Midweek Update 6/5/2019: Images of Words

I keep saving various images to possibly use to illustrate a Friday Five post or a political commentary, then wind up using only a fraction of them. So, here are a few of those memes and graphics you may find amusing, enlightening, or thought-provoking:

Pre-Pride Month Reminder :  If you are at a Pride event and you see what looks like a m/f couple, and you feel the urge to complain about "straight people ruining Pride"  - Bi people belong at Pride - Trans people belong at Pride - Ace and Aro people belong at Pride
Bi, pan, tans, nonbinary, ace, and aro people (and allies!) all are welcome at Pride (click to embiggen)
“we produce enough food for 10 billion humans to live comfortably but capitalism throws almost half of it away for not being pretty enough, profitable enough, or simply because it rotted on the shelf. Scarcity, suffeering are manufactured in order to maintain profitability.”
“we produce enough food for 10 billion humans to live comfortably but capitalism throws almost half of it away for not being pretty enough, profitable enough, or simply because it rotted on the shelf. Scarcity, suffeering are manufactured in order to maintain profitability.”
“When your boss's income has ristion 937% since 1978 and yours has incread by only 5.7%, it is time to stop blaming minorities for you woes.”
“When your boss’s income has ristion 937% since 1978 and yours has incread by only 5.7%, it is time to stop blaming minorities for you woes.”
“Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggests former President Ronald Reagan was a racsit and claims he 'pitted white working-class Americans against brown and black working-class Americans to screw over all working-class Americans.”  “That's unfair. He was also a homophobe who let thousands of Americans die of AIDS”
“Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggests former President Ronald Reagan was a racsit and claims he ‘pitted white working-class Americans against brown and black working-class Americans to screw over all working-class Americans.” “That’s unfair. He was also a homophobe who let thousands of Americans die of AIDS”
“I'm confused. My gay marriage is somehow your business, but your unvaccinated kids aren't mine. Whaaa?”
“I’m confused. My gay marriage is somehow your business, but your unvaccinated kids aren’t mine. Whaaa?”
“No one talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.” — C. Wright Mills, 1951
“No one talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father’s store or farm.” — C. Wright Mills, 1951

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