March 2012
14 posts
If you have burned a single calorie analyzing the...
The United States of America on college education
Student: I'm not going to go to college because I don't want to go into debt.
USA: YOU USELESS PIECE OF SHIT. YOU'RE GOING TO AMOUNT TO NOTHING YOU FUCKING SCUMBAG. YOU'RE THE REASON WHY MY TAXES ARE SO HIGH.
Student: I'm just going to attend a small community college instead.
USA: HAHAHA YOU WERE TOO STUPID TO GET INTO A GOOD UNIVERSITY. ENJOY YOUR MCDONALD'S DIPLOMA.
Student: I attended a four year university and received a diploma in a field I am interested in. Now I am $50,000+ in debt.
USA: YOU DUMBASS. WHY THE FUCK DID YOU GO TO COLLEGE WHEN YOU KNOW YOU COULDN'T AFFORD IT? YOU DIDN'T EVEN CHOOSE A USEFUL MAJOR EITHER. GOD PEOPLE LIKE YOU MAKE ME SICK.
About Cop Watch →
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note-a-bear:
So there are groups that do this, they stay in highly policed areas on shifts and bring cameras and such, and record to make sure police brutality doesn’t escalate, and when it happens there’s evidence against it.
But that’s not the only way it can happen.
Every single...
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Teju Cole's Seven Thoughts on the Banality of... →
coketalk:
1. From Sachs to Kristof to Invisible Children to TED, the fastest growth industry in the US is the White Savior Industrial Complex.
2. The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.
3. The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved...
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Its all propaganda. They talk about Africans...
dank-potion:
excentricyoruba:
~slow clap~
I’m gonna keep reblogging about this because too many people are unaware.
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“But in November, a Foreign Affairs article pointedly challenged the tactics used...”
– Just because I made this shit my life for two years in high school: It blows my fucking mind that anyone would even think about comparing Kony, an African guerrilla warfare leader being who leads the LRA in abducting, killing, and raping, to Kurtz, a white, fictional character from the novella Heart...
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I have a real hard time with the proposal of more...
The CIA has a real fishy history in regards to guerrilla warfare leaders.
US and European colonialism in Africa in the 1900s, specifically the regions where Kony operates, was responsible for the devastation of lands and people.
Any sort of intervention undermines the sovereignty of a nation.
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“White people only care about White people and the only way to save Black people...”
– Nick Kristof (via biteteeth)
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No Children - The Mountain Goats
“This morning, with her, having coffee.”
– Johnny Cash, when asked for his definition of paradise (via drinkyourjuice) 