It
will be over a year until JoJo Part 4: Diamond is not Crash (or Diamond is
Unbreakable if you go by the official translation like a nerd) will be an anime
and I want to see Superfly sooner than that.
I’m
still over a week away from going back to Portland.
It’s
been three years and George R. R. Martin is maybe halfway through his next
book, which I will probably hate anyway.
The
same people that have been ruining Doctor Who for years are still writing for
Doctor Who.
I
want a Minecraft server to play on but there isn’t one.
Gamora
is not as represented in Guardians of the Galaxy merchandise as she should
be. I found action figures of her at
Toys ‘R Us fairly easily, but there have been many products that include
literally every other team member but her, and she’s one of only three major
female characters in the movie and that’s not okay.
There is no fully articulate Groot action figure. Instead, each member of the Guardians of the
Galaxy comes with a body part: his head, his left leg, his right leg, his left
arm, his right arm, and his torso, which you must assemble into Groot
yourself. You must buy six $20 action
figures to build Groot, and because without Groot there are only four members
of the Guardians, two of those action figures are anonymous Nova Soldier Guy
and Iron Man. There are lots of kids,
and people in general, whose favorite character is Groot, and they have to
spend $120 to get him.
I’m
lonely.
Pokémon
doesn’t come out for three months.
The
society I live in gives me incredible privilege based on my race, gender,
sexual orientation, and social class, and because of that I have time to worry
about the dumb garbage listed above while other people have to worry about how
to pay for food, how to pay for medical treatment, and how to avoid being on
the wrong side of our increasingly vicious and unfair justice system.
A
kid in Ferguson was murdered because of this system. His murderer is unpunished and will likely
remain so, and despite massive police brutality towards protesters and the
media in subsequent days, things will either remain the same or slowly change
over the course of years, with nobody directly involved in this incident ever
being appropriately punished.
Two
days ago, white St. Louis police officers killed a 25 year-old, mentally ill
black man. He took donuts and sodas, was
armed with a kitchen knife, and the police asked him to surrender once before
shooting him several times when he slowly walked forward with both hands
visible and at his sides. He was at
least eight feet away and they emptied a clip into him and, once they realized
people were watching them, handcuffed the corpse.
Despite
this, most white people see no racial element to any of these incidents. Many, some in the media, defend police
conduct in Mike Brown and Kajieme Powell’s murders, and their conduct in
subsequent riots. Institutionalized
racism, a key factor in these incidents, is less discussed than police
militarization, which itself seems unlikely to change. Democratic leadership in the House of
Representatives expressed a desire to merely “re-examine” the practice rather
than scrapping it, and Republican support of such a plan is in the single
digits. Many Republicans are claiming no
police misconduct has occurred, and some have suggested that Mike Brown
deserved what happened to him.
It
is very unlikely that giant wasps will descend upon our nation and fly away
with the idiots and monsters that support and perpetuate this system of deliberate
violence, and if they did, our air force would probably shoot them down before
they could make it back to their hive.
Even
if the wasps succeeded, enough people would probably blame the wasps on black
people that the cycle would begin anew anyway.
I’m
probably not going to be able to sleep for a while because I’m too angry and it’s
almost 2 AM.
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