The tragic, hilarious “We Are the 53 percent” movement - Salon.com
Posted: October 13, 2011 at 2:34 pm.
Oct 13
2:34 pm
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9:05 am
More commercials like this please, and less like that stupid Dr. Pepper faux-ironic crap and the world will be a little bit better for it.
For a Swiss organization that helps people with disabilities.
Pro Infirmis Get closer. (by JvMLimmat)
Posted: October 13, 2011 at 9:05 am.
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12:11 am
Oct 13
12:07 am
Open Letter to that 53% Guy
I understand your pride in what you’ve accomplished, but I want to ask you something.
Do you really want the bar set this high? Do you really want to live in a society where just getting by requires a person to hold down two jobs and work 60 to 70 hours a week? Is that your idea of the American Dream?
Do you really want to spend the rest of your life working two jobs and 60 to 70 hours a week? Do you think you can? Because, let me tell you, kid, that’s not going to be as easy when you’re 50 as it was when you were 20.
And what happens if you get sick? …Even if you have access to health care, it doesn’t mean disease or injury might not interfere with your ability to put in those 60- to 70-hour work weeks.
Do you plan to get married, have kids? Do you think your wife is going to be happy with you working those long hours year after year without a vacation? Is it going to be fair to her? Is it going to be fair to your kids? Is it going to be fair to you?
Look, you’re a tough kid. And you have a right to be proud of that. But not everybody is as tough as you, or as strong, or as young. Does pride in what you’ve accomplish mean that you have contempt for anybody who can’t keep up with you? Does it mean that the single mother who can’t work on her feet longer than 50 hours a week doesn’t deserve a good life? Does it mean the older man who struggles with modern technology and can’t seem to keep up with the pace set by younger workers should just go throw himself off a cliff?
And, believe it or not, there are people out there even tougher than you. Why don’t we let them set the bar, instead of you? Are you ready to work 80 hours a week? 100 hours? Can you hold down four jobs? Can you do it when you’re 40? When you’re 50? When you’re 60? Can you do it with arthritis? Can you do it with one arm? Can you do it when you’re being treated for prostate cancer?
And is this really your idea of what life should be like in the greatest country on Earth?
Posted: October 13, 2011 at 12:07 am.
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Glenn Greenwald: Andrew Ross Sorkin’s assignment editor - Salon.comLast week’s NYT article scoffing at the protesters (that one by Ginia Bellafante) ended by noting what NYT editors apparently thought was the towering irony that some of the protesters use Apple computers; Sorkin here invokes the same trite mockery, ending his column with the piercing observation that he saw “two of them walking over to the A.T.M. at Bank of America.” Apparently, you’re not allowed to protest rampant criminality on Wall Street and the corruption of corporatist control of the political process unless you keep your money under your mattress and communicate by carrier pigeon — at least not without incurring the derision of those wicked satirists at the NYT.
As usual, note that these brave, intrepid, watchdog journalists heap huge amounts of scorn on the most marginalized and powerless segments of the society, yet would never dare direct even a fraction of that mockery to those who wield power, such as Sorkin’s “CEO of a major bank” friend. Modern establishment journalists have taken what should be the credo and mission of actual journalism — afflict the powerful and comfort the powerless — and completely reversed it (along those lines, note that Sorkin — for no journalistic reason whatsoever and in violation of the NYT‘s own rules — shields the identity of his CEO-of-a-major-bank friend with anonymity; is it not newsworthy that the CEO of a “major bank” fears the Wall Street protests?).
Posted: October 10, 2011 at 10:09 pm.
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7:14 pm
Satire is dead. DEAD.
The Fox News solution: more discrimination, less pay, less benefits.
Is this a joke?
I can’t even believe Fox News is something that’s real
Wow. It’s like Fox doesn’t even give a shit how brazen they are about pushing corporate agendas.
I don’t suppose they really have to any more though, it seems their viewership believes anything they put out like it’s gospel.
All hail the holy church of Fox news.
One of those things that makes me so angry that all I can do is laugh hysterically
(via stfuconservatives)
Posted: September 21, 2011 at 7:14 pm.
Sep 16
8:15 pm
Powerful short film about propaganda and the debate over climate change.
DOUBT (by The Climate Reality Project)
Posted: September 16, 2011 at 8:15 pm.
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