i dont get why people make fun of aquaman when there is hal jordan
I am amazed Hal lived as long as he did.
He is literally Newspaper Comic Strip Spiderman O.O
Superman: You don’t even have an apartment.
Me: Get your shit together, Hal!
The only part of the Green Lantern movie that was even a little accurate to the comics was when Hal shows up at the home of Carol Ferris, his on again/off again girlfriend who has known him for literally YEARS and sees him up close every single day and thinks that covering his eyes and ONLY his eyes with a glow-y green mask will mean she can’t tell who he is
This is why John replaced you in the DCAU, Hal.
(oh my god, someone actually did the wide-bars bit accurately, and it’s because HAL JORDAN IS A DUMBASS.)
Kyle Rayner was so much better as a GL
this is the green lantern I want to see on the big screen
Paul Ryan has TURNED OFF HIS PHONE AND FAX so as to no longer hear the overwhelming protests of repealing the ACA, Obamacare.
So here is a new tactic:
Since Paul Ryan has blocked his office phones and fax numbers, and is turning away people who show up to deliver petitions, time to change tactics.
Please mail postcards to his HOME address saying NO to defunding Planned Parenthood, NO to repealing the ACA, and NO to privatizing Medicare!
PAUL RYAN
700 ST. LAWRENCE AVE.
JANESVILLE, WI 53545
Please reblog this info. Let’s see what 67 million cards in the driveway looks like!
Ya know, putting his address up on a public forum is kinda fucked up, right?
Ya know, taking healthcare away from thousands of people and making it near impossible for them to voice their opinions on this very much life or death matter is kinda fucked up, right?
He lost the right to not having his personal mailbox flooded when he decided to close any and all governmental avenues for the public to contact a man who was elected to REPRESENT THE PUBLIC’S INTERESTS.
Representative democracy only works when the representatives (or senator in this case) actually represent their constituents.
Fuck Paul Ryan. He’s a sniveling coward.
y’all seriously crying over paul FUCKING ryan getting doxxed i swear to fucking god he isn’t some random person that said something vaguely problematic, he’s a corrupt politician trying to kill thousands of people with a hugely disgusting piece of legislation that will cripple healthcare in the country he’s supposed to be taking care of. the misplaced morality here is fucking astounding
I agree - he has a public office for a reason. If he shuts it down so he doesn’t have to hear from THE PEOPLE HE SERVES, then we gotta do what we gotta do.
I mean, he’s in the white pages. The phone book. The place where all our addresses used to be listed before cell phones. That’s not doxxing. That’s just looking someone up. And if that feels creepy, look at his website:
Elected officials addresses are not top-secret info, y'all. They’re really really easy to find.
Let’s do it, fam. Time to inundate with mail
the only accomplishment republicans will have is unknowingly saving the us postal system
I’m about 90% sure the economy is never gonna “improve”
this is capitalism in it’s final form
this is it honey
except, you know, those companies that do a charitable thing for every thing they sell
that’s kinda new and interesting. benevolent capitalism
lmao
Pay attention, class: This is what it looks like when one is unwilling to consider new information.
It’s not new information, though. It’s misinformation.
First, it’s not that new.
Did you know that there was a time in U.S. history–which is by definition recent history–when a corporation was generally intended to have some sort of public interest that they served? I mean, that’s the whole point of allowing corporations to form. Corporations are recognized by the commonwealth or state, and this recognition is not a right but a privilege, in exchange for which the state (representing the people) is allowed to ask, “So what does this do for everyone else?”
The way the economy is now is a direct result of a shift away from this thinking and to one where a corporation is an entity unto itself whose first, last, and only concern is an ever-increasing stream of profits. What you’re calling “benevolent capitalism” isn’t benevolent at all. It’s a pure profit/loss calculation designed to distract from–not even paper over or stick a band-aid on–the problems capitalism creates. And the fact that you’re here championing it as “benevolent capitalism” is a sign of how ell it’s working.
Let’s take Toms, as one example. The shoe that’s a cause. Buy a pair of trendy shoes, and a pair of trendy shoes will be given away to someone somewhere in the world who can’t afford them.
That’s not genuine benevolence. That’s selling you, the consumer, on the idea that you can be benevolent by buying shoes, that the act of purchasing these shoes is an act of charity. The reality is that their model is an inefficient means of addressing the problems on the ground that shoelessness represents, and severely disrupts the local economies of the locations selected for benevolence.
(Imagine what it does to the local shoemakers, for instance.)
The supposed act of charity is just a value add to convince you to spend your money on these shoes instead of some other shoes. It’s no different than putting a prize in a box of cereal.
Heck, you want to see how malevolent this is?
Go ask a multinational corporation that makes shoes or other garments to double the wages of their workers. They’ll tell you they can’t afford it, that it’s not possible, that consumers won’t stand for it, that you’ll drive them out of business and then no one will have wages.
But the fact that a company can give away one item for every item sold shows you what a lie this is. A one-for-one giving model represents double the cost of labor and materials for each unit that is sold for revenue. Doubling wages would only double the labor.
So why are companies willing to give their products away (and throw them away, destroy unused industry with bleach and razors to render them unsalvageable, et cetera) but they’re not willing to pay their workers more?
Because capitalism is the opposite of benevolence.
“Charity” is by definition exemplary, above and beyond, extraordinary, extra. “Charity” is not something that people are entitled to. You give people a shirt or shoes or some food and call it charity, and you’re setting up an expectation that you can and will control the stream of largesse in the future, and anything and everything you give should be considered a boon from on high.
On the other hand, once you start paying your workers a higher wage, you’re creating an expectation. You’re admitting that their labor is more valuable to you than you were previously willing to admit, and it’s hard to walk that back.
Plus, when people have enough money for their basic needs, they’re smarter and stronger and warier and more comfortable with pushing back instead of being steamrolled over. They have time and money to pursue education. They can save money up and maybe move away. They can escape from the system that depends on a steady flow of forced or near-forced labor.
So companies will do charitable “buy one, give one” and marketing “buy one, get one” even though these things by definition double the overhead per unit, but they won’t do anything that makes a lasting difference in the standard of living for the people.
Capitalism has redefined the world so that the baseline of ethics is “How much money can we make?” and every little good deed over and above that is saintly.
But there’s nothing benevolent about throwing a scrap of bread to someone who’s starving in a ditch because you ran them out of their home in the first place.
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
