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"I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence."

[herpsandbirds]

White-bellied Sea Eagles (Icthyophaga leucogaster), family Accipitridae, order Accipitriformes The Kimberley, Western Australia

photograph by Richard Sidey

[ultrafacts]

[contemplatingoutlander]

State colleges slowly became more and more expensive because Ronald Reagan listened to his "education adviser's" warning of how affordably higher education could lead to an "educated proletariat."

The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous "Educated Proletariat”

In 1970, Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education.

In 1970, Ronald Reagan was running for reelection as governor of California.... In May 1970, Reagan had shut down all 28 UC and Cal State campuses in the midst of student protests against the Vietnam War and the U.S. bombing of Cambodia. On October 29, less than a week before the election, his education adviser Roger A. Freeman spoke at a press conference to defend him. Freeman’s remarks were reported the next day in the San Francisco Chronicle under the headline “Professor Sees Peril in Education.” According to the Chronicle article, Freeman said, “We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. … That’s dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow [to go to college].” [emphasis added]

[notahyper-specific]

Shit you think _that’s_ wild, wait’ll you find out college was basically free until Black people started going and getting degrees.

[bigbigbigtruck]

why do billionaires use their money for horrid bigoted shit. if i had a billion dollars i would commission so many drawings of my characters fucking nasty. in color even.

[notahyper-specific]

Not just fucking, but fucking *nasty*. In color.

Some thought has gone into this. Respect.

[wilwheaton]

“If we truly believe in bending the arc of the moral universe toward justice at this place and time, his supporters need to become pariahs. They should not be welcome where good people gather. They need to be held accountable for unleashing this hell on the rest of us. […] As in other times of historic fascist regimes, there is no ambiguity left now. The lines are starkly drawn, the factions clearly defined, the opposing values unmistakable. On one side of this battle for the soul of our nation, the safety of its people, and the welfare of the planet, is the sprawling interdependent community of those committed to healing, kindness, and the common good. And on the other side stands this historically unredeemable would-be king and those who regardless of the story they tell themselves, still inexplicably stand alongside him. Compromise is not an option, and because of that many of us are going to need to lean into our convictions and move away from people we know, love, and once respected. Sadly and tragically, that’s just how this has to be.”

—

For America’s Survival, His Supporters Must Be Ostracized

Never forget and never forgive the people who did this to us.

[mckitterick]

[tkthegoddess]

🗣"It doesn't matter how they treat you interpersonally. They want you dead structurally."🔥🔥🔥💋

[notahyper-specific]

Some of my friends seem to have forgotten this, the second time around.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Walter Mosley Exits ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Writers’ Room After Bizarre Epithet Backlash

Author Walter Mosley says he recently quit a television series on which he was writing after another writer complained about his use of the n-word in the writers’ room. Mosley, who is African…

This story is blowing my fucking mind. 

Firstly, I had no idea that Walter Mosley, one of the most prolific hardboiled crime authors of the past thirty years, was Jewish (!!!!!!)

Secondly, I also had no idea that said prolific novelist was writing for the new Star Trek series (????)

Lastly, I cannot believe that somebody complained to HR because a Black man told a story about his own personal experiences with racism in which he was called a slur by a white cop, and somehow that painful recollection of being dehumanised is tantamount to using racist language? 

I’m just…what? You had were fucking blessed to have one of the most acclaimed crime writers of his generation on your staff, and you forced him out for talking about how somebody else called him a racial slur? Really? REALLY? 

Fucking unbelievable. 

[notahyper-specific]

... oh yeaahh, THAT'S why I never got around to watching Discovery!

[witchinghour]

[notahyper-specific]

... relevant.

[wilwheaton]

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[notahyper-specific]

... as it turns out, not having that conversation was a MASSIVE FUCKING MISTAKE

[neil-gaiman]

What's your opinion/thoughts on Chuck Tingle?

I believe that the world is a better place for having Chuck Tingle in it.

[notahyper-specific]

Chuck Tingle is really Neil Gaiman, confirmed?

[notahyper-specific]

Damn, apologies to Chuck Tingle for this wild-ass slander.

[thememedaddy]

[notahyper-specific]

“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trails 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

—

Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials

Quoting two Redditors:

“Conservatives attack empathetic people all the time. They invent new slurs just for empathy every 15 years, like “politically correct”, or “bleeding heart”, or “woke”, etc.Restricted or nonexistent empathy is a prerequisite for conservative ideology.”

“The entire conservative ethos, everything they say and do, is completely consistent when your starting point is: no empathy.The bad part is that a lack of fundamental empathy is a somewhat innate quality, established in your first few years.  It’s very hard to acquire later in life.  So a lot of conservatives are beyond redemption.“

(via wilwheaton)

All. Not a lot of.  All.

[notahyper-specific]

I feel like this is pretty relevant, in light of their current "Empathy is a sin." rhetoric. Also, I stand by my earlier comment that all conservatives are beyond redemption.

[undergroundrockpress-deactivate]

1967. Today, unfortunately, that sentiment is still widely shared by sane people everywhere.

[wilwheaton]

Same, buddy.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[jagged203]

[liberalsarecool]

[liberalsarecool]

This is your warning.

[notahyper-specific]

Alabama is pretty much the best case scenario of a state with a majority-Republican government, and that statement comes with two very important caveats --

1) Alabama is only as good as it is because of University of Alabama Football, the Mercedes plant, and the Hyundai plant (they’re in that order for a reason), and

b) Alabama’s still real shitty.

[notahyper-specific]

ADDENDUM! University of Alabama Football has basically done a speedrun to turning itself into essentially the college football equivalent of a wet fart noise, so... we'll see how that goes for good ol' Bammy.

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

[notahyper-specific]

Hot damn, this one's aging like George Clooney, innit?

[saywhat-politics]

[notahyper-specific]

The thing is, the joke in this doesn’t work because NRA meetings are strictly enforced gun-free zones. That knowledge kills the joke, but it also makes this possibly the single most brutal piece of satire in the history of the written word.  Hats off to the writing staff at The Onion.  My God.