Darkle and Tinct

We got:

A literal fucking empire, let’s elaborate

25% of the world’s prisoners, but only 5% of the world’s population, many of whom are in for nonviolent offenses and paid cents on the hour for their labor

Some prisoners getting paid nothing at all for their labor, in instances of literal slavery

Drones bombing people halfway around the world on a routine basis

An occupation in Afghanistan that’s been going on since fucking 2001

An airport security routine that routinely violates privacy rights and is basically authoritarian theatre

Poor people paying about 20% in taxes, with real wages unchanged since the 19 fucking 70s, while most of the real income gains have gone to the 1% richest people in our society

Income inequality the worst it’s been since the Great Depression

Minorities, mentally ill, and/or homeless people getting brutalized and shot routinely by the police

No left-wing party worth speaking of, just diet right, classic right, and zero-calorie right (now with 3.27% of the popular vote)

About half our food being wasted while people starve

The NRA advertising authoritarian, us vs. them rhetoric straight out of old-timey propaganda films

A president who is on the record as having endorsed and committed sexual assault, has committed fraud, and isn’t even good at the thing he was supposed to be good at

His opponent during the election, who used literal slave labor and has endorsed bombing people halfway around the world on a routine basis, as detailed above

Gerrymandering so thick that we’ve got states that aren’t even classified as democracies anymore

A mainstream media that acts, unconditionally, as a willing accomplice to the state

Our politicians trying to slash programs and agencies whose aims a majority of our population like and want

People having to call and beg our politicians to not cut the things that we like and want

Our politicians doing fuck nothing that’s any good for anyone, even though a single party controls the whole government right now

Shark skin feels exactly like sandpaper. It is made up of tiny teeth-like structures called placoid scales, also known as dermal denticles. These scales point towards the tail and help to reduce friction from surrounding water when the shark swims. … In the opposite direction, it feels very rough like sandpaper.

I was reading this article this morning, about Disney cutting ties with PewDiePie, a YouTube star (I’ve never heard of him?) who had included antisemitic content in his videos. This guy has continually claimed that all the antisemitic content he’s produced (which includes statements such as ‘death to all Jews’ and ‘Hitler did absolutely nothing wrong’) is a joke, and that people who are offended simply don’t understand the context, suggesting that it’s ‘laughable’ that he might agree with these viewpoints. So far so unsurprising: we’ve heard all this before.

But at the bottom of the article it points out the response to these videos by the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website, which now describes itself as ‘the number 1 PewDiePie fansite’. The Daily Stormer stated: “He could be doing all this only to cause a stir things up and get free publicity […] Ultimately, it doesn’t matter, since the effect is the same; it normalizes Nazism, and marginalizes our enemies.”

Shia LaBeouf‘s livestream protest project, “HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US”, has been shut down. Less than a week after the start of Shia LaBeouf’s nonstop anti-Trump live stream, the space became an online target for Donald Trump supporters and neo-Nazis.