Just wanted to chime in: yes, this is awesome @davewalker, thank you!
And yes, the t-shirt is a great idea, the first person I shared it with also immediately responded that they wanted a t-shirt with that 🙂
You could maybe consider licensing it under CC-BY, so that everybody's allowed to print it on whatever they want? That way it wouldn't cost you any time 🙂 (maybe a stupid idea for lots of reasons, but as we say in NL:
You already have 'no', you might get 'yes'
🙂
@johnflomax @davewalker The DK version of the problem is the deregulation of an otherwise decent, if hard, housing market.
Before you even begin to consider inflation-adjusted mean salary vs. cost of living, the amount of rent controlled housing dropping like a rock, combined with letting investment funds into the market, means normal people just have no initial access to the buyers market and are stuck paying predatory rent or seeking housing away from where the jobs are.
There are enough houses though, they've just all been bought up as second homes, buy-to-lets or airbnbs.
We're in the midst of a climate crisis and cannot afford the CO2 that building a bunch of new social housing will cause, although social housing is otherwise an excellent idea in principle.
My point is that the houses are already there. We just need to somehow reapportion them fairly
@Shivviness @johnflomax @davewalker
Not quite accurate, because humans are A) frustratingly migratory, and B) occasionally evil/selfish.
There may be enough housing for everyone, but not where people are located. E.g. #Canada gained >10^6 new residents, from about 40 million.
Thé largest increase in housing unit ownership in North America by segment is #REIT—real estate investment trust—largely held by pension plans & investment funds. IOW: us, people able to save for retirement.
@davewalker Your excellent work reminds me of another artist / cartoonist who used to have a regular column (many years ago) in the Observer Magazine, I think, called 'the elements of wisdom' - but I can't remember his name... Can anybody else?
@davewalker @Coolmccool @tiny_m And don't miss Tim's seminal, and still fascinating, Secret Life of Machines TV series, which has been uploaded to his youtube channel. He's even added a little epilogue to each episode, talking about the filming process and how the technology has changed since the 80s/90s. Which is often surprisingly little.
What causes racist hate is the media. The news media, and the entertainment media, and the politicians who spew the vitriol.
Racism is learned behavior.
@davewalker I am heartened by the anti-far-right demonstrations in UK cities which prevented another night of far-right thuggery.
The right just needs a boogeyman to rile people up about, and immigrants are that boogeyman.
While all that is true I think we (& media, politicians) miss the underlying cause and amplifier of anti-immigrant views which is wealth-power.
The right wing press, largely owned by wealthy tax avoiders who live *overseas* is one. They, other oligarchs and corporations wield power to corrupt and influence in our social and political system.
Remove the influence of money powered #media, #lobbying and #advertising, and we can begin to heal.
Without that it is a losing battle.
@davewalker People don't live in fear because of their skin color, they live in fear because of poverty, ideology, instability. welcoming them is a nice thing to do. But it is not a solution. The solution is to remove the fear they are fleeing from.
Oversimplifying a complex problem and then throwing a simple solution to it never works. and the opposite of a radical, oversimplified idea (closing borders) is still a radical oversimplified idea.
A case of Face eating Leopards?
Tweet by Andrew Tate (@Cobratate) dated August 5, 2024:
"This is the first time in my life I'm getting serious racist insults [f]or being brown from white people in the UK.
Not a good look."
@davewalker , "People fleeing horrific situations that you and I likely complicitly contributed towards"*
If we don't like people fleeing hells we helped create, we should stop creating them. The system created these situations long before I was born, so best I can do is understand I born in a country reaping the rewards of expanding imperialism and welcome people whom have been victims of that system, sharing what I have through luck benefited from. Fuck this whole zero sum ideology.
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