saxifraga-x-urbium:

cthonical:

jumpingjacktrash:

mickeyandmumbles:

Love Love, Peace Peace – How to make a perfect Eurovision Song

“love love peace peace, and a burning fake piano!”

this is the funniest thing i’ve seen all week

“what is eurovision?”
/shows this video

No entry will ever be this good

The Inverted Values of a Social Justice Warrior

nerdymouse:

heartandstride:

arctic-hands:

heartandstride:

coloradoron:

Once upon a time, there was a feminist that enthusiastically protested outside of a prison where a convicted serial killer of women was to be executed. There was no doubt he was guilty, but the feminist and other SJWs friends proudly shouted their chants and waved their protest signs.

The feminist was saddened when she told her friends she had to leave early. She explained that she had an appointment later in the day to get an abortion. She felt so empowered to have control over her own body.

After the abortion, she stopped by the animal shelter and picked out a rescue dog. The dog was scheduled to be put down that very day. The dog was so cute. She went out and splurged on little toys, chew bones and a comfy bed for her new arrival. She had saved that dog and made a home for it. She went to bed that night feeling really good about herself.

The End …of principles, reason, compassion, and an innocent life

She still seems pretty compassionate to me.

(Getting an abortion doesn’t mean a person doesn’t have compassion or reason if that’s what you are trying to imply, and they are not hypocrites if they went to get a dog. If you’re trying to conflate the two or imply something else, it didn’t really work.)

Are they implying that adopting a dog is something immoral?

Apparently adopting a dog that was close to being euthanized is bad because she is anti death penalty (even if the dude’s guilty of a crime without a doubt) and got an abortion. She saved the life of an animal, but let a criminal not die on death row and didn’t let a fetus use her body. 

Her views seem pretty consistent to me really.

Origins of the police

dagwolf:

class-struggle-anarchism:

In England and the United States, the police were invented within the space of just a few decades — roughly from 1825 to 1855.

The new institution was not a response to an increase in crime, and it really didn’t lead to new methods for dealing with crime. The most common way for authorities to solve a crime, before and since the invention of police, has been for someone to tell them who did it.

Besides, crime has to do with the acts of individuals, and the ruling elites who invented the police were responding to challenges posed by collective action. To put it in a nutshell: The authorities created the police in response to large, defiant crowds. That’s

— strikes in England,
— riots in the Northern US,
— and the threat of slave insurrections in the South.

So the police are a response to crowds, not to crime.

Always reblog

Origins of the police