David Cameron is doing something towards gender equality. Woo!
Oh. Wait.
David Cameron will strike a deal today to reform the monarchy, which will let the eldest child of Prince William and his wife Kate inherit the throne – even if it’s a girl.
The Prime Minister will put an end to more than 300 years of history by thrashing out an agreement with Commonwealth leaders to end the rule that the first-born male inherits the throne ahead of any elder sisters.
Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience? People have the right to resist annihilation.
An Israeli court on Thursday threw out a lawsuit filed by a Palestinian family that lost two relatives after their home in the Gaza Strip was bombed during an Israel Defense Forces operation.
The Jerusalem District Court refused the family’s request for damages, ruling that the fatal 2006 bombing was a legitimate act of war.
Fatma Wahabe and her son Khaled were killed after a missile fire by an IDF assault helicopter hit their home in Khan Yunis, instead of the targeted vehicle carrying wanted Palestinian militants.
The court’s decision was based in part on an affidavit filed by the head of the Shin Bet security service’s department on Gaza, who defended the IDF operation as necessary “to prevent a clear, immediate, and present danger to public safety.”
Justice Chana Ben-Ami determined that the IDF had no choice by to carry out that missile strike, as it represented the only way to perform the mission without risking the lives of Israeli soldiers.
“It was an initiated attack meant to strike a top terror operative based on solid intelligence, according to which he was about to attack Israeli citizens,” the judge said.
The plaintiffs were also ordered to pay NIS 25,000 in legal fees.
“Don’t like that we killed your family while occupying land your relatives have been on for hundreds of years? Too bad, pay us money!”
not even tryna put her out there but that’s nassstttyyyyy lbs
and boys was hella eating her out too? idk who nastier her or the boys
like i know it was gross down there lmbobs not even tryna be mean
i’m sittin here like how am i a whole virgin and i’m keepin myself up down there better than you smh
when you having sex you supposed to be more responsible than that. keep it up down there, go to the gynecologist. that’s why people say teens shouldn’t be having sex
Uh… what?
I know plenty of girls who don’t shave their pubic hair, and their partners don’t seem to think they’re gross.
No one is “supposed” to do anything with their bodies.
The phrasing of this led me to a really bizarre scenario played out in my head of somebody just randomly saying “I didn’t know you were supposed to shave” in the middle of sex.
I just don’t even … like who cares? It’s hair, we all have it. I’m more creeped out with the obsession people shouldn’t have hair than the people who just don’t care what’s there.
He, who before was the money-owner, now strides in front as capitalist; the possessor of labor-power follows as his laborer. The one with an air of importance, smirking, intent on business; the other, timid and holding back, like one who is bringing his own hide to market and has nothing to expect but—a hiding.
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: “Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and The Discourses (via sunrec)
i cannot stand when people say things like “don’t take life so seriously” and follow it up with a rape joke or a sexist joke and you’re a mood-killing angry serious feminazi with no sense of humour if you get mad and therefore the offence you’ve taken is invalid
um
if you’re not going to take life so seriously then keep your jokes away from serious issues
there is a HUUUUGE difference between not taking life too seriously and being a fucking arsehole
The more I read about Anarcho-capitalism, right-libertarianism and Agorism; the more I find it relates to the idea of the passive revolution. The action of positional rather than structural change and the solidification of capitalist power structures as dominant above all else. To whit, it’s a contemporary realisation of a cosmopolitan fascism. Unbound by geographical boundaries and nationalist sentiment, the idea that it would be substantially different seems to me misguided. Where the economic power is tantamount, entwined with political power without any political interaction for the masses, without any form of democratic accountability, what else can we call it?
In b4 no such thing as objective knowledge. But that doesn’t mean the only alternative is a completely arbitrary opinion.
Labour which is to create a surplus and/or for profit is exploitative. So within a capitalist economy you’d be hard pushed to find labour applied which isn’t being exploited, in which people have minimal control over their work conditions. It isn’t just that a person isn’t able to fully share in the product of their labour which is the problem with exploitation, but more deeply that in this act of exploitative labour a person is treated as an object for another’s purpose, rather than a subject of life with agency and a self-will. They’re alienated from their labour.
I’ve written more on the subject in response to a previous ask here.
Marx was an exceptionally rigorous philosopher. The concept of alienated labour and objectification is something which was developed and applied from Hegelian philosophy. As all philosophy is an extension of what has come before.
I think they no longer engage in philosophy. We should now start calling them lolosophers, because whenever I hear something new from them I just want to laugh.
