i spend most of time reading porn comments and internet meltdowns
nflstreet-deactivated20180710
even the zodiac killer gets horny sometimes
nflstreet
ghost-of-algren
jesus mary and joseph
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“Old people believe all that bullshit Fake News on their facebook home,” say I, a tumblr youth™, as I reblog an indignant social justice-flavoured post from mic dot com without fact checking.
BTW, mic dot com has multiple tumblrs and some of them are as follows:
- micdotcom
- the-future-now
- the-movemnt
- this-is-life-actually
And if you aren’t already aware, they are a shit company that uses its indignant social justice-flavored posts for clicks even as they do things like fire their four-months-pregnant Connections editor the week after her wedding, without warning. AFTER RUNNING A STORY ABOUT HOW THE USA NEEDS BETTER MATERNITY LEAVE/PROTECTIONS.
This, after they DID NOT fire the guy who lied about a death in his family so he could go build a treehouse and blog about it.
Also 99% of their ~top notch news~ is Huffington Post-style aggregation and NOT original reporting.
SO. Side-eye anything and everything you see by them, because there’s a good chance it’s just clickbait.
Thanks for putting out their other blogs, I’ve seen the eye-rolling shit from the-movement already.
manonfireforchrist
Don’t forget blatant misinformation they put out
w32petrichor
The founder is also former Goldman Sachs.
*AIR HORN NOISES*
There’s never a bad time to re-up this post, but today Mic has been Mic’ing around in spectactular fashion.
Today, the founder just laid off half the editorial staff, including the only woman reporter of color in the newsroom.
TL;DR - Mic.com is a crap site that treats its people like crap. It doesn’t deserve your reblogs. On the plus side, it’s an aggregator, so I promise that news is somewhere else.
[T]he most sinister feature about neo-Malthusianism is the extent to which it actively deflects us from dealing with the social origins of our ecological problems – indeed, the extent to which it places the blame for them on the victims of hunger rather than those who victimise them. Presumably, if there is a ‘population problem’ and famine in Africa, it is the ordinary people who are to blame for having too many children or insisting on living too long – an argument advanced by Malthus nearly two centuries ago with respect to England’s poor. The viewpoint not only justifies privilege; it fosters brutalisation and degrades the neo-Malthusians even more than it degrades the victims of privilege.
Murray Bookchin, “The Population Myth”
(via meatthawsmoth)
I love how every dipshit with a nat sec blog is talking about the Thucydides Trap these days but can’t decide whether it’s about Russia or China and also not realizing that you can’t have a fuckign Thucydides Trap if you recognize it before it happens
Anyway, Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism is a must read for any of you aspiring antifascists out there.
Seeing the way the alt right has weaponized identity politics and how most liberals basically have no credible response to that, im starting to think it’s uhh not a great look. Maybe try some dialectical materialism perhaps?
I usually hate this kind of commentary because it treads a little too class to the brocialist "class not race bro" line but like...practitioners of idpol generally ignore class entirely themselves I feel like? Like oppression is complex and hard to explain but I think class and economics are one of the few instances where you can empirically show someone they're being oppressed. IDK. Just my take. We all could all stand some more intersectionality.
Seeing the way the alt right has weaponized identity politics and how most liberals basically have no credible response to that, im starting to think it's uhh not a great look. Maybe try some dialectical materialism perhaps?
remake Anastasia but make it end right after the Romanovs get killed at the beginning and have that be the happy ending. Also make Lenin the main chracter @ Disney
wytchprincess
when i was a child i thought ‘male enhancement’ pills just made you a better guy. they made you pleasant to be around. the man on the commercial had a big smile on his face and they made a point of how happy his wife was and everyone loved him. this is honestly what i thought
trashgender-neurotica
God I wish that was what they actually did.
MLs who engage in Srebrenica genocide denial - please fucking stop that, it’s terrible praxis and you look Bad
sometimes I think Trump is a Maoist-accelerationist sleeper agent bringing down the American Empire from within
Now this is a man who doesn’t learn lessons.
A true man of the people knows that the best indicators of where the weather is blowing are nail salon conversations
hot take: a riot at the G20 Summit is entirely appropriate and pretty Good, actually Great given how successful it’s been
it really was like “so what if you took neoconservatism, but made it like, girls instead?”
Wonder Woman had a really nice message - that girls can totally kick ass, that the World War I colonial aristocratic Allies were actually the Good Guys, and that Lebanese kids really actually like white phosphorous being dropped on their houses.