“Love isn’t something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn’t a feeling, it is a practice.”
His Tuesday afternoon speech about Wall Street was exactly what you would expect from Bernie Sanders on one of his signature issues: Focused. Fiery. And...well...fabulous.
The Vermont Senator didn’t pull any punches: “Greed, fraud, dishonesty and arrogance. These are some of the words that best describe the reality of Wall Street today.” Fraud, he declared, "is not the exception to the rule. It is the rule. And in a very weak regulatory climate the likelihood is that Wall Street gets away with a lot more illegal behavior than we know of."
He challenged front-running candidate Hillary Clinton for being too close to Wall Street, saying her plans for reining it in amount to “a few more fees and regulations on the financial industry.” He cited the critique of former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich who has said this approach "would only invite more dilution and finagle."
Sanders, who has long described himself as a “democratic socialist”—which, in American parlance, is more akin to the social democratic approaches of many European governments—vowed that he would in his first 100 days as president come up with a list of “too big to fail” institutions and that he would seek to break them up within a year of taking office. He also called for an end to “usury” and pledged to seek a ceiling on credit card interest rates of 15 percent and ATM fees of $2.
“To those on Wall Street who may be listening to my remarks, and I am sure there are many of them, let me be clear. Greed is not good. In fact, the greed of Wall Street and corporate America is destroying the very fabric of our nation. And here is a New Year’s resolution that I will keep if elected president. If Wall Street does not end its greed, we will end it for them. We will no longer tolerate an economy and a political system that has been rigged by Wall Street to benefit the wealthiest Americans in this country at the expense of everyone else.
While President Obama deserves credit [for] improving this economy after the Wall Street crash, the reality is that a lot of unfinished business remains to be done. Our goal must be to create a financial system and an economy that works for all of our people, not just a handful of billionaires. That means we have to end, once and for all, the scheme that is nothing more than a free insurance policy for Wall Street, the policy of ‘too big to fail’.”
Sanders noted that he is not the only one saying Wall Street is a fraud. According to a study conducted at the University of Notre Dame last year, he said 51 percent of Wall Street executives making more than $ 500,000 a year said they thought it likely their competitors have engaged in unethical or illegal activity to gain advantage in the market.
More than a third of these top financial executives said they have personally witnessed or otherwise had firsthand knowledge of wrongdoing in the workplace. And a fourth said they had signed or had been asked to sign confidentiality agreements barring them from reporting unethical or illegal activities.
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Sanders made many changes to his prepared text, but you can read that version here, as posted by Tasini. You can also read comments made during the live-blog posted by LieperDestinhere.
“She’s never sat around a table and had a meal with someone else. She works to feed herself, and she goes to sleep, and she gets up again. It is a sad life. The film, for Rey, is a journey of finding out that no one is no one.” - Daisy Ridley on Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
“Rey is given a luxury that comes so easily to male heroes – she simply turns a corner, finds a magical item (Luke Skywalker’s Lightsaber, no less) and it awakens the Force in her. Just that. No searing infertility, no rape, no revelation of past abuse, no heartbreak, no sacrifice. No heroine who’s validity is defined by what she has sacrificed, in the way of Katniss handing up her life for her sister, becoming a martyr for a revolution. In the way of Ariel, handing over her power to speak in order to walk on land. No poison apple, no needle on a spinning wheel here.”
To be fair, my experience, as a white woman, is that my anger is always unacceptable, and I need to repress it. However, as I am Anger Georg, and live in a cave and have over 10,000 anger attacks every day, I am an outlier, and should not be counted in the survey.
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Daemon - The only one you’re appropriating is Pullman and by appropriating Pullman you’re upsetting no-one, save possibly the Pope.
Patronus - Wizards everywhere are more than willing to lend you this term and the geekiness is an added bonus. I just read that geeks are sexy, or so the Metro, so, there you go, a patronus is clearly your next ascribed accessory.
I will reblog this over and over till everyone on my dash switches to one of these.
yupp. I use patronus.
If you are non-NDN, you shouldn’t be using the term “spirit animal.”
The Lions Mane Jellyfish is the largest jellyfish in the world. They have been swimming in arctic waters since before dinosaurs (over 650 million years ago) and are among some of the oldest surviving species in the world.
Absolutely wow.
I’m going to cry
that is absolutely horrifying.
HOLY SHIT LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT THING!
Why am I finding out about this now??
“Foolish creature of the flesh. I am ancient. I am forever. I have seen Empires rise and fall. I have seen entire species wither to cinders. I have seen the depths and the cold and the abyss that lay beyond. You are no more a nuisance to me than plankton. You are so insignificant, and I am so exquisitely eternal that I am the closest thing you will have to a God.” -What I imagine the jellyfish would say to a human
DON’T
GET ME STARTED
ON THESE MOTHERFUCKERS
That is horrifying.
If that’s scary, than say hello to my little friend, the “Stygiomedusa gigantea.”
This guy has only been spotted 18 times, and filmed only twice.
Its is also about 6 meters long and about a meter wide. Sadly it doesn’t have stingers, but it will still eat. It kinda just engulfs all it’s prey. I’m not real sure.
