January 2012
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“Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed.
You will never be lovelier...”
– Homer, The Iliad (via mustardhat)
December 2011
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Why "Choice Feminism" Is an Illusion →
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lasluchasdelcorazon:
Choice feminism gets one thing right: You should be able to make the choices that are right for you. And yes, of course that should include the choice to be ogled by strangers, or have your body used as a recruitment poster to bait guys into caring about important causes. Where choice feminism falls down, though, is in assuming that any of those things are...
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Excerpt from An Atheists Sermon by Jeremy Beahan
More often the objection we hear is that without the supernatural the universe is devoid of wonder, hope meaning and purpose. Don’t you long to be a part of something larger than yourself? Don’t you want your life to be significant? I never know how I should answer these questions: on the one hand I am eager to affirm that naturalism presents us with a world more beautiful and mysterious...
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“The following day, I attended a workshop about preventing gender violence,...”
– Why I Am A Male Feminist (via azelie)
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“There are periods in the life of human society when revolution becomes an...”
– Peter Kropotkin, The Spirit of Revolt (1880)
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“And the biggest loser out of all of this are the women. Now, by the...”
– Yanar Mohammed on today’s Iraq
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“we have turned to a society of 99 percent poor and 1 percent rich, due to the...”
– Yanar Mohammed on today’s Iraq
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“My job as an activist is not to be spiritually pure. I have no interest in...”
– Derrick Jensen on Pacificism (via cultureofresistance)
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“Because you sacrificed so much for a people that you had never met, Iraqis have...”
– President Obama to soldiers at Fort Bragg
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“Over the past nine years, the U.S. invasion has left a bloody toll on Iraqi civilians and foreign troops. Nearly 4,500 U.S. troops died. Another 32,000 were wounded. An accurate toll of Iraqis killed may never be known. According to Iraq Body Count, at least 104,000 Iraqi civilians have died. In 2006, the British medical journal Lancet estimated 600,000 Iraqis had already been killed. Other...
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Panetta: Iraq War was “worth it”
A day after visiting Iraq, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta spoke to reporters in Turkey on Saturday and said this, according to the DoD’s own site:
“There is no question that the United States was divided going into that war,” he said. “But I think the United States is united coming out of that war. We all recognize the tremendous price that has been paid in lives, in blood. And yet I think we...
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Ricky Gervais: Why I’m an Atheist
Why don’t you believe in God? I get that question all the time. I always try to give a sensitive, reasoned answer. This is usually awkward, time consuming and pointless. People who believe in God don’t need proof of his existence, and they certainly don’t want evidence to the contrary. They are happy with their belief. They even say things like “it’s true to me” and “it’s faith.” I still give my...
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mustardhat:
“Here’s what I learned from Christopher Hitchens in the 25 years I knew him. Don’t let anyone else do your thinking for you. Follow your principles to the end. Don’t flinch from the truth. Repeat until the last ounce of strength drains from your body.”
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Jacob Weisberg
And… How to hate women and love war… just sayin’
“I’ve been severely criticized for saying worms are more important than people… I...”
– Captain Paul Watson (via mustardhat)
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The Privilege of Having No Color
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incurablehumanness:
“People who are members of a racial majority often have trouble appreciating the humiliating effects of everyday encounters with discrimination. They don’t have to experience the petty indignities of racism, such as repeatedly being watched with suspicion in stores and on streets. Consequently, many whites in the United States pay little attention to their...
“Look how your children grow up. Taught from their earliest infancy to curb their...”
– Voltairine de Cleyre (via mutualaddiction)
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"They spend billions of dollars every year...
http://occupyeducated.org/
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“Today, Obama failed to veto the NDAA, thus authorizing indefinite military...”
– (via youthiswasted)
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“The state never intentionally confronts a man’s sense, intellectual or moral,...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (via cultureofresistance)
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Obama Drops Veto Threat Over Military... →