because you can’t not reblog your president silently jamming out
LMFAO I bet he got Wu Tang in his playlist.
Via The (*G.)oddamazon
“omg there’s so much more important stuff to worry about!”
Hey, you know how we find out about that important stuff? The internet.
The internet has provided a very fast way for the average citizen to fact check bullshit. You know who doesn’t like…
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BLACK MARCH
Thursday, March 1st 2012 to Saturday 31st March 2012With the continuing campaigns for Internet-censoring litigation such as SOPA and PIPA, and the closure of sites such as Megaupload under allegations of ‘piracy’ and ‘conspiracy’ the time has come to take a stand against music, film and media companies’ lobbyists.
The only way is to hit them where it truly hurts.
Their profit margins.March 2012 is the end of the 1st quarter in economic reports worldwide.
Do not buy a single record. Do not download a single song, legally or illegally. Do not go to see a single film in cinemas, or download a copy, Do not buy a DVD in the stores. Do not buy a videogame. Do not buy a single book or magazine.
Wait the 4 weeks to buy them in April: see the film later, etc. Holding out for just 4 weeks, maximum, will leave a gaping hole in media and entertainment companies’ profits for the 1st quarter, an economic hit which will in turn be observed by governments worldwide as stocks and shares will blip from a large enough loss of incomes.
This action can give a statement of intent:”We will not tolerate the Media Industries’ lobbying for legistation which will censor the internet.”
Hell yes I’m doing this.
remember to support local and indie bands, venues, films, etc. —- only the Big Four record companies and similarly conglomerate media should be boycotted.
crisishere asked: I must disagree with what you said about Ron Paul being popular with young people due to his stance on drug-legalization and the war on drugs. Yeah that’s definitely a plus, but personally I find his views his views on federal interventionism and foreign policy to be sound as well. He’s the only total liberty candidate running in the gop. Who would your vote go to? As far as him being racists goes (if he is), I find that doesn’t affect his policies negatively at all.
Ron Paul quotes:
“If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be.”
“Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,’ I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.”
“Boy, it sure burns me to have a national holiday for that pro-communist philanderer, Martin Luther King. I voted against this outrage time and time again as a Congressmen [sic]. What an infamy that Ronald Reagan approved it! We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day.”
“The criminals who terrorize our cities — in riots and on every non-riot day — are not exclusively young black males, but they largely are. As children, they are trained to hate whites, to believe that white oppression is responsible for all black ills, to ‘fight the power,’ to steal and loot as much money from the white enemy as possible.”
Ron Paul also mocked the idea renaming of NYC after MLK saying it should instead be renamed ”Welfaria,” “Zooville,” “Rapetown,” “Dirtburg,” or “Lazyopolis.” Of the rally on the subject, he suggests that ”[n]ext time, hold that demonstration at a food stamp bureau or a crack house.”
If you really believe Ron Paul’s racism won’t affect his policies at all then you’re as delusional as he is.
This argument bugs me. It’s like someone saying “I’m not ashamed of myself because a man told me to be! I’m ashamed of myself because I want to believe a magical ghost from beyond the stars might think I ought to be according to a book written by a clairvoyant caveman who married a child.”
“I couldn’t be bothered to ask some hijabi women why they wear the veil, or even to fucking google it, so I’ll just parrot some racist stereotypes instead.”
So tired of Islamophobia and racism masquerading as feminism.
It’s neither Islamophobia nor is it racism and the argument isn’t one concerning feminism. It’s anti-Islamic, I’m against Islam and all religion because it’s suppressive not just to women but to everyone it touches, even those who don’t follow it. This is just one specific way Islam oppresses one segment of its following. It’s an argument from an anti-theist standpoint. Why do Islamic women wear this or that? In a sentence: It’s reverence to their god. That’s enough reason to deem it suppressive because the very belief in a god is itself suppressive of the mind and it’s regular logical thought process. One should be allowed to wear what they want and worship how they want and not be harassed for it, but that doesn’t mean that the intellectual discussion of it ought to be suppressed. I won’t be silenced in my pursuit to expose the evils of religious thinking. It is not your right to be free from criticism and it is not racist or bigoted to be critical of a belief system.
Would you call me a bigot if I criticized Scientology or Heaven’s Gate or People’s Temple ideology? What’s the difference between those cults and Christianity and Islam?
Islamic women are not the only women who wear veils and hijabs. And someone’s “reverence to their god” being displayed by dress does not automatically equal suppression or oppression. Wearing a yarmulke is not oppressive, it’s a symbol of their devoutness to their deity.
One should be allowed to wear what they want and worship how they want and not be harassed for it, but that doesn’t mean that the intellectual discussion of it ought to be suppressed.
What you posted was not an intellectual discussion. It was simplistic, insulting, and painfully overgeneralized.
Religious thinking causes a great many evils, but items of clothing are just items of clothing, and people wear them for a large variety of reasons. Some women wear burqas and niqabs and hijabs for oppressive reasons, and some wear them for expressive reasons. It’s not your place to speak for all of them, especially in such a dismissive way.
It is not your right to be free from criticism and it is not racist or bigoted to be critical of a belief system.
You can criticize religious beliefs all day long and I will probably agree with you. But you asserted a flawed generalization about hijabi women (that they are ashamed of themselves) that deserved to be criticized as well.
I don’t support you being silenced for being anti-religion. I also don’t support you speaking for millions of heterogeneous believers and making them sound uneducated, naive, and not in control of their own actions to make your points. I hope you see the distinction.
ETA: My sentence didn’t make sense so I fixed it.
this is good talk.
(Source: ragged-blossom)
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