• @[email protected]
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    152 years ago

    The experience of being the victim of real violence. It’s pretty clear most people don’t really get it. And it’s weirdly common for people to have romantic ideas about fighting, revenge, punishment, war, and even torture. I think it would be eye opening.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      And oppression. Real, actual oppression, not whatever middle class white Christian Americans think is oppression.

  • Zeusbottom
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    192 years ago

    Give them all a vision of the Earth from space. Look at that, all ya sonsa bitches.

    “You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’”

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, People magazine, 8 April 1974.

  • Nacktmull
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    92 years ago

    We have to stop killing the ecosystem and each other immediately!

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    2 years ago

    “Send Squirrel money.” (With details, of course. Can’t have them giving money to some random squirrel.)

    • Ada
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      Can’t have them giving money to some random squirrel.

      Sorry, too late

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    52 years ago

    "A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.

    Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

    Two things result from this fact:

    I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power.

    II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a manifesto of the party itself.

    To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London and sketched the following manifesto, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages."