You be like, “I wish we could go back to the good ole days.” And post-structuralism is like, “Umm which good ole days do you mean? Umm, the good ole days when people owned slaves, or maybe it was the good ole days where niggas was free but they couldn’t vote, or maybe it was the good ole days where children worked in factories, or maybe you mean the good ole days where the only people who were literate were priests. Or maybe you mean the good ole days where people lived under the constant fear of nuclear annihilation and people thought that smoking cigarettes wouldn’t harm babies in women’s wombs. Post-structuralism really gotta know which good ole days you talkin about.”
All My Friends - LCD Soundsystem
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2 years ago
A recent Congressional Budget Office report found that the DREAM Act would cut the federal deficit by $1.4 billion and increase government revenues by $2.3 billion over the next decade.
Fuckin' up since 1994.: Dear Kristen, it cut me off haha ↘
(starting from where I left off) bring this stuff into the light, they hamper our military from doing what needs to be done. Also, he basically just ended diplomacy, which is the fucking stupidest thing ever considering we are on are way to world war three and he just completely halted all…
I can’t find the note where you started this, it’s not showing up :/ haha. but i’ll just respond to what’s here, I’ll add to it if that note shows up later (i’m sure it will).
Anyway. None of the cables that have been released so far have been been directly related to the military (that I know of). If you’re talking about the Afghanistan and Iraq War Logs, though, there is no evidence that a) their process of attempting to exterminate the Taliban/Al Qaeda and ‘improve infrastructure’ has been affected in any way (but my views of the war are beside the point), or b) that anyone has been harmed as a result of the release of these documents.
Also, diplomacy has not ended as a result of this. Clinton herself said that the leaks won’t affect American diplomacy. It only revealed what is going on in diplomacy and the secrecy involved. And if we are, in fact, on the way to another world war (which I doubt, though obviously we are becoming increasingly militaristic in our budget), the release of these documents should help much more than they harm. World leaders aren’t outraged because of what they heard other leaders said about them - that wasn’t even the focus of the leaks. World leaders are outraged because the things they keep private are now out in the open (such as the things I mentioned already- Yemen, spying within the UN, etc). It’s important to have these things out in the open so that U.S. diplomats can’t just make unjust decisions that don’t represent the views of Americans at all.
As far as the Espionage Act goes, it would be very hard for them to prove him guilty. Besides the fact that he’s not American, they would also have to prove that the documents caused physical harm to someone (which would be extremely difficult, considering no one has been able to point out an instance in which the war logs or the cables have caused any sort of violence to occur). Plus, if they used the Espionage Act, the New York Times and other journalists could be prosecuted as well. (By the way, I am not doubting at all that the world is going to find some way to arrest him, because I’m sure they will. But I don’t think they should.)
Though he has been incidentally focused on the U.S. recently, Assange has published documents about corruption in many other countries as well. He hasn’t broken any laws, and he’s serving the exact role a journalist is supposed to play: putting the truth in the public eye. He receives the documents from other sources (who he keeps anonymous for the same reason as other journalists do). He doesn’t really publish them himself - he sends them to newspapers for them to publish.
I personally think transparency is a good thing, especially since my government is supposed to be working for me. I think it’s important for me to know about things like secret bombings in Yemen and our Sec. of State spying on the U.N. Secretary General, which have been revealed in these documents.
Julian Assange is in jail right now.
Mastercard and Visa cut off service for WikiLeaks donations.
Federal workers are being warned not to read the cables.
And while the news is focused on how awful it is that these classified cables leaked and how much our national security is supposedly being threatened, the facts revealed in the cables are being downplayed, especially by government officials. Please read this
p.s. i got in a fight with my government teacher today about this
p.p.s. i am really angry right now
Corporate rule, as in everything that keeps our economy from collapsing? Oh yeah, why support that…
I think that’s the point though - a few individual corporations shouldn’t have that much effect on the economy. The way corporations are now means that when one is on the verge of collapsing, the government basically has to bail them out. Otherwise, the economy would collapse. It’s obviously a flawed system. So I think the sign is advocating for the breaking up of corporations into smaller companies and businesses. That way, the corporations and their lobbyists will have less impact on politics, because corporations are causing the government serve businesses rather than the general population.
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2 years ago
Slavoj Zizek on vegetarians:
“Degenerates, degenerates, they’ll all turn into monkeys.”
heheh
