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Fucking awesome!

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Pokemon Logic. Come on!

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So true it hurts

[susheep]

probably one of the most honest statements about talent i’ve ever heard. i try to tell people this all the time.

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Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people you’ve never met.

Doug Stanhope. (via anarchyagogo)

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My illustrated Kinsey Scale~

What is “The Kinsey Scale?"

The Heterosexual-Homosexual Rating Scale, sometimes referred to as the “Kinsey Scale,” was developed by Alfred Kinsey and his colleagues Wardell Pomeroy and Clyde Martin in 1948, in order to account for research findings that showed people did not fit into neat and exclusive heterosexual or homosexual categories.

Interviewing people about their sexual histories, the Kinsey team found that, for many people, sexual behavior, thoughts and feelings towards the same or opposite sex was not always consistent across time. Though the majority of men and women reported being exclusively heterosexual, and a percentage reported exclusively homosexual behavior and attractions, many individuals disclosed behaviors or thoughts somewhere in between.

As Kinsey writes in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948):

“Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats…The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects."

http://www.iub.edu/~kinsey/research/ak-hhscale.html

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Photos of Romanian Miners Beating Up Their Fellow Citizens

A little over 20 years ago, the people of Romania rose up against their government. Only, their uprising was a little stranger than what’s been happening in Turkey, Egypt, Brazil and southern Europe recently. 

After members of the liberal opposition organized protests against the recently elected National Salvation Front—who were the first party to come to power after the revolution of 1989—the socialist government called on miners and other workers throughout Romania to quell the demonstrations because the police had failed to disperse the rioting crowds.    

On June 14, 1990, around 10,000 miners armed with wooden staves and iron bars were brought into Bucharest on special trains. Once they arrived, they quickly got to beating up and eventually killing or severely wounding many of the gathered liberals, royalists, and students who had dared to speak out against their government, angry at the fact that many FSN leaders, including President Ion Iliescu, were former members of the recently ousted Romanian Communist Party.

Andrei Iliescu is a photographer who was working for Agence France-Press (AFP) during the riots that took place between June 13 and 15, 1990. This is his account of what would come to be known as the June 1990 Mineriad.

When I look at recent photographs from Tahrir Square, I can’t help but think of what happened in June 1990, in Bucharest’s University Square. I’d basically moved into the InterContinental hotel in the square so that I could be as close as possible to the protests, which began on April 22 and ended on June 15. The interest surrounding Romania during that time was huge; we were shooting pictures by the truckload and I don’t remember a day where I didn’t send at least one photo off to some newspaper around the world. 

June 11, 1990 was when it began to get rowdy, but the tension didn’t reach its boiling point until a couple of days later. Until then, the police would show up in waves and the government gave the protesters an ultimatum to disperse, but it wasn’t the first one by any means, so they chose to ignore it.

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Institutionalizing Ignorance

[skepticalyouth]

The core principle of education for the two lowest classes in India, was ignorance. By filling up the free time of children with repetitive tasks of little educational value, students were transformed into thoughtless followers of the Brahmin.

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hurt:

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Common Historical Misconceptions

I just don’t know what to believe anymore.

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The history nerd part of me just loves stuff like this!

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The missing numbers bothers me

[skepticalyouth]

interesting! but it needs sources!

[skepticalyouth]

hey, its me again. i noticed in your response to my ask earlier you said that you believe that public assistance hurts people who use it. i don't believe you really know what you're talking about there - and i don't say that in a hostile way, it just seems like you've probably never been on public assistance, nor had close experiences with other people who have - so let me tell you first hand: i've gotten assistance in the past, and it made all the difference.

If you want to continue this conversation off tumblr, thats fine. You can email me at [email protected] or message though the skeptical youth facebook page. Yes, I really like discussing this and it being public so other people can learn from it also. :)

Well please notice that you did not rebuttal what I said. You only provided a personal experience which is not a objective, documented, etc. It's not a viable as proof that my statement was wrong. Also, my main argument against the welfare is not that it hurts the poor but its immoral and I don't see a refutation of that.

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