Medioxumate Blateration

fuckyournoguchicoffeetable:

Fuck your bookshelf with the books arranged by color.

I really want a sticker

vicemag:

This simple, direct, colorful, anti-drug ad (featuring what most experts by now have agreed is some kind of “cat-toad hybrid”) was created in 30 or 40 seconds by an unpaid intern for Drug Abuse Reinforcement Education (better known as D.A.R.E.) in 1999, one year after the program was disqualified from receiving federal funding because they “failed to meet federal guidelines that they be both research-based and effective,” according to Wikipedia. The ad was widely appreciated for its minimalism and relatively creative approach; it was disastrous, however, in terms of its actual function. In all but one of the targeted demographics drug use increased drastically—by 36% for pre-K to 2nd grade, 38% for 7th grade to 12th grade, 44% for college students. The only demographic registering a decrease, of an almost negligible 4%, was 3rd grade to 6th grade, perhaps because children of that age group are especially afraid of being shunned or harassed for their appearance.

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scumblog:

trapped

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foryourtroubles:

You’re missing it, but the answer is in the joke.

I’m setting aside all of my usual pundit/smartass bullshit.  Please, listen to me and help me figure it out.  The answer to all of it is right here in this random Twitter update if we can figure out the mechanics of it.

Ask anyone that knows me and they’ll tell you I can be a complete bastard when you get me on the subject of corporate personhood, which I firmly believe is at the root of every major social ill we suffer as Americans.  The problem, especially as the barriers to globalization fall daily, and as our corrupt and bought-out politicians roll back corporate regulation, is that the average person, even if they understand what’s happening, takes a look at the scope of the problem and immediately feels one of two ways: hopeless or militant.  Or both, but you get the idea.

How do individuals and small groups of poor people fight to change the laws that are paid for by the very same companies they’re trying to fight?  We want our resistance to be grassroots, to be human and honest and respectable.  We want to point out that the economic models don’t take into account charity, or goodwill, only profit and loss, and that millions of real, living people get caught between those grinding gears and lost every day.  But we’re doing it wrong.

You can’t fight the corporations.  Look at us right now, as Americans, trying to strip teachers unions of their collective bargaining power but letting Wall Street keep the bonuses that came out of the pocketbooks of the families whose kids are in dire need of education.  We let BP let Halliburton oversee their safety measures.  We’re having some sort of pogrom against Planned Parenthood, which is vulnerable because it’s structured wrong, but our corrupt and profit-based health care system rolls merrily along while citizens die in the streets.  

I guess the only way to make sure the Republicans leave my _______ alone is to make it a corporation.

Everything. We’ve been doing everything wrong.  We never tried to legitimately go their way.  Whatever it is you value, find a way to privatize it.  Give it some stock and limited liability.  Corporatize your priorities because once they’re behind that veil they’re in the only safe zone left in America.  

I’m not smart.  I’m not college educated.  I have no degree.  I’m asking you to think of ways to literally revise our whole paradigm and use their tactics for our own ends.  Non-profits are doomed.  Unions are doomed.  The working class is doomed.  But if you can find a way to turn your most cherished values and your human decency into something that pays dividends, even if it’s basically a sham, for appearance and legality, THEY WILL NOT HAVE A  WAY TO STOP YOU WITHOUT SLITTING THEIR OWN THROATS.  Every company hides behind ‘the corporate veil’ and to undo it would undo them as well.  We need to stop thinking we’re better or more noble and start figuring out how to use their own tactics to save what we love before it’s too late.

Think about it.  Help me think about it.  Help someone figure it out, and soon. 

Please?

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ok, I am a fully grown woman, please tell me why this made me laugh so hard?

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