“When somebody says, “I don’t think women should be raped for wearing short skirts, but what do they expect when they do go out like that?” what you are actually saying is that if a woman in a short skirt is raped, you will be less likely to hold her rapist culpable. Which makes a woman in a short skirt really appealing to a rapist. That’s something that you did. That’s not something the woman in the short skirt did, or something the rapist did. You made that woman a more comfortable target by making it clear that if she got raped, you would be less upset about it, less willing to see the rapist go to jail, less willing to support the woman. A woman is not increasing her risk of being raped by wearing a short skirt. You are increasing her risk of being raped by saying that women who get raped in short skirts should have expected that. Rapists hear you say that. By only raping the women that bystanders agree should be raped, a rapist reduces his chance of being caught and, if caught, punished. And that is why he will pick those women, over and over again, not because there is something more appealingly rapeable about them — they have what any woman has, as far as rape goes — but because he will be less likely to be held culpable for his actions.”
—(via mollay)
October 2011
I just can't get over it.
This is some fucked up shit. This poor Iraq war veteran gets injured during two tours only to come home and get his skull fractured by those charged to PROTECT AND SERVE while he is exercising the constitutional rights he supposedly was fighting for.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/10/25/18695124.php
Hey, you!
Hey, you! Yes, you. I have a question for you. Did you read what Cookie Monster said about Occupy yet? Because it’s very good. He gets it. And if you are still unclear about it or know someone who doesn’t get it yet, reading what he says about it will help. Even if you think you know what it’s about, this might give you new insight. So seriously, just read it. Five minutes of your time. If I’m wrong, I’ll give you a cookie. Here it is below: (originally culled from here: http://bit.ly/pMS2mp)
“Yes, there always going to be rich and poor. But we used to live in country where rich owned factory and make 30 times what factory worker make. Now we live in country where rich make money by lying about value of derivative bonds and make 3000 times what factory worker would make if factories hadn’t all moved to China.
Capitalism great system. We won Cold War because people behind Iron Curtain look over wall, and see how much more plentiful and delicious cookies are in West, and how we have choice of different bakeries, not just state-owned one. It great system. It got us out of Depression, won WWII, built middle class, built country’s infrastructure from highways to Hoover Dam to Oreo factory to electrifying rural South. It system that reward hard work and fair play, and everyone do fair share and everyone benefit. Rich get richer, poor get richer, everyone happy. It great system.
Then after Reagan, Republicans decide to make number one priority destroying that system. Now we have system where richest Americans ones who find ways to game system — your friends on Wall Street — and poorest Americans ones who thought working hard would get them American dream, when in fact it get them pink slip when job outsourced to 10-year-old in Mumbai slum. And corporations have more influence over government than people (or monsters).
It not about rich people having more money. It about how they got money. It about how they take opportunity away from rest of us, for sake of having more money. It how they willing to take risks that destroy economy — knowing full well that what could and would happen — putting millions out of work, while creating nothing of value, and all the while crowing that they John Galt, creating wealth for everyone.
That what the soul-searching about. When Liberals run country for 30 years following New Deal, American economy double in size, and wages double along with it. That fair. When Conservatives run country for 30 years following Reagan, American economy double again, and wages stay flat. What happen to our share of money? All of it go to richest 1%. That not “there always going to be rich people”. That unfair system. That why we upset. That what Occupy Sesame Street about.
(There’s also a great Cookie Monster follow up, in which he says “In theory, this country a democracy, where everyone who share resources also have say in how resources used. In practice, ordinary monster have very little say, and super-rich basically do whatever they want and make government do whatever they want.”)
“Imagine, if you will, someone who read only the Wall Street Journal editorial page between 2000 and 2011, and someone in the same period who read only the collected columns of Paul Krugman. Which reader would have been better informed about the realities of the current economic crisis? The answer, I think, should give us pause. Can it be that our enemies were right?”
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David Frum : Krugman was right, I was wrong about the economy (via soupsoup)
I really do respect David Frum and I’ve agreed with a number of articles he has written. This is definitely one of those articles. If there’s any economist I trust above all else it’s Paul Krugman, far and away. Why? Because as Mr. Frum notes in his column…
HE’S BEEN FUCKING RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING EVER!
-Joe
(via stfuconservatives)
“Comparing Obama to Hitler is almost as crazy as comparing Hank Williams Jr to his much, much more talented father.”
—@mrtimlong
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