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ekuNNN posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MST4RhWdlMQ  No really, what the gently caress. Police open fire with rubber bullets near point blank and release dogs on women and children who were protesting and demanding answers for the fact the police earlier had shot dead a man who everyone who witnessed the events said there was no reason for the police to open fire. And basically no one gives a poo poo because this happens constantly. Well, more on shooting: 
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Celebrations in Benghazi after the fall of Tripoli. I do believe however they mixed up the Russian flag for the French flag.
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Fried Chicken posted:Holy poo poo watch this. "Legitimate Rape" as a pharmaceutical ad Holy hell that is brilliant 
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 For more content, Rinehart who is now the world's richest woman, has recently said poor people are poor because they're lazy drunks. http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/08/30/777271/worlds-richest-woman-poor-drunks/ It should be noted though that Rinehart made her fortune through hard work, an outrageous mining boom, and inhering $75 million from her father, $75 million in 1991 dollars at that. She's like Mitt Romney, but unimaginably richer.
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Roughly around 10% of American adults are thought not to have a photo ID. It gets worse in different areas, case in point, in Philadelphia, it was estimated at 18%. Big cities always get talked about, but I assume in rural areas it can be just as bad, never forget how freakin rural some parts of America are(and usually just as poor as the inner city). It might be a 90 minute drive to the nearest DMV that is opened only on the 5th Wednesday of every month.(This was true in some county in one of the states that passed a photo ID law). Plus, many people do not have their social security cards or birth certificates to get said IDs, and getting those cost money, not to mention is a ridiculous pain in the rear end if you don't have a photo ID. Plus, all the rhetoric and implementation of actual laws. For example, see the Ohio secretary of state allowing longer voting hours in Republican counties while not allowing it in Democratic counties, till the uproar eventually made him say no early voting for anyone.(That's another aspect, the reduction of early voting and same day registration, things that usually benefit Democrats). These people don't give a gently caress about voting or protecting the right to vote, in fact they're doing everything in they're power to make it more difficult down to restricting when you can vote as much as possible. It has everything to do with Republicans trying to guarantee they win elections when the only demographic they have any lead in what so ever anymore is white men, especially non poor white men. Basically the two party system is lovely, but it's really lovely when the election of a black man and realization that their base has made their party toxic to anyone who isn't white men has turned one of two political parties into complete sociopaths when it comes to politics. e: Also, this quote:Because even though the United States is regularly called "first world," that doesn't describe the conditions of a significant portion of the population. Seriously, if you ever come to America, explore our inner cities, then go explore our rural areas as well, prepare for mindfuck. 
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Labor Day is coming up, so let's get some William Jennings Bryan in here and some sweet Cross of Gold action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeTkT5-w5RA For non Americans, or non history people, the Cross of Gold speech is one of the most famous speeches in American history, lambasting the gold standard and demanding bimetalism so silver money could come into the economy and cause inflation, making debts easier to pay off for farmers and workers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Gold_speech
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 e: Also, if Obama loses in November, I'm so hoping he actually makes this tweet 
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 For context, on tubmlr and elsewhere, the TooOppressed meme is a popular one among Muslim women are appear to be tired of being told they're oppressed when they freely choose to wear the hijab. This one I just thought was the funniest, this whole tumblr is pretty funny though http://iamoppressed.tumblr.com/
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Wubbles posted:
They're probably just posing. If I stumbled upon that sign I'd pose in front of it and immediately make it my facebook pic. An old famous one from Occupy Portland 
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In March 1911, the Triangle Waist Company factory went up in all kinds of flames in Manhattan. 146 people died, the youngest being 11. Most of these people died because managers as was common at the time locked all the doors to the various exists to prohibit unaouthorized breaks, and the fire department had no ladders that could reach the high floors. This labor day, let's remember the wonderful past of deregulation and all glory to the job creators that Mitt Romney will take us back to if elected president.  
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I saw this version of that on Tumblr the other day. I guess somewhere it was pointed out how Angolized the princesses are, and really the only princess who is even somewhat foreign is Jasmine, but she's just a westernized idea of a traditional Arab princess, barely if at all stepping into a new culture, meanwhile Mulan and Pochantas are never counted normally when talking about the  Meanwhile, someone did this awesome project http://www.examiner.com/article/dreadfully-ever-after-fallen-disney-princesses quote:Dina Goldstein created this series of fine art photographs titled “Fallen Princesses.” Although Goldstein makes her living shooting photos for ads, she also works on delightful personal projects like this and shares them on her blog. The free market's War on Coal 
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  In response to the Benghazi attack that caused four American diplomats as well as ten Libyan citizens to die, Discover Islam has distributed copies of the translated Qur’an and the biography of Prophet Muhammad throughout the UK with the intention of promoting a better understanding of Islam and Muslims, and clearing misconceptions.