Aren’t Jellyfish so great? Because I think they are evil.
Jellyfish are actually the only creature we know of to have mastered total neurological regeneration as well as muscular regeneration, making them immortal.
The problem with flipping the question is that a lot of us white folks carry around mental charts describing our... heritage. I'm not entirely sure why we do it, because none of us know anything at all about the actual history or culture of our ancestors. But we can tell you our percentages, without thinking about it too hard. And it's really weird, because white folks talking about our ancestors coming to America are often invested in the how, the when, the where and the why. It's only for people of color that we use their immigration as a reason for why they "don't belong."
Reblog if you’ve been personally victimized by the not-so-innocent “where are you really from” question. Watch the latest MTV Decoded episode in full here, and revel in the shared frustration of microagressions with Franchesca.
Fans of Lupita Nyong’o were psyched when she announced last year that she’d been cast as a central character in the new Star Wars film, The Force Awakens. But many fans were frustrated to later learn that Nyong’o wouldn’t be appearing onscreen as herself—instead she’d be voicing an entirely CGI character.
This week, Nyong’o herself shed some light on the casting. Nyong’o told Buzzfeed News that she selected the entirely CGI role, the first part she chose after winning an Oscar for role in 12 Years a Slave, partly because she liked the idea of not having her body seen onscreen. In 12 Years a Slave, her performance was extremely physical and visceral—her character Patsey was whipped, raped, and otherwise brutally abused. “12 Years a Slave was a film that was so much about my body, and Star Wars is not at all,” Nyong’o told Buzzfeed. “There was a liberation in being able to play in a medium where my body was not the thing in question.”
Steve Rogers: Sam Wilson is the best pilot I know.
Tony Stark: What the fuck. WHAT THE FUCK.
Steve Rogers: It's true. Do you know anyone who can fly better.
Sam Wilson: Steve, there are literally-
Tony Stark: WHAT THE FUCK
Tony Stark: *gets out of the room.*
Tony Stark: *Puts on the Iron Man suit and flies out.*
Tony Stark: *Comes back cradling a barely awake still in jammies and very confused and annoyed James Rhodes*
James Rhodes: Tony what the-
Tony Stark: May I present to you, the one and only, ace army pilot, actual rocket scientist, hot as fuck and better then me in flying my own suits: Colonel James Rhodes.
James Rhodes: Tony the hell is going on.
Tony: Steve mistakenly thinks someone flies better than you. I couldn't let that stand, honey bear.
Steve: I still think Sam is better.
Sam Wilson: Steve-
James Rhodes: Tony-
Myth: Most sexual assaults involve a black man raping a white woman. Fact: Amir’s study (Page 5 under “Race” and the summary on page 11) found that in 93% of assaults, the rapist and victim were of the same race. In 3.3% of the cases, black men did rape white women, while in 3.4% white men raped black women. It is more comfortable for most white women and men to believe a potential attacker is a man of color.
There’s been a lot of talk about how Carrie Fisher “looked awful” and “didn’t age well.”
I thought she looked fine for a 59 year old. Maybe she hasn’t aged as well as some (Harrison Ford barely seems to have changed) but she hasn’t aged badly.
She’s just 59. Furthermore, the character she is playing is also supposed to be elderly, so makeup would not have been trying to make her look younger - which they often do with older actors. 52 year old Alex Kingston looked to be maybe thirty tops in the Doctor Who Christmas special. Makeup.
So, why does everyone think Carrie Fisher looks awful?
Because we don’t often see women of a certain age on the screen.
And when we do, they’re made up to look younger.
The only major role for an older woman I can think of recently was Dame Judi Dench’s M.
Female leads average, depending on who you ask, between 4 years and 8 years younger than male leads.
As male actors age, their partners often stay the same age. Most of Harrison Ford’s love interests have been at least 15 years younger than him. Guess who that includes? Yup. Ford is 15 years older than Fisher.
We simply don’t see older women on the screen. They disappear.
Earnings for women in Hollywood peak at 34 and decrease rapidly.
Earnings for men rise until 51 and then remain steady.
Because.
There aren’t roles for older women.
When Carrie Fisher steps onto the screen as a 59-year-old woman without makeup, without hair dye, but unashamedly a woman of a certain age, we’re not seeing something we usually see in a movie.
And some people are reacting to that by complaining that she doesn’t meet their expectations: The expectation that the primary role of a woman on the screen is to be attractive to men.
In other words, whether the people complaining know it or not they are being sexist and they are supporting the profound sexism in Hollywood.
But the makers of the movie have held a line. They’re saying General Leia Organa should not look like a young woman. General Leia Organa doesn’t need to be pretty. She doesn’t need, either, to be moping around regretting her “lost beauty”.
She needs to be kicking butt and sending out her pilots to blow up the First Order.
We need more older women on the screen, we need to let the ladies of the cinema grow old gracefully just as much as the men do. Only then will we stop valuing “actresses” by their boob size more than by their talent.
I think it’s really cruel to continue to hang around/ interact with people that have severely hurt your friends. im not talking about petty arguments but it really says something if your disregard the pain someone has caused a person close to you all for the sake of socializing and your image.
