Steve Spillman

gabedelahaye:

robdelaney:

kellyoxford:

HA

Holy Jesus Christ, I just shit out my whole digestive system onto the floor.

I feel like people are getting their class warfare all muddled with this Occupy Wall Street stuff. Like, I definitely think it was kind of weird that Kanye went down there and didn’t say anything, or whatever, but it’s NOT weird that he wore an outfit befitting a multi-millionaire international pop star. That’s what he is, and that’s who he is, and he’s not even remotely responsible for the economic imbalance created by American corporate culture? What was he supposed to do, wear cut-off jean shorts and a Hanes tank-top as a show of solidarity? Solidarity with what? How is what someone wears even remotely the point of this movement? I saw another thing today that was complaining about Sam Sifton writing a glowing review of Per Se, as if how could he at a time like this. GUYS! As someone who totally believes that wealth should be more evenly distributed even if I do not have any clear ideas on how the mechanics of that would work because I’m just as stupid as everyone else on Twitter, I just think it’s weird to complain about people acting (correctly) as if money still exists and some people have some of it, because this isn’t about personal wealth on an individual level. Is it? Because if it is then I take it back, I don’t support this at all, because that is ridiculous and way too hard to unpack and open to lots of gray-area confusion. But if it’s about institutional greed and the political structures that reinforce and perpetuate that unjust system, then maybe let’s talk about that because that seems way more important than Kanye’s pants.

robdelaney:

kellyoxford:

HA

Holy Jesus Christ, I just shit out my whole digestive system onto the floor.

I feel like people are getting their class warfare all muddled with this Occupy Wall Street stuff. Like, I definitely think it was kind of weird that Kanye went down there and didn’t say anything, or whatever, but it’s NOT weird that he wore an outfit befitting a multi-millionaire international pop star. That’s what he is, and that’s who he is, and he’s not even remotely responsible for the economic imbalance created by American corporate culture? What was he supposed to do, wear cut-off jean shorts and a Hanes tank-top as a show of solidarity? Solidarity with what? How is what someone wears even remotely the point of this movement? I saw another thing today that was complaining about Sam Sifton writing a glowing review of Per Se, as if how could he at a time like this. GUYS! As someone who totally believes that wealth should be more evenly distributed even if I do not have any clear ideas on how the mechanics of that would work because I’m just as stupid as everyone else on Twitter, I just think it’s weird to complain about people acting (correctly) as if money still exists and some people have some of it, because this isn’t about personal wealth on an individual level. Is it? Because if it is then I take it back, I don’t support this at all, because that is ridiculous and way too hard to unpack and open to lots of gray-area confusion. But if it’s about institutional greed and the political structures that reinforce and perpetuate that unjust system, then maybe let’s talk about that because that seems way more important than Kanye’s pants.