Trinity Tran is a powerful speaker. Addressing a rally in downtown Los Angeles for New York congressional nominee Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 33-year-old activist and organizer thundered, “We are witnessing the emergence of a solution, from profit and greed to collective prosperity. We can empower our community from the ground up. It’s time to take our power back.”
Tran’s organization, Public Bank LA, is leading the revival of an idea that had largely been discarded until the financial crisis. In November, Los Angeles voters will have the opportunity to approve a public bank for the city. If the measure passes, it would become the first government-owned bank developed in the United States since 1919.
The term “public bank” may confuse some into thinking that Los Angeles is about to create a bunch of branch offices where residents can open a free checking account. The idea is much more ambitious. Public bank enthusiasts want to finance local improvements in housing, infrastructure, and community development by employing the money citizens already pay to state and local governments for services. To them, it’s about democratizing the financial system.
“my friend the electrical engineer,” i say, or of someone else: “my friend the Canadian,” “my friend in Denver.” and i am down south, states and miles away.
“how did you meet?” they ask, puzzled by how far-flung my friendships. “the internet,” i say, a little proud, a little defensive because the next words are inevitable.
they always ask with a mix of amusement and horror. always. “have you met in person? no? how can you be sure it’s not an old pervert in his mother’s basement, a serial killer on the prowl?”
how can we be sure of anyone? the man who married a pastor’s daughter, then shot his pregnant wife in the back of the head–they thought they knew him. but these anonymous souls: they’re my friends.
we talk of books and ideas, family and differences in where we live and why we do what we do, and trade stupid jokes like candy, sweet and inclusive and joyful. my friends. my soul friends, who i meet on the internet.
friendships are not born of handshakes. they’re born of shared things and shared interests and sometimes just because you’re human and i’m human, and that praise God is enough.
@ all my soul friends, I would tag you individually but basically if we’ve talked more than a couple times you are probably on the list and you know who you are. Bless.
Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong wrote this about his father, who died of cancer on September 1st, 1982. At his father’s funeral, Billie cried, ran home and locked himself in his room. When his mother got home and knocked on the door to Billie’s room, Billie simply said, “Wake me up when September ends.”
So I’d be angry too if people kept this shit up every single year.
i am going to reblog this until i die
…oh
Seriously its just not funny and I wish people would stop
I reblog this every fucking year. Leave them alone.
This is like full circle to stereotypical high school bullying
nah this kid would pick on people with “cringey interests” because he has a superiority complex. trust me I’ve visited r/rickandmorty
he also has a youtube channel wih 15 subscribers and 100 videos about Anita Sarkeesian
he retweets “respect women” memes on his alt-right twitter account
Man, if the rationale for “this is different from bullying nerds in high school” is “because the targets are arrogant snobs and have misogynistic baggage” it’s probably a good idea to go back to the drawing board on that argument.
Less flip: this is an example of a broader issue that you see, everywhere, where people pick on people specifically for petty, indefensible stuff – their appearance, mannerisms, or interests – and then fall back on substantive criticisms if questioned on it. It’s clear that the substantive criticisms are a pretext rather than a reason for the mockery, since if that weren’t the case the mockery would primarily be about those things. It really is just about going after people who look or act funny, because otherwise why would you fixate on qualities you know are shared by people who don’t have any of the actual flaws used to justify going after that target? The underlying message is that if you look like this, and you share these interests, those things alone make you as bad as someone who does actual bad things, because they evoke that sort of person. (Compare “TERF bangs”, “fat feminist”, etc. Honestly you could publish a book of examples of this just looking at hairstyles.)
This is an interesting phenomenon to me because it’s absolutely universal, and also because there doesn’t seem to be actual bad faith behind it. That suggests to me that it’s driven by a pretty fundamental
thought process in how people reason about stereotypes and social
groups. People actually do have a (fictitious, one-dimensional) stereotype in their mind when they do this sort of thing, and they conceptualize the attacks as targeting the stereotype. But the way this nearly always manifests in practice as a fixation on petty intricacies of fashion and social performance suggests that those are our most fundamental tools for reasoning about people and morality. This has pretty bleak implications for people interested in grappling with systemic social probles.
why. do people get off on writing traumatizing events happening to their ocs
why cant you just say “yeah i enjoy developing my ocs’ backstories” or “its fun coming up with their lore” instead of being freaks who talk about how fuuun it is to abuse your ocs n how you just loooove making em into bloody messes
like its not cute
i dont know how to make this clearer but that comics like this:
are fucking everywhere on tumblr and always have like 50k notes is terrifying. yall get a hobby and stop n*tting over trauma n abuse its weird n youre Not off the hook for being the character creator if youre gonna act like THIS about it
almost 100% the time it’s the creator projecting their own trauma on their ocs and it’s actually painfully obvious that that’s the case…
Actually it’s also just people writing what the hell they want a lot of the time and there’s nothing wrong with that.
