February 2012
344 posts
juthikaforpresident:
you know what annoys me
when white people say that eating with our hands is gross and disgusting
like how else are you going to eat daal and rice and kebabs at the same time god white people you have the worst food
i would starve if i couldn’t eat with my hands. fuckin closed-minded assholes, right?
thebourgeoisiehobo asked: Favourite sleeping position?
“If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can...”
–
Frédéric Bastiat (via nomosshere)
“It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.” - Oscar Wilde
(via philosophy-of-praxis)
gross. i’m really not sold on Wilde’s anti-charity arguments, mainly to...
“I’m a socialist, so that puts me totally outside any concept…the Canadians get...”
– -Lewis Black.
Proving that people with glasses can be stupid too.
(via eltigrechico)
proving that you don’t have to be a quiet, soft-spoken hippie type to be a socialist.
loveasaradicalact:
tumblr is “radically liberal”, says someone on my dash
what the fuck is “radically liberal”
i can’t.
no it works just fine. there just isn’t such a thing as a revolutionary liberal :)
ABOUT THE GLOBAL STRIKE ON MAY 1ST.
lady-r0se:
NO work
NO school
NO banking
NO shopping
However, I think it’s reasonable to not miss work. A lot of people don’t wanna lose their jobs, need the money, etc. My boyfriend is in the process of getting a full-time salary position at his job, which I’m excited for, so he doesn’t want to miss work.
If you really cannot miss school, go ahead. That’s reasonable too.
HOWEVER, no...
“Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a...”
– Murray Bookchin (via americandissident)
shitty-rambo:
The project of leftism is to make infinite ethics tamable. The attempt to make value that transcends actual experience into something that isn’t an oppressive force.
It’s an ahistorical project.
Transcendental morality has always been the tool of authority.
Georgia Senate Majority Leader & President Pro... →
fearandwar:
The Constitution provides that acts of Congress “shall be the supreme law of the land” which is why states do not have the power to ignore federal law. Nevertheless, five Georgia state senators — including Majority Leader Chip Rogers (R) and senate President Pro Tempore Tommie Williams (R) — apparently do not believe that the Constitution applies to them. All five lawmakers...
The more I read about the history of philosophy...
shitty-rambo:
I am no longer comfortable assuming my beliefs are just special. That I happened to find the truth and everyone just needs think harder, and be more intellectually honest.
While at the same time, is there an alternative to living within my own isolated experience and judgement?
but it’s not just about intellectual honesty - it’s about study, experience, and seeing it...
earnestbernard:
am now a member of the “International Socialist Organization” at otago university. looking forward to the first meeting on wednesday. going to be good.
what up, comrade? I’m an ISO-USA member! Goooo Virginia!
“In every American community you have varying shades of political opinion. One of...”
– Phil Ochs (via joemccarthyblues)
Socialism - The utopian idea that human action is...
baseballlibertarian:
If you remove all private property, profits, and the means of production you’ll remove all incentive to work, produce, and thrive.
[citation needed]
Sounds like a marvelous plan.
ya don’t see a lot of lolbertarian anthropologists as a rule. the more you know about how humans actually function, this shit just stops making sense.
Socialism - The utopian idea that human action is...
baseballlibertarian:
If you remove all private property, profits, and the means of production you’ll remove all incentive to work, produce, and thrive.
Sounds like a marvelous plan.
libertarianism - the notion that human existence is accurately reducible to the needs and wants of those who are already powerful and wealthy, and that some kind of non-coercive paradise will result from...
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Why Astronauts Crave Tobasco Sauce →
discoverynews:
Part of the reason may be that after arriving in space, astronauts lose their sense of smell, which largely governs the pleasurable taste of food. An example of this is coffee. “If you hold your nose and sip your coffee, you’re getting just a bitter liquid,” says Jean Hunter, a food engineer at Cornell University.
keep reading
people taste something other than a bitter,...
The EDL are agitating for arson against Muslim...
dibin:
marxandsparks:
are we allowed to meet them with baseball bats yet?
The EDL hardly have any right to accuse others of being paedos do they? Remember Richard Price?
i second the use of bats - fight fire with wood and aluminum, in this case
philosophy-of-praxis:
amouthygirl:
ismashpatriarchyonthefirstdate:
why do i get the distinct feeling that the commentary is a passive aggressive attack towards rachael and I?
It probably is. It usually is. Everyone here hates me. Do I care? Not much.
I made it like a week ago and I have no idea what that fish is.
the fish is from a children’s book about sharing, i believe. so,...
“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the...”
– Emma Goldman (via possiblyinteresting
this is why Goldman was a bourgie ass hat
(via marxandsparks)
I’m so glad to find another leftist who is unimpressed with Goldman.
(via akagoldfish)
this is some bootstraps b.s. sentiment from Red Emma…
“Republicans don’t even acknowledge that racism exists. There were a couple of...”
– Bill Maher (via barbiehighheels)
accurate! also, this is what being white and from the US North is like all the goddamn time. white Northerners are raised to believe (usually) that racists manifest as Nazis and Klansmen, and that everyone else who clearly acts racist is just “old...
Republic Windows, redux? Workers occupy Goose... →
socialismartnature:
The original “Occupiers” are back on the scene — working class immigrants taking control of their factory, just like they did in 2008.
For all its talk about “new tactics,” the Occupy movement actually was preceded by these workers employing the age-old labor tactic of “sitting-in” and occupying one’s workplace.
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A group of about 65 workers who occupied a Goose...
Workers occupy Goose Island factory →
A group of about 65 workers who occupied a Goose Island window factory in 2008 have once again locked themselves inside the plant in a desperate move to save their jobs. California-based Serious Energy said Thursday it is closing the plant’s doors and consolidating operations in Colorado and Pennsylvania.
… The layoffs come more than three years after a group of about 200 workers from...
Zedweiller: What Grave Said. (Generally, a good... →
dez-ray:
provocatoria:
dez-ray:
peak-society:
dagseoul:
peak-society:
zedweiller:
ok, i’ll concede that i’m a bit thick tonight and that bourgeois society prioritizes white customs, values, and practices in order to actively belittle and sweep away the self-conscious…
I never said theory was elitist. I said the vocabulary was. There is a difference. And you are absolutely...
What Grave Said. (Generally, a good practice.)
provocatoria:
dez-ray:
peak-society:
dagseoul:
peak-society:
zedweiller:
ok, i’ll concede that i’m a bit thick tonight and that bourgeois society prioritizes white customs, values, and practices in order to actively belittle and sweep away the self-conscious ideas and values of other groupings. and yes, racism existed pre-capitalism, but in a very very different manner. i just mean...
peak-society:
zedweiller:
peak-society:
zedweiller:
peak-society:
zedweiller:
peak-society:
dagseoul:
GRAVEWISDOM: also vegans should move to my home town where winter lasts 9 months…
peak-society:
also vegans should move to my home town where winter lasts 9 months and that whole time you don’t see a single fucking piece of fresh produce. or perhaps further north, where produce...
peak-society:
zedweiller:
peak-society:
zedweiller:
peak-society:
dagseoul:
GRAVEWISDOM: also vegans should move to my home town where winter lasts 9 months…
peak-society:
also vegans should move to my home town where winter lasts 9 months and that whole time you don’t see a single fucking piece of fresh produce. or perhaps further north, where produce never grows and 60 year old...
peak-society:
zedweiller:
peak-society:
dagseoul:
GRAVEWISDOM: also vegans should move to my home town where winter lasts 9 months…
peak-society:
also vegans should move to my home town where winter lasts 9 months and that whole time you don’t see a single fucking piece of fresh produce. or perhaps further north, where produce never grows and 60 year old men and women in Nunavut have...
“Well, you know what, Mike Bloomberg? FUCK YOU. People are not protesting for...”
– Matt Taibbi
Kind of old but one of my favorites.
(via nc4l)
niiiiice
peak-society:
dagseoul:
GRAVEWISDOM: also vegans should move to my home town where winter lasts 9 months…
peak-society:
also vegans should move to my home town where winter lasts 9 months and that whole time you don’t see a single fucking piece of fresh produce. or perhaps further north, where produce never grows and 60 year old men and women in Nunavut have to wait for the tide to lower...
alphabetmae:
zedweiller replied to your post: does having social anxiety make you a weak person?
what??? absolutely not! although i guess i should ask what you mean by weak..
hmm.. i dunno. i’m just having these strange thoughts about life and how i interact with people - alex is talking to me about all these rallies he wants to go to, and things he wants to do in support of occupy & i’m...
