David Simon's tweet from 2017...
In the pantheon of visual metaphors for America today, this is the money shot.
An interview with the photographer...
Kristi McCluer's best photograph: playing golf while America burns | Photography | The Guardian
Wait so it's not photoshopped? How are they not just breathing a bunch of ashes?
I really believe that for the revolution to kick off in earnest it’s gonna be the takeover of two specific places all around the country:
Golf courses and airports.
That’s where, as George Carlin puts it, these “white, well-to-do business criminals use the game to get together so they can make deals to carve this country up a little finer among themselves.”
Same with airports.
Shut these down with strikes/work stoppages or slowdowns/non compliance etc. Or have crews of protesters to harass them 24/7.
They shouldn’t be allowed to roam free in these soft, leisurely, comfortable lives of ease while we continue to burn through corporate price-gouging, no healthcare, rising rents and cost of living, gun massacres, police brutality/cowardice.
Why are there gun massacres of innocent children inside school and townsfolk at parades, but never a slaughter at a CEO’s summer mansion, stockholders meeting or private country club?
Why are there gun massacres of innocent children inside school and townsfolk at parades, but never a slaughter at a CEO’s summer mansion, stockholders meeting or private country club?
the fbi isn't radicalizing and arming the left
Why are there gun massacres of innocent children inside school and townsfolk at parades, but never a slaughter at a CEO’s summer mansion, stockholders meeting or private country club?
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I wish I could say more.
Why are there gun massacres of innocent children inside school and townsfolk at parades, but never a slaughter at a CEO’s summer mansion, stockholders meeting or private country club?
Because they are heavily protected by layer after layer of cops and private security.
seems like they'd be close enough to be choking to death on the ash even if they're "safe" from the fire, weird choice to keep playing
Golfers simply do not give a fuck about the world.
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