I Am The Block Whore

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[chilipeppers]

Red Hot Chili Peppers are pleased to announce the Feel The Bern concert in Los Angeles as The Theatre at Ace Hotel on February 5th.

All proceeds to benefit @berniesanders presidential campaign. Tickets available now: click here.

Art by Shepard Fairey

[papishanpoo-deactivated20151104]

Shout out to the women who ain’t crazy. All 16 of yall are appreciated

[catgorl]

Shout out to every man that hasnt made a woman feel unsafe. All 0 of you are the real mvp lol

[ncpssm]

In his first 60 Minutes interview as Speaker, Paul Ryan lays out his plans for ‪‎Social Security‬ and ‪Medicare‬.

[liberalsarecool]

If you have to cut Middle Class benefits in order to give wealthy people tax cuts, you really have no case, nor priority, to give the tax cuts. 

The wealthy tax cuts produce nothing. They are a drag on the economy. The tax cuts should be producing such great benefits they should not need corresponding cuts. Where is the ‘trickle down’?

[mediamattersforamerica]

Thank you. Watch the full interview.

[net-benefits-deactivated2016031]

Cannibalism AC

kickingyouraff

I am not ashamed.

Keep reading

[celebratingamazingwomen]

Annette Gordon-Reed (b. 1958) is an American historian, the author of groundbreaking research on the life of Thomas Jefferson, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for History (the first African American to do so) and countless other prizes. Her research revealed that Jefferson had had a family with Sally Hemings, one of his slaves, and fathered her six children; DNA results of descendants confirmed her theory.

She is a Professor of Law and History at Harvard University. In 2010 she received the National Humanities Medal for her revelatory work on the Hemings family.

[thecommonchick]

[marginalerrors-deactivated20220]

Off-Time Roadmap

[heijian]

a transgender person has a child

they are now transparent

[imaginary-friends-and-lost-calls]

I almost thought there was gonna be something mean at the end of that. Nope. Just a pun

[fuckyeahspeechanddebate-blog]

Flowing On Notebook Paper

[thoughtsofapolicydebater]

After a long tournament

[theliberaltony]

BERNIE PRIMARY FLYER’S FOR ALL 50 STATES

[exocannibalismsustains]

Please vote in the primaries! They matter.

[moritzstiefeldoesntdosadness]

Now see I have a problem with this. I should not have to register as a democrat to cast my vote. I do not subscribe to the ideals of bipartisan politics. I am choosing to vote in this election because I believe he is the first politician in my time eligible to vote who has the people in mind as opposed to the government. That being said, the fact that I am forced to declare my allegiance to a party is against my political beliefs. I hope others feel the same way and that this gets addressed by Senator Sanders. I support him as an individual, not the party as a whole. The only reason I am voting at all is because I believe he has sense enough to surround himself with like-minded, trustworthy people. I do not trust Hillary-flipflop- Clinton.

[theliberaltony]

I understand how you feel, I have often felt the same. But parties are a reality of politics, they are how you band votes together in order to have your vision for this country fulfilled. But I think many people misunderstand that registering for a party is not pledging allegiance to that party. It is saying that there is a group here that I would like to work with collectively in order to get someone elected. 

The longest any state requires you be registered for a party is less than 6 months. You can register just for a single election. You can vote in the election and then re-register as unaffiliated, in the same day. You are always a free agent, in some states you need to be aware of how their laws are written to take most advantage of the system, you can actually learn most of them here.

[extempqueen]

So my teammates debated against some Jesus freaks lmao

[marginalerrors-deactivated20220]

Me at local comps vs. Me at TOC Bid comps

[womenforjustice-ourrevolution]

Bernie Sanders’ Political Revolution

Bernie made the cover of Rolling Stone. 

[old-commie-bacon]

I am disgusting, and on a larger scale, debate is disgusting

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 24 hours, the tragedies which took place today in Paris are fresh on your mind and on your hearts. While most people’s initial response was outrage and sorrow and mourning, mine was not. My first thought in regards to Paris today was ‘ugh, I have to prep a file on this now’. Not sympathy or anger or any of the normal human emotions one should feel when such an enormous amount of human life is taken away, but annoyance at the extracurricular work it would cause me.

I think @net-benefits put it best when she told me “debate commodifies suffering.” World events cease to make us feel anything outside of their impacts on our cases and compositions of extemp files when in reality they are so much more. We’re more upset by the loss of impacts or solvency, and more interested in the scope of the relation which an event has within a topic than we are about the raw, human effect which tragedies have. 

When debate removes our ability to empathize and reduces the suffering of populations down to bargaining chips and cards, we have failed. When the event we use to learn more about the world and the way it works causes us to lose empathy for those who live in it, then we have failed, and the event itself has failed to achieve its ultimate goal: a better world. Be careful with debate. Let it expand your mind to new ideas, but do not let it close your mind to emotion. 

[urbsinpalude]

"So what have you learned from debate?"