Interesting analysis of the vale system in Pixar movies.
Category: politickin’
Tech Nerds & Politics & Both-Sides-Do-It
I enthusiastically welcome anything that challenges the both-sides-do-it orthodoxy that lots of Americans seem to glom onto as an excuse for tuning out politics.
It’s very frustrating to see issues where the correct outcome is agreed upon but not achieved, and many of these situations could be fixed were it not for the paralysis gripping so many otherwise progressive people.
Truth
Killer Mike on MLK
http://www.okayplayer.com/news/killer-mike-martin-luther-king-jr-the-revolutionary.html
Also, go listen to Run the Jewels. Like, all day.
Institutions are Fucked, and Exist Only to Serve the Capitalist Class
I remember being an idealistic kid/teenager and putting faith in the shit I picked up in civics and social studies classes. Money ruins everything.
Well Said
Gilead Come to Life
I also concur with this. Fuck these Stone Age motherfuckers; organize and vote!
I Concur
In an 1822 letter to Kentucky Lt. Governor W.T. Barry, James Madison wrote that “a popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or perhaps both.” Madison’s letter, originally espousing a robust public education system for Kentucky, has since been used as an appeal for open government. “A people who mean to be their own governors,” Madison wrote, “must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” Today, the people appear utterly unarmed against the National Security Agency, which holds a incredible amount of knowledge about citizens while withholding essential facts about how it spies on them. That secret knowledge is secret power, which is anathema to democracy when in the hands of an unaccountable elite.