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LMFAO - Sexy and I Know It (by LMFAOVEVO)
Yes.
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Today in Philly, two guerrilla artists installed a renegade sculpture on the roof of Kermit Gosnell’s now-notorious clinic and alleged drug trafficking operation. IT IS INSANE.
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In Search of Diamonds (Minecraft / Music Video) (by deadworkersparty)
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Special Weapons Emergency Separation System (SWESS), also known informally as the dead man’s switch, was a nuclear bomb release system that Strategic Air Command built into bombers such as the B-52 Stratofortress. The system’s purpose was to ensure that an aircraft’s payload of nuclear weapons would detonate in the event of the crew becoming debilitated by enemy defences such as missiles. Once armed, the system would ensure that the onboard nuclear weapons detonated if the aircraft dropped below a predetermined altitude.
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They hate the government — [the IRS is] just the most convenient incarnation of what they hate. There’s something very curious, though, about the hatred. The government is the people, leaving aside various complications, but we split it off and pretend it’s not us; we pretend it’s some threatening Other bent on taking our freedoms, taking our money and redistributing it, legislating our morality in drugs, driving, abortion, the environment — Big Brother, the Establishment — … With the curious thing being that we hate it for appearing to usurp the very civic functions we’ve ceded to it.
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Interesting on the surface, but I think inaccurate upon reflection. Saying, “the government is the people” and “the very civic functions we’ve ceded to it” implies that by participating in a democracy you implicitly agree with the outcome of that democracy. “We” may have ceded the power to enforce drug laws, wage war, imprison obscene numbers of young men, torture foreigners, tell people who they may marry, etc., but that in no way lessens my venomous anger at that very government.
The proper indictment of Republicans or Tea Partiers or White Separatists or whatever is not that this is a democracy so their objections are invalid. It’s that their beliefs are repugnant or illogical or harmful or whatever, therefore they are invalid. You can accept democracy and still hate the manifestation of it.
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Reading all the paeans and homilies and homages to the date is an experience most akin to attending an odd-year high school reunion; it is neither quite so well-attended nor nearly as nostalgic as you imagined; there’s no one at the bar; the cater waiters won’t flirt–worse, they’re older than you are! In the corner, some former cheerleader cries mawkishly into her Long Island; above the airport hotel ballroom, planes rumble indifferently into the night sky; on the far side of the world, a stock exchange opens; “the dog misses you,” says your lover over the phone, “I miss you. How’s the reunion?”; “I wish I’d never come”; “I told you so.”
