An awesome statement on something we should all strive to do whenever we can.
Buy something and keep it in good repair as long as you can. Eventually industry might get back to making things that last. We can hope, right?
Then again, I spend an hour or so every week fixing stuff around here, usually toys or stuff *I* myself bust. So I’m all on board with this notion without even realizing it.
My first thought about this somewhat intensely investigated story is that one look at this pic and I can’t stop thinking that Banksy is Saul Rubinek.
Republicans don’t believe in science.
Oh, don’t get me wrong. I know otherwise bright people who think the GOP is teh shiznit. Engineers, educators, database gurus. But they just pull the lever. They aren’t looking at who they are voting for. Or – worse – they know and do it anyway.
You’ve got a party that doesn’t believe in evolution, or sex ed, or math apparently. Definitely not in climate change. Certainly not in the scientific method.
It would be pathetic if it wasn’t a plot to dumb down our nation long enough for them to hold power for another generation.
Companies who support groups like ALEC for their business stances are now being targeted for being in bed with a group that in recent years has a) made it legal to shoot black kids based solely on whether or not they are wearing a hoodie, b) try to, for example, disenfranchise half a million voters (which is the plan here in Minnesota) to solve a supposed voter fraud problem which – if it occurs at all – shows up in about 0.00002% of all votes cast, and c) don’t start me on the immigration BS they are pulling in the past and future Treason States.
So, yes, if you fund this, knowingly or not, expect a backlash.
At this point, screw Kraft. They want to side with bigots, they don’t deserve my coin.
Well, when you put it that way, it sounds awful.
Oh wait, it was *already* awful.
Yeah, let’s start caring about our fellow citizens instead of just pretending we do.
Republicans have no idea what the hell they are talking about. In this instance it is concerning the President’s policies and the impression he’s a European (instead of African I suppose), but the general rule still applies. They have no clue what reality is.
What an idiot!
I don’t have the full experience as described here but I have lived in places where the police made it very, very hard to feel you lived in a free country.
I mean, if you and a couple buddies are walking down the street and one of you have a stick, does that *really* demand two squads, guns drawn, and you with your face being not so gently pushed into the gravel?
I was thirteen years old and all we had was a stick. Apparently we got off lucky. If only that was my only brush with the police growing up.
So yeah, it isn’t a hatred, and fear isn’t quite the right word. Respect isn’t either, at least not in the sense of looking up to someone. More in the respect you would give a pride of lions as they walked through your neighborhood.
I know good police officers. I respect the job they do. That does not, however, translate into a trust of all those who wear the badge. I just haven’t had enough good interactions to justify that yet.
You want to know when conservatives might have regressed too far on their stance on race in America? When Forbes deems it necessary to call the GOP out on its racism.