Let me say this to Start, I am Fair-ly strong!

Finally stopped being lazy and changed my Desc to be a description of me an stuff

made a new skype, old one was crashing too much, might be on  it again every-so-often because my phone is signed into it owo

Look, in Britain, since our railways were privatised, a ton of them have steadily gone to shit while the fares have risen three times faster than inflation. Because the companies running them have what amounts to a monopoly, which they’d have even more of if you privatise NASA because you can’t get a bus to fucking Space.

When the railways were nationally owned, they just had to make enough money to run a fucking railway. Now they have to do that AND pay shareholder dividends, which means that corners are cut wherever they fucking can be, there’s delays and cancellations up the arse and the customers get shafted. AND OUR TAXES STILL FUCKING SUBSIDISE THEM. Companies have run railways into the ground and then handed them back because they weren’t profitable to them any more. Privatisation is an exercise in Applied Rights Without Responsibilities.

Privatise NASA and all it’ll get money for are which projects can be monetised, which will pretty much consist entirely of things that could be used by what we now quaintly refer to as ‘defence’ and our slightly more forthright forebears would call ‘warmongering’.

Private business won’t get us to Mars. It wouldn’t get us three fucking miles outside Earth’s atmosphere. Because it doesn’t give a shit about enriching humanity and scientific progress or any of that fun stuff. It wants what it always wants, which is to get paid and hoard its wealth like a fucking dragon. And you’d blithely hand over space exploration to people who’d happily charge you for every lungful of breathable fucking air, if they could, and probably would? Do that and you’ve let them put a fucking tollbooth on the road to the stars, you fucking wally.

Look, there’s a reason Star Trek takes place in a Future Socialist Utopia, for fuck’s sake. It’s because getting into space and the exploration of same has to be the end solely in and of itself, not the happy by-product of the same gaggle of old white men continuing to rake in enough money to make Scrooge McDuck look like a fucking pauper.

not in a ‘poor baby is so misunderstood’ way

a cute snail eating a strawberry

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Hot Topic is known amongst artist groups as one of the worst offenders of art theft in U.S. retailers. I know artists are important to What Pumpkin, and I’d imagine multiple cases of art theft would be a very big deal. The most well-known of the cases were stolen fan art from independent artists, which is the same demographic the Design Contest was aimed to.  I’m an artist myself and I wouldn’t want to support a store that steals from my peers.

The people running Hot Topic have zero respect to artists and to copyright law. They’ve been ripping-off independent artists’ storefronts, and continue do so. The whole company really should have been shut down long ago.

If you support artists, independent, fan artist, or any kind, you should oppose Hot Topic and MSPA’s association with them!

Tell What Pumpkin to kick Hot Topic out of the Design contest RIGHT NOW.

We have so little time left to stop this please tell them that it is completely unacceptable to do any sort of business with petty art thieves.