Piero Umiliani/ Crepuscolo Sul Mare
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vs. the world
…
what.
how is this a meme.
this isn’t even remotely funny and all the comments are like
” HAHA SO FUNNY, SO TERRIBLE. I”M GOIGN TO HELL FOR LAUGHING HAHA THIS IS SO BAD!!”
SO YOU KNOW IT’S NOT A GOOD THING TO BE LAUGHING AT PEOPLE’S MISERY, BUT YOU LAUGH ANYWAY AND TURN IT INTO A MEME.
HAHA.
POVERTY.
HAHA.
these aren’t funny.
*blinks*
Okay, I’m trying to take a really deep breath here, but …
Are you telling me that some motherfucking white dudebro actually got out a motherfucking pen and a big old sheet of poster board and seriously sat his ass down and wrote out “Why are you harassing us white kids when you could be arresting BLACK PEOPLE??? Who have serious medical conditions (i.e. addiction) but no access to treatment? ISN’T SOCIETY CONCERNED ABOUT HOW THE POLICE ARE CURRENTLY FAILING THE RACIST PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX BY PICKING ON WHITE FOLKS???”
And then
And THEN
A whole bunch of OTHER motherfuckers got on tumblr and reblogged his goddamn picture without a single fucking critical word?
Because apparently they see this sign and think “YEAH. He’s right! WE SHOULD BE ARRESTING BLACK PEOPLE INSTEAD.”
Yeah, okay, if you did not see an immediate problem with this sign the minute you saw it, I am totally fucking DONE with YOU.
we aren’t doing anything really illegal! we are white for god’s sake— and i am a white MALE! we are protesting the existence of terrible things (not crack sales though, who cares about that?) so leave us alone and go catch all the
real criminalsblack people!
dear gaia how I wish this sign were a joke…
there’s sadly a lot of folks that think this way
what the fuck you goddamned waterheads the sign doesn’t say anything about race you complete shitbirds
Pretty sure thecurvature’s comment was 100% more racist than the sign in this photo.
The reason no one else reblogged this without a word was because they understood the message of the sign to be: “Why are the American police forces focusing their collective efforts to arrest those exercising their rights to peaceful protest, when there are ‘controlled’ substances being distributed a few blocks over?”
As said, the only racist thing about this discussion was introduced by thecurvature.
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To my children,
Dear Hildita, Aleidita, Camilo, Celia, And Ernesto,
If you ever have to read this letter, it will be because I am no longer with you. You practially will not remember me, and the smaller ones will not remember me at all.
Your father has been a man who acted on his believes and has certainly been loyal to his convictions.
Grow up as good revolutionaries. Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature. Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone is worth nothing.
Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.
Until forever, my children. I still hope to see you. A great big kiss and a big hug from
Papa
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[image: still of Professor Farnsworth from Futurama with text that reads “I DON’T WANT TO LIVE ON THIS PLANET ANYMORE”]
“Perhaps it’s not that surprising that a mother in Menifee, California, asked the Menifee Union School District to ban all copies of the 10th edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary after her child stumbled across the term “oral sex.” What is surprising, indeed horrifying, is that district officials immediately complied with her request, and pulled all dictionaries off classroom shelves throughout the Southern California school district, which serves 9,000 kids, kindergarten through eighth grade.”
So many facepalms
None were removed or banned. From the LA Times back in 2010, when it happened:
“The dictionaries have not been banned,” said Betti Cadmus, a spokeswoman for the Menifee Union School District in conservative southwest Riverside County on Monday. “There was a growing concern by parents that some of the words were not age-appropriate.”
A panel of parents, teachers and administrators will meet later this week to comb the dictionary for potentially graphic words or definitions and issue a report within a month.
“They will determine the extent to which the dictionaries support the curriculum, the age appropriateness of the materials and its suitability for the age levels of the students,” Cadmus said. “It’s not going to be an arbitrary decision.”
The dictionaries were in the reference section of the fourth- and fifth-grade classrooms.
School board President Rita Peters supports the committee but believes the district was pressured into forming it because of one unidentified but vocal parent.
“I think it’s absurd that we will remove dictionaries from our library especially because these dictionaries are the same ones we use in our spelling bees,” she said. “I think we are approaching censorship with this. If they ban this book, they better clean house and go through all of them. What’s good for one is good for all. I think we will open a big can of worms if these books are banned. It’s the dictionary after all, c’mon.”
Of course, it is still a ridiculous idea that they even would consider it.
