#the hired man

[theoutcastrogue]

Copaganda does three main things.

First, it narrows our understanding of safety. Police get us to focus on crimes committed by the poorest, most vulnerable people in our society and not on bigger threats to our safety caused by people with wealth and power.

For example, wage theft by employers dwarfs all other property crime combined — from burglaries, to retail theft, to robberies — costing some $50 billion every year. Tax evasion steals about $1 trillion each year. There are hundreds of thousands of Clean Water Act violations each year, causing cancer, kidney failure, rotting teeth, and damage to the nervous system. Over 100,000 people in the United States die every year from air pollution, five times the number of all homicides.

But through the stories cops feed reporters, the public is encouraged to measure a city’s safety by whether it saw an annual increase or decrease of three homicides or fourteen robberies — rather than by how many people died from lack of access to health care, how many children suffered lead poisoning, how many families were rendered homeless by illegal eviction or foreclosure, or how many thousands of illegal assaults police committed.

The second function of copaganda is to manufacture crises or “crime surges.” For example, if you watch the news, you’ve probably been bombarded with stories about the rise of retail theft. Yet the actual data shows there has been no significant increase. Instead, corporate retailers, police, and PR firms fabricated talking points and fed them to the media. The same is true of what the FBI categorizes as “violent crime.” All told, major “index crimes” tracked by the FBI are at nearly forty-year lows.

The third and most pernicious function of copaganda is to manipulate our understanding of what solutions actually work to make us safer. A primary goal of copaganda is to convince the public to spend even more money on police and prisons. If safety is defined by street crime, and street crime is dangerously high, then funding the carceral state leaps out to many people as a natural solution.

The evidence shows otherwise.

— Alec Karakatsanis, “Police Departments Spend Vast Sums of Money Creating “Copaganda”” | Jacobin, July 2022

#Alec Karakatsanis #theory #the hired man #big thief little thief

[doyouknowthismusical]

#musical theater #do you know this musical #poll #the hired man #melvyn bragg #howard goodall #language: english

[ikiprian]

Ghost Kitchen (brought to you by criminal entrepreneur, Red Hood)

Danny’s got the easiest job in Gotham.

He works as a fry cook at a shoddily-run, independent burger joint. Hardly anyone comes in, despite prices being criminally low, and portions insanely large, and while the manager looks like the average tough-as-nails ex-con, he lets Danny mess around in the kitchen whenever the place is empty. (Which is often. This place has to be the city’s hidden gem or something!)

Mr. Manager’s the only one ever there with Danny, except for sometimes when his buddies come over to smoke and play cards. Danny would find it shady, except part of his job is not to ask questions. Literally, he was told during the interview.

(It was a weird interview. Why would they need to hire someone who’s been in a gunfight before? Like, he has, but Gotham’s idea of “hirable qualities” is so bizarre.)

So instead he whips up some killer burgers with the frozen ingredients, and basks in the praise as the guys tell him he shouldn’t have, he does too much for this joint, ain’t that friendly!

Now, Danny’s a chef on the newer side. As a teen he’d preferred the look of Nasty Burger over anything with Michelin stars, and he only really took up cooking after Jazz moved out for college. But just like ecto-exposure used to turn the groceries sentient, Danny’s low-level ecto signature imbues all his food with something historically haunted Gothamites just love! And Danny’s never been one to half-ass a job when it makes people happy.

With fresher produce, real meat, Danny’s sure he can take his dishes to the next level. It takes a couple months of badgering, but his manager finally agrees to contact the mysterious store owner, who keeps the place going, despite profits Danny knows have to be in the red.

Danny spends the morning prepping. He pours his heart into his food, eager to impress. The big boss will be here soon, and he wants to prove that despite the dangerous location, this place has real potential!

It isn’t until the Red Hood shows up that Danny realizes he’s been working for a money laundering scheme.

#ecto has a weird effect on them actually. a lot like how danielle drinks ecto to keep her stable #ecto has positive health benefits for gothamites! it boosts their immune system gives them a little more energy makes them less irritable #silly hc but i think its fun #also danny just. thought it was a normal ass interview. the person who hired him was heavily hinting at the criminal element of his job the #whole time. danny just kept thinking man i cant believe all interviews are like this in gotham. every one of the #m asks if im okay lying to cops. i am but its weird i never got asked this in amity #dpxdc #dcxdp #dc x dp #dp x dc #dead on main #ghost kitchen au #danny fenton #jason todd #kipwrite

[charlietheepicwriter7]

"Nightwing."

Dick froze halfway across a rooftop, the lights and gunshots of Bludhaven disappearing in an instant. A scowl flashed across his face, teeth clenched and bared, before he forced it back. His face smoothed back out and his voice took on a pleasant, amused tone. "Slade. How did you get this frequency?"

"Nevermind that," Slade scolded. "We have more important things that need discussing, and information to be revealed."

"Is this about Constantinople?" He asked with a lilt, propping one hand on his hip. "Because I thought I told you, those geese totally counted as villains and deserved arrest--"

"I found a child vigilante. What do I do with it?"

"Ex-cuse me?" His fist clenched. "Is this a trick question?"

"No."

"What do you mean, 'what do I do with it?' You know what to do with it; you become its nemisis when their 15 and haunted them for the next decade." His voice was thinly-veiled rage. He couldn't stop himself from shaking. That poor kid, Slade has his sights set on them. He's going to torture that kid, or worse, and now I have to track Slade's trail back to wherever he found this kid--

"I can't do that! He's only eight years old!"

"What?"

"There's this eight year old meta brat running around a Mid-West town in his pajamas while adults shoot at him. There isn't a mentor in sight, and one of the kid's rogues has threatened to skin him. What. Do. I. Do?"

