 Friends         | Conversations with strangers. Subway stations. Waterfronts. Christmas, 1914. Ephemeral things. Broken windows. Urban exploration. Street musicians. Alleys. Ideas. Inquiry. Agnosticism. Polaroid art. Closed books. Found correspondence/photographs. Abandoned places. Personal [hi]stories. A man ought to live his life as if borrowed, and he ought to be prepared at any time to give it back, saying--here, I thank you for this life which I have had in my possession.  still-frame.: Beat and rob an elderly stranger because you assume his politics may be different than yours? Stay classy. 7 years ago • Report • Link    0  Kaizoe: It's kinda weird to hear all the "Trump is a racist" crap, but then it's the left that acts like National Socialists. 7 years ago • Report 0  ANTICSOFAMINDSTROYER in reply to Kaizoe: Exactly 3 years ago • Report 0 still-frame.: Chips and salsa, check. Multiple alcoholic beverages, check. Debate up on the tube? Affirmative. Let's do this. still-frame.: "Clinton talks like this 'new economy' of decline is something that just happened, like it’s a natural force. They do not admit that it was a political decision to break the power of ordinary working people and put it back into the hands of the aristocracy. "The American ruling class has been trying to figure out for years, if not decades, how to manage decline, how to get Americans to get used to diminished expectations. "The goal is to manage the decline, and manage your acceptance of it." http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/03/gaius-publius-the-goal-of-the-neo-liberal-consensus-is-to-manage-the-decline.html still-frame.: "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” - Arthur C. Clarke still-frame.: Activists ticketed for putting 4 ft, 100 pound bust of Snowden on Revolutionary War memorial in Brooklyn park: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/10820a79781c43658027f16cf469edb1/artists-who-put-ed-snowden-bust-nyc-monument-are-ticketed  still-frame.: At times simply the review of a story is like a story unto itself. http://reelingthereal.com/2014/06/17/sheffield-docfest-review-alfred-and-jakobine-2014/  still-frame.: Watching the coverage of the riots in Baltimore. I hope the protests don't merely devolve to what was seen tonight.  still-frame.: After all the lessons in blood during the mistakes of the Bush years in Iraq, and what did we learn.. "How Obama Abandoned Democracy in Iraq" www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/obama-iraq-116708.html View all 10 posts Kaizoe: The current mess would be people just reacting to an event without thinking. Then we have the revolts and revolutions that the CIA backed back in the 70's and 80's, which was needed so that the West could control the oil it took when the British threw the Ottomans out of the Middle East during the First World War. But that is the mainstream media story, the real thing is that they just want to fuck the area up because of ... reasons. I guess war for the sake of it is good for someone....  still-frame.: We fucked up by going there, and then after all the struggles and the mistakes we made and terrible shit that happened, just when the Iraqis had a maybe of a chance for something better with the elections in 2010 after things had stabilized to some degree, we fucked up again and decided we liked it back when a strongman was in charge of Iraq. still-frame.: Or perhaps we didn't fuck up out of incompetence/shortsightedness, perhaps we intentionally acted to create a failed state.. I don't want to believe that, but I don't know. |
