and you cant make it, or if you arent famous, or if your work doesn’t influence thousands of people. it will influence someone
there are a million ways to be happy and a million ways to be a successful artist. we create what we do to enhance the human experience and relate to each other and improve ourselves. theres something to be said for just doing that,,,for the sake of doing it, yknow
This is an ugly, scathing read. No lies to be found
People are getting angry about this post on the asusmption that it defends exploitative pimps or trafficking. From my reading of it: it doesn’t. It just says: don’t judge all sex work for its worst abuses unless you’re willing to hold up all labor to that level of criticism. Don’t use it as an excuse to judge all sex work when the real reason you object is something else. Support workers rights everywhere, in every job, every time.
The SNAP program is getting some work requirements applied again which are expected to leave up to (or more than) a MILLION people without benefits. Of these people, 97% are at OR BELOW the poverty line.
And the only way to “earn” your benefits – the way to “prove” that you don’t “deserve” to starve to death – is to work 20 hours per week, or 80 per month.
Either pull a job out of your ass (earn your paycheck AND qualify for food assistance), OR participate in 80 hours of UNPAID labor (PLUS the expense and time of transportation to and from a set, unflexible location).
And after working 80 hours (plus paying money you don’t have for transportation to get to the designated “program” location/s) for the state to “prove” you don’t deserve to die, you get… are you ready?
I’m gonna use the Florida figures, because that’s what I was reading up on.
Less than $200 in food assistance. The average is actually less than 150.
Yeah, I was hit with this. We’re okay right now since we’re staying with family, though feeding us puts a strain on them as well.
I make some internet money that works out to about 125 a week so if I wanna keep getting my food assistance I have to itemize that so it qualifies as a 20 hour a week job, which it probably does, but it’s ridiculous that anyone has to do this and most people under the poverty line will not be able to.
I HAVE had real jobs. I’ve had enough real jobs that the taxes taken out of my own past paychecks already cover all the food assistance I’ve used and plenty to come. I have already paid for this food myself.
And every day a politician somewhere in this country wastes enough money to feed our entire fucking population.
I WANNA ADD SOMETHING IMPORTANT for anyone who thinks they might need to sign up for food assistance, cause a few people just asked me some stuff about it.
In your interviews and applications, they are going to ask “do you ever eat with other people.”
This is a trick question.
You’re gonna probably think “well, technically, yeah, I had lunch with my friend last week…my mom made me a dinner….”
STOP
Answer NO. Always always answer NO.
This question is designed to weed people out. If you admit to literally ever sharing a meal with another human being, that actually allows them to deny or alter your benefit amount. Even though this is legally referred to as “supplemental” food assistance and it isn’t enough to live on by itself, Republicans already don’t want anyone to have even that, and they want to consider it “fraud” if you both receive food assistance and EVER share food with another person, whether you’ve used your benefits to buy ingredients for someone’s birthday dinner or your mom made you a casserole one visit.
The correct thing to say when asked these questions is “I purchase and prepare my own food” or “we eat separately.” Even if you’ve already told them you live with family or a roommate.
Remember: Republicans don’t even want assistance recipients to be able to buy “luxury” items like fucking pasta sauce.
They would limit you to nothing but gruel if they could. They’ve fought and pushed to load the benefit process with “tricks” and catch-22′s like these to treat as wide a range of people they can as lazy fraudsters and moochers.
Hey @fullten , this is some super important information from bogleech here. Sorry to bother you to post it again but I think this might save some people some pain in the future to see this.
This Thanksgiving, SURJ is offering two ways to help support white folks in having tough conversations with other white folks – conversations that are necessary if we want to break silence about race in this country:
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It’s vital for white people to break white silence about the danger of Trump’s presidency – we we’ll make sure you have the tools you need to have those conversations over the holidays!
I think that no matter how far behind Trump looks in the polls, we all still need to take the election seriously and go vote againqst him. Not only to ensure that he has no chance of winning, but also to show that a racist asshole who fucking brags about sexually assaulting women isn’t capable of coming even close to winning the election.
THIS
It’s not enough to just go ‘Oh there’s NO WAY he can win’
EVERYONE who is of voting age needs to go out and vote Democrat on November 8th
It doesn’t matter how certain you are that trump ‘Can’t’ win
GO OUT AND VOTE TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT HE DOESN’T
No.
Let’s get out there and win everything.
The White House? We’re keeping it.
The Senate? We’re taking it.
The House? We‘re coming for it.
The GOP? We will end it.
The politics of hate: of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, trickle-down economics, wealth makes right, all of it, that’s what they are, this is what they do, they are poison; we’re not taking it. Let’s get rid of it.
This election? We own it. So let’s go and get it.
I want a landslide. Are you in?
More than 30 states have Republican governors or GOP dominated legislatures.
Ryan dis-invited Trump from the rally tomorrow in Wisconsin
Mark Kirk and Jon Huntsman have called for Trump to drop out
Gary Herbert (Gov of Utah) has said he isn’t voting Trump
Happening level: Happening.
RNC is SERIOUSLY floating getting Trump to drop out and bumping Pence up to the top of the ticket. That is historically unprecedented. Heck, people have ALREADY VOTED in some states.
And now the Receipts are coming in.
One of the Presidential candidates everyone forgot about de-endorses Trump.
At this point it’d be easier to say which elected GOP officials from Utah HAVEN’T called for Trump to step down.
