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technically we’re ALL, always LARPing, because the Self is only a construct,
I want a new character
Then make one.
“Then make one” has the same energy as “then perish” but like. Opposite. Same and opposite.
Opposite energy - same intensity
ya'know, maybe the reason rural, small-town people don’t trust national media is because national news outlets pretty much ignore 85% of the country.
nebraska is literally flooded, at least one person has died and three are missing, 60 thousand have evacuated… and the first cnn article about this went up like ten minutes ago and only mentioned flooding around omaha.
like. i’m from omaha and i’m frustrated by the lack of attention the rest of our state is getting. someone died, and you’re not going to mention that? how was this not a story worth reporting this morning? are nebraskan farmers and small-town citizens not just as important as the californians displaced by wildfires, or southern/east coast people affected by hurricanes?
when we complain about nebraska being ignored, we’re not really talking about not having shows set in nebraska, as much as we might want that. we’re talking about this — thousands of people losing their homes, their livelihood, and yet no one seems to think it’s worth mentioning.
when hurricanes devastated the south last year, nebraskans donated what we could to help those affected. we sent trucks filled with donated items and coordinated with shelters and organizations to make sure we actually sent things that were needed. i’m just saying, it would be nice to see some of that support in turn. even if it’s just bringing attention to this.
At the very least you would think that the farmlands that feed most of the US being flooded would be important to someone other then us Nebraskans. But we are ignored. At best Omaha is briefly mentioned. At worst we’re ridiculed and looked down upon because we’re just some dumb hicks with a boring state and a laughing stalk of a football team.
I’m terrified for my fellow Nebraskans because even us in the city don’t have enough money to be the only ones who donate. This needs more recognition because more people will die because of exposure after the fact.
I live in Fremont Nebraska. We are literally a fucking island right now. There is no way in or out of town. Half our town is flooded and the water is still expecting to rise. Two of my friends have lost their homes and one lost pets.
The thing about the flooding is that the other half of Nebraska is experiencing blizzards. Our whole state is in anarchy right now. There’s no water left in fremont. Two of our leveys have broke and our dam is being held together through sheer fucking will. This is fucking terrifying okay? Even if me and my family wanted to leave we CAN’T. If fremont get’s flooded anymore where are we going to evac to? We can’t. We can’t get out of town. Why has this not been a fucking emergency yet?
Currently my family is okay, but were close to losing our home too.
If you can spare anything please. PLEASE Donate. Nebraska is in need of a lot of help right now…
I live smack-dab in the middle of the state, four hours away from Omaha, and these are some pictures my friends and family have taken.
There are so many bridges out, so many roads impassable. Hundreds of people are stranded.
See this little island? Zoom in. Those are cows. Stranded, freezing, with no food, in the middle of calving season.
People have been losing 3 out of every 5 baby cows, because they are freezing in the mud before farmers and ranchers can even get to them.
This is my Uncle’s house, on the left
It’s a two story, and that water is six feet below the roof. They have my grandparent’s camper parked next the the barn (on the right) and you can’t even see it. My uncle has three young kids, the oldest of which has severe cerebral palsy, and now they’re living out of a hotel. My aunt only had time to pack two suitcases for the five of them. They had to leave everything else.
Really you guys, Nebraska has been flooded before, we have tornadoes every year, our temperatures are just as extreme as Chicago or Phoenix - but this is so much worse than any of that. I know there are worse things going on in the world, but this is happening too, and it’s going to impact so much more than most people think it will. Nebraska is a huge supplier of beef, pork, corn, and soybeans. Just in my hometown we have a huge Tyson processing plant that is weeks behind in production because the trucks can’t get through, and it’s costing a lot of people their jobs. This is serious.
Jeff Bezos currently has $150 Billion dollars. Thats $150,000,000,000
The US has an estimated 1.56 million homeless people. Thats 1,560,000.
You know those little tiny homes that cost like $10,000? Jeff Bezos could buy a tiny home for every single homeless person in America for 15.6 Billion dollars. He would still have 134.4 BILLION dollars left.
He could single handedly end homelessness in America 9 times and still be a billionaire.
But the only thing he can think of to use his money for is “Trying to get into space, maybe?”
He could buy real homes for a dollar apiece through HUD and spent $10 k on average renovating them which would also help employment as well as giving people a real home.
https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/housing/sfh/reo/goodn/dhmabout
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Anyone gots stats on other good things Jeff’s cash could fund?
Well, on average, the tuition for 4 years of college to a public university is around $40,000.
So for 1 billion dollars you could send 25,000 students to university for 4 years.
Bezos has 150 billion. Lets let him keep 10 billion. For $140 billion, he could send 3,500,000 students to college for a bachelor’s.
Daily reminder that just because people have money it doesn’t obligate them to take over government functions
Daily reminder that this post isnt actually saying that Jeff Bezos is obligated to do any of this, but rather is meant to illustrate:
1. His extreme and obscene level of wealth in terms that are easier to understand
2. To highlight how much good that level of wealth could do if used for the collective good, say, through either charity work or taxed and appropriated for specific government programs
3. To show how Jeff Bezos is a greedy goblin man who doesnt know or doesnt care about the good he could do, but never will, because our broken economic policies have allowed him to exploit workers and the environment to such an extreme degree that he has more money than many governments do and he doesn’t do a damn bit of good with it, so fuck him. Eat the rich.
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Look how many people hate him. I’m pretty damn happy about that 😁😁😁😁😁😁
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