December 2011
Watchessempee:
yopassthat:
thelonerstoner:
DAMMMMMMMNNNNNNN.
poor chanel
So painful but so fucking hilarious!
“The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to...”
– Jules Henry (via cultureofresistance)
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save-us-y2j:
kohthefacestealer:
why haven’t we bombed norway yet?
Because its made of impenetrable BLACK METAL.
VW owners Reblog.
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What is Debt? – An Interview with Economic...
PP: You mention that the IMF and S&P are institutions that are mainly geared toward extracting debts for creditors. This seems to have become the case in the European monetary union too. What do you make of the situation in Europe at the moment?
DG: Well, I think this is a prime example of why existing arrangements are clearly untenable. Obviously the ‘whole debt’ cannot be paid. But even when some French banks offered voluntary write-downs for Greece, the others insisted they would treat it as if it were a default anyway. The UK takes the even weirder position that this is true even of debts the government owes to banks that have been nationalized – that is, technically, that they owe to themselves! If that means that disabled pensioners are no longer able to use public transit or youth centers have to be closed down, well that’s simply the ‘reality of the situation,’ as they put it. These ‘realities’ are being increasingly revealed to simply be ones of power. Clearly any pretence that markets maintain themselves, that debts always have to be honored, went by the boards in 2008. That’s one of the reasons I think you see the beginnings of a reaction in a remarkably similar form to what we saw during the heyday of the ‘Third World debt crisis’ – what got called, rather weirdly, the ‘anti-globalization movement’. This movement called for genuine democracy and actually tried to practice forms of direct, horizontal democracy. In the face of this there was the insidious alliance between financial elites and global bureaucrats (whether the IMF, World Bank, WTO, now EU, or what-have-you). When thousands of people begin assembling in squares in Greece and Spain calling for real democracy what they are effectively saying is: “Look, in 2008 you let the cat out of the bag. If money really is just a social construct now, a promise, a set of IOUs and even trillions of debts can be made to vanish if sufficiently powerful players demand it then, if democracy is to mean anything, it means that everyone gets to weigh in on the process of how these promises are made and renegotiated.” I find this extraordinarily hopeful.
PP: Broadly speaking how do you see the present debt/financial crisis unravelling? Without asking you to peer into the proverbial crystal-ball – because that’s a silly thing to ask of anyone – how do you see the future unfolding; in the sense of how do you take your bearings right now?
DG: For the long-term future, I’m pretty optimistic. We might have been doing things backwards for the last 40 years, but in terms of 500-year cycles, well, 40 years is nothing. Eventually there will have to be recognition that in a phase of virtual money, safeguards have to be put in place – and not just ones to protect creditors. How many disasters it will take to get there? I can’t say. But in the meantime there is another question to be asked: once we do these reforms, will the results be something that could even be called ‘capitalism’?
Me: How do you find Will Smith in the snow?
Mum: He's black
Me:
Mum:
Me:
Mum:
Me: You look for fresh prints, but oh my god
“A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied...”
– Sigmund Freud (via cultureofresistance)
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and...”
– Mark Twain (via cultureofresistance)
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends, fads and popular...”
– Jack Kerouac (via cultureofresistance)
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10 year old son shoots and kills nazi leader... →
cultureofresistance:
peak-society:
smart kid.
I saw this and thought the exact same thing.
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“The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said “This is mine,” and...”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract (via mutualaddiction)
See, even classical liberals are right sometimes.
(via nodamncatnodamncradle)
Most of the history of the Commons that i have been reading says that “many crimes, wars, and murders…horrors and misfortunes” happened to facilitate the...
Anonymous donors pay off Kmart layaway accounts →
cognitivedissonance:
Now this is heartwarming:
The young father stood in line at the Kmart layaway counter, wearing dirty clothes and worn-out boots. With him were three small children. He asked to pay something on his bill because he knew he wouldn’t be able to afford it all before Christmas. Then a mysterious woman stepped up to the counter.
“She told him, ‘No, I’m paying for it,’” recalled...
“Bank of America’s Countrywide Financial business has agreed to pay a record fine...”
– BBC News - Bank of America fined $335m for minority discrimination
As we protest corrupt systems and institutions like BofA, it is extremely important to remember that race still plays a major role in the oppression of the people.
Financially, culturally, and politically, racism is not over.
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littlemotherfucker:
clappsu:
girl-a:
I JUST SPENT LIKE AN 1 HOUR OF MY LIFE ON THIS, GENIUS
this is legit so sick.
mindfuck
whoaaa
this is AMAZING
EVERYONE DO IT aaaaaaaaa
WHOAH.
GUYS, JUST DO IT.
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