2016 has been a shitty year in many ways with not a lot of good news to enjoy
But this week
This week we’ve had news confirming Legend of Korra, Batwoman and America Chavez ongoing comics
Carmilla is getting a movie
Alex Danvers and Maggie Sawyer are going to be lesbian-ing together in Supergirl
And now Donald Trump has completely self destructed
It’s like 2016 was holding all the good news in reserve for this week
It’s like 2016 went, “Hey y’all I’m sorry about all that, and I apologise in advance for some other stuff set up that I can’t unset, but… I know you all love October, so I’m gonna try and make it a little better”
We forgive you 2016…
Yeahhhhhh… Sorry kids but I’mma have to come in and use my cranky old grandma voice, because the ELECTION HASN’T HAPPENED YET.
The RNC replacing Trump with Pence or someone else could be disastrous. The left is already divided thanks to Bernie bros, the Green Party, that Gary Johnson wanker, and the general fuckery that is liberals. The Republicans are traditionally a) loyal to a candidate to a goddamn fault, b) show the fuck up to vote, and c) will usually suck it up and present a united front.
Dissent in the RNC ranks is great, but complacency on our part could be terrible. If people don’t show up to vote because they’re sure Trump shot himself in the foot, it will be Brexit level disaster. The RNC bigwigs might be backpedaling but Trump has thousands of fucking rabid followers – a veritable army of bigoted assholes who don’t give a fuck how terrible he is because they’re just as fucking bad.
Trump himself is highly divisive, but if you replace him with Pence or some other less outrageous candidate, shit will get real, and real fast. EVERYONE looks reasonable compared to Trump, even Mike “let’s use electroshock conversation therapy on queer kids” Pence, or Ted “Zodiac Killer” Cruz. Suddenly people who would never vote for Trump are thinking about showing up at the polls, and since they’re Republicans and they’ve been registered forever and don’t have to worry about gerrymandering and ID fraud and shit, the election gets real scary real fast.
This election is pivotal – not to keep Trump from building a wall, but to keep him from NOMINATING A SUPREME COURT JUDGE WITH A REPUBLICAN MAJORITY CONGRESS. That judge can break the current gridlock for good or ill, and what do you think a Republican nominated judge would be like? We’d be living in the dark ages for the next fifty years cause y’all decided to forgive 2016 in advance.
So look, don’t get complacent, 2016 is still the devil – it’s that ex you know is gonna pull some shit the minute you take them back, so DON’T FUCKING DO IT.
I want y’all out there and paranoid like Mad Eye Moody after a year locked in a fucking chest.
CONSTANT VIGILENCE.
I want y’all out there and paranoid like Mad Eye Moody after a year locked in a fucking chest.
okay, let me get a couple things straight:
trump can’t drop out. not only has he explicitly said he is NOT dropping out, early voting has already started in swing states. the RNC can’t replace him – not with pence nor with anyone else.
the ideal, of course, would be pence dropping out. but that won’t happen either.
you still have to show up. you still have to vote for hillary.
the GOP establishment doesn’t actually care about repudiating trump. they would’ve pulled support months ago if they disagreed with his platform. however, paul ryan has a legislative agenda he needs to pass (have you looked at his twitter lately? read the policy he’s pushing? the #betterway initiative is DISASTROUS for the middle and working classes especially on health care, the goal is to undo all the progress obamacare made) and he needs a republican majority in congress to do so.
you still have to show up. you still have to vote for hillary. but more importantly – you still ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO VOTE FOR DOWNBALLOT CANDIDATES, PARTICULARLY IN CONGRESS. don’t skip the polls because you think it’s going to be a landslide for hillary. the RNC has pulled its funding from trump in order to focus on downballot races. do not fuck this up. even if you think it doesn’t matter, VOTE IN YOUR HOUSE (AND POSSIBLY SENATE) RACES. ESPECIALLY IF YOU’RE IN A SWING STATE OR A PURPLE DISTRICT. gerrymandering doesn’t necessarily work in the GOP’s favor if republican voter turnout is low, which it may be this year – we have an actual chance to make headway in congress. DO. NOT. FUCK. THIS. UP.
I tried to argue that Ophelia resonated because Shakespeare had made an extraordinary discovery in writing her, though I had trouble articulating the nature of that discovery. I didn’t want to admit that it could be something as simple as recognizing that emotionally unstable teenage girls are human beings. …
When Ophelia appears onstage in Act IV, scene V, singing little songs and handing out imaginary flowers, she temporarily upsets the entire power dynamic of the Elsinore court. When I picture that scene, I always imagine Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes, and Horatio sharing a stunned look, all of them thinking the same thing: “We fucked up. We fucked up bad.” It might be the only moment of group self-awareness in the whole play. Not even the grossest old Victorian dinosaur of a critic tries to pretend that Ophelia is making a big deal out of nothing. Her madness and death is plainly the direct result of the alternating tyranny and neglect of the men in her life. She’s proof that adolescent girls don’t just go out of their minds for the fun of it. They’re driven there by people in their lives who should have known better.
North Korea declared war on us and I found out via meme
So North Korea hasn’t exactly declared war. They have considered our (The USA’s) actions an act of war, and have decided to treat us as though we are at war, but no formal declaration has been made.
The deal right now is that if we engage in war games with South Korea, as we are supposed to do in August, they’ve said it could get ugly, but they are not (as far as anyone can tell, or as far as anyone high-up seems worried about) launching a full scale attack or declaring outright war.
That’s the best-written story about it, but there are plenty more. Don’t just read the headlines, either, because one said the words “North Korea declares war” but the article said exactly what the USA Today article above said.
THERE HAS BEEN NO FORMAL DECLARATION OF WAR.
Please be careful about spreading information. We are all scared right now, and we don’t need to start believing that things are worse than they are.
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