Your name is John/Jane Smith, and you are an American citizen 18 years of age or older. On this merit alone, you will receive approximately 300 dollars per month to be deposited in a bank account of your choosing.
That right there is the gist of Guaranteed Minimum Income and the subject of today’s discussion. Continue reading
Posted in America, bizarreness, Economy, government, money, politics
Tagged alienation, America, chris rock, David Wong, economy, France, Friedrich Hayek, GMI, Guaranteed Minimum Income, Jason Pargin, marx, Marxism, Marxist, Minimum Income, politics, poor, post scarcity, poverty, rich, Thomas Paine, unorthodox, wealthy, work, working class
Two nights ago I posted an article to our Facebook page that listed tweets in response to some sort of White Man March. My first reaction upon coming across it for the first time, as I think most most people’s would be, was not so much what is this as why is this. My second was to ascertain that the tweets were in fact funny so that I could share them on social media and use them as a hook to create discussion [which they did not, but what are you going to do].
In coming up with today’s Shame Day post the march came to mind, but it dawned on me that I knew literally nothing about it besides the fact that the internet thought it was ridiculous.
https://twitter.com/Falcc/statuses/444889354838609920
I did what I consider to be the bare amount of research possible and determined that, yes, the White Man March is indeed worthy of its own Shame Day post. Continue reading
Posted in America, bizarreness, race, Shame Day
Tagged anti-White, antisemitism, attacked, civil rights, cry me a river, destruction, discrimination, disenfranchised, disgusting, diversity, genocide, harmful, ideas, Kyle Hunt, neo-nazi, pro-White, race, racism, racist, shame day, skinhead, Straight Pride, White genocide, White Man March, White Pride
I’ve leveled the accusation a few times now that the contemporary feminist movement is latching on to every passing cause célèbre in a desperate bid to maintain relevance. Unwilling to advocate for radical change, an increasingly large number of people are questioning whether or not feminism has run its course, and things like “Ban Bossy” aren’t helping.
Posted in advertising, bizarreness, business, feminism, language
Tagged 3rd World, ban, Ban Bossy, Beyoncé, billionaire, boss, cause celebre, Condoleezza Rice, Cosmopolitan, criticism, feminism, Feminist, girl scouts, language, leadership, n word, nigger, objectification, Sheryl Sandberg
Last week I touched on writing about [and off] that which we have not personally experienced ourselves and that while we can, doing so can damage our credibility and rob us of what we may actually enjoy. Somewhere in that mess of words I mentioned that basing our opinions on the judgements of others [specifically when they’re negative] is not the greatest. The thing is, it happens all of the time.
An example I brought up in that last post was Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, a show I had despised before ever watching an episode. Of course, my hatred for it was tailored by such gifs as this:
EVAN: Gordon’s always been better at the fancy introductions, so I’m going to start by saying that this all began with this image-
See the rest of the image here.
– in which trans women [as well as a few others, I’m sure] tear Joss Whedon apart for answering a question about writing strong female leads with a joke. The problem being, of course, that the joke was trans-exclusionary.
This of course could be expanded into all jokes being trans-inclusionary, at which point Gordon had something to say about the number of trans men and women out there-
GORDON: Current estimates, for the US anyways, are holding at roughly 700,000, give or take, making up just about %0.3 of the population.
As Evan and I discussed in our first reaction to the outcry surrounding Whedon, this places people identifying as transgendered at somewhere above the number of folks hit by lightning and lower than the number of people born with more than five fingers on a hand.
Point being- it’s a very, very small group. Continue reading
Posted in bizarreness, comics, Culture War Correspondence, lgbt, media, race, religion, television
Tagged albino, characters, Culture War Correspondence, disabled, Glee, Joss Whedon, lgbt, Looking, media, Mighty Avengers, minority, race, reality, religion, representation, representative, television, token, trans, transgendered, TV, Young Avengers
It’s one of the few holidays we get in the US, and seeing as how the nation’s executive office is as much a part of our cultural identity as it is part of our politics, it’d be remiss if we didn’t cover the topic. Below are some of the most interesting topics about the men who’ve lived in the oval office and how they’re affecting culture even to this day.
George Washington
The Image: Heroic freedom-fighter who bled liberty and could speak to bald eagles.
The Reality: Slave-owner, who was apparently abusive enough that many of his slaves tried to escape to freedom. Also a pretty bad general, in the greater scope of things, having lost the majority of battles in his military career.
The Implications: The idea that our founding fathers were somehow demigods of democracy and equality is shoved down our throats at most every opportunity, and as a result we’ve got a culture that constantly asks “What would the founders have wanted?” whenever any big social debate breaks out. Rather than deal with the problem as-is, both sides of the aisle try to appeal to the interpretations of men who owned slaves. For all the good they did do, I’m not sure I’m going to care too much for their opinion on property rights (or immigration, seeing as how they were huge racists). Continue reading
Posted in America, bizarreness, history, media, morality, politics, race
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Affair, America, bad, Bay of Pigs, civil rights, Corruption, democracy, Emancipation, Executive Order 9066, FDR, founding fathers, General, George Washington, German Immigrants, Gilded Age, Hercules, heritage, Honest Abe, Internment Camps, Japanese, JFK, John F Kennedy, Johnson, Kinzua Dam, legacy, McKinley, Native American, president, Presidents' Day, quote, racism, racist, seneca, slave, slave-owner, slavery, US, USA, Vietnam
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