27 YEARS OF DISCONTENT. Shattered ambition and self-hatred.
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It’s like millennials do not understand that middle east has been at war for 1000′s of years. That we intervened on behalf of Kuwait. That without “bombing” people that want to kill and oppress others, millions will be murdered and tortured.
“at war for 1000′s of years”
you clearly know nothing about Afghanistan nor the middle east
It’s interesting to note that when the communist government came to power in Afghanistan in the late 70′s, one of the first things they did was declare equality of the sexes, made education for girls mandatory, & banned child marriages. The conservative tribal leaders who the US armed & funded (& who later became the Taliban) declared this to be a “war on Islam” & fought against the central government.
The US had no problem back then with encouraging the growth of Islamic conservatism to counter socialism/communism. You created your biggest enemy & you have no one to blame but yourselves.
its crazy to me how the US talks about war in the middle east as if its this ancient problem inherent to the area instead of a recent problem created by western countries to further their own interests.
“It can be difficult to understand how important representation is — until we are faced with a reversed gaze. O, the Oprah Magazine did just that for a photo essay featured in the publication’s May 2017 issue on race.
In a feature aptly titled “Let’s Talk About Race,” photographer Chris Buck took three photos that flipped stereotypical tropes on their heads by reversing roles typically held by women of color with white women — and vice versa.
In one photo, Asian women are at a nail salon having their pedicures done by white women while chatting and laughing.
Another photo is of a young white girl looking up at shelves upon shelves of black dolls.”
Can we please stop treating resistance to fascism and Nazis as this emphatically American thing? I’m seeing people reblog Captain America and Indiana Jones punching Nazis with the emphasis “as American as apple pie”; then there’s the one where DC’s Joker refuses to work with Marvel’s Red Skull (a Nazi) because the Joker is “an American criminal lunatic, goddammit!”; “I even saw a Richard Spencer punch video with Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” edited into the background.
the government is dismantling our civil rights at record speeds and liberals still refuse to learn a fucking thing other than plugging their ears and acting like fucking alex jones looking for russian conspiracy rather than admit they fucked up by fielding the most unlikeable, patronizing face of third-way neoliberalism into a climate of severe economic pain and just assumed she would win the obama coalition just for fucking existing. the arrogance and ignorance of the democrat party and hillary clinton and her weirdo fanatics make my fucking stomach curl. it’d almost be funny if it weren’t tossing us into a neofascist nightmare.
ikr why didn’t they listen to the people during the primaries, when 17 million voted for clinton and 13 million voted for sanders oh wait
honestly i’m glad you put all your thoughts in the tags because you’re a fucking moron and please point out where i mentioned sanders? “#clinton isn’t a neoliberal” jesus could you be duller lmao
actually @jesuspassesontheright i’ve decided to spare some of my precious time to explain to you why you’re wrong
#fun fact: i would’ve voted for a moderate republican over sanders #which i guess makes me Literally Evil but here’s a concept: my vote still would’ve counted
ok you just have bad politics, no explanation needed, next question
#and i can’t emphasize enough that outside Oregon and Millenial Facebook Screamland even most dems did not in fact support sanders #particularly in places like louisiana and mississippi #but what would they know about economic pain right
i mean polls showed that the majority of states were closely tied but still, (a) i’m not stanning for bernie i’m a leftist, you moron, and (b) i consider those who supported her just as to blame for this mess anyway
#look man i went into the primaries with an open mind but sanders did everything he possibly could #to convince me he has no clue how the government or reality in general work
again i’m not stanning for bernie, but you’re right, you, some random milquetoast centrist shithead, definitely know more about how the government works than a guy who has literally been part of it for 37 years
#me and 17 million others liked clinton’s policies better but i guess we’re all weirdo fanatics
not all those who voted for clinton are her weirdo fanatics, but yeah, you fucked up by thinking mediocre half-steps would appease the country
#also ‘looking for a russian conspiracy’ jesus christ #you mean the one that pretty much every intelligence agency in the west and also the zillion private cybersecurity firms that looked into it #agree happened? # now THAT would be a hell of a conspiracy if they’re all bullshitting
yeah they all agree—that they leaked her emails. they didn’t hack the fucking vote counts, they leaked emails that showed how her oligarchic, war criminal ass acts when she’s not putting on her campaign veneer. that’s on her.
#inb4 someone anons me like SH ONLY WON BC RIGGED #what those 4 million people switched sides bc she knew one debate question in advance and a had a really good answer #How Dare individual random staffers express a preference for clinton over the independent who swooped in #and did nothing but undermine her enough to tip the balance in the general election #because yes i very much believe we’d have president clinton now if sanders had dropped out when it became apparent he was losing #instead of making it ugly #i can play the blame game too
i mean, putting aside the fact that you think letting one candidate have an advantage over another for reasons of party loyalty, the only reason things were “ugly” or “undermine[d]” clinton are because they existed. if anyone is to blame for sanders showing people how enthralled she is to finance, it’s obviously her. and what, you expected a fucking presidential candidate not to be challenged?
#… #hug it out #ps clinton is not a neoliberal #okay i’m done
ok bullet time
#hug it out
people are fucking dying in wartorn countries because they’re banned and being expelled from the country for lacking documents and losing protection for being transgender and getting their people’s cemeteries destroyed, don’t fucking patronize us because you see politics as a game
Anthropologists and decent humans alike! Please help report this. This is the first thing that comes up on google and it’s unacceptable!