Maybe they’re proof of god’s existence? Something so contradictory (so evil yet so funny, they bring anger and joy in equal quantity) is proof of his sense of humour!
“In fact, Konkin was a consistent, radical Rothbardian, who often outRothbarded the great Murray himself. SEK3 called his extreme Rothbardianism — which advocated a stateless society of peaceful black markets —agorism.” I lolled. This shit is ace
“OutRothbarded”.
Good god. How do you “outRothbard” someone?
It sounds painful.
I googled “agorist class theory” to give them the benefit of the doubt. Started reading the first essay that appeared. I’m now fairly certain that Agorists could more aptly be named “we’re-definitely-not-marxists”. In the essay, which revolved around how Konkin was the shits tits and the bees knees of smashing down the old Marxist forms of class analysis, Marx and Marxism was mentioned almost four times as much as Konkin was and almost twice as much as Agorism itself.
Never trust a philosophy that has to spend more time defining itself by what it’s not, than defining itself by what it is.
It’s not like this shit was phrased as “an agorist critique of Marxism”.
(Having said that I take my philosophy from a guy who spends more time talking about linen than any actual philosophy sooooo …)
The photo above, taken by Jay Finneburgh, shows Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen being carried away after he was struck in the head by a tear gas canister thrown by Oakland police during last night’s raid on Occupy Oakland.
Video shot at the scene shows police throwing a flash grenade into the crowd as other protesters rush to help him:
Olsen did two tours of duty in Iraq and is a current member of Veterans for Peace. He’s now listed in critical but stable condition with swelling of the brain and a skull fracture. He is also on a respirator due to the doctors sedating him in order to evaluate the possible injury to his brain.
Keith Shannon, who served with Olsen in Iraq, arrived at the hospital after protesters contacted him through Facebook. He confirmed Olsen had a fractured skull, and said he had been told by a doctor Olsen also had brain swelling. A neurosurgeon was due to assess Olsen to determine if he needed surgery, Shannon said.
“It’s really hard,” Shannon said. “I really wish I had gone out with him instead of staying home last night.”
Shannon, who is also 24, said he had seen the video footage showing Olsen lying on the floor as a police officer throws an explosive device near him. “It’s terrible to go over to Iraq twice and come back injured, and then get injured by the police that are supposed to be protecting us,” he said.
This is utter brutality. Scott Olsen enlisted in the military, fought for the U.S. in combat, and is thanked for it with a severe head injury while defending his fellow citizens from police action at home. Veterans for Peace have stood with numerous camps, including Boston, where elderly members were beaten by police.
In Oakland, despite police using multiple rounds of tear gas, flash grenades, rubber bullets and beanbag projectiles on protesters, they remained peaceful. Police denied the use of tear gas initially, but confirmed it at a press conference today. It was also claimed this started because a protester threw a rock at police, while Oakland Mayor Jean Quan stated the raid was because of “unsanitary conditions” and “ongoing vandalism” happening because of Occupy Oakland.
As for police denying the use of flash grenades and rubber bullets, the video above shows use of the flash grenade, and here’s a rubber bullet picked up by a demonstrator:
How long will this police aggression against unarmed, peaceful protest be allowed to continue? Scott Olsen is merely one of its victims. We, as citizens, must demand an end to the vicious crackdown at occupy protests across the nation. Remember, be peaceful, but stand resolute.
Picture of the Day. Sana’a, Yemen. Protesting women burn their veils (the full body makrama) in the streets, drawing on a version of an ancient Bedouin tradition, an act of appealing for help and protection from the tribes. They want the tribes to stand up for the protesters. They chanted “Who protects Yemeni women from the crimes of the thugs?”
“Footage from the Occupy Oakland protest, October 25th, 2011. After protesters ran to the aid of a badly-injured person, Oakland Police deliberately lobbed a flash grenade into the crowd.”
Some protesters might insist that everyone stay peaceful, but there’s one group that will never listen to that plea: the police.
Oakland police shooting an unconscious woman directly with tear gas and flash bombs. Last 20 seconds. Just another day of protecting and serving the public under Jean Quan.
Another request filed by a different agency required Google to remove videos allegedly defaming law enforcement officials. The two requests were among 92 submissions for content removal by various authorities in the US filed between January and June 2011. Both were rejected by Google along with 27 per cent of the submissions.
The IT giant says the overall number of requests for content removal it receives from governmental agencies has risen, and so has the number of requests to disclose the private data of Google users.”
Nothing Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, PZ Myers, or Daniel Dennett has to say is of the slightest interest or import. It is all self-aggrandizing, white supremacist capitalist patriarchal bullshit.
Philosophy of Praxis 