#politically relevant

[disease]

"SELF-PORTRAIT: ALONG THE BOARDER LINE BETWEEN MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES"

FRIDA KAHLO | OIL ON METAL, 1932

[pineowlple]

"Bloodshed gives way to more bloodshed.

Hatred breeds more hatred.

Until all of the violence soaks into the land, carving rivers of blood.

And no matter how many times it happens, they never learn.

Humans are made up of violent, miserable fools."

Homunculus Lust - Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, episode 5.

[always-crash1ng]

Does anyone have the very old lana tweet thats like you can get further with beautiful words and a gun than you can with only beautiful words

[crow--child]

“it disgusts me...what people allow, if they think those who commit vile acts can help them to achieve some goal”

--Baird Queenscove, Lady Knight, written by Tamora Pierce

[earth-temple-student]

[b-fabes]

Word of the day: Mugwump

mugwump. In one of the native languages of eastern North America, mugquomp means “chief”; Englished to “mugwump,” it has for a century and a half been applied ironically to important - or self-important - people. It was widely used in 1884 when James G. Blaine, one of the more corrupt politicians in a notably corrupt era, won the Republican presidential nomination. Some Republicans found this too much to swallow, and refused to support him; the regular Republicans promptly christened them “Pharisees, hypocrites,dudes, mugwumps,” and so on. The word has come to mean a political independent of any sort - someone who, depending on where you’re standing, either puts principles before party or puts expediency before party loyalty. It has also inspired one of Ben Trovato’s most brilliant efforts: A mugwump, he has suggested, is “a bird that sits on the fence with his mug on one side and his wump on the other.”

Source: Loose Cannons, Red Herrings, and other Lost Metaphors by Robert Claiborne (1988)

[haychristyhay-blog]

JUST GOT REBLOGGED BY SERIOUSLYAMERICA NO BIG DEAL

[jasmineywc-blog-blog]

It’s so loud Inside my head With words that I should have said! As I drown in my regrets I can’t take back the words I never said I can’t take back the words I never said I really think the war on terror is a bunch of bullshit Just a poor excuse for you to use up all your bullets How much money does it take to really make a full clip 9/11 building 7 did they really pull it Uhh, And a bunch of other cover ups Your childs future was the first to go with budget cuts If you think that hurts then, wait here comes the uppercut The school was garbage in the first place, that's on the up and up Keep you at the bottom but tease you with the uppercrust You get it then they move it so you never keeping up enough If you turn on TV all you see’s a bunch of “what the fucks” Dude is dating so and so blabbering bout such and such And that ain't Jersey Shore, homie that's the news And these the same people that supposed to be telling us the truth Limbaugh is a racist, Glenn Beck is a racist Gaza strip was getting bombed, Obama didn’t say shit That's why I ain't vote for him, next one either I’ma part of the problem, my problem is I’m peaceful And I believe in the people. It’s so loud inside my head With words that I should have said! As I drown in my regrets I can’t take back the words I never said I can’t take back the words I never said Now you can say it ain't our fault if we never heard it But if we know better than we probably deserve it Jihad is not a holy war, wheres that in the worship? Murdering is not Islam! And you are not observant And you are not a muslim Israel don’t take my side cause look how far you’ve pushed them Walk with me into the ghetto, this where all the Kush went Complain about the liquor store but what you drinking liquor for? Complain about the gloom but when’d you pick a broom up? Just listening to Pac ain't gone make it stop A rebel in your thoughts, ain't gon make it halt If you don’t become an actor you’ll never be a factor Pills with million side effects Take em when the pains felt Wash them down with Diet soda! Killin off your brain cells Crooked banks around the World Would gladly give a loan today So if you ever miss a payment They can take your home away! It’s so loud inside my head With words that I should have said! As I drown in my regrets I can’t take back the words I never said, never said I can’t take back the words I never said I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence Fear is such a weak emotion that's why I despise it We scared of almost everything, afraid to even tell the truth So scared of what you think of me, I’m scared of even telling you Sometimes I’m like the only person I feel safe to tell it to I’m locked inside a cell in me, I know that there’s a jail in you Consider this your bailing out, so take a breath, inhale a few My screams is finally getting free, my thoughts is finally yelling through It’s so loud Inside my head With words that I should have said! As I drown in my regrets I can’t take back the words I never said

lupe <3