*whispers Softly* He’s A Special Boi

ok but does the character really need to be a straight white man? is that relevant to the plot or are we just catering to the audience? it’s forced representation like this that detracts from the storylines that really matter

true crime youtubers are so annoying when they’re like “they got a lawyer immediately and refused to take a polygraph test so thats suspicious 👀” that’s not suspicious that’s called being smart

reminder to expect massive fraud from the trump admin this election. letting inertia keep you from voting is the first step to preventing the huge turnout we need. the government is going to do everything in their considerable power to prevent your vote from counting.  

tell them to get fucked. 

Yo Biden just announced an infrastructure devolopment/clean energy/environmental justice plan and it's honesty pretty fucking amazing and much more ambitious than I ever would have expected from him, goddamn. He's trying to Eisenhower/New Deal our way out of the economic collapse.

Some notable points addressed by this plan:

Expanding American railway systems

Fixing the crumbling roads, bridges, dams, etc. that haven't been kept up

Capping abandoned oil wells

Undoing Trump's financial bailout policies for unclean energy companies

Reinvesting in American-made automotive companies

Getting America to 100% clean energy by 2035

Fixing air, water, and ground pollution issues that disproportionately affect poc

Getting justice for victims of environmental racism

Reinstating a bunch of environmental and medical jobs Trump had cut

Getting the US back on the Paris Agreement/Climate Accord

you hear about recovery not being linear (”there are ups and downs”), but actually it’s more like a game of wack-a-mole. this is not a bad thing

I’m laughing but it’s in pain

Y’all want to see something wild?

716 billion dollars.  Seven hundred sixteen billion U.S. dollars.

One billion is equal to a thousand millions.  This is seven hundred sixteen billion.  This is an insane amount of money.

Think of the millions of human beings on this planet who don’t have homes, who don’t have jobs, who wonder whether they’re going to be able to afford to eat tomorrow.  Then think about the seven hundred sixteen billion dollars that we spent on the military.  Just in 2019.

https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0053_defense-comparison

This ^ source says it was 732 billion dollars from October 2018 to September 2019.  I’m sure you could find different sources listing 705 billion, or 720 billion.  The exact number does not matter.  The fact is that there are people dying of hunger while this unfathomable amount of money goes to the military.

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

This ^ source isn’t related to the military budget or other government spending, but I found it to be useful in helping to understand exactly how much a billion is.  We could help so many people with 716 billion dollars.