Mad Max: Fury Road is hands-down one of the best movies of the year. But don’t take my word for it!
Tag: inequality
Pixar & Labor
Interesting analysis of the vale system in Pixar movies.
Truth
Killer Mike on MLK
http://www.okayplayer.com/news/killer-mike-martin-luther-king-jr-the-revolutionary.html
Also, go listen to Run the Jewels. Like, all day.
Reagan
Run the Jewels is great. Like, all-time great. But Killer Mike is goddamn amazing all on his own. This song’s politics are pretty much precisely on point.
And like Mike, I’m glad Reagan’s dead.
Institutions are Fucked, and Exist Only to Serve the Capitalist Class
I remember being an idealistic kid/teenager and putting faith in the shit I picked up in civics and social studies classes. Money ruins everything.
Well Said
“If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark.”
Echidne Makes an Important Point
This is Why I Hate
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-united-states-isnt-broke-its-just.html
Incomes for the bottom 90 percent of Americans only grew by $59 on average between 1966 and 2011 (when you adjust those incomes for inflation), according to an analysis by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston for Tax Analysts. During the same period, the average income for the top 10 percent of Americans rose by $116,071, Johnston found.
To put that into perspective: if you say the $59 boost is equivalent to one inch, then the incomes of the top 10 percent of Americans rose by 168 feet, Johnston explained to Alternet last week.
Welp, this economic system seems to be working perfectly. I look forward to more privileged white people explaining why this is a desirable outcome for everyone.
Fucking swine. Sharpen your pitchforks.