June 2013
114 posts
“Green was the silence, wet was the light,
the month of June trembled like a butterfly.” —Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets (via weaverofstars)
the month of June trembled like a butterfly.” —Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets (via weaverofstars)
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1. White terrorists are called “gunmen.” What does that even mean? A person with a gun? Wouldn’t that be, like, everyone in the US? Other terrorists are called, like, “terrorists.”
2. White terrorists are “troubled loners.” Other terrorists are always suspected of being part of a global plot, even when they are obviously troubled loners.
3. Doing a study on the danger of white terrorists at the Department of Homeland Security will get you sidelined by angry white Congressmen. Doing studies on other kinds of terrorists is a guaranteed promotion.
4. The family of a white terrorist is interviewed, weeping as they wonder where he went wrong. The families of other terrorists are almost never interviewed.
5. White terrorists are part of a “fringe.” Other terrorists are apparently mainstream.
6. White terrorists are random events, like tornadoes. Other terrorists are long-running conspiracies.
7. White terrorists are never called “white.” But other terrorists are given ethnic affiliations.
8. Nobody thinks white terrorists are typical of white people. But other terrorists are considered paragons of their societies.
9. White terrorists are alcoholics, addicts or mentally ill. Other terrorists are apparently clean-living and perfectly sane.
10. There is nothing you can do about white terrorists. Gun control won’t stop them. No policy you could make, no government program, could possibly have an impact on them. But hundreds of billions of dollars must be spent on police and on the Department of Defense, and on TSA, which must virtually strip search 60 million people a year, to deal with other terrorists.
” —Juan Cole, 08/09/2012 (via thepeacefulterrorist)
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As you get older you will gain a bit more control over everything. Don’t let anyone, even your parents, break you. Find good people who care about you and surround yourself with just them. If you can’t find them at first, find good music and fall into it, let it hold you until they come.
—Davey Havok (via provokingnaught)
” —(via mysticmementos)
“I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.”
— Coretta Scott King (via samirathejerk)
who decided being gay wasn’t manly? gay sex is technically twice as manly, you are literally doubling the amount of men in it
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
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“We have a government that says it’s okay to eat Twinkies and Cocoa Puffs and Mountain Dew, but it’s illegal to drink raw milk and eat compost-grown tomatoes and Aunt Matilda’s pickles.”
—From sustainable farmer Joel Salatin. Quote captured by Amy Eddings on WNYC Culture blog. (via newanddifferentsun)
The People's Record: How can I help stop PRISM even from my computer chair? →
thepeoplesrecord.com
There are two ways we can stop our corrupt government and corporations from spying and crushing our last rights.
The first way is to flood their spynet with useless trash and wrong information so their systems will be rendered ineffective; they will not be able to discern what…
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“People think of education as something they can finish.”
—Isaac Asimov (via kenobi-wan-obi)
” —(via mysticmementos)The worst thing about death is not dying but the fear you feel in its contemplation.
๑ Samsaran ๑