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Messyass posted:
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Afghans protesting against the film about Mohammed. #MuslimRage   
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 Safe abortions have always been available to the rich, Dan. You simply want to deny them to the poor, and if you succeed, poor woman will be forced to get them anyway. They’ll be forced into the alleys with hangers, plungers and vacuum cleaners, risking death or mutilation. But you’d like that, wouldn’t you, Dan? You sadistic, elitist, sexist, racist, anti-humanist pig! Context: This is from SNL in 1978....................and we're still having the same loving debate.
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 It's not often a political meme on facebook makes me actually feel  instead of the usual 
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TinTower posted:IL-04 was actually drawn like that to ensure a Hispanic Representative for the two Hispanic communities of Chicago! What exactly is the limit to how much one can gerrymander? I mean I've read that SOCTUS has ruled racial gerrymandering is in most cases not legal, so when is it legal? Tiny because there's some boob exposed. May not want to expand if at work  Translated into(well from what I've been told) it's not how women dress, it's how men look. The guy behind Chavez though is totally glaring at her boob.
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Oh badass women at war? Let me introduce the thread to the Night Witches.(Or the 588th bomber squadron, Night Witches was what the Germans started calling them.) Here are a few of them  An all female Soviet bomber squadron who flew the worst planes imaginable, the PO-2, a plane originally meant for training and crop dusting from 1928. No guns, No radio to communicate with ground, no navigation beyond a stop watch and and a map, a regular map, not a flight map, and sometimes the prop would stall out in mid air and have to restarted. The plane did have ridiculous maneuverability and a top speed lower than the stall out speed of German fighters, two aspects the women used with devastating skill. http://www.badreputation.org.uk/2011/05/27/unsung-heroes-the-night-witches/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches quote:The Night Witches developed a far more effective method for getting past the circus of flak: flying in groups of three, two planes would approach the target and wait for the searchlights to pick them up. These two would then split apart and manoeuvre around the target, drawing the attention of the cannons. The third plane, having waited behind, would cut their engines and glide in to deliver the bombs. This was repeated until each of the three planes had made a bombing run. The mind boggles at the sheer level of stone-cold bravery needed to repeatedly offer yourself as a distraction to dozens of flak cannons, protected only by a flimsy frame of wood and fabric, and to keep doing that night after night.  Ovaries so loving big they don't need balls.
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I love this quote so much no matter how many times I see it. This is the current governing coalition of Denmark. Something is off about this photo, I mean when compared to pictures of most governments around the world. Hmmm. I can't quite put my finger on it. On a completely unrelated note, Denmark by almost every metric has one of the highest standards of living and lowest levels of inequality in the world 
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TinTower posted:Yes, because women-led governments are always, always progressive... Ha, I was actually thinking about Thatcher when I wrote that. I think it says a lot though when a country has reached a point where the leaders of all the ruling coalition are all women, and it's a liberal coalition at that. It's impossible to make an analogy to the US since it's a completely different political system, but I guess the closet would be having a president, Senate leader and House leader who are all women, which may be decades off. gently caress, the Republican party has yet to even ever have a woman as its leader, and the Democratic party is on its first. Rush hour in the Netherlands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q-ej1eihoU Socialism at work.(Seriously, if you read comments on articles about building even the slightest of bike infrastructure here you'd think cars were on the verge of being outlawed). Save the planet, tone your butt, ride bikes. e: quote:According to some danish goon they're a right wing coalition or something, it was a while ago. I shouldn't be one to question people actually living there, but I dont' see many right wing coalitions with Social Democrats, and the Socialist People's Party involved unless they meant the Social Democrats like Labour in the UK and the Democrats here just went hard to their relative right in the 90's. Ah, I see, turns out the Social Liberal party at least did go along with austerity during the last right-wing government. Amused to Death fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Nov 18, 2012 |
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Nyyen posted:Who is Stever Crowder? Does he just get off on being a young Republican poster boy or just a right wing troll? But then again, I repeat myself. I always recommend this version instead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo| The subtle musing and the scenes shown over the speech make it so much more moving. Especially during the "We all want to help one another, human beings are like that" that shows a baby trying to hand something to an adult that dropped something  Meanwhile, here's a gently caress off for the "drug test everyone" crowd
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Well, I didn't know about Mallory Owens until now. Now I'm pretty sad.  Pic:  Also, another pic. The SS United States was the fastest ocean liner to ever sail the Atlantic. So fast her engine design was kept secret for decades. A role she kept from the early 1950's to 1970. Following that and the decline of the trans-Atlantic passenger trade, she remained in an odd limbo as she was purchased by various companies through the 80's and 90's as they planned to put her into other cruising uses. All the various plans though fell through and the liner for years lagged in Phili collecting rust as its owners at the time put it up for sale, either to scrap yards or people who wanted to convert it. Despite a lower bid, the preservationist won out in 2011. It was announced in 2011 that by the end of 2012 a new developer would be chosen for the United States and a new home city the next year. A metaphor for the whole country? You decide. 
