i like how Mabel, Dipper, and Stan all have really cutesy art styles… and then you have Ford
edit: so it was pointed out to me that i forgot Stan’s drawing in Dipper and Mabel’s Guide to Mystery and Nonstop Fun, which is actually far better then his Stan bucks doodle
and now it’s complete
It appears talented artists run in the family! Ah, so cutesy…
With Trump’s Executive Order to complete the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) this is an all-hands-on-deck moment to bankrupt this poisonous project now.
We have a plan to kill the DAPL before Trump can save it. As of January 1, the DAPL has been in breach of contract to its oil company clients and the Big Banks who are financing its construction.
Out of the 17 banks directly funding the pipeline, we’ve identified Citi, TD, and Wells Fargo as the most vulnerable. Citibank has the largest stake in the project, with the most to lose if it decides to stay aboard this sinking ship. TD Bank is a Canadian bank that consistently paints itself as especially devoted to Indigenous people. Wells Fargo is still raw from the discovery of a massive fraudulent account scheme, which earned them over $190 million in fines in September; plus, cities like Seattle are introducing legislation to divest from Wells Fargo over their DAPL financing, which would cost the bank BILLIONS.
In light of the great Nazi punching meme going around right now, I want to remind everyone that the people who were filmed socking Richard Spencer were members of AntiFa or another organization aligned with AntiFa. They were dressed the way they were to obscure their identity and were trained, prepared, etc. to risk and face arrest, pepper spray, violent police force etc. They weren’t just any random person.
We all should want to rearrange a Nazi face but please remember that AntiFa resistance is trained to take these actions while protecting themselves and others from law enforcement. The best thing many of us can do is to support and assist these people: by not identifying them, by not implicating them, by covering their movements and not putting ourselves or others at-risk while they are working.
Punch a Nazi today, but recognize that AntiFa and aligned organizations might fight for everybody but they don’t go into these situations as everypeople. A clear understanding of their actions, goals, and the risks of their work is paramount to their safety and success.
At the dawn of the Republic, there was a strong abolition movement. This movement is actually how slavery got outlawed in the Northern states–in colonial times, while not much practiced for economic reasons, it was perfectly legal to own a slave in the North. Even in the South, slaves were being freed in droves in the aftermath of the Revolution. This movement was due largely to the integrated army Washington fought with–being forced to live and fight and die together, many White people saw for the first time that Black people were, well, people.
So why wasn’t slavery outlawed then and there, a done deal? Because the Founders who wanted to end slavery refused to push for it. But why didn’t they push for it? They had everything going for them! They had the momentum on their side!
Because they thought slavery would die a natural death, given enough time.
This is the exact opposite of what actually happened, though. In the wake of the Revolution, the slave-owners who refused to free their slaves became rich, and having money gave them the ability to shape public opinion, and it was abolitionism, not slavery, that died a natural death in the South. Only in the wake of the bloodiest war in our history did the slaves gain their freedom, if you can call what happened next “freedom.”
This idea that oppression will just die a natural death if we ignore it long enough isn’t just wrong–it’s the Original Sin of our nation. It gives the “good” people an excuse to do nothing while evildoers run roughshod over all they survey. Indeed, it creates the paradoxical idea that fighting evil is itself an evil, as all you’re accomplishing is to delay your own inevitable triumph.
It’s a seductive idea because it plays into our intellectual laziness (being a good SJW requires a lot of work if you’re going to sort the good ideas from the bullshit), requires no willpower (fighting the good fight is an exhausting, thankless task), and plays into our delusion that the world is a fundamentally fair place.
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