April 2012
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“The overwhelming majority of people view language rules such as spelling and...”
– Language, Power, Privilege and Discourse: Why Grammatical Prescriptivism Reasserts a Bigoted Status Quo (Via The Africana.com) by Muna Mire, University of Toronto student and opinions editor for The Strand. (via barbiehighheels)
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“We view films in the context of darkness. We sit in darkness and watch an...”
– Dorsky, Nathaniel. Devotional Cinema, 2005. (via kateslininger)
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Sad but true
United States: How can we further manage our citizens without being too obvious?
People: Don't manage us.
United States: Oh, I know, let's militarize the police forces!
People: We don't need that. We need jobs. We need food. We need housing. We need a good education system.
United States: We simply don't have funding for that. We just militarized your police forces for your "safety" from, uh, er, "terrorists".
People: ...
United States: What?
People: We voted you in. You work for us.
United States: Of course we do! We just happen to have backroom deals where we take money from some of the biggest corporations and richest people in your interest.
People: F*** This S***.
United States: THEY'RE REBELLING. THEY'RE ORGANIZING. LOOK, IT'S A PROTEST AT A UNIVERSITY! QUICKLY! PEPPER SPRAY AND BEAT THEM INTO THE GROUND BEFORE THEY HURT THEMSELVES.
Media: We don't know what the f*** is happening, but here's your top 10 list for must-have summer items.
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