mudwerks:

taylorswifthecreator:

Reasons your fave is problematic

• Descended from Adam and thus bears the mark of Original Sin

swampgallows:

persisting:

morethanfaqs:

kelleycarries:

#i love Logan just MARCHING UP THERE like this is his MISSION #’I’m the best there is at what I do and what I do is punch Scott Summers’

 #’I’m the best there is at what I do and what I do is punch Scott Summers’

no but 

PLEASE CLICK THAT LINK

dogedom:

bloodandhedonism:

Well, the national guaranteed income/citizen’s dividend has been getting a lot of talk again lately soooo…

Probably for the best because you can only make pizza so upscale and families and adolescents and stoned college kids are the perpetual pizza…

That’s… not a terrible idea, actually. Lutheranism got traction where previous schismatic heresies didn’t because it legitimated secular princes’ seizure of church holdings. Maybe throw in the various robber barons’ (Ford, MacArthur, Getty, Gates, Bloomberg) foundations that underwrite the NGO-industrial complex.

I’ve learned three times as much European history from Paradox games than a 16 year formal education

Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than to take all the youngest, most energetic, creative, joyous people in your society and saddle them with, like $50,000 of debt so they have to be slaves? There goes your music. There goes your culture. There goes everything new that would pop out. And in a way, this is what’s happened to our society. We’re a society that has lost any ability to incorporate the interesting, creative and eccentric people.

David Graeber (via azspot)

Seen this quote a couple times recently and with all due respect I feel super uncomfortable about it and am confused as to why other people don’t? 

Firstly, the comparison between $50,000 in debt and enslavement is unambiguously horrible. Also, the “most energetic, creative, joyous” people aren’t necessarily the ones who are getting into university, because the opportunity to get into university depends strongly on the quality of your secondary school and a maze of very specific cultural expectations and not having any dependants to take care of and these traits don’t really correlate with energeticness or creativeness or joyousness. And finally, music and culture and plenty of other kinds of innovation don’t need any kind of formal post-secondary credential and in fact many of the most innovative members of our society weren’t able to access post-secondary education.

Don’t get me wrong here - obviously high unsubsidized tuition and the resulting student debt is a horrible inefficient counterproductive system. But I think there are ways to make that point without shitting all over everyone who doesn’t get to go to college, you know? Like, I’d suggest we can simultaneously say “we’re relatively fortunate” and “the system in which we’ve been fortunate enough to participate has huge problems”.

(via jakke)

Threeish years’ worth of gross wages at unskilled labor is a pretty typical term of debt bondage, and has been for millennia. Chattel slavery isn’t the only kind of bondage, and sniffily dismissing other kinds by pointing to it and saying “look, it’s not that” is an asinine way of legitimating an unfree labor economy. And has been for millennia.

touhou2k14:

peacefulacrez:

No, this is a firefighting plane,  Also evergreen Air isn’t “CIA-owned”, if they were I doubt they’d be having as much financial trouble.

chemtrails you dumb motherfucker

Evergreen’s not CIA-owned, but it is CIA-linked. The way the CIA works, very little of their capacity for action is actually “part of” the agency, it’s more that their job is to cultivate a network of contacts, such that whatever situation you find yourself in, they know a guy who knows a guy who’d be useful and can keep his mouth shut.

CIA agents aren’t the ones pulling off whatever clandestine missions, they’re the “handlers” that move in the right circles to find that guy and take whatever steps to bring him onside and keep him committed. It’s a CHA and INT class, not STR and DEX.

Really, they’re closer to a National Mafia than S.H.I.E.L.D. or whatever.

evange1ion:

A Cruel Angel’s Prius.

Evergreen’s actually exactly what you’d expect the Portland arm of the CIA to look like. They’ve got the Spruce Goose, an SR-71, and an ICBM set up in a museum slash waterpark.

As such, McMinville Municipal Airport is probably the biggest national security presence in the state of Oregon. If you don’t count the light footprint of the Coast or National Guards, the only military facility in the state is literally a dump, and even that’s closing next year.

If you know what to look for, you realize that unlike a lot of states, Oregon’s senatorial delegation actually spends its influence not on bringing the federal government in, but on keeping it out.

Unless it’s on their terms, of course. You might’ve read there was a federal injunction against the Portland cops. What happened was the local power brokers invited the feds in as a hammer to wield against the police unions. I’m not sure exactly what’s at stake there, I’m sure there’s stuff I’m not picking up on behind the scenes.

That’s one of the things I love about Portland, there’s a lot of noir stuff sitting really close to the surface if you know how to read the signs. The higher-budget of the two alt-weeklies, which at this point is basically the town’s mainstream newspaper, was founded in part by a private eye who acted as the shadow hand for the former mayor-turned-governor who’s now a big state power broker.

(For example he was the go-between between him and the ex-mistress that it was a kind of semi-open secret among the city elite that he got involved with when she was his fourteen year old babysitter.)

Anyway, every now and then that paper will publish a hit piece on some local restaurant owner or something, right out of nowhere, nothing preceding it, no followup. And you just know that’s the iceberg-tip of some interesting story.

monetizeyourcat:

milkjock:

monetizeyourcat:

milkjock:

I love that there were Roman coins called asses

a sestercus, the basic unit of account, was worth 2.5 asses. truly a rich society

this textbook said sesterces were worth 4 asses. I wonder

the price of asses gradually decreased as rome swole with the plunder of the ancient world. natural result of too many asses

claeswar:

imagesofnothing:

Nothing (2014) by LJ Frezza

if you want a vision of the future, wintson, imagine a seinfeld slap bass transition, forever

touhou2k14:

everets:

timelightbox:

Photograph by Reuters

Feb. 13, 2014. An activist from the “Right Sector” anti-government protest group presents a bouquet of flowers to his girlfriend in front of fellow activists near the site of previous clashes with riot police in Kiev, Ukraine. 

From the most reputable gay club in Sochi and a sinkhole at the Corvette Museum in Kentucky to the Westminster Dog Show in New York and the killing of the healthy giraffe, Marius, at the Copenhagen Zoo, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

ok this literally says theyre from the right sector smh i do not care about fascists’ love lives

follow for more soft liberalism/fascism

ACAB/Wolfsangel on that pillar.

Nice ideology you have there. It would be a shame if anyone were to… scavenge it.

judgmentalmaps:

Los Angeles, CA
by S.H.F.

S.H.F. Copr. 2014. All Rights Reserved.

correct.

Men’s bathroom, B-Side Tavern, Portland, OR.