March 2012
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I'm allergic to lies. -sneezes-
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amazingatheist replied to your post: The Amazing Atheist on Anarchy
What you desire is irrelevant if the proscription can’t facilitate the results.
Your original argument seems to be based on misconceptions about anarchist ideas rather than statements showing that anarchist ethical prescriptions are incapable of achieving their desired effects.
“If Anarchy is the best form of governance...
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The Amazing Atheist on Anarchy
“I think that human beings need order to thrive and that some people have difficulty coming to grips with that. If Anarchy is the best form of governance than is the best form of parenting to simply abandon your children in a dumpster so that they may fend for themselves? Is the best form of coaching a football team to allow the players to do whatever they wish with no overarching strategy...
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Jesus was a bastard. No, really, God never married...
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conservativebrew:
The Left No Longer Finds Dissent Patriotic
Unless it’s them that are dissenting, it’s not a worthy cause. Source: Marxism 101
So what you’re saying is that people like means for causes that they agree with and dislike means for causes they disagree with?
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I think if there is ever a shortage of Habanero...
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“Hmmm. I’m a Newt Gingrich kind of guy”
– Me answering a phone survey for Republicans.
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Let's be real clear. George Zimmerman is a goddamn...
Anonymous asked: What is your favorite number?
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“You don’t survive in the long run by hyper-exploiting your surroundings.”
– Derrick Jensen (via emerycatt)
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“My job was to carry out the educational policies of the State of California...”
– Feyerabend
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Capitalist efficiency is not desirable
anticapitalist:
Economically, sweatshops are efficient. They get the most out of a worker, while paying them the least. They get the “most bang per buck”. But is that type of efficiency desirable?
Ethically, there are plenty of reasons to not support sweatshops, due to worker exploitation and human rights issues. But economically, it’s not desirable either.
Things are produced because people...
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“Passing tests doesn’t begin to compare with searching and inquiring and pursuing...”
– noam chomsky [on the purpose of education]
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When did defending one group's privilege become...
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Remember how I was writing that essay on...
Well I had just finished a little section providing an example based on the typical mainstream reaction towards feminist positions when the power went out. I was an idiot and didn’t save it. Note to self: Save documents.
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The Grocery Workers’ Song
capo 5 G C G ...
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“It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of...”
– Phil Ochs
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skeletal-lightning:
my english teacher’s son is the epitome of an overconfident, rich, spoiled, straight white dude and he always talks to me and makes fun of my clothes in an attempt to flirt with me and yesterday he was like “so why are you vegan?” and i was like “uhh because i care, duh” and he was like “yeah, i care too. it’s just that i’m an athlete and i need carbs that i can’t get...
suburbiasurvivor asked: Simple: As a conscious being transcendent of natural laws who possess free will, God, while having an infinite amount of opportunities to create the universe, is not required to create the universe at any of those opportunities, because he has free will. Thus his choice to create the universe at a specific point does not leave us with a paradox of infinite regress.
