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“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth. There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.” - John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck discussed this almost a century ago.

Aigis

#アイギス＃ペルソナ3＃Persona3

All you can smooch buffet

"Wait, I am what ⁉️"

Oh, you are getting something stimulating

I also love how after the onsen she still does nothing but at least she's not sleeping lmao

Woah woah woah you cannot wear that during work hours, Reimu is going to close up your shop

That is a character that is 100% going to be in Touhou 𝟣̶𝟪̶ ̶𝟣̶𝟫̶ ̶𝟤̶𝟢̶ ̶𝟤̶𝟣̶ ̶𝟤̶𝟤̶ ...

Five-and-a-half thousand euros in the bag

"what are the first five letters of the alphabet?"

scarlet, the ever-perfect model student:

"Why no Rebecca tho?"
She fit on normal size pillow, smol ahh gremolin #LastShare

Cyberpunk Edgerunners Worlds Apart Body Pillow Case is $15 at CD Projekt Red Gear Store buff.ly/Pf3bt1a

From @acablart on Twitter: "november sucks. cant shave cant nut and you have to write a 50k word novel

American Kappa whose head is full of diet coke instead of spring water.

I'm not a Nobel winning economist, but it seems to me the world's largest retailer and the worlds largest delivery services laying off hundreds of thousands right before the busiest retail and delivery season of the year is perhaps not an optimistic indicator of Trump's promised "Golden Age"

Microsoft is now warning investors about the pushback against its massive data centers.

The tech giant's latest earnings reports says: “We also face community opposition, local moratoriums and hyper-local dissent that may impede or delay infrastructure development."

Honestly surprised the US would stop funding it tbh.

RFA was created by the CIA and then the U.S. Agency for Global Media to publish anti-China propaganda.

It’s published false stories and even anti vaccine content repeatedly. It was why views on China turned negative among the US population.

off the clock so i redrew that sketch

Interesting paper! When you ask people about the most important issue "facing the country," they often say immigration. But when you ask them about issues facing them personally, it doesn't crack the top 10.

This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.

🐸 #digimon #デジモン

Once again:

The more I see it the less I want it ngl.

Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties | Japanese Voice Cast Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=37mt...

Happy Halloween!

Kodansha, Kadokawa, Square Enix, Shogakukan, Akita Shoten, The Association of Japanese Animations and thirteen other co-signers released a joint statement denouncing Open AI’s Sora 2 for infringing on their copyright without permission/proper compensation

Finally some christian representation

Spooky season is over, Letty where are you?

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