them: wow the rich are quite literally destroying the planet
them: I mean … look
them:
them: it’s absurd … but i don’t know what to do about it
me: wow that really makes me think
me:
um…
@ all the Americans reblogging this
…so you realise you’re probably in that demographic, right?
even people among the poorest of Americans are mostly among the 10% richest people worldwide
you’re advocating for guillotining… yourselves
To be in the top 10% globally you need to have the equivalent of a net worth of 68k$ in u.s. dollars. The average American household carries $137,063 in debt, according to the Federal Reserve’s latest numbers. And I’m sure, given that most tumblr users are under 65, we probably have even less net worth than that since most wealthy people in the u.s. are over 65. And even then, I doubt that anyone with 68k$ in net worth spends any time on tumblr reblogging anti capitalism posts.
wait. wait wait. they let you play with liquid nitrogen?
okay. here is a HILARIOUS thing you can do with liquid nitrogen and 1 or 2 bottles of shaving cream.
okay so step one is you dunk the shaving cream into the liquid nitrogen. completely submerge it and let it freeze. the shaving cream i mean. then take out the shaving cream. you probably don’t need me to tell you this but for other people, you want to use tongs and safety gloves so you don’t lose a hand or two doing this. now you have frozen shaving cream. what do you do with frozen shaving cream? well, first you have to peel off the canister so you have just the shaving cream floating free. you had to freeze it first so that it wouldn’t explode when you do this part. now you have a frozen brick (or two if you did two) of shaving cream. so what do we do now?
we put that shit inside someone’s car we hate and/or love to prank on.
as it warms, it will gradually expand to fill the entire vehicle.
They won’t teach you this is school, but if you want to be a “woke” ally, one thing you should always read up on is the United State’s COINTELPRO program.
Last night the PBS The Black Panther: Vanguard of the Revolution documentary touched on it and I thought it was important to talk about. Outside there being a general ignorance about the Black Panther Party, it is also important to know the things the government and police did to WARRANT the creation of The Black Panther Party.
You should be very angry but very awake once you’re done. Because I want you to WANT to learn about it, I’ll only give you a blurb and a link.
FBI DirectorJ. Edgar Hoover issued directives governing COINTELPRO, ordering FBI agents to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, neutralize or otherwise eliminate” the activities of these movements and their leaders.[5][6] Under Hoover, the agent in charge of COINTELPRO was William C. Sullivan.[7] Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy personally authorized some of these programs.[8] Kennedy would later learn that he also had been a target of FBI surveillance.[citation needed]
Groups that were known to be targets of COINTELPRO operations includec
]The COINTELPRO documents show numerous cases of the FBI’s intentions to prevent and disrupt protests against the Vietnam War. Many techniques were used to accomplish this task. “These included promoting splits among antiwar forces, encouraging red-baiting of socialists, and pushing violent confrontations as an alternative to massive, peaceful demonstrations.” One 1966 COINTELPRO operation tried to redirect the Socialist Workers Party from their pledge of support for the antiwar movement.[37]
communist and socialist organizations
organizations and individuals associated with the Civil Rights Movement, including Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Congress of Racial Equality, and other civil rights organizations
black nationalist groups
the Young Lords
the American Indian Movement
the white supremacist groups
the Ku Klux Klan (an ACTUAL terrorist group
they should have been focusing on)
the National States’ Rights Party (an white nationalist group they should have been focusing on)
a broad range of organizations labeled “New Left”, including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen
almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation
the National Lawyers Guild
organizations and individuals associated with the women’s rights movement
nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch’s Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement;