September 2012
6 posts
“We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a...”
– Stephen Fry (via bookshavepores)
More protests against racist subway ads after... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
Newly posted subway station ads that have incited city-wide anger over what many are calling a “racist” message, continue to stir controversy as a protest is called for tomorrow’s MTA meeting. Writer and political activist Mona Eltahawy, an Egyptian-born U.S. citizen, was arrested yesterday in the Times Square station after attempting to spray-paint over one of 10 ads...
July 2012
1 post
June 2012
5 posts
يا عمال العالم اتحدوا: Former CIA Official: Drone... →
arielnietzsche:
Making the rounds today is a piece up at the Guardian in which a former top CIA terrorism official admits the obvious: that the drone war if overly broad, kills too many civilians, provokes anti-American hatred, and could inadvertently create terrorist safe havens.
Now Robert Grenier, who…
May 2012
1,238 posts
“Has there ever been a point since America’s inception when someone, somewhere,...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates, on Obama’s “kill list” and drone attacks. (via theatlantic)
“We are no longer a newspaper company.”
– Jim Kirk, Editor-in-chief, Chicago Sun-Times Media Holdings, in a memo to staff. Crains. Sun-Times shuffles newsroom, stresses digital moves.
The ever important pivot that every traditional newspaper publisher is realizing: “We are a technology company that happens to publish a newspaper. We...
“This, perhaps, is what is so unsettling about today’s China: the suspicion that...”
– Slavoj Žižek, Living in the end times
(via antisocial-socialist)
“Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too,...”
– Rosa Luxemburg (via fyeahrosaluxemburg)
Anarcho-capitalists
What happens when libertarians realize that anarchists get laid way more.
antisocial-socialist:
socialistscum:
Forcing an anarcho-capitalist to eat soggy cereal as revolutionary praxis.
Burning an anarcho-capitalists dinner as revolutionary praxis.
antisocial-socialist:
Beating anarcho-capitalists to death with Capital Vol.1 as revolutionary praxis.
Birthday
Me: So, now that I'm 20 and not a teenager anymore do I have to throw out my band t-shirts and start wearing suits?
Friend: Well, pants would be a good start.
fuckyeahrumi:
“Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.” ― Rumi
“A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.”
– “A Clockwork Orange” by Anthony Burgess (via everythingliesinside)
“You are a worthy individual, no matter what your past, no matter what your...”
– Orin (via nirvikalpa)
“Why should the public believe what the Obama administration says about the...”
– Will Americans Speak Out Against Obama’s Drone Warfare? by Medea Benjamin
“When women and children in Waziristan are killed with Hellfire missiles, Pakistanis believe this is what the American people want. I would like to ask Americans, ‘Do you?’
Pakistani lawyer Shahzad Akbar
(via...
nixonplumbingco:
As long as libertarians form cults of personality around Ron Paul and piss upon strategic voting, they’ll never form an influential voting bloc or gain any representatives besides their beloved Paul.
I’m completely fine with this
“Being “anti-PC” is not sticking it to the Man, it’s sticking it to all the...”
– Baby-stepping away from racism: A guide for white people (via fangirlmarena)
“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more “successful people”. But it...”
– David Orr (via sitasays) (via thebeldam, free-wilderness) (via voiceofnature)
Always re-blog, as a reminder to myself if nothing else.
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onspacehardware:
sledgemama:
I realized that compassion is literally my biggest turn on seriously
that, open-mindedness and bravery are literally the most attractive traits to me, the first thing I think when I see a bold act of compassion being committed is
“Wow that’s hot”
that’s how you give me a boner everyone
you be nice
That’s why I don’t date capitalists.
cliffordthecorrupt:
leichenschrei:
What if all this “zombie” nonsense is just viral marketing for some zombie movie in the works?
I would give the creators an award for best marketing campaign I have ever seen.
“Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a...”
– Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, A Rebellious World or a New Dark Age? | TomDispatch (via nickturse)
: Okay, last thing on this diaspora subject..... →
dank-potion:
Okay, last thing on this diaspora subject.. because I really have to go and I’ve been procrastinating on my plans for the night to see the progress of this discussion:
For what it’s worth, I have absolutely nothing but the utmost respect and admiration for the Black American diaspora and their…
