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4 months ago
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"There is something truly grotesque about corporate leaders who earn millions of dollars – or even hundreds of thousands of dollars – arguing over paying their workers literally pennies more. Those workers often have to rely on food stamps or government welfare programs to make up the difference. Meanwhile, company CEOs have barely received a cut in pay for years, and on average they make 231 times as much as the average worker. That’s a lot of money, obviously. So the idea that paying $1.50 an hour more in minimum wage would break their companies and force them to save on costs is patently ridiculous. The first and most obvious cost they would have to think about cutting would be their own pay packages. What if those CEOs made, say, only 200 times the average worker? Or 100 times? One suspects their companies could afford that uptick for poorer workers then."
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6 months ago
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White privilege is killing 26 people and being the ‘quiet friendless boy’ meanwhile murdered brown people are undisciplined drug dealing thieves.
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Source: confrontingmywhitegirlprivilege7 months ago
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"Abroad, armed with science, the United States could make an even bigger difference. Instead of paying $1 billion for a new B-2 bomber or $2 billion for a Virgina Class Submarine – tools designed to forcefully combat the symptoms of the world’s problems — we could pay less and actually work to solve those problems. We live in a new age where people can collaborate as never before, working cooperatively across previously insurmountable barriers of distance and language. In this modern age, we don’t need an army of soldiers; we need an army of scientists."
- Steven Ross Pomeroy - Stop Building Bombs and Start Building Starships (via ikenbot)
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7 months ago
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ooc: Reblogging because holy shit.
This video is amazing and you need to watch it.
“RIGHT IN THE NUT SACK”
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Source: schwoozie8 months ago
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This is what I’ve been complaining about since Obama took office. Not that he is an ineffectual president, but that the Congress and the House have been kicking and screaming like five-year olds who don’t like their babysitter.
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Source: mooglets8 months ago
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"I am personally outraged that any serious contender for the White House would target as part of his campaign the children of America in this fashion…Educators across the country, as well as millions of children and adults know that the programming on PBS has been responsible for significant improvements in education, literacy, math, science and life skills for generations of our children."
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I feel filthy for linking to TMZ, but they have Burton’s full statement.
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DON’T FUCK WITH LeVAR
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Butterfly in the sky. Mitt can go twice as high. When LeVar puts a foot in his ass.
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