CEOs of Fortune 500 companies - need hugs, but only if they're exploring how to undermine extractive, exploitative, fascist-leaning capitalism. Otherwise, no hugs
Cartoonists - need hugs
Union leads - need hugs
Weapons manufacturers - need the cold embrace of obsolescence.
Buying pants. My thick thighs make most pants not fit well. It's annoying and was more embarrassing back in HS. My GF at the time really liked to shop and shop with me. I had to shoot down her plans a lot.
I hated wearing corduroy as a child. The zip-zip sound while running or walking was an embarrassment.
I'm glad that people's bodies are more accepted now. I'm glad to see more kids who are accepting and promoting body positivity.
Nah. Instead, in Poilievre's case — and some others —it's a dim view of reality.
Reality is an inconvenience to these fucks.
I don't want people who lie, grift, and con to be in power anywhere. Especially mean-spirited, divisive, angry little boys like PP and 45/47.
It's been said: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” ~ Frank Wilhoit (Ohio)
Accountability is for the poors. The powerful, the change-agents of history, move beyond accountability. Or, so they practice. Every so often, one falls from grace; another rides rough-shod over sensibility; a third is investigated, tried, convicted, forgotten, then released to wither and die in obscurity. Often, people forget.
Magneto's power set could be very useful and easy to manage. Magnets can certainly be made stronger and weaker. He/I would need to build up to any dangerous level of magnetic power, so meditation before sleep would be clutch. Bullet-proof, flight, what amounts to telekinesis, and the ability to manifest any metallic object is fairly incredible, yet unobtrusive.
Also, Forge's power set would be pretty nice to have. Can engineer, build, fix, and invent literally anything. Solve any technological problem at will. The photocopier would never be broken. Wait, does anyone still use a photocopier? The only thing that'd be annoying is becoming everyone's IT department.
Jamie Madrox is also a great contender. Instant dupes of myself at will (and, yes, magically, they come with clothes).
Panic that I've overslept; that I'll be late and this will be the first and last straw; that I've lost my job; lost my house; that I've relegated my family to an existence at the fringes of society subsisting on canned beans, dandelions, and wild greens; that losing every shred of self-respect and all prospects of any improvement in my life.
Read Chomsky's Understanding Power (2002) and Manufacturing Consent (1988). It's been an oligarchy since at least the 1980s. It's Reagan's fault. Jimmy Carter — rest in power —was the last, best hope for the kind of America that humanity wanted.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower was right about the Military-Industrial complex. It used to just be weapons, technology, energy, and heavy industries. The associated industries have metastasized to include entertainment, finance, housing, and education.
Except Harper. He got in with a minority. Fucked around a little, prorogued parliament under threat of a coalition that would have shifted him into the minority, won that election with a majority, then fucked around even more for 5 years.
Then, he got voted out.
Pwah-lie-every was Harper's protégé. Expect every shenanigan there is.
That the Xanatos gambit is what I now expect from all good villains. Any villain worth their salt has a way to defeat the hero — even captured, killed, or frustrated.
Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, an aid worker will get shot, or a truckload of humanitarians will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan". But when I say that one little old CEO will die, well then everyone loses their minds!
December 23, 1995: On a wooden basement staircase, in an empty house, with no heat, with my dog. My parents lost the house. All our stuff had been moved out. Our nervous dog wouldn't settle. I couldn't leave him. That was the last night I slept in the house where I grew up.
December 1998: On a basement floor near Ottawa. At least it was carpeted. Hammered after some party near a college. In the night, some angel draped a blanket over me. Best feeling of my life to that point. Some guy's sister was kind to us.
May 2009: Coober Pedy, Australia. Slept in a hostel that was in a mine. Slept underground in a room with bunk beds and no windows. It was weird. Felt like a bomb shelter.
December 2011: Wadi Rum, Jordan. Slept outside under the stars on a sleeping mat on a rock of biblical proportion. The guy in the tent next to ours was snoring. Loudly. My partner couldn't take it. We dragged our mattresses out onto a rock 300 m from camp. I reasoned — scorpions were less likely to find us. Coulda been wrong. Still here to tell the tale.
According to Article 27 of the Rome Statute, all wanted persons are equal before the court, including heads of a state or government. No immunities under international law may bar the court from exercising its jurisdiction.
"No international court has ever found that a head of state or high ranking individual has immunity before it, and Article 27 was meant to codify that principle," [says] "Leila Sadat, a leading expert on immunities and former ICC special advisor on crimes against humanity[.]"
The immunity loophole found in Article 98 (1), according to the judgement, must be read in context and interpreted in a manner that is consistent with the object and purpose of the Rome Statute, meaning that it should not be read to carve out an exception to Article 27’s clear provisions.
... the reference to state immunity under Article 98 (1) is related to the immunity of a state and its property, not its leaders or officials.
Teachers - need hugs
Dentists - do not need hugs
Dads - need hugs
Corporations - do not need hugs
CEOs of Fortune 500 companies - need hugs, but only if they're exploring how to undermine extractive, exploitative, fascist-leaning capitalism. Otherwise, no hugs
Cartoonists - need hugs
Union leads - need hugs
Weapons manufacturers - need the cold embrace of obsolescence.