JoeByeThen

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[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I pulled mine from the Goodreads quote section. Somebody probably copied it wrong.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Lol, you're missing some of the best parts.

spoilerThe 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.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Also, it inspired Springsteen's Ghost of Tom Joad, which is 🔥🔥🔥.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Good. Okay.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago (7 children)

If you haven't read The Grapes of Wrath, you really should. It goes hard, and it's obscenely relevant despite being like 80 years old.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

Except even the Nazis felt the USA's one drop rule was a bit much.🤪

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

I'm just a smoll bean website. shy

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yep. Macroplastics.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/VoYZlyBHyQM

And of course: Learn to hack, learn to quadcopter. Or something within that spirit.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
 

Military media Scenes of the qualitative military operation of the Yemeni naval forces on the Israeli ship, controlling it and taking it to the Yemeni coast - 11-19-2023 AD

Lol. Yemen took an Israeli cargo ship. It now flies the Yemen and Palestine flag.

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I didn't see anyone mention it here or over on blahaj and the first I've heard of it was from a massive lib I know that just recently came out. So I was wondering.

 

I've been looking for this one!

Then we must do without hope. There is always vengeance.

 
 
 

blahaj 😈

 
 

There's a trick to it though.

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