November 2011
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Africa: The more you know...
industryrevealing:
Africa is a lot bigger than it looks on your usual Mercador map, because it straddles the equator. You could fit the continental U.S., China, Western Europe, India and Argentina in there and still have lots of room left over.
Africa is not the poorest place in the world. India is. There are actually more people living in “extreme poverty” in India than in all of...
I’m so sick of old, white men, on city councils or in parliaments, trying to ruin a future they won’t even be a part of.
Retire already, you selfish bastards. Your time is up.
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Horseshoe theory →
The horseshoe theory in political science asserts that rather than the far left and the far right being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear political continuum, they in fact closely resemble one another, much like the ends of a horseshoe. The theory is attributed to French writer Jean-Pierre Faye.[1]
Horseshoe theory competes with the conventional linear left-right continuum system as...
You know what? Sometimes, consent is NOT sexy....
tooyoungforthelivingdead:
Thank you. I’ve always had a problem with that “consent is sexy” shit — you do it because it’s consent, not cos it’s a turn-on.
I’m experiencing an existential crisis called “life”.
“That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the...”
– Noam Chomsky (via thinksquad)
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“Left colorblindness is the belief that race is a “divisive” issue among the 99%,...”
– Occupy the Hood - Whiteness and the 99% (via monkeyknifefight)
“Law is an opinion with a gun.”
– Stefan Molyneux (via industryrevealing)
If you are an Aucklander with a soul or a heart that you would like to remain intact… do not, ever, move to the North Shore.
This place is destroying me.
“Governments, to have a reason for existing, must defend their people from other...”
– Patriotism and Governments, Leo Tolstoy 