May 2012
11 posts
“I’ve seen a ton on the facebooks about “thanking veterans for their service.” As...”
– An anti-capitalist veteran (via elitc)
Mexico: PRI gets endorsement from unlikely YouTube...
fuckyeahmexico:
univisionnews:
Rebecca Black, known for her infamous “Friday” song, angered Mexican social media users after endorsing Presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto.
By EBONY MONTENEGRO
It may come as a shock to many but Rebecca Black is in fact Latina. As she proudly stated in this mun2 interview, her mother is Mexican. Yet, her cultural heritage may not be as strange or...
: Study: Wall Street Employees are 10x More Likely... →
arielnietzsche:
It’s pretty striking when you have an entire industry that attracts literal psychopaths to it at 10x the rate of the standard population. Who can forget the Goldman Sachs executive that left the firm and wrote an EPIC op-ed in the NY Times declaring that employees from the…
“While you are celebrating Obama publicly making comments supporting gay...”
– Nathan Goodman (via nirvikalpa)
“So congratulations, North Carolina. Last night, you struck a decisive blow for...”
– Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report (via nirvikalpa)
the bad dominicana: Dear Americans: →
tierracita:
Happy Cinco de Gringo! Happy Gringo de Mayo!
May your carefree cultural appropriation and essentializing bring you great joy and ignorant bliss. Hopefully while drinking Coronas and margaritas, eating chips and salsa, and wearing that sombrero today please also take a moment to…
April 2012
80 posts
Suicide rate in Greece jumps 40% as austerity... →
socialismartnature:
Capitalism kills.
I just want to point out how this article is an example of the way that the mainstream, corporate press — such as CNN — actually try to actively shape public opinion while feigning ‘objective news reporting.’ The author writes that cuts to Greek workers’ salaries and pensions have been “required” by the debt crisis. This is bullshit. One could easily...
Watchdylanisatranscow:
transformfeminism:
erisekun:
cassket:
MSNBC Talks To And About Trans People For An Hour, Doesn’t F*ck It Up
We’re only about 30 seconds into MSNBC’s 20-minute “Transgender in America” segment when host Melissa Harris-Perry describes herself as “cis,” explaining that “cis” means that “the sex of the body I was born with, the gender I was assigned at birth, and my personal...
Study: All-White Juries More Likely To Convict... →
so-treu:
in today’s No Shit Sherlock news………
Kinsey Hope Can't Focus For Shit: Fat girls in... →
sugaredvenom:
thefatgrackle:
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airpunchingacademic:
acciofangirl:
I just saw some photos of a 300-pound girl posing in her underwear. I’m sure she did it with the good intention of teaching girls to love their body no matter what shape or size or color…
Sharing is Care-ing: pitypie: chromaticfun: 10... →
pitypie:
chromaticfun:
10 Myths About Introverts
Myth #1 – Introverts don’t like to talk. This is not true. Introverts just don’t talk unless they have something to say. They hate small talk. Get an introvert talking about something they are interested in, and they won’t shut up…
: About Iceland and it's democracy.. →
ceepolk:dreams-from-my-father:anoncentral:
No news from Iceland… why? How come we hear everything that happens in Egypt but no news about what’s happening in Iceland:
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In Iceland, the people has made the government resign, the primary banks have been…
Watchanticapitalist:
Money, drugs, guns and gangs: Child actors shame Mexico’s politicians with mockumentary
A video “mockumentary” that shows children as kidnappers, corrupt cops and drug traffickers has sparked a fierce debate in violence-torn Mexico, with some people calling it a needed wake-up call while others described it as political manipulation or even child abuse.
Kids playing the role of...
humanformat:
bana05:
Anonymous asked: My son (13 y.o.) just got suspended for the day for answering the question, “What did you learn in history this year?” with “No one’s pain is greater than the white man’s pain, and any attempt to prove otherwise will cause him to smite thee” on a test. So I’m taking him out for lunch and my husband is buying him a new video game for his PS3. :)
And...
