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Judson, 22 years of living on this gravity well, spiraling around this nuclear fireball that somehow keeps us warm. Words of description: single, 'out to lunch', Malformed Public duty gland, and a deficiency in moral fiber precluding me from saving Universes. Possibly a dreamer (jury is still out). A bit rude, a bit crude, a bit into myself.
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Gun Control: Not For The Criminals
There are of course those who do not want us to speak … Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who’s to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you’re looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
V, V for Vendetta (via anarchei)
(Source: anarchyagogo)
It we can learn how to live without politics, without nation-states, without wars, without even the slightest restriction upon any of us, ought we to give up such a pursuit simply because others have chosen to remain locked in chains? One must recognise, I think, that every political system is founded upon the presumed right of some men to forcibly impose their collective will upon those to be ruled. Once one accepts such an arrangement as either desirable or a “necessary evil,” there is simply no way to assure that those given such power will restrain themselves in its exercise. If one acknowledges the right of men to assault women — and the concomitant obligation of women to submit thereto — there is no effective limit upon the attacks to which women must be subjected, other than the appetites of their attackers. One cannot acknowledge the right of some men to exercise force upon others without accepting that those enjoying such powers are the only — and the absolute — judges of the scope of that power. To fail to understand that basic fact is to be ignorant of the inherent nature of all political systems, a nature that has been abundantly demonstrated in every period of history and in every nation on earth.
Butler Shaffer (via anarchei)
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Anarchy
this is why I hate it when people use Anarchy to explain chaos and disorder.
(Source: dionysus-xxx)
Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to sleep, and we have to pay for food. If we don’t, people with guns come and force us to pay. That’s violent.
Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization (via anarcho-queer)
Why Is There Corn In Your Coke?
The video only looks at half the problem, government-imposed sugar quotas (essentially a tariff, or hidden tax). The other half of the problem is that the government also subsidised the corn industry, which lead to a glut of corn, which in turn drove down the price of corn and its derivatives. Hence why high-fructose corn syrup is found in many American food and drink products, and also conceivably why obesity has skyrocketed at about the same time.
I am becoming a sugar farmer….
(Source: learnliberty.org)
It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons. In particular, the connection between the discovery of gunpowder and the overthrow of feudalism by the bourgeoisie has been pointed out over and over again. And though I have no doubt exceptions can be brought forward, I think the following rule would be found generally true: That ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance. Thus, for example, tanks, battleships, and bombing planes are inherently tyrannical weapons, while rifles, muskets, long-bows, and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon—so long as there is no answer to it—gives claws to the weak.
George Orwell (via anarchei)
(Source: tmh.floonet.net)
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