I kind of understand the concern, since that was the way that I learned what certain words were or meant. A friend had an older sister who had her play the Name Game with the word buck, and then threatened to tell their mom when she said fuck for the first time. So, I looked it up. Another time, I was watching Maury Povich and someone brought up the term orgasm, which I didn’t know at the time. I looked it up. Both times were in the latter part of elementary school. I don’t think that knowing the word fuck or what orgasm meant was really detrimental to me in any way and I don’t think it stole any part of my innocence. Parents need to realize that eventually, whether they like it or not, their kids are going to learn cuss words and about sex and other more grown up things. They need to either learn to talk to them earlier, maybe not in very technical terms, or they need to be prepared to find out that their kids have learned about things from books or friends or other places.
The only good thing I can think of, with regards to banning a dictionary, is that it might cause more young children to look into dictionaries and to learn about more things than just what they are learning in school. Making them bad or dirty might lead to more kids reading them so that they can being doing a bad/naughty/wrong thing.
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Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Santorum also pledged to start a commission to investigate “Americans who have been harassed” while protesting against gay rights.
I’m getting the fuck out of this country if any of them get elected.
no no no n on oo no n oon no no no no no n on o no non. NO TO ALL THESE PEOPLE AND WHAT THEY STAND FOR.
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You Need to Pay Attention to Michele Bachmann
I know a lot of us aren’t that political, and many haven’t been paying much attention to the Republicans clawing all over each other for the presidential nomination next year, but if you have a Twitter account or read the news you have probably heard of Michele Bachmann, the congresswoman from Minnesota who is quickly floating to the top of the short list of GOP bigots likely to face Barack Obama at the ballot box next year.
You know Bachmann—she’s the one who married her queeny husband Marcus (who runs a clinic that offers “ex-gay” therapy for self-hating homos) after both of them experienced a vision from God. Well, despite the fact that she is a religious extremist with virtually no record of accomplishments in congress besides forwarding her hateful moral agenda, she won the Iowa Straw Poll over the weekend, one of the first real litmus tests to determine who is a “top tier” candidate for the 2010 election.
Here’s the thing about Michele Bachmann: she is not Sarah Palin. She is smarter, she’s more highly regarded, she has a more drive and she has none of Palin’s political baggage. She’s also about twice as crazy.
Want to know just how Bachmann feels about you? Here’s what she said in 2004 re: the gays:
“It’s a very sad life. It’s part of Satan, I think, to say that this is ‘gay.’ It’s anything but ‘gay.’ It leads to the personal enslavement of individuals. Because if you’re involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it’s bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair, and personal enslavement. And that’s why this is so dangerous. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life, and sexual identity disorders.”
Bachmann was faced with this gem as recently as this past weekend, when she appeared onMeet the Press after her Iowa victory, and she stood by it, adding stupidly, “I am not anyone’s judge.” In it, she displays her profound ignorance (or worse, her straight up denial of facts) by calling homosexuality a “dysfunction” and a “disorder”, despite the fact that the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a disorder in 1973, with the American Psychological Association following suit a few years later.
We need to face a scary reality, guys. Barack Obama’s approval ratings have dropped below 40 percent, the lowest they have ever been. Meanwhile, Michelle Bachmann, even with her long history of documented bigotry, is well on her way to securing the nomination (with only Texas governor Rick Perry posing much of a threat now, and he’s about as bad as she is). Remember what happened in 2010, when the GOP took back the senate and the house? We need to face the real possibility that Michele Bachmann could be the next president.
She supports a federal ban on gay marriage. She has vowed to reinstate Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. She opposes ENDA, which would defend you from discrimination in the workplace. She thinks the love you share with your partner is Satanic, dysfunctional and sad. Under President Bachmann, you can expect the momentum toward full civil rights we have achieved over the past few years (with little thanks to President Obama, it’s true) to be rolled back. You’d see full Republican control of government, and the introduction and passage of who knows what kind of hateful legislation aimed and subjugating LGBT people even further.
You need to pay attention to Michele Bachmann in the coming months, as she calculates her way to the presidency. And you need to be terrified.
Some crazy shit heading your way, USA!
I H8 RELIGION
FUCKING BACHMANN. I AIN’T EVEN AMERICAN but I am scared.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq137oJUjw1qd7hayo1_500.jpg)
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You Need to Pay Attention to Michele Bachmann
I know a lot of us aren’t that political, and many haven’t been paying much attention to the Republicans clawing all over each other for the presidential nomination next year, but if you have a Twitter account or read the news you have probably heard of Michele Bachmann, the congresswoman from Minnesota who is quickly floating to the top of the short list of GOP bigots likely to face Barack Obama at the ballot box next year.
You know Bachmann—she’s the one who married her queeny husband Marcus (who runs a clinic that offers “ex-gay” therapy for self-hating homos) after both of them experienced a vision from God. Well, despite the fact that she is a religious extremist with virtually no record of accomplishments in congress besides forwarding her hateful moral agenda, she won the Iowa Straw Poll over the weekend, one of the first real litmus tests to determine who is a “top tier” candidate for the 2010 election.