Also the comic example here is clearly a style of exaggeration to make something funny out of a relatable experience that’s developed over years of talking about it in a certain way; in most people’s cases, the relatable experience is creating drama and development through anything from tragic back stories to traumatic events.
If you go back a couple years on tumblr, you’d actually find posts discussing why so many people wanted to create sad, dark, or painful stories for their characters, and why they were always put through such horrible things (and why everyone seemed to ready to do it.)
Some people said they did it to explore their own experiences. Some people did it because it was a way to explore those themes they were unfamiliar with in a completely fictional world. I think overwhelmingly, people agreed it gave characters a lot more depth, ability to be empathized with, and attachment. It fosters protective feelings in people to see characters go through bad experiences.
In any case, there was a shift in how OC treatment (and character treatment in fandom as well,) was viewed and talked about. People went from “I’m about to make my fav go through something bad bc I love him and it’ll make him into the character I love” (or something similar, you get my drift,) to funny posts like the ones above, because among creators there was and is an understanding of how we all tend to do that to them, and its making a joke from it because you don’t get noticed by being the nth person to make the same ~relatable post~ again, you do it by taking something relatable and making it new and funny (welcome to tumblr.)
But I guess it’s more edgy to completely ignore the language development that’s pretty consistent with the dramatic escalation EVERYTHING gets spoken about on here (basically the “cultural subtext,”) to call people freaks in order to participate in callout culture and feel superior in some way, so good for you I guess?????
Writer/roleplayer jokes and character development is are problematic now I guess.
Stories have conflict in them Karen
Do the initial posters live under a rock, or????
How exciting, now people are telling us how to write and talk about our own ocs! Not only must you fic in certain approved ways. Woth approved characters and ships, but now your original stuff must also pass muster.
I’d say tumblr makes me long for death but I expect soon there will be posts about how stating one wants to die/be killed needs to stop too.
I’m sorry, let’s go back to Storytelling 101 where we learn that conflict is necessary. Whether that means the characters are being chased around and/or eaten by dinosaurs, snapped out of existence by some purple alien asshole, suffering a long and miserable journey to the heart of a volcano where they have their finger bitten off, losing their parents and an entire school of friends and mentors to a pissed-off wizard without a nose, or coping with drug addiction and/or an abusive relationship (obvs the most relatable out of these options) CONFLICT IS NECESSARY!
We (meaning fandom creators but also mainstream creators, see above) use conflict as a medium to tell a story. No successful book has ever been like, “These cool people existed, everything was fine and they lived happily ever after the end.”
And anyway, they’re fictional, so why does OP even care?
my friend just asked me for fashion advice and i sent her 3 links to “things women love to wear that men hate” articles. i hope i’ve done my service well.
for the lesbians out there who don’t want men hitting on them but still want to attract girls, here are things women like that men hate. almost all of these are featured on multiple articles.
•wedge sneakers
•open-side shirts
•bright lipstick
•high waisted pants or skirts
•pantsuits
•hair bows
•oversized sweaters
•uneven dresses
•peplums
•big sunglasses
•rompers
•overalls
•bangles
•leather pants
•flip flops
•crop tops
•baggy pants
•chokers
•lace-up tops
•strapless shirts or dresses
•bold floral prints
•clothes with ruffles
!!!!
Why are men so boring, every one of these is a goddamn Look.
im sorry but??? if you remove all these what’s left??????
Also:
-Floppy hats
-Asymmetric dresses (ie: my love in life)
-“Boyfriend” blazers
-Retro bikinis
^^^^ yes those were all in the articles too thanks for the addition! (and for those who don’t know “retro” bikinis basically refers to high-waisted ones 👌)
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