Haines and Marks, the couple behind the mural, are both white â as is the artist who made the piece. Bailey and many of the pictureâs most vocal detractors are Black.
Honestly, if all of them were coming toward me in a dark alley, Iâd be kind of afraid. Iâm not generally afraid of blondes with completely dead eyes, airbrushed to perfection and without a crumb of joy.
I want to give the children some messy candy and loud toys. That, or hope for the future.
Dear god, please replace that as quickly as possible.
Thank you for that. All perfect. AI wins again, I guess.
Now I have to find out if âPreston Parraâ was posting that to be serious or funny.
Update. He us a serious, unironic Nazi.
THEY represent America, NOT dirty migrants. pic.twitter.com/S4malbNRn1
â Preston Parra (@ThePrestonParra) December 27, 2023
jmseank @jmseank 4h
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I love that half of their fingers donât make sense, the mom on the left has no legs, the older brother is wearing lipstick, and thereâs a mysterious hand that doesnât belong to anyone
Dec 27, 2023 ¡ 5:45 AM UTC
a better headline:
Harvard Alum Calls Himself a âSnowflakeâ
You know what? Good. I hope more follow in his footsteps. The funding model for higher education in this country is completely fucked up, which is why so many people are graduating with enough debt that they become modern day indentured servants to the ownership class led by assholes like Griffin. So let the Universities figure out a different model, and find a way to educate students for a reasonable amount of money. Disrupt all of academia, but not in the way people like Griffin would like to disrupt it. Socialize the shit out of it.
Letâs do it!
Griffin is probably going to pour that money into places like Hillsdale College instead, so I canât see a silver lining here.
This is the same guy who made a big brouhaha about leaving Chicago (where he made his money, and was able to hire top talent because of the location) to move to Florida to avoid taxes.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2022/06/28/corporate-headquarters-leaving-chicago
The silver lining to me is creating an impetus to create a funding model that doesnât rely on assholes like Griffin. I realize thatâs unlikely, but I can fantasize. Of course, itâs also just anti-woke theater anyway, because anyone who thinks Harvard is a bastion of leftist politics doesnât know anything about Harvard. Hell, just look at how many conservative judges, justices, lawmakers, and pundits have come out of Harvard Law. Itâs not as conservative as, say, Texas A&M, but itâs not Berkeley, either.
Ainât that the truth?
A lot of people seem to assume the wage-fund model, where total wages depend on total capital. Thus the insistance that anyone wanting higher wages means everyone gets lower real wages.
Or a variant form of the wage-fund model where anything that cuts into profits and/or privilege reduces effective capital and thus everyoneâs real wages. Thus the instistance that more privileges for the rich will increase everyoneâs wages, and fewer privileges for the rich would cut into their wages.
Yeah, that basically sounds like a similar idea as supply side economics. I other words, everything flows from the top down. But it doesnât. Or, put yet another way, itâs the basic premise of Capitalism: that Capital drives everything. Again, it doesnât. Labor and consumption drive everything. Capital doesnât magically appear from thin air, and it doesnât grow on trees.
To add to that, post-WWII in the U.S. is a perfect example. The government doing everything possible to make (white) family units able to afford consumerism drove the biggest growth in the countryâs history.
The CNBC host Carl Quintanilla asked Pilnick â whose companyâs brands include Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops, Corn Pops and Rice Krispies â whether his remarks could âland the wrong wayâ with consumers who have been forced to spend about 26% more on groceries in general since 2020.
Pilnick doubled down, saying: âIn fact, itâs landing really well right now. Cereal for dinner is something that is probably more on trend now, and we would expect [it] to continue as that consumer is under pressure.â
Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows cereal prices have jumped 28% in the last four years, several media outlets have reported. And in information from its latest fiscal year, Kelloggâs raised its prices 12% as it pleads with its customers to eat cereal for dinner and âgive chicken the night offâ.