February 2012
163 posts
“We condemn Iran’s development of Oscar-winning films and warn them that their...”
– Barack Obama (via rageandswag)
Last Spanish Civil War Scot Thomas Watters dies . →
marxandsparks:
The last surviving Scot who volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War has died at the age of 99.
RIP Comrade.
of-praxis:
this is one of the reasons why an academic study of race is important; people of color make the same mistakes in naturalizing race as a defining or universal feature. this is one of my pet peeves, people who try to normalize race. a common way in which this is done is by thinking of history that existed before the conceptualization of race in racial terms.
if you think that ancient...
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“Why imagine that specific genes for aggression, dominance, or spite have any...”
– Stephen Jay Gould, “Biological Potentiality vs. Biological Determinism”, Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History (via darlingtonia-californica)
WARNING! if you see a link claiming to link to the...
“Whether you use bullets or ballots, you’ve got to aim well; don’t strike at the...”
– The Autobiography of Malcolm X (via warriorsrise)
“When the newspapers were full of alarms about Iran possibly developing a nuclear...”
– Howard Zinn on Kurt Vonnegut (via axelgonz08)
spacebaw:
people who refer to all music files as “mp3s”
has it ever occured to your priveleged ass that many of us don’t identify as mp3 users
some of us are FLAC, Ogg, APE or even m4a
check your fucking privilege lossy scum
Some Greeks Might Have to Pay for Their Jobs →
domesticterrorism:
It’s being called the “negative salary”: Due to austerity measures in Greece, it’s being reported that up to 64,000 Greeks will go without pay this month, and some will have to pay for having a job. Numbers in austerity reports have usually reflected figures in the millions, since they reflect industry-wide cuts (i.e. a 537-million euro cut to health and pension funds). And...
Malcolm X - "he was like um bad"
unaguerrasinfondo:
white society still worships slaveowners and masterminds of genocide (just look at a 1 dollar bill and a 20 dollar bill), yet considers a man that didn’t harm a single human-being in his entire life to be ‘bad’ or ‘evil’
“Lets bring back Andrew Jackson”
– Baseball Libertarian
There you have it. Libertarianism’s true face.
(via anticapitalist)
I…
Trail of Tears… Panic of 1837… Spoils System… Indian Removal Act…
He was literally one of the worst presidents we have ever had. If not that, then certainly one of the most loathsome.
(via...
“I often used to talk to Lenin about the cruelty of revolutionary tactics and...”
– Maxim Gorky (Lenin)
ismashpatriarchyonthefirstdate:
Primitivism works awesome for everyone.
Everyone, ya know, except disabled people and people with uterus’s who don’t want to continue pregnancies.
I’m not a primitivist, and will be playing the part of the devil’s advocate in this post, but if I understand Derrick Jensen, Deep Green Resistance, et al correctly it isn’t an ideology...
Ideas and Opinions.: Why can't education be free?... →
anticapitalist:
When people talk about “higher education”, they are not talking about intense learning in a field of your desire. They’re not talking about developing yourself into an intellectual. They are talking about preparing yourself for corporate slavery.
The various Bachelors, PhD,…
ideasandopinions:
Straight edge is neo-Puritanism.
Fuck that.
i remember when i was 14 and the concept of being straight edge was first explained to me. i was like “so it’s like being christian?” as a bit of a personal anecdote, i never did drugs of any kind in high school, but i still thought edge kids were dumb. i just… didn’t do drugs, i didn’t make up...
brosephstalin asked: I love the east coast, and GW has some good aspects about it, but it is full and made of asshats.
brosephstalin asked: Yall are so fucking lucky hahaha. I'm already thinking of possible protests for whoever my class's keynote will be. since I'm sure GW will find some neoliberal blowhard