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fool_of_sound posted:That's a pretty remarkably stupid chart. Of course the US Senate has 2 senators per state, regardless of population: that's the point. The Senate was created in order to discourage the abuse of smaller or less populous states by the larger or more populous. We have a house of congress with (more or less) population proportional representation as well: it's called the House of Representatives. The point is the Senate is loving stupid for the exact reason the chart shows. The House is irrelevant when the Senate has equal power and Wyoming has the same representation as a state like California with over 40x the population. Hell, constitutional representatives in the 18th century admitted the Senate was stupid but it was the only way to get a deal. At the time though the larges state only had around 9-10x the population of the smallest state, not over 40x. Crossposting from GBS thread, old anti women's suffrage posters   
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Senor Gato posted:At the risk of reopening fat chat, no, you are wrong, that was what "Calvinism" was referring to, until Miltank and you misinterpreted it. I feel like neither of you actually put any effort into reading Peven Stan's posts, and instead projected your own biases onto them. Posthuman? Oh man, I can't wait to see what we're going to evolve into  Two epically bearded men get some of that sweet, sweet legal gay marriage in Washington today.  e: Vladimir Poutine posted:From: http://www.motherjones.com/media/2012/11/kids-bedrooms-james-mollison I highly recommend getting to see the whole "Where Children Sleep", it's awesome/sad. Also, Jaime is 9 and is already Republican as all hell. Amused to Death fucked around with this message at 04:27 on Dec 7, 2012 |
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Australia I can't find a GDP per capita number either nominal or PPP that puts you at #1, or even in the top 10.  Also we have gay politicians at the federal level as well(Tammy Baldin ) and our top federal politician is publicly in favor of gay marriage even if he was forced to say it by his vice president. Your non married, atheist center-left prime minister is still against gay marriage for some reason.But yeah, we're pretty terrible in most other regards Speaking of Australia, here's the weirdest political speech I've seen the head of government of a nation make in a long time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebtj3gDaE64 Well, she's still against gay marriage, but at least she has a sense of humor. Also  and 
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Anus Dei posted:
oh my god they look so dapper Here this hasn't been posted in a long time and it's a good chart for the fiscal cliff 
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^ I can probably say this about every Twilight Zone episode, but He's Alive is really good, even better than The Twilight Zone usually is. I think a good runner up is The Obsolete Man, it has one of my favorite closing monologues The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He *was* obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshiped. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete. A case to be filed under "M" for Mankind... in the Twilight Zone Of course, it's been taken up by right wing nuts on beitbart, the freepers and ect to try to prove the evils of government  Also ekuNNN, you left out one of the most famous bits of naval propaganda! I actually have a small version of this on my fridge 
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Experto Crede posted:
Britain is becoming more like America every day  The cards don't yet say BENEFITS on them, but some Republicans have called for the cards to bright orange or such specifically to shame people to get off them quicker. However, since food stamps are the main and often only social program people are eligible for, the cards are in fact usually only good to buy food, and only food, and not hot or prepared food.The front page of Huffpo last night and earlier today. Normally HuffPo sucks, but this I was enjoying  also:  This is a cemetery in Helsinki. As cremation becomes more common every single year combined with increased demand for land, how we go about death in the future may change drastically. I don't mean in the sense of how we deal with bodies, but in terms of how we view death in general. When anyone thinks of a cemetery, they think of a sprawling, quiet, and generally sad place. There is no life, just rows of gray tombstones, it is a place for mourning and that is all. Imagine if the above was the norm though. I think it gives off a vibe of a celebration of past lives, not the mournful longing that typical cemeteries give off. e:whoops, didn't realize how huge that picture was.
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  The Daily News reminds me, in case you didn't know, at the same time LaPierre was giving his "blame everything including video games, Obama and hurricanes, except guns" speech, a man went on shooting spree in Pennsylvania, killing 4 and wounding several others, including 3 cops. Apparently the cops didn't have easy enough access to guns.
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Joementum posted:Rep. Ross DeLauro (D-CT) arrives for the 113th Congress. My representative Facts about Rosa Delauro -Loves scarves, if it's July, she'll probably be wearing a scarf -Loves being the original hipster -Loves being more liberal than thou(in the context of normal liberals, not our glorious socialist revolution that we're fermenting here) More politicians and their outfits:  Marianne Thieme, leader of the Party for the Animals, entering Dutch parliament for the Queen's speech last autumn.
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 A literal Apparently we love America the most. Where are your bald eagles rest of country?
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1,461 days until either president elect Andrew "Gun snatcher extraordinaire" Cumou, or Hillary "BENGHAZI BENGHAZI BENGHAZI BENGHAZI" Clinton is sworn into office  Or, the possible third option, Joe "My god I get loving excited when I see a baby" Biden  
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If you want more of these lovely things, you can find them at: http://whoneedsfeminismdotorg.tumblr.com/ which was the MRA response to http://whoneedsfeminism.tumblr.com/ As you can see, the MRAs went the extra step to try to gain legitimacy and actually put up their site as a .org instead of the .com being used by the original group. content
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Experto Crede posted:That's, erm, sort of the point of the senate... Yes, and it's become a stupid point that makes a grotesque perversion of democracy and fair representation old Euro drama 
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