A prolonged fossil fuel crunch just might, at this moment, be *the* exogenous shock necessary for a rapid global transition to clean energy adoption, but also it's going to be a brutally miserable experience for the world's poorest.
I mean, in that scenario, the artifacts and art in question would presumably *still* be available to the masses, just in the custody of their original creators/owners--losing that public access is I think what we're all worried about when it comes to heists
Museums are wildly imperfect but you know what’s even worse? Art being held in places where nobody can see it by the blood-diamond wealth of Lord Parasite Darlington the 25th
A screen shot of a skeet from Merriam-Webster that reads - ‘SWIMS’ upside down is still ‘SWIMS’. With a reply that reads - if you love geometric fonts where this would be true so much then why don't you use them in your body copy? no? not readable? go FUCK yourself; dictionary. they should call you hypocrictionary
I’m sorry, but bluesky is THRIVING…
i really dislike the implication that museums, a radical democratization of high art, are actually just diversions for the rich.
the people who steal stuff from museums are not actually giving those works of art back to their original oppressed countries, because the real world is not Movie
UA's campus is a little less sprawling, I think, plus ASU's right in the middle of downtown Tempe.
as a former UAW-represented lawyer I also must note that both UAW and Teamsters have, to my knowledge, been seeing most of their growth in non-traditional sectors: academia, nonprofits, and retail
The only thing that will get Israel to stop, other than a comprehensive defeat that 1) isn't going to happen; 2) would result in large parts of the Middle East getting glassed; and 3) would end with genocidal atrocities, is sanctions that crush its economy and threaten it with military defeat.
DC statehood yesterday
There are a *shocking* number of skaters around here. Probably because the terrain is so flat.
bipartisan, mind you
Yeah, it was terrifying enough during the October War managed to get both the US and the Soviet Union involved in a Middle East conflict, even just using proxies.
Burchett is right: the most DC thing ever *is* a member of Congress blaming the city for something he and his colleagues did themselves.
Particularly when a ton of money laundry is done through art sales!
It really does!
wrote about the claim that the D party has abandoned its working class roots.
that didn't happen, bec Ds only recently began to fitfully fight for a multi-racial working class. the current D party is the best D party there's been. a low bar, but still. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/this-democ...
Why art theft, when art *forgery* is both more lucrative *and* doesn't involve depriving the public of access to art?
(to be clear, I'm not advocating that essay or its calls to action myself, just making the point that even the most hard-line anti-voting positions do, in fact, demand that you do *other stuff*; not voting is simply step one, and is utterly insufficient in and of itself)
Yeah, people forget that even the "Voting Is Not Harm Reduction" essay that occasionally circulates to justify lack of civic participation *also* calls on people to engage in sabotage and destruction of physical infrastructure in the name of overthrowing settler-colonialism.
this goes in multiple directions, incidentally - "you stupid fuckwit liberal, you think voting for democrats will save you" is not a particularly good strategy for recruiting folks to more left-wing groups!
you gotta figure out if your goal is to change minds or yell at people
here is the thing about vote scolding: it doesn't work
my personal position is that the right thing to do is to vote and - because the republican party is so completely world-destroyingly insane - to vote for the democrats
but you simply cannot change minds on this by scolding people
"All Capital is Social Capital" I bellow as former comrades carry me out of the assembly hall and drop me on my ass in the Puget Sound.
We need this woman to win through any avenue possible
A young man sitting behind a table on ASU's campus, with a banner reading "THE TRINITY IS EVIL AND NOT BIBLICAL. LET'S TALK."
Apparently some dude is out on ASU's campus today trying to re-litigate the Arian Controversy of 318 AD
while teamsters and UAW get a lot of attention i feel like people miss out that the average working class person in the US today is (1) a woman and (2) working a service job
Why art theft, when art *forgery* is both more lucrative *and* doesn't involve depriving the public of access to art?
We’ve now reached the part of the referendum where everyone lines up, mutters “goodgamegoodgamegoodgamegoodgame“ a bunch of times with a series of low fives - the winning Yes side slightly more enthusiastic about it- and then they bring out baggies of oranges and Capri Suns for the campaign workers.
Virginia is for haters now
every conservative political complaint comes back to "those people shouldn't count because they disagree with me"