if you accept all (or some) of the reasons that states are inherently corrupt and driven by the interests of those that control them (capital, today), how can you be so naive as to think that international law will ever be upheld for any reason?

fucking liberals.

can somebody give me ONE example where an empire said "gee, we shouldn't invade this area and steal it's resources. it's written here in international law."

one?

no?

didn't think so.

law requires enforcement. that's how it is. and who polices the police?

so, instead of flailing around these worthless pieces of paper, i propose that we collectively grasp the situation, realize this order has failed us, throw the laws nobody follows out the window and start building a new order instead.

"it may seem strange to some man...that nature should thus dissociate, and render men apt to invade and destroy one another...but neither of us accuse man's nature in it."

well, he's right. but the second option is the good option. it's 2014, and we're still supporting unitary, ethno-religious nation states that are opposed to pluralism? two of 'em, even. across the peninsula from each other.

salmons to the head of all of them.

from now on? lol. what year is it? 1997?

stop analyzing and be deterred.

BE DETERRED.

even if the indignation is sincere, it's just politics. you can expect the same thing from the next republican administration. this is a cia tactic that goes back decades.

he's not lying. it legitimately is in russia's interests to do what the americans tell them to. sort of like how it's in the interests of a hostage to do what their assailant tells them. and it's really not in russia's interests to take this independent stand outside of the international community.

nothing funny about the statement, it's just that, as usual, you're just not getting the context.

who is he even talking to? the israeli right knows he's full of shit as much as the global left does. american-israeli donors are educated people. it's an act without an audience. he should just come out with a rocket launcher on his shoulder, arnold style, and drop the fucking bullshit.

NPR IS FREE MARKET RUSSIAN COMMUNIST SPIES.

but, dammit russia, can you realize you're being decoyed?

yup. now that the russians are distracted in ukraine...

#glitterbomb

that's a lot of optimism for syriza that isn't shared by a lot of other sources i keep up with, which have them pegged as establishment lackeys. we've seen this over and over again in europe recently, where socialists act like fascists on election.

i simply don't know how they think they're going to get out of this while sticking with the euro gold standard. none of the solutions here are possible without having sovereignty over their money supply.

"what we're really trying to do is co-opt the environmental movement to vote for the democratic party in the next presidential election, while the party continues to support anti-environmental policies. i know it sounds outlandish and insulting, but it worked in the last cycle with the anti-war movement so why not try it again? the kind of soft-lefty liberal centrists that go for the democrats are PERFECT for doublethink! they've been trained for it their whole lives! so, we're focusing on building a feel-good community where people can get together and smoke giant blunts (next cycle? they've been saying that for forty years...), rather than on building a counter-economy that may actually reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. and, who would criticize the solution? in the end, everybody is happy. self-censorship leading to ignorance is truly bliss."

deathtokoalas
it's really pretty sad just what level of effort people perceive is being put into this. the writing in this profile is largely stream of consciousness. i'll go back to correct spelling or modify sentence structures to eliminate underlying assumptions in the writing that only make sense to me, but what you're reading here is otherwise completely raw.

so, how do you approach somebody accusing you of using a thesaurus? this is shit i'm pumping out in a few minutes per post. so,  when the false assumptions are stripped out, that must be a suggestion that i have an advanced vocabulary, which i actually think is not at all true - i think it's obvious that i graduated high school and have read a few books since but i wouldn't suggest that much beyond that stands out in what i'm presenting here. nor would i want it to. i fucking hate pretentious blowhards. here's a startling fact: over the approximately ten years that i spent in university i went to zero parties and made zero friends that i stayed in contact with outside of the scholastic context. the hate was really mutual, actually. it wasn't somewhere i fit into. at all.

for the first few years, i greatly preferred hanging out in the projects near my parents house, with dropouts and hustlers. then i spent a few years hanging out with street artists and ravers, followed by a few years of complete lonerism and then a few years with occupy kids before i went back to being a complete loner. i've never been or ever wanted to be the elitist educated kid. that's really a very bad way to interpret this. yet, it is also unfortunately a very bad reflection of the public education system when somebody of no meaningfully advanced education that is just scrawling out thoughts as they come up is viewed as writing carefully presented essays and agonizing over every word in them...

i always knew i would be fucking miserable in the life of an academic, but i was balancing it off against other ways to be fucking miserable. in hindsight? i regret wasting my time with it. but, i can't say i ever had a lot of choice: the alternative that was presented to me was pretty shitty, too.

there were several years when taking student loan money was literally the only way that i could pay my rent, because i wasn't able to get a job in a coffee shop or fast food restaurant.

"so, why did you go to graduate school?"

"because mcdonald's wouldn't call me back. white, unfortunately."

"oh."

"the rent just keeps coming, y'know? every fucking month. never stops. the student loans are a steady pay check for somebody that can't find work."

"why not just try welfare?"

"well, that would be better. i could do what i want instead of studying shit i don't care about. but, welfare is something like half of student loan money. it's not enough to pay the bastards. if it was, i'd go for it."

"oh. disability?"

"well, i don't have one, far as i can tell."

today, i do live on disability. but the diagnosis is pretty weak. it's something i have to do this summer, actually - get a better diagnosis. i don't know what fits best. schizophrenia. bi polar. something like that....

TheVanillatech

Why? I know 4 months but why?

deathtokoalas

this post was to google, rather than youtube. it's just all cross-posted.

TheVanillatech

Still, why..... XD

deathtokoalas

i've been posting a lot to google over the last few months. i guess i have an internet addiction; before i was posting to google, i was posting to facebook, and before that i was all over the cbc (canadian state run media), and before that i was all over mailing lists and newsgroups...

but i've moved to youtube in an attempt to promote the music i've been spending more time with over the last few months.

i'm constantly being accused of being one of them no good book lerners. i've had dozens of people accuse me of sitting in front of my laptop with thesaurus.com open.

it's ridiculous. and false. but interesting. just reflecting.