i’m watching an art theft documentary and they’re interviewing this art history professor from new york who was asked to go with the fbi to authenticate a rubens that had been stolen but it was a sting operation so they had to pretend like they weren’t the fbi, that they were some private buyer about to pay $3.5 million for it, and the fbi was like “this is a VERY delicate operation because you never know how they will react to what you have to say so let the agent do all of the talking, don’t say a word to anyone just nod if it’s the rubens, the last operation we did the guy in your position got shot because things went wrong in a second” and then it cuts to the professor’s interview and he says “i wasn’t going to fly down to miami to be a part of an undercover fbi sting operation to handle what could be rubens’s aurora and just NOT say anything. i was gonna have to ad lib a little” and then he tells the interviewer that when he & the fbi agent got to the hotel while he was examining the painting he started lecturing the other people, first on how badly they had wrapped it, and then about like how it had been painted, the history of it, what the subject was and what she was doing, etc etc, and he was like “i hadn’t taught a class on rubens in 15 years, so for me it was like being back in the classroom except my students couldn’t leave”
at one point during the deal the professor turned to the woman selling it and he said “isn’t this just the most beautiful rubens you’ve ever seen outside of a museum?” (because the fbi had told him earlier that this piece had been stolen from a museum) and THEN he said “where on earth did you get it from?” and the group of people the woman had with her was like taxidermy-fox.png but the woman was like “inheritance” can you IMAGINE the fbi agent about to have a fucking aneurysm when this random guy you’ve brought in just to nod if it’s the right painting not only starts giving an impromptu lecture but then he asks how they got it
You know what’s so unique about this movement? The fact that there isn’t a designated leader. There’s no MLK; there’s no Malcolm X; there is no specific person that is leading all of this. This means that there isn’t a person the government can target and kill in order to stop the movement. The big motivator for this movement revolves around the internet.
However, this does mean that it will be very easy to lose motivation for this movement. But we can’t let that happen. So don’t stop sharing content that revolves around blm. Keep going to protests. Keep donating to funds. Keep signing petitions. Keep supporting black creators. We can’t let this movement and this motivation die until justice is served. So keep talking about it.
Know what’d be cool? Everyone having a 4 hour workday, and getting paid a living wage for those 4 hours. Whether that’s done by min wage laws, UBI, or both. Businesses can still operate at the hours they want by having multiple shifts. You want to be open 12 hours a day? Staff three shifts. You want to be open 24/7? Staff 6 shifts. Know what this does? Creates jobs and improves quality of life for all involved.
my first thought on this would be that commuting for just a four hour shift would be a bitch, but of course the answer to that is having affordable housing near where people need to work, and/or remote work options for the jobs that can support them.
Thanks I hate it: sarcastic disdain, you don’t enjoy this at all that’s insufferable, I love it: prankster solidarity. A compliment for mischief. You gotta try this dude, it sucks: solidarity through communal self-flagellation It’s terrible, watch it immediately: Your classic so-bad-it’s-good media
