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"In the next few weeks, I will sign an Executive Order clearing away the red tape that slows down too many construction projects. But you need to fund these projects. Take the money we’re no longer spending at war, use half of it to pay down our debt, and use the rest to do some nation-building right here at home."
Bro’s feisty tonight. (via shortformblog)
(Source: shortformblog)
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"We do not use the terms “normal” or “abnormal”. All societies are rational and irrational at the same time. They are perforce rational in their mechanisms, their cogs and wheels, their connecting systems, and even by the place they assign to the irrational. Yet all this presupposes codes or axioms which are not the products of chance, but which are not intrinsically rational either. It’s like theology: everything about it is rational if you accept sin, immaculate conception, incarnation. Reason is always a region cut out of the irrational — not sheltered from the irrational at all, but a region traversed by the irrational and defined only by a certain type of relation between irrational factors. Underneath all reason lies delirium, drift. Everything is rational in capitalism, except capital or capitalism itself. The stock market is certainly rational; one can understand it, study it, the capitalists know how to use it, and yet it is completely delirious, it’s mad. It is in this sense that we say: the rational is always the rationality of an irrational. Something that hasn’t been adequately discussed about Marx’s ‘Capital’ is the extent to which he is fascinated by capitalists mechanisms, precisely because the system is demented, yet works very well at the same time. So what is rational in a society? It is — the interests being defined in the framework of this society — the way people pursue those interests, their realisation."
Gilles Deleuze in Capitalism: A Very Special Kind of Delirium (via hollovv)
(via fearandwar)
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I came to the realization.
I will not become the “prepper/disappear off the grid person” I wanted to be - the internet has too much value for me. Now I have a question: If you’re a prepper and you want off the grid/web - why do you have a website telling people who you are and how they too can disappear just like you??? Pssttt. you’re not anonymous when you do that.
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"Call it deja vu. Shortly after an individual posting under the Anonymous banner shared a YouTube video promising to target Facebook on Jan. 28, other Anonymous members have said they don’t have any intention of targeting the social network."
Anonymous might not hit Facebook, after all - The Washington Post
Cool story, WaPo.
(via epicwinbook)
(via epicwinbook)
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I made a chart about my feelings for today (and most Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and some Fridays).
Yep.
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Occupy WEF’s Davos message – “Don’t let them decide for you”
Ryan McCarthy and Ross Chainey visit #OccupyDavos:
We spoke with the Occupy Davos activists about what brought them here, what they hope to achieve – and whether anyone at the glittering WEF gathering is listening.This is part one of five videos shot at #OccupyDavos, watch the rest here.(via soupsoup)
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This is the fault of all you Gen Xers and your dumb nostalgia for the 90s.
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But if you’re a liberal who supports Ron Paul, you either haven’t been paying enough attention or you’re out of your fucking mind.
(via The Little Red Umbrella: Let’s Be Clear, Ron Paul Fucking Sucks. Here Are 20 Reasons Why)
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I just want to say…
I’m back. I don’t care who reads me, who finds their way to here I had an issue on FB. recently - I hate quasi lurker types but you know what I’m ok with you knowing, or her, or that other guy I knew so long ago. If I’m boring I accept that and I’m happy to be boring and mundane, or whatever opinion that develops - it’s your prerogative.
But, I am on a mission to finish my degree this Spring, find a new job/internship and be humbled by younger people who know more than me. I’ll be the first in my family go to college and earn a degree, and I’m not done with just one. I also have to get ready for my daughter to take her turn at college in the Fall she’ll be 18 when she starts school - not 35. I’m beaming with pride that she’s miles ahead of me already.
One thing I’ve learned as a parent let your children see that you want them to be better than you - the worst thing in a child’s life is to limit them to the standards you have set for yourself. Challenge them to succeed where you may have failed.
Anyway, I don’t talk about parenting too much, I’m a Mom who’s still trying to put her act together, but tonight I just feel the need to say something about that.
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