This is because irony, entertaining as it is, serves an almost exclusively negative function. It’s critical and destructive, a ground-clearing. Surely this is the way our postmodern fathers saw it. But irony’s singularly unuseful when it comes to constructing anything to replace the hypocrisies it debunks.
Source: bradleywarshauer
What to do if someone doesn’t like Donnie Darko
but u forgot the #irony tag here let me do that for u
Source: mno-bimaadiziwin
Pink stormtrooper teases riot police during the G20 London Riots.
The many methods of protest, demonstration, and general civil disobedience cannot be overemphasized.
Protest turns violent because of the lack of a visible alternative; once the leap to violence has been made, it readily turns to absolutism, dogma, zealotry, and militantism, and hate.
Through a mockery of the methods of the forces being opposed, they are severely undermined—much more so than violence can accomplish alone—and, crucially, retains the vital link to our humanity which we so importantly desire recognized.
Source: satinwolves
The full consequences of a default — or even the serious prospect of default — by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. […] The Nation can ill afford to allow such a result. The risks, the costs, the disruptions, and the incalculable damage lead me to but one conclusion: the Senate must pass this legislation before the Congress adjourns.
Source: shortformblog
That’s not who we are. We don’t trot out this stuff as trophies.
(via thepoliticalnotebook)
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