Mad Thoughts

mandalay:

catbus:

pterodactyls:

untzuntzbaby:

ilovecharts:

No more than one-third of Americans have valid passports. I’ve created a choropleth map to illustrate the disparate distribution of traveling Americans. Further background and data here.

-ilyagerner

So basically, by and large, the people least likely to go anywhere, see anything, or enrich their understanding of people and the world are also the ones who keep voting to fuck this country further and further into a pseudo-capitalist abyss (read: capitalism becomes moot when nearly all investment capital is held by less than 1% of the populace, because then you have an oligarchy).

Thank you xenophobia!

[username pterodactyls’ remark redacted since it is about maps I think]

Dear Jerk,

a) Did you know that a lot of people who don’t internationally travel don’t because they’re fucking broke? Also did you know that going to Paris on study abroad doesn’t turn you into some enriched and culturally literate human being, it just turns you into a person who went to Paris on study abroad?

b) Did you know that a lot of the fine ladies and gentlemen passing hopeless and regressive policies and benefitting from those regressive policies you’re blaming on people without passports went to fancy-schmancy schools, studied abroad, and have passports and shit?

Best,

Catbus (who did not have a passport until age 24, thereby marked as a cultural idiot who has Never Seen Anything)

1. I agree 1000% with Colin.

2. I didn’t have a passport until I was almost 27, so I win! I beat you at being more white trash awesome!

3. The people whose parents paid for them to study/drink abroad are the same people who were able to take whatever unpaid internship they wanted and are the same people who can become an unpaid Assistant United States Attorney.

4. Fuck those people, seriously.

5. I have a chip on my shoulder and I like it.

Agreed with catbus and mandalay. Also, there is a lot of shit to see in the USA. I’m not saying the world doesn’t offer anything— it does and someday I’ll totally see it. There’s at least a dozen cities worth seeing, National Parks, Grand Canyons, and all sorts of other shit. Is it held together with Big Macs and jerky? Sure, but there are a few highlights. You can’t blame people for working through that list of highlights first.

(via mandalay)