Frankie Boyle (via youknowyourebritishwhen)
There’s an IsThatcherDeadYet website. I think it’s kinda dumb since the important thing is she’s dead to me.
this ghost, referencing Samantha Power and Anne-Marie Slaughter (via thenewephemera)
Power and Slaughter are jokes operating within jokes contained within a larger farce. Good thing they’re just fictional characters with punny names and no one takes their horrible ideas seriously, yknow?
dreams-from-my-father: servile-masses-arise: Have a go yourselves, comrades!
I love how there’s no need to add the douchebag hat for Thatcher because that would be redundant
(Source: class-struggle-anarchism)
A submerged state, according to political scientist Suzanne Mettler, is what you get when a government refuses to distribute funds and services directly to individuals and families, and instead uses tax breaks or payments to private companies all in order to hide the hand of government and exaggerate the role of the market.
But for this, blame not the Boomer, but his overrated progenitor. It’s the generation that made capitalism work so well for so many—the Band of Brothers—who are the real culprits here. The New Deal electorate and the Great Society coalition. Sure, the ruling class reactionaries hated FDR’s reforms, but as Michael Harrington pointed out, “these same reactionaries benefited from the changes that the New Deal introduced far more than did the workers and the poor who actively struggled for them.”
“After the Great Society program in the 1960s,” says Leo Panitch, “left-wing Democrats, rather than calling for more public housing to rebuild America’s cities instead called for the banks to lend money to poor black communities…one of the effects of winning those demands was a channeling of those communities more deeply into the structures of finance, the most dynamic sector of neoliberal capitalism.”
I do so enjoy anything that reinforces the idea of “Greatest Generation my ass”
So this just happened. (Twitter channel.)
Well, this is alarming.
(via towerofsleep)
… I was saying boo-urns.
(via lukesimcoe)
So much worse than this quote indicates. Why? Because it was apparent at the #hlth meeting that the senior administrators did not have a damned clue as to what was even going on. They didn’t have answers to at least half of the questions and concerns that came from the library staff. Obviously it was a good idea for them to call that meeting then, right? So, I must ask, who deserves to have their jobs on the line, the librarians or the administrators being paid to not know anything?
(Source: katherinestasaph)
Ah yes, right, the “invisible” hand of the market backhanding another poor and indebted nation….
And why? Because 61 cents an hour for Haitian laborers was just too much for Hanes and Levis to stomach and Obama was of course willing to accommodate. So next time you wonder why Haiti’s so poor and full of human and environmental strife…
*Death squads and the embryonic al-Qaeda and Taleban
**Death squads
***Embryonic al-Qaeda and Taleban
(via jhnbrssndn)
Idiots like Thiessen are amazing in how they manage to make a great (and correct) argument against American military intervention in Libya.
