wingedmidnight:

where is that shuddup and take my money picture when I need it…

Coolest tongue ring ever.

slacktory:

Ceci N’est Pas un Poste: 24 Parodies of “The Treachery of Images” by Jason Oberholtzer on Slacktory

(via thehuesofyou)

Hunger Games ain’t got shit.

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I’m a bit late, but I didn’t really have much of a chance to be on the computer yesterday…

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curvynerds:

This is me everyday.

avalonmonet:

Yo, this is me right now. Woke up at 4 am and have been wide awake ever since. I might as well stay up until I have to take my brother to school.

roxxieyo:

I’m getting tired of posting political shit, but it drives me crazy whenever I hear some ignorant asshole blame everything on Mr. President. Go read a book on how the government is ran, then feel free to share your thoughts.

This pretty well sums up my opinion on the matter.

(Source: bringtheruckuss, via beccabae)

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superhappy:

from Tim Kreider

Precisely.

superhappy:

cola82:

scowlywag:

stfuconservatives:

wearentreallythe99percent:

EXIF Data:
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Model: SAMSUNG ES17 / VLUU ES17 / SAMSUNG SL40 / SAMSUNG ES19
Software: 908261

Wow, yeah, this is the slimiest thing. It’s an entire blog dismissing and minimizing everyone’s suffering on the justification that they have digital cameras and possibly computers!

From their summary:

We aren’t the real 99 percent. The real 99 percent exist in famines in East Africa, in the slums of India, without food, water, or sanitation - we live a life of luxury compared to them.

I love a good ol’ fashioned “don’t you have more important things to think about” derail.

-Joe

These sorts of comments thrive on the black-and-white stereotypes of what poverty needs to look like.  It reminds me of comments I saw about how some people who use food stamps can’t possibly really need them because they wear nice clothes.  To people like these, poverty is nothing short of absolute wearing-rags-and-living-in-an-alleyway destitution.

Laptops and cameras, like nice clothing, don’t magically disappear the moment you lose your job.  Due to the quickly-evolving nature of electronics, pawn shops pay a pittance for them (and would you rather have a quick $50 or a laptop you could use to help you find a job?) and you’ll be far better off keeping those clothes for job interviews than dumping them off at Plato’s Closet for spare change.  But obviously you’re not really poor or really justified in criticizing a system that has failed you, because you have yet to reach generic African country levels of destitution.

(Why is it that Conservatives only acknowledge that there are problems in third-world countries that need solving when telling dissenters to shut up and think about something else?  Oh, wait, I don’t have time to ask that question.  I’m too busy thinking about India.)

According to the latest missive from Sallie Mae, my student debts have more than doubled in the two years since I stopped taking classes because I could no longer afford to live on campus.  Did you know that working forty hours a week at minimum wage with no vacations or sick days will net you about $17,000 a year before taxes?  Just try getting forty hours out of McDonalds.  When I worked at Quizno’s, they kept you at twenty unless you were a manager, because over thirty and they had to give you healthcare.  They also wouldn’t let you work on holidays, because they’d have to pay you time and a half. 

How am I going to pay down fifty thousand dollars in loans for an incomplete art history degree at minimum wage when its growth is so exponentially high?  Short answer: I won’t.  

I went to college because it was so important to me and my family that I do well; my mother never finished high school and we struggled through many lean times, including a short period of homelessness.  That’s what we’re told, isn’t it?  College is the way to climb the social ladder?  I never wanted to be wealthy, I just wanted to be middle class.  I wanted a job doing something I loved instead of needing multiple low-wage jobs just to make ends meet. 

But it’s a trap.  Unless your family has the money to pay for it up-front or you’re going into a very specialized and well-paying profession (not that that’s any guarantee these days)  you’re going to have to take on huge loans at high interest rates with punitive fees on late or missed payments that will take you decades to pay off if you ever do.  You can’t ever get rid of them, and your co-signers will suffer with you.

This is how the 1% gets rich: by forcing the rest of us into poverty. 

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