an explanation is not owed
smallest-feeblest-boggart
i want to show this to everyone i know
“The average prison sentence of men who kill their women partners is 2 to 6 years. Women who kill their male partners are sentenced on average to 15 years. This is despite the fact that 86% of female offenders kill in self-defense, while males are most likely to kill out of possessiveness (82%), abuse (75%) and during arguments (63%). Women are eight times more likely than men to be killed by an intimate partner.”
— Fact Sheet on Battered Women in Prison (no stats given for GQ and trans* people). (via sonnywortzik)
nevaehtyler
This is important.
asgardreid
It’s not a “loophole” it’s explicit within the text of the amendment
asgardreid
“Loophole” lmfao like it’s a fucking accident, like it wasn’t purposefully structured to reclaim and expand a source of free labor
We never outlawed slavery in America. We simply transferred ownership of slaves from individual landowners to the government and large corporations.
Other fun facts about prison labor corporations:
-Federal and state-run prisons usually pay their slaves minimum wage; some states, however, like Colorado, pay $2/hour.
-Private prisons pay $.17-.50/hour. The highest paying private prison is in Tennessee, which pays $.50/hour for “highly-skilled labor.”
-You think that hasn’t affected wages in the US? You think that hasn’t removed manufacturing jobs from the economy?
-Companies that contract with private prisons for their slave labor include: IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T, Wireless, Texas Instrument, Dell, Compaq, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Lucent Technologies, 3Com, Intel, Northern Telecom, TWA, Nordstrom’s, Revlon, Macy’s, Pierre Cardin, Target Stores. Many, many products that say “Made in USA” were made in prison.
-Private prisons often have quotas with the states, wherein the states contractually guarantee that they will provide a certain number of prisoners to fill the beds of a private prison, and if they don’t then they owe the private prison millions of dollars. I’m not making this up. It happened in Colorado after they legalized weed.
-States have a financial incentive to lock up their citizens.
-All of the above corporations have a financial incentive to see citizens get locked up.
-This is why Jeff Sessions is going after weed. The prison industrial complex needs slaves.
-To the shock of absolutely no one, private prisons have even more disparate racial demographics than federal/state prisons.
-Where do you think they send undocumented immigrants who have been rounded up? That’s right, private prisons. That’s why so many of them are in the South. So they take immigrants who are earning some kind of comparable wage and paying income tax to the government, and put them in prison where the wages are absurdly depressed and the prison pays virtually nothing in taxes.
-Oh yeah: private prisons pay virtually nothing in taxes. Because they technically manage real estate (prison as housing), they get all sorts of tax breaks and subsidies.
Tl;dr the prison industrial complex removes jobs from the economy, depresses wages, cheats the tax system, and ENSLAVES PEOPLE, usually people of color.
Sources:
For reference, they’re referring to the clause that goes, “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
Remember when that cop pepper-sprayed students in 2011? UC Davis paid $175K to scrub it from the internet’s memory https://t.co/5prbgrx1WL
— Xeni (@xeni) April 14, 2016
newwavenova
Nice try fuckers.
$175K wasted with every reblog.
Let’s make sure they DON’T get their money’s worth.
sometimes its just like *street lights reflecting off the wet asphalt at night* maybe life isnt so ugly after all
EVERY WORD HERE 👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼 IS TRUE. YOU ARE THAT FROG.
I too have no space to worry about USA, already very worried about Poland and Ecuador, thank goodness Canada is still somehow holding up, but I’m horrified how far you let it go. FIX IT NOW or you’ll be sorry - truer words were never spoken.
Beware of requests for compromise when you are asking for justice and the other side is asking for consent to continue.
In other news, it is now not only morally acceptable but the morally correct thing to do to pirate the fuck out of Adobe’s software line.
zerocapitalism
Planned Obsolescence gives way to Enforced Obsolescence
[Laughs as I boot up Clip Studio Paint, which I bought one (1) time]
Here’s a list of other programs. Keep posting till it’s widely known.
Good to know these thanks man.
Reblogging this one bc it has options for indesign bc artists aren’t the only ones affected and graphic designers are getting played too and ignored in every one of these fucking posts
Sick ass adventure wizard investigates native crustacean with his supportive but easily spooked familiar
On this aesthetic I will build my church and all the powers of hell will not conquer it
Coyote Peterson met a young ocelot in the jungle. This ocelittle frequents tourist trails in a wildlife park, and so it’s accustomed to people and doesn’t see them as a threat.
You should watch all of these. But especially the crab one.
You’re welcome.
He is so clearly enchanted with her even when she’s chewing on his head. It’s wonderful.
What a fantastic world we live in!!!
These are the videos that you show to space aliens, to show how humans pack bond with other species!
quiteliterallyhotsauce
Brianna Brochu
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So can we all just report her
dogsanddiscourse
“Harassed” she attempted to poison her roommate in numerous ways, who as a result was left incredibly sick and traumatized.
The victim, Jazzy Rowe, has a GoFundMe that I haven’t seen being spread: gf.me/u/j5anmn
She hasn’t met her goal in 9 months.