Here’s the thing about Michele Bachmann: she is not Sarah Palin. She is smarter, she’s more highly regarded, she has a more drive and she has none of Palin’s political baggage. She’s also about twice as crazy.
Want to know just how Bachmann feels about you? Here’s what she said in 2004 re: the gays:
“It’s a very sad life. It’s part of Satan, I think, to say that this is ‘gay.’ It’s anything but ‘gay.’ It leads to the personal enslavement of individuals. Because if you’re involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it’s bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair, and personal enslavement. And that’s why this is so dangerous. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life, and sexual identity disorders.”
Bachmann was faced with this gem as recently as this past weekend, when she appeared onMeet the Press after her Iowa victory, and she stood by it, adding stupidly, “I am not anyone’s judge.” In it, she displays her profound ignorance (or worse, her straight up denial of facts) by calling homosexuality a “dysfunction” and a “disorder”, despite the fact that the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a disorder in 1973, with the American Psychological Association following suit a few years later.
We need to face a scary reality, guys. Barack Obama’s approval ratings have dropped below 40 percent, the lowest they have ever been. Meanwhile, Michelle Bachmann, even with her long history of documented bigotry, is well on her way to securing the nomination (with only Texas governor Rick Perry posing much of a threat now, and he’s about as bad as she is). Remember what happened in 2010, when the GOP took back the senate and the house? We need to face the real possibility that Michele Bachmann could be the next president.
She supports a federal ban on gay marriage. She has vowed to reinstate Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. She opposes ENDA, which would defend you from discrimination in the workplace. She thinks the love you share with your partner is Satanic, dysfunctional and sad. Under President Bachmann, you can expect the momentum toward full civil rights we have achieved over the past few years (with little thanks to President Obama, it’s true) to be rolled back. You’d see full Republican control of government, and the introduction and passage of who knows what kind of hateful legislation aimed and subjugating LGBT people even further.
You need to pay attention to Michele Bachmann in the coming months, as she calculates her way to the presidency. And you need to be terrified.
Some crazy shit heading your way, USA!
I H8 RELIGION
FUCKING BACHMANN. I AIN’T EVEN AMERICAN but I am scared.
WASHINGTON — US Representative Michele Bachmann, fresh from a victory in a key Republican test vote, said Sunday she would reinstate a ban on gay troops serving openly in the military.
I want to die right now!
Michele Bachmann’s campaign slogan is officially “Bachmann: Backwards.”
HEY I THINK YOU SHOULD CHOKE ON MY BIG RAINBOW DICK
…………………………………………………….. but why bachmann? WHY?
Uhm everyone reblog this so this stupid person can get caught.
THE MAN HAD A DAUGHTER BITCH.
I hope this fucking twat slag is caught and she’s punished. The man had a daughter, a child. I do hope that he survived, and is well enough to get back on the force in time to see your world come crumbling down.
fucking no
no
nonononononononononononononononononononononononononononononono
I will rip her heart out of her chest.
what is wrong with EVERYTHING
I really doubt that anyone has the balls to do something like that and then go and TWEET ABOUT IT.
Think about it, guys. Really.
If they’re part of the riot, then I wouldn’t put it above them to do this, to be completely honest.
So i went on her twitter and, gosh what she did was so WRONG on so many levels, but look at some of the stuff she’s getting. “I HOPE YOU GET GANG RAPED… YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER GETS KILLED BY A STUPID BLONDE BITCH LYKE U…” Violence doesn’t stop violence. As appalled as I am by her actions, some of the comments are equally as disgusting. It’s just, you don’t do that at all in the first place, ya know?
no, i’m not melodramatically informing you that i don’t like sandblasted jeans.
a friend sent me this change.org petition calling for dolce & gabbana to ban sandblasting, which led me to do a little research since the information was completely new to me.
did you know that the process of sandblasting denim (which gives jeans a worn, aged look) causes a disease called silicosis in workers?
sandblasting involves workers firing sand at jeans under high pressure. the silica dust that results from the process is inhaled by workers and eventually causes silicosis in the lungs.
silicosis leads to breathing difficulties and eventually death in many cases. it’s an irreversible condition with no cure.
an eight-year study on male patients diagnosed with silicosis due to sandblasting found that the average survival rate after diagnosis was only 78 months.
brands like H&M, levi’s, versace, and gucci have banned sandblasting as a result of study findings and protests, but a few luxury labels like dolce & gabbana, armani, and roberto cavalli have so far refused to put a stop to it.
what’s even more icky? dolce & gabbana has taken to deleting wall posts off of its facebook page which demand for the label to ban sandblasting.
not cool.
you can make yourself heard by signing the petition.
The more you know = the more responsible you are in your choices
