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just a handy little info chart on the spectrums of sexuality.

If one were to count to a million, one number per second, it would take, 11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes and 40 seconds, that is if you continuously count all 11 and half days without rest.

If one were to count to a billion, one number per second, it would take 31.7 years, if you were to count 24 hours a day. Yet if you were undertaking this you’d need to sleep occasionally. If you were to count 16 hours a day, leaving room to sleep, it would take you roughly 48 years.

There’s a thousand millions in a billion, a million millions in a trillion, a thousand billions in a trillion.

There was a point in time where both Bezzos and musk net worth was nearly a trillion dollars. If they wanted to count just one billion of those dollars by hand it would take them 48 years to accomplish.

Elon musk makes $8 million a day from government subsidies, this is prior to him eliminating any competitors from the inside with doge. The average senior, who busted their butts for 50 years paying into their social security, Medicare, state and federal taxes, makes $65 a day.

The absurdity of it all is staggering. That these men who found their niche in business, bezzos with an online bookstore, right as the internet was taking off, and musk who’s father exploited black South Africans in his jewel mines, gave Elon the capital to invest in PayPal, to which he sold, bought an existing electric car company, used the carbon credits, and federal incentives, to make hundreds of billions of dollars, both pay the bare minimum in taxes, with Tesla paying nothing 3 out of the last 5 years. You and I, people who sometimes have to scrounge change to put gas in the tank, who struggle to pay for housing, groceries, insurance, try to enjoy life, we pay almost 40% of our income to taxes, social security and Medicare/medicaid.

How the f*ck is that acceptable!? Let alone celebrated?! You think these ultra rich know what it’s like to have to make decisions on whether hey can afford lunch or if that needs to go into the gas tank to get to work to pay to live?! WTF?!

Greed, selfishness, arrogance, these are the fuel that feeds the fire that leaves the middle class stuck, struggling and frustrated. But they have convinced so many that it’s the political opposition that is the cause of their inability to get ahead, or immigrants, of people of color, or trans people, gay people, stoking division to continue hoarding wealth like some sick addiction.

There’s not an infinite amount of capital in the U.S. economy. There’s only X amount. If these greedy robber barons stockpile the majority of it, that leaves a minuscule amount for the rest.

24 hours a day counting one number per second, it would take 32 years to count 1/200 of Bezzos and musk’s fortune.

I actually don't know if I even qualify as a Leftist anymore, because for the last 10-12 years these exact assholes have been overrunning the political space and the discourse I have existed in since the early 2000s, and telling me I am not one. That they are what real Leftists look and sound like, and that I and everyone who looks and sounds like I do are shitlibs.

We all know the type: aggressive, insecure bro types who mainly want to be able to smoke weed and have healthcare, And maybe they do actually intend for other people to eventually have those things too, if they are ever given power they want - but the really important thing is that we give them the power they want. These dudes are constantly talking down to everyone else and condescendingly telling us what's good for us, and how awesome it will be when we hand them all the power they want.

Maybe they say all the right things when conditions are perfect. But they sure do like to say slurs and lash out when provoked! And consent seems to be something they have no actual regard for. And they are constantly begging us to see white supremacists as poor woobies failed by the system and perpetual victims of the class war who are deserving of nothing but our eternal tolerance, compassion, and forbearance, instead of going out and reading W.E.B. Du Bois like an actual goddamn Leftist would. But then that would be "Identity Politics," which they think of as a bourgeoisie distraction.

A lot of the older White Bro Leftists like this are actually ex Ron Paulers who hitched themselves to Bernie Sanders's star when it became obvious after 2012 that Ron Paul's ship would never come in. And underneath the costume they try to put on, this is what they still are. Maybe they learned all the right talking points. But the racism, the misogyny, the entitlement? It's all still there. And it's obvious if you know what to look for and listen for. It explodes out of them the moment they get even the tiniest bit of pushback about anything, or experience any kind of frustration whatsoever.

I do not live in Maine (and for one very good reason, will never live in Maine) and so my opinion of Graham Platner was never going to translate to a vote for or against. But I never liked or trusted Graham Platner. The Totenkopf tattoo, and the fact that he had it for 20 years before going "haha oops" and covering it up with something else, should have been enough of a red flag. No one should be shocked at all by the allegations that have come out this week. We should all be nodding and going "okay yeah. There it is."

My litmus test, since around the early days of Black Lives Matter in the early 2010s, has been this: what does Black Twitter think of this person? But since I have mostly divested from microblogging platforms, it has turned into: what does Black Leftist Youtube think of this person? If Black Leftist Youtube does not think this person passes the smell test, then this person does not have my support. It's as simple as that.