#Dick: IDK man you smelt it you dealt it. congrats on the new kid; i'm sure rose and joey will be happy #dc x dp #dcxdp #dpxdc #dp x dc #c: slade wilson #c: dick grayson #c: danny fenton #child danny fenton #reluctant murder uncle slade wilson #dick grayson's well of unending rage #slade will reluctantly mentor this child #maybe it will help him murder the mayor he was hired to assassinate #Batman: Why did you encourage Deathstroke to steal someone's child!?!?!? #Dick: first of all he's been avoiding child support and custody for over a decade. I'd assumed he'd keep the trend going!

[spidaerman]

people who never left tumblr seeing all this mess unfold on twitter

#twitter #man i do feel bad for the creators tho :// #it’s a source or income and exposure to ppl in other fields who could hire them 😭😭😭 #helen talks #*posts

[julesodd]

Bro gaslight, gatekeep, girlbossed his way through the second Episode

#I love that man #Hiring a greek actor to play a greek god? Holy shit #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #dionysus #pjo series #pjo fandom #disney

[desidov]

#lethal company #queer #digital art #eldritch horror working for min wage sorting scrap from the annoying interns #and they keep telling new hires to ring the bell 20 times as a joke #i get it man i get it #my art

[bishy437]

nhs: sorry for being a customer jc: some crimes can never be forgiven that being said yes i will go home w/ u

#jc: *is extremely rude for no reason* nhs: oh im into that #jc being the worst employee ever like who hired this man #obligatory pls don’t steal my tags tag <3 #sangcheng #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #nie huaisang #jiang cheng #mine

[sydsixxftm]

I have something to say that I know might be bad for business but I want to say it anyways.

If you love seeing a trans masculine person be dominant or be the top THEN YOU SHOULD PAY FOR THAT STYLE OF CONTENT

I want to keep producing content where I get to be my true self and dom top. I want to make authentic t4t content. However, my content that's aimed at cis men actually makes sales. I don't want to bottom for cis men. I'm fully gay4pay in that regard. But that's how I keep my rent paid and my lights on.

You wonder why you can't find much porn of ftms who top?? Well, you refuse to pay for that content, so why would studios put it out? There's is ONLY ONE trans man in the ENTIRE ADULT INDUSTRY who is signed to a studio. And guess what? He has to bottom for cis men.

The way trans men are treated in porn is abysmal. It's a direct result of studios not viewing us as profitable enough. Who's fault is that? The consumers, of course.

#and then people wonder how to get into the adult industry as a ftm like lol you can't there's no gigs they don't hire us #syd sixx speaks #ftm nsft #ftm content creator #trans content creator #ftm top #ftm dom #t4t nsft #trans man model #ftm gay4pay

[sad-emo-dip-dye]

I need everyone to know that Dazai doing drugs in the light novel was actually like only his third day on the job

#mans hadn’t even been hired yet #bsd #bungo stray dogs #bsdrewatch2023 #bsd ep 6 #dazai osamu

[gaybuckybarnesss]

GAVIN LEATHERWOOD Instagram

#gavin leatherwood #gleatherwoodedit #pls hire this man #nice nips

[thankstothe]

#house md #gregory house #chris taub #screencap #s07e07 “A Pox on Our House” #sexiest american man - british #i believe house only hires hookers #regardless of what needs doing #so that plummer in one episode #you guessed it - hooker #its funnier if he doesn't have sex with them too #like he started hiring them for sex then it got lost along the way while he was amassing the network

[vertigoartgore]

Daredevil & Elektra by Matías Bergara.

#daredevil #elektra #matias bergara #DD #1980s #80's #80s #elektra natchios #bullseye #kingpin #frank miller #dance #killer for hire #blind vigilante #lovers #enemies #tragic #matt murdock #wilson fisk #the man without fear #couple #deadly duo #klaus janson #marvel comics

[octomint]

Smokers

WIP under cut :3

#octos art #resident evil #rebhfun #re8 #resident evil 8 #resident evil village #re village #ethan winters #karl heisenberg #lord heisenberg #wintersberg #old man yaoi #my art #artist on tumblr #art #fanart #bright color #comissions #comission #comissions open #artist for hire #artist for commission #mlm #gay #gay art #queer art #gaymer #resident evil fanart #smoking #cw smoking

[spaceshiprocket]

Heroes for Hire by John Paul Leon

#john paul leon #heroes for hire #iron fist #power man #marvel comics #marvel #comics

[wildunchrtedwaters]

idc what anyone says, jonah was not only the perfect person to play prince eric, but also the perfect person to sing wild uncharted waters for the film! the fact that he doesn’t have a traditional or trained musical theatre voice simply added to the emotions of the song and where it fell in the story! the rawness! the longing! the passion! the desperation! the absolute british-ness of how he sings it! the way he emphasizes certain words and phrases! i have yet to hear a cover that captures all of those things the way jonah did in the movie! and i hope you’re there! in the open air! there’s no map ooor COMpass to guiiiide me, no! time may change the shoreline, but TIME will not chaaaange meeeeeh! if it takes my life, i will FINally find you aaaagain!

#some really talented people i love have covered it and it's beautiful #but jonah's version is unmatched for me #¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #i'm just rly grateful they decided to have him sing it instead of hiring someone else to sing it. bc they could have done that #like nah jonah's not a broadway singer but he held his own and did a fantastic job! #no notes from me! idc about ppl coming at me with oh technicality wise this #autotune that #literally idc just let me enjoy the 3 straight min of yearning and pining from this beautiful man! #jonah hauer king #the little mermaid #the little mermaid 2023 #tlm 2023 #prince eric #ariel x eric #kristen speaks