I made a halfway cover of Home by Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes about a year ago, the day I finally had my first dose of testosterone. And due to how many years in the making me and my body and my happiness has been, I thought you all should be allowed to listen to me singing to myself, for myself, about how much I love me and my journey. And of course - everything else that will happen.
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Latino trans man in need of help.
My paycheck is $350 and I have $200 saved in cash. So I'm heading into July with $550, which is $250 short of rent.
If anyone wants to help a disabled FTM Latino who lost two jobs in the past two months (one due to workplace transphobia and the other due to management incompetence). Maybe consider throwing some spare change my way? The rent is due on the 5th.
You can help by purchasing something from my Gumroad, where I publish queer poetry volumes.
Or you can donate directly to me through Cash.app. $NicoBowie
I do not have a Paypal or a Venmo.
If you're unable to help monetarily, please consider reblogging this post.
P.S. - A note to followers, I do not have internet access right now, as I owe my internet provider roughly $300 and they have cut off my services. Thus, I am posting from the library. So, I will not be super active on here but will check in every once in a while and maybe queue up some posts. It may be a month or two until I can afford to get my internet turned back on.
I had an interesting night last night
I’m so glad I have tumblr gold so I can view this post
Tumblr gold users rise up
New guy at work: “Oh, you were in the Army?”
Me: “Yeah.”
New guy: “Thank you for your service!”
Me: “It was bullshit. It’s all bullshit. You ever heard of Smedley Butler?”
“I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as
a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps.
I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to
Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a
high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the
Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
…
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during
that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big
Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a
gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico
safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a
decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I
helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the
benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International
Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the
Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped
make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China
in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested.
Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best
he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on
three continents.”
there should be less queer discourse and more queer intercourse
less intercommunity discourse and more intercourse in dis community
Tumblr is so funny because you can make a post like "hey do not mix bleach and vinegar in your cleaning, you'll make chlorine gas and you do not want to make chlorine gas. It is dangerous to mix these two specific chemicals together", and the comments are like
"Um vinegar isn't dangerous?? My mom cleans things with vinegar all the time and we have never had lung issues. White people are insane." (<- does not use bleach, missing the point)
"OH MY GOD BLEACH IS CHLORINE GAS? NOBODY EVER TOLD ME I'VE BEEN CLEANING WITH BLEACH MY WHOLE LIFE, I WILL DIE." (<- has literally never used vinegar in cleaning, and never mixed the two, missing the point)
"This is just stupid fearmongering, we use bleach and vinegar to wash the floors all the time, OP is lying." (<- does not actually know what "vinegar" is, and is confusing the word for something else)
"Yeah this is true enough but also keep in mind that this kind of household cleaning product chlorine gas is too weak and unreliable to use for domestic terrorism purposes." (<- raises concerns, but potentially has a point)
To clarify, Elon musk has had years where his net worth increased by around $121B (such as 2020 and 2021, a time when a lot of people were suffering) but he did not pay income on this increase because an overwhelming majority of it was not reported as income.
If Elon Musk were paying regular income tax on this increase in net worth, he would be in the top bracket paying 37%, which would be about $44.4 billion. Instead, he's paying about 1/4th that. Why? Because he's able to benefit from loopholes and legal tax avoidance schemes, such as borrowing at a very low rate against unrealized capital gains, that most taxpayers are not able to benefit from.
A large part of why there is such a massive disparity in wealth between the rich and poor in our society is that we allow people who already have a ton of wealth to concentrate wealth very easily while avoiding tax, like this. Closing these loopholes is important to ensuring equality of opportunity and also avoiding the extreme concentration of power in the hands of a tiny number of people.
And we see the negative effect on the world of allowing Elon Musk to have such wealth and thus power.
Please, support closing these tax loopholes. At a bare minimum I want him to pay some sort of base level of tax on the increase in his net worth. But I also would prefer that the top tax bracket was much higher. 37% is much lower than it was historically. Not that long ago it was even as high as 90%. Having it that high is a strong disincentive or deterrent to people getting the sort of compensation that leads to people becoming super wealthy. But it's probably more important to fix the loopholes because if you just raise the rate but still allow legal tax avoidance, people will just avoid paying tax.
it’s kind of deeply depressing that there exists this entire vast subculture of progressive-learning 15-19 year olds online who are legitimately filled with anxiety over their media consumption diet and closely monitor themselves and others to make sure nothing they consume is Problematic™ lest they be ousted from their social circles. at the exact age where it’s actually good to have a varied media diet and be able to critically engage with harmful elements, too
straight up if you are high school or early university aged and you’re spending time feeling significant guilt and anxiety about what you choose to read or watch because of your online peers and shaping your media diet based on fear, you do not have to be around those peers anymore. there is a vast world outside this kind of person