Archaeologist problems: When some lame Wordpress page insults Franz Boas with racist bullshit.
(For my followers not in the know: Franz Boas is basically the progenitor of North American schools of anthropology. He determined correctly that race is a social construct wherein we have created separate categories for physical and cultural traits that actually exist on a spectrum with no true biological boundaries.)
I provided feedback to google that this is the wrong answer, and I encourage my followers to run this search and do the same thing.
Let’s not forget that Boas::
Was a German-American Jewish immigrant who hated Nazis. Like. HATED Nazis and Hitler. And when everyone else was making noises about how Hitler wasn’t so bad, he’d calm down, etc. - Boas was publishing article after article about what a monster Hitler was and how he should be removed immediately.
At the time Boas was beginning his career, Anthropologists had been incorrectly using skull measurements to determine who was what race and then participate in the associated racism that is innate to the Great Chain of Being (<– idea that society is a progression from grass hut to modern western society. Has been debunked over and over, but it’s pervasiveness still shows in many still popular cultural ideas.). Boas was so ticked off by both the racism and the lack of scientific integrity inherent in the skull measuring that his ass traipsed all over and measured *thousands* of skulls - the largest study ever of the subject - and not only debunked the correlation between race and skull measurements, but proved that skull sizes could be influenced by environment and weren’t even genetically dictated. He was like “me and my 12,000 skulls say fuck you and the racist horse you rode in on.”
Debunked the Great Chain of Being - or the idea that culture is a strict progression.
He was involved with the early NAACP - his writings can be found in their early publications.
His influence on social perceptions of race helped end the Jim Crow laws.
Really hated the lack of scientific integrity in anthropology at the time, hence his role in the founding of the current 4-field approach of American anthropology (Cultural anthro, physical anthro, archaeology, and linguistics.). He was extremely prolific and had a lot of great connections so he had lots of influence.
He not only approved of women having a place in academia, he mentored several, including one of the most famous anthropologists: Margaret Mead.
And, yeah, he correctly determined that race is a social construct based on phenotypical characteristics not a biological reality.
He had a PhD in physics before coming to anthropology and a diverse scientific background, so he had wide and varied interests. He seems like he was a pretty cool guy.
Also notice how the source for the bullshit has an incredibly antisemitic dog whistle term as its URL.
boas was a mentor to both many students of color and white female students at columbia university in the 20s. according to my anthropology teacher, he fought hard for their inclusion in academia, and would learn students’ languages and cultures by working with them.
Please understand that they gave a 33% tip, in cash instead of on a card, to increase the odds that the server could keep all of it.
What they mean by ‘taxation is theft’ is that servers are taxed on the ASSUMPTION that they will be tipped. If they don’t make those tips, they get taxed on them anyway. It is literally theft. By leaving cash and not writing it on the receipt, they’ve allowed the server the option of quietly slipping that 20 into their pocket and therefore not being taxed on it.
Architectural innovation (pointed arch -European Gothic cathedrals adopted this technique as it made the building much stronger, rose windows, dome buildings, round towers, etc.)
Surgical instruments
Anesthesia
Windmill
Treatment of Cowpox
Fountain pen
Numbering system
Algebra/Trigonometry
Modern Cryptology
3 course meal (soup, meat/fish, fruit/nuts)
Crystal glasses
Carpets
Checks
Gardens used for beauty and meditation instead of for herbs and kitchen.
University
Optics
Music
Toothbrush
Hospitals
Bathing
Quilting
Mariner’s Compass
Soft drinks
Pendulum
Braille
Cosmetics
Plastic surgery
Calligraphy
Manufacturing of paper and cloth
It was a Muslim who realized that light ENTERS our eyes, unlike the Greeks who thought we EMITTED rays, and so invented a camera from this discovery.
It was a Muslim who first tried to FLY in 852, even though it is the Wright Brothers who have taken the credit.
It was a Muslim by the name of Jabir ibn Hayyan who was known as the founder of modern Chemistry. He transformed alchemy into chemistry. He invented: distillation, purification, oxidation, evaporation, and filtration. He also discovered sulfuric and nitric acid.
It is a Muslim, by the name of Al-Jazari who is known as the father of robotics.
It was a Muslim who was the architect for Henry V’s castle.
It was a Muslim who invented hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes, a technique still used today.
It was a Muslim who actually discovered inoculation, not Jenner and Pasteur to treat cowpox. The West just brought it over from Turkey
It was Muslims who contributed much to mathematics like Algebra and Trigonometry, which was imported over to Europe 300 years later to Fibonnaci and the rest.
It was Muslims who discovered that the Earth was round 500 years before Galileo did.
The list goes on………..
Just imagine a world without Muslims. Now I think you probably meant, JUST IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT TERRORISTS. And then I would agree, the world would definitely be a better place without those pieces of filth. But to hold a whole group responsible for the actions of a few is ignorant and racist. No one would ever expect Christians or White people to be held responsible for the acts of Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma bombing) or Anders Breivik (Norway killing), or the gun man that shot Congresswoman Giffords in head, wounded 12 and killed 6 people, and rightly so because they had nothing to do with those incidents! Just like the rest of the 1.5 billion Muslims have nothing to do with this incident!
The full moon rises behind the columns of the ancient marble Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, southeast of Athens, on June 20, 2016. (Petros Giannakouris/AP)
