Gazpacho posted:

WTG GBS.

Deceitful Penguin posted:

Don't loving white knight police brutality you tit. There may be good coppers but one bad apple spoils the bunch and there are a shitload more bad apples than good in the ranks of the constables.

Mister Bates posted:

This picture makes me sad. The IWW used to be a fairly influential organization in the American labor movement, and Wobblies or former Wobblies were involved in pretty much all of the major union victories of the early 20th century. They were the first major union to organize immigrant and minority workers and the first that I know of to support gender equality. But today it's tiny, seems to consist mostly of pudgy, upper-middle-class white male college students, and does basically nothing. The modern IWW celebrated a great and glorious victory for organizing a Jimmy Johns' sandwich shop. Not the entire chain - one shop.

ughhhh posted:

amazing how people tend to jump to conclusions just because of how people look. Those people in the picture managed to organize not only the student body but also the workers and faculty. They are amazing people: http://iuonstrike.tumblr.com

Dusseldorf posted:

The light rail station you can see in the middle at the 110/105 interchange is super impressive. It feels like you're in a cathedral to the freeway god. It also has awful air quality.

Vladimir Poutine posted:

Read the news ribbon at the bottom. I'm certainly not denying that the deaths in the Boston bombing are a tragedy, but it's worth noting that bombs killing an order of magnitude more people in Iraq have barely gotten a mention in the media.

Cahal posted:

Isn't this just something all countries do, though? Focus disproportionately on their own citizens?

I mean, the media should surely take a more critical eye on US foreign policy. But saying 'well even more people died in Iraq today ' (which you didn't do but some are guilty of) just strikes me as the murder version of 'well, people in Africa are even poorer.'

Lucy Heartfilia posted:

People are horrible.

http://i.imgur.com/xKt4DSz.jpg

Bohemian Nights posted:

Woah buddy, did one of Iceland's 12 police officers beat you up, or something?

Pope Guilty posted:

It's not a goddamned strike. A strike is where you withdraw your labor to coerce concessions from management. This is nothing more than another useless protest, a way for people to feel good about having spoken out and made a statement without risking or changing anything. It's the most liberal goddamned thing.

Brown Moses posted:

AP won the Breaking News Photography Pulitzer Prize for their work on Syria (images here), and Javier Manzano won the Feature Photography award for this photo

Cahal posted:

Nehru the Damaja posted:

This is a pernicious myth. The "What's the Matter With Kansas" narrative encourages classism among Democrats whose major constituencies include the poor and uneducated. It's true when you look into masters, doctorates and professional doctorates it starts skewing Democratic but that's a fairly small part of the population. Your average Tea Party rear end in a top hat isn't some poor deceived blue-collar schlub. He's an upper middle class ball of privilege and hatred. He has access to education and information that ultimately mean he ought to know better. He doesn't deserve excuses.

Of course as little as Democrats do for or even talk about the working class, it shouldn't come as any surprise blue-collars are almost completely invisible to their own party.

Sir John Falstaff posted:

http://www.people-press.org/2012/08/23/a-closer-look-at-the-parties-in-2012/

Trench_Rat posted:

http://i.imgur.com/TUFy4on.jpg

Vladimir Poutine posted:

Men criticising street harassment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P4eVjwVd_U

quote:

This error is needed to get the results they published, and it would go a long way to explaining why it has been impossible for others to replicate these results. If this error turns out to be an actual mistake Reinhart-Rogoff made, well, all I can hope is that future historians note that one of the core empirical points providing the intellectual foundation for the global move to austerity in the early 2010s was based on someone accidentally not updating a row formula in Excel.

only temporary posted:

STiL. posted:

This upsets me so much. It's a fictional movie, these aren't real people, and the lines and actions they performed were written and staged; and none of this has anything to do and will never have anything to do with what actually happened in Boston! I wouldn't be so upset if I hadn't seen this inane image posted everywhere else, places where cognitive dissonance is much more common. Not here! This image is stupid and so are you!

STiL. posted:

This upsets me so much. It's a fictional movie, these aren't real people, and the lines and actions they performed were written and staged; and none of this has anything to do and will never have anything to do with what actually happened in Boston! I wouldn't be so upset if I hadn't seen this inane image posted everywhere else, places where cognitive dissonance is much more common. Not here! This image is stupid and so are you!

Wikipedia posted:

Internally, [then Information Minister P.K. van der Byl's] policy was enforced through Ministry control of TV and radio and through censorship of newspapers. From 31 December 1965, the Ministry of Information expanded its brief and was renamed the Ministry of Information, Immigration and Tourism, which meant that it was also responsible for deciding whether to grant or revoke permits to visit Rhodesia. Several foreign journalists were expelled: John Worrall, correspondent for The Guardian, went in January 1969. The Rhodesia Herald, then in opposition to both the Rhodesian Front and UDI, frequently appeared with large white spaces on its news pages where censored stories had been placed. Stories and editorials personally critical of van der Byl were immediately removed.
Censorship was tightened still further on 8 February 1966 when it was made illegal to indicate where material had been removed. The censor was also given the power to alter existing material or to move it around the newspaper. Dr Ahrn Palley, the lone white opposition MP, described the powers as "censorship gone mad", and insisted that there would no longer be any guarantee that anything published in the newspapers was authentic. Van der Byl responded by saying that the new measures were a reflection on the newspapers which had made such powers necessary.[27] In 1967 van der Byl was reported by Malcolm Smith, the former editor of the Herald, as remarking that a high degree of self-censorship was required, and support for the government was essential.[28]
The Herald (and the Bulawayo Chronicle) defied the restrictions, boldly printing blank spaces which identified removed material. Van der Byl personally visited the newspaper offices on the day the new regulations came in to warn the staff that if the paper was printed as proposed, they would "publish at your peril." However the papers continued to appear with identifiable censorship in defiance of the government, and in 1968 the regulations were scrapped.

Fluo posted:

Two shits in 1 photo!

Twitter posted:

Many questions about why Im going to the Maggon's funeral. She was a massive Top Gear fan. Her favourite car was the Mercedes SLS.

Chantilly Say posted:

Love that Clarkson's daughter has that look of "for gently caress's sake dad why do you have to bring me to these things"



Quite a pretty car, of course, and well-performing too. Still odd that she'd pick it, though, since being a German car it was of course made entirely by union members.

Fluo posted:

Lets have a look at some idiots who love thatcher.

midnightclimax posted:

The HQ is in Germany, but they've got plants all the world over. Not sure how much really gets manufactured in Europe. Unless you're joking.

midnightclimax posted:

The HQ is in Germany, but they've got plants all the world over. Not sure how much really gets manufactured in Europe. Unless you're joking.

Chantilly Say posted:

Love that Clarkson's daughter has that look of "for gently caress's sake dad why do you have to bring me to these things"



Quite a pretty car, of course, and well-performing too. Still odd that she'd pick it, though, since being a German car it was of course made entirely by union members.

Strudel Man posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dGPo9XBIPA

az jan jananam posted:

http://discourseontheotter.tumblr.com/