We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt. Most, I found, were of working-class or otherwise modest backgrounds, kids who did exactly what they were told they should: studied, got into college, and are now not just being punished for it, but humiliated – faced with a life of being treated as deadbeats, moral reprobates.
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David Graeber at the Guardian, in the best piece I’ve read yet on Occupy Wall Street (via judyxberman) This article is fucking great. (via hardlyart) |
Clinton, Kennedy, they all carried out mass murder, but they didn’t think that that was what they were doing - nor does Bush. You know, they were defending justice and democracy from greater evils. And in fact I think you’d find it hard to discover a mass murderer in history who didn’t think that-
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Noam Chomsky
Touche |
Atheists and Sex Offenders by TheThinkingAtheist
Florida pastor Michael Stahl suggested that known atheists be categorized on a list he called “The Christian National Registry of Atheists.” Imagine what kind of names, past and present, such a list would provide.
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~Mooglets