You may not be able to donate, but you better believe I’m judging every single one of you if you don’t reblog this to atleast spread the word like yall do for all these wyt pipo claiming to need $100k for vet bills or $75k for school supplies.
As of April 11, 2020, she still hasn’t reached her goal, please boost!!!
This disgusting behaviour left a girl physically and psychologically ill. On top of medical bills to pay, this young woman was unable to attend school due to illness, and now has to pay for wasted student loans. She worked extra hard to get to college, only to be literally poisoned by an aggressively racist room mate, for which she continues to pay dearly. This is unacceptable.
Please help Jazzy Rowe recover from this. If you can’t contribute financially, you can still do your part by passing this on.
We’re a little closer!!
People may be seeing this and thinking it’s old because they’ve seen it for a couple years now; it was created May 2018 and TODAY ( May 5th, 2020 ) she has STILL not reached her goal!! Please at least reblog and give her a boost.
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steveisoncrack
HEY TUMBLR, LET’S PLAY A GAME
To play this game, go to MapCrunch, select “hide location”, make sure you have all countries unselected, and click go. What this will do is drop you in a random part of the world. It’s as if you woke up on the side of a road in an unfamiliar country. The goal of the game is to find your way to an airport so you can return home.
Bonus Hard Mode: No using outside sources, and that includes using google maps to figure out your location from signs or landmarks
…I had plans today but now.
THE AIRPORT GAME IS BACK.
titaniumbovine
FUCK THIS GAME
LAST TIME I PLAYED IT DUMPED ME IN THE MOUNTAINS OF NORWAY
I PLAYED FOR LIKE 8 HOURS BEFORE BREAKING DOWN CRYING
ilovecountryeverything
OMG NO STOP THIS GAME IS MY LIFE!!!
thesixtysevenchevyimpala
IT’S BACK
f-i-v-e-byfive
WHY IS THIS BACK
petrovasinspace
WHYYYYY
swindontownswoodilypooper
oh shit
I HAVEN’T USED THIS GIF SINCE FEBRUARY
Always reblog Mapcrunch when someone tries to bring it back
phanfruit
it dropped me in a fucking room full of pandas
Ohmygod
It once dropped my in my home town a few km’s from the airport XD
nogoawayok
i think this is gonna be a problem
i feel threatened also why is one of the cows blurred out who is she
I’m trapped in a bathroom and i have no reflection
I am on a dock by a bay
the last time I played this, it dumped me in the middle of a desert and when I turned the camera around it was literally standing next to the runway of an air force base
redmachasacorns
Not a single lie in sight……
Hello, college grad that actually wrote an award winning paper on this topic! Here’s some knowledge I’d like to share: There’s actually been studies as to why it’s usually white kids, a large conclusion amongst the criminology community is that those that often have more privileged lives (white kids in our society’s case) are less adept to dealing with stress and denial. Whereas minorities and others are more likely to cope and function normally despite stressors because of the constant stressors that come from systematic racism and/or other platforms of more limited priviledge.
TL;DR: It’s usually a white kid because their privilege incacipated their ability to learn how to handle stress/ denial/ whatever without acting out. The less privileged are done used to the bs and thus typically dont turn to extreme measures as coping mechanisms.
EDIT: I had reblogged this and added a link to the paper (which I should’ve done to begin with,) but it’s probably best I just edit my original reblog and add the link (which I also should’ve just done already.)
Anyway, it can be found fully sourced here.
👀👀👀👀 I like tea spilled with sources and data.
quiteliterallyhotsauce
Another difference is that Bernie would like everyone to be able to afford at least one home without being saddled with insurmountable debt - fairer pay, fair lending, lower medical costs, and lower education costs can make it happen for more of us.
And to be super clear, to be a senator he’s required to maintain a residence in his home state as well as DC. And the cabin was his parents’ that they passed on to him. Really bullshit talking point and anyone still making it is uninformed.
Now for a comparison:
Bloomberg’s estate in the Bahamas
aooioiu
“You ruin your life by desensitizing yourself. We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us. Caring is not synonymous with crazy. Expressing to someone how special they are to you will make you vulnerable. There is no denying that. However, that is nothing to be ashamed of. There is something breathtakingly beautiful in the moments of smaller magic that occur when you strip down and are honest with those who are important to you. Let that girl know that she inspires you. Tell your mother you love her in front of your friends. Express, express, express. Open yourself up, do not harden yourself to the world, and be bold in who, and how you love. There is courage in that.”
— Bianca Sparacino How To Ruin Your Life (Without Even Noticing That You Are)
Source: connotativewords
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Councilor | Brady Harris
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Councilor | Robb Baldosky
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if you don’t have time to write an email, here’s a pre-written letter: https://pastebin.com/Cc3YBWYA
just copy, add your name, and send the email to a town member!
Please do! Corporations are the biggest criminals of climate change, environmental damage and pollution. Capitalism is rooted in destruction.
Based on a quick internet search, this is still current as of January 25 2020.
Source: twitter.com