bastionofbibliophiles:

capricorn-0mnikorn:

Hank Green (YouTube Science Communicator) on ICE in Minneapolis and the Trump Administration.

The Dude is Angry AF.

Last night, he posted this video, titled, simply, “Truth.” The video is ~5 minutes long, and is 100% intense eye contact, which I know a lot of my followers & mutuals have trouble with, so I’m putting the full transcript of the auto-generated captions under the cut.

But I do want to pull out a couple of excerpts, and put them above the line:

And this is the thing I can’t shake. In science, when someone shows you data that contradicts your claim, you have a few options. You can update your belief. You can argue about interpretation. You can point out limitations. You can even say, “I was wrong.” What you cannot do, at least for very long, is pretend that the data don’t exist. Reality doesn’t cooperate with that strategy.

And also:

They’d stick to the truth if they thought the truth was enough.

Full captions transcript below (spelling corrections and punctuation clarified):

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For anyone who would prefer to watch the video instead of reading the captions:

robotmieser:

mind-altering-bugs:

ubernegro:

ICE fucking abandoned the scene in a Minneapolis neighborhood and left their battle plans and designs on the city, fake license plates, and challenge tokens which they reward themselves for arrests. Looney Tunes shit.

North Minneapolis Chases Out ICE

After ICE carried out yet another shooting in Minneapolis, a crowd chased them away and gained control of their vehicles. A firsthand accoun

CrimethInc.

The fact they give out challenge coins for arrests really cements the fact that they’re just a bunch of shit heads trying to feel very tough and powerful™ and this is the only way they can do it.

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blogquantumreality:

communist-ojou-sama:

I guess I’ve made my point well enough but at times like these what I remember is the Iraq war, specifically that while what is emphasized so often is the brutality of it and how it was waged just for oil, but I think portraying the US as this all-powerful, implacable bandit on the world stage is a form of usamerican propaganda in itself. Instead, what I think of are the results.

Did the US actually end up getting Iraq’s oil? Well, not really. They planned to privatize the state oil company but the intensity of the insurgencies in the wake of the fall of the Baathist state immediately forced usamerican planners to contend with the political impossibility of such a thing. Did they change Iraq into a staunch usamerican ally? No. The US still maintains a presence in the country by force but they’re hated throughout the political spectrum and at most tolerated on a temporary basis. By contrast the country who gained the most geopolitically from the usamerican war on Iraq was, in fact, Iran.

These people in their offices in Langely, they’re capable of marshalling lots of resources, yes, they’re good at dropping lots of bombs and killing lots of people, yes, but remember that they are not actually very good at actually winning and bending the world to their will, and they’ve arguably been getting worse at it every year since the 80s, or even from their retreat in disgrace from Vietnam. Mao wasn’t kidding or showing a strong face when he said the imperialist powers were paper tigers. The US can be fought and beaten, and in fact it loses more often than it wins. You’ve Gotta get out of this defeatist frame of mind.

The thing is, the USA doesn’t have to gain total control over a target country’s resources. They just have to prove they can take any “crappy little country”, throw it against a wall a few times, and leave it broken to demonstrate that they can ruin anybody’s day at any time the President of the United States so chooses.

And that is the root of imperial power: making the world aware that they can always make things a lot worse for a country that doesn’t choose to play ball.

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football-in-tuxedos:

wirelessmousegirl:

asteroidtroglodyte:

unyielding-pussy:

mlembug:

shadow-banned-the-hedgehog:

“the average income in <X> is <Y> of <currency>” cool, what’s the median

Average isn’t useful here. however, after a little bit of research, apparently the median income in the US is $24,327, which means the reality is actually much worse than this meme makes it seem. yay!

According to time magazine, median annual rent is $13,896, which means rent alone is 57% Of the median annual income, awesome!

One of the things you’ll learn in statistics is that while both average and median have their places, averages are EXTREMELY easily jerked around by extreme outliers, so if someone uses the average on a dataset that likely has some extreme outliers (like income, which would have a handful of people who make 9 digits per year) then you gotta assume they’re lying to you.

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princessdollknight:

princessdollknight:

mercy was never an option

tranq dart engraved with “i have a suggestion”

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the-most-phenomenal-banana:

the-most-phenomenal-banana:

the way trump is talking abt hillary makes him sound like a scorned lover lmao what if monica wasn’t bill’s only side bitch??

you gotta be fucking kidding me

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radicalgraff:

“If the Epstein files didn’t implicate Trump, he would’ve printed them in the front of Bibles and he’d be selling them this week at food banks”

Seen in Pensacola, Florida

guerrillatech:

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omgthatdress:

I thought I’d be really happy on the day Dick Cheney died, but instead I’m just really angry, angry with an anger that I’ve been carrying around for 20 years.

Angry that he got away with all of it. Angry that he got to die peacefully at 84 when so many died young and in the worst ways possible because of him.

So, my fellow Millennials, give yourself some room to be angry today, and remember those we lost, those who would be in their 30s and 40s today if it weren’t for Dick Cheney.

theprofessional-amateur:

Source

Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in US history, dies at 84

Cheney led the armed forces as defense chief under President George H.W. Bush before returning to public life as vice president under his so

AP News

Originally posted by the-ginger-is-loose-again

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