February 2012
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The beginnings of the American Revolution,...
BRITISH EMPIRE: All right, fine, your stupid embargo worked. We won’t levy any more taxes-
AMERICAN COLONIES: Huzzah! Time to get drunk!
BRITISH EMPIRE: Except on tea.
AMERICAN COLONIES: What?
BRITISH EMPIRE: Get over it, it’s just tea. Seriously, where do you get this idea that you’re special and should never have to pay taxes? We hope that idea doesn’t go on to infect your political discourse centuries from now.
AMERICAN COLONIES: We’re not buying your stupid tea.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Are you being serious right now? What are you going to do, just stop drinking tea?
AMERICAN COLONIES: Yes. We’ll drink coffee.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Do you even know what that is?
AMERICAN COLONIES: No, but we’ve heard it’s good and we’re feeling surly.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Fine, whatever, we don’t even care what you do anymore.
BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY: Actually, we are pretty much bankrupt, so you need to make them drink the tea.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Oh, for—just drink the tea.
AMERICAN COLONIES: No.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Do it.
AMERICAN COLONIES: NO.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Drink it.
AMERICAN COLONIES: Fuck you.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Drink it or we’ll punch you in the face.
AMERICAN COLONIES: *Boston Tea Party*
BRITISH EMPIRE: What the hell?
AMERICAN COLONIES: We heard it was Indians.
BRITISH EMPIRE: That’s interesting, because we heard it was a bunch of colonists wearing paint and dressed in costumes that were remarkably similar to what a crowd of drunks who wanted to look like Indians would assemble if the only supplies they had were found in an alley behind a bar.
AMERICAN COLONIES: You get all types in Boston.
BRITISH EMPIRE: …*Coercive Acts*
AMERICAN COLONIES: Oh, it is ON.
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nothing makes sense, yet it all so clear now
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inothernews:
timekiller-s:
spiralofbees:
This is terrible, terrible, terrible.
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of-praxis:
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Anonymous asked: Do you think you have a Napoleon complex?
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“Each relationship seeks its own level when we let it. Operating on this...”
– From The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy
This book is putting my views on relationships into words in a way that I’ve never been able to before.
(via tuchisofentish)
principles i live by.
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rockyanderson2012:
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unapologetically-black:
theafricatheynevershowyou:
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Struggling To Be Heard: Decoding Racist Language →
dank-potion:
This is for POC that still don’t get it. I pity yall, so we’ll try this again.
“I don’t see color.” - I don’t give a fuck about realizing my white privilege or the challenges you face because you are not white. I am saying this in a deceptive way to make it sound like I’m…
Hills & Heights & RVA: City shutting down... →
hhrva:
Skate hard or go home…never mind just go home. Is the message the city delivered sometime yesterday to the skateboarders that had turned two tennis courts into an ad hoc skatepark. The tennis courts are located at Carter Jones/Fonticello Park on 28th Street. In September of 2011 we ran…
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“Richmond’s officials ordered all liquor to be destroyed. In the need for...”
– only in Richmond
joemccarthyblues:
When governments use the media to commit mass psychological manipulation, it is called propaganda and it is condemned. When corporations do it, it is called advertising and people applaud them.
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– Jean Kilbourne (via frass)
Watchinothernews:
The Daily Show’s Aasif Mandvi eviscerates like no other.
“So I’ll put you down for ‘Go fuck yourself.’”
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Yesterday Global Financial Integrity released a new report, “Mexico: Illicit Financial Flows, Macroeconomic Imbalances, and the Underground Economy,” which provides an in-depth look at flows of illicit money from Mexico. The study finds that nearly $1 trillion in illicit capital left Mexico from 1970-2010, averaging about $50 billion a year this past decade. Illicit outflows have increased over...
