oh hey, you know what would be awesome? if our respective governments started doing something about inequality, poverty, oppression, hunger, disease and stop blowing the shit out of countries in the name of oil and act with some fucking humanity instead of trying to control what people do on the internet because they’re all in the entertainment industry’s back pocket. yeah. that’d be AWESOME.
“These are irrational demands,” said Wall Street.
“I know, right?” said conservatives.
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Alan Moore dixit. (via gardeksfreakworld
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Fuck.
Not even tagging this. This is too important for that.
Not American, but yes, reblogging.
Fuck this.
This screenshot looks sketchy and it all sounds unbelievable but it’s actually telling the truth
America needs another revolution
This is fucking horrifying
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“I don’t think they have a sense of what it means when tax dollars are spent in this way,” a spokeswoman for the Oakland, Calif., city government, Karen Boyd, told The Daily. “Oakland is very much a city that has been devastated by the economic downturn. We don’t have an extra $2.5 million to spend.”
Oakland police estimate that overtime eventually will top $3 million, and Boyd said this may lead to cuts in senior services and libraries. Last year, Oakland laid off 500 city workers, including 80 police officers, to close a $58 million deficit.
This argument is upsetting to me for a couple reasons. One, there was no need for the sort of police presence that was on hand for Occupy protests around the country. Two, (and this is the important note in my opinion) this isn’t $13 million dollars down the drain, it’s $13 million that is going to the middle class essentially, which in turn is good for the economy. Now if we compare this to the $700 billion dollar bailout ( which is equal to 53,846 times what Occupy has cost in police overtime ) which went to millionaires and billionaires, interest free, we can gain a little bit of perspective on this.
It’s this sort of crooked bullshit that has people in the streets to begin with.
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Fox News has a new poll up. I think you know what to do.
TUMBLRRRRRRR BOOOOOMMMMB
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