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all the posts containing artifacts of african american vernacular english
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angelbutt_dollface posted:

all the posts containing artifacts of african american vernacular english


The political equivalent of rotten.com

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Crow posted:


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aerdil posted:

Crow posted:

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lol

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Kurdt
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chocolate america is gettin upset
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YUNG JIRO AKA SHOWA STUNNA AKA
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DMX fucking owns

http://www.11points.com/Music/11_Most_Ridiculous_DMX_Moments
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YUNG JIRO AKA SHOWA STUNNA AKA
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I was just looking for him no showing those awards two years in a row and found so much more great stuff haha
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hi
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http://www.salon.com/2012/12/29/slavoj_zizek_i_am_not_the_worlds_hippest_philosopher/
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HenryKrinkle posted:

http://www.salon.com/2012/12/29/slavoj_zizek_i_am_not_the_worlds_hippest_philosopher/


Oh, democracy! Everyone gets an orgasm so let’s bring it to as many people as possible.


Also, I really hate all of this politically correct, cultural studies bullshit. If you mention the phrase “postcolonialism,” I say, “Fuck it!” Postcolonialism is the invention of some rich guys from India who saw that they could make a good career in top Western universities by playing on the guilt of white liberals.



times like this i love him again

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Lizzie29 • 3 years ago
I worked at a posh resort in upstate NY one summer and DMX and his entourage squatted for over a month in the rooms they had reserved for only a week. His cohorts used to lean on cars that belonged to other resort guests...don't know why, exactly...but this made all the rich uptight folk, well, even more uptight.

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THIS BOOK FUCKING OWNS
the back cover, where a blurb and summary would normally go, just has a quote (i think preteen horror novels in the nineties sometimes did this too?) of atta going "I, too, am an immigrant success story"


http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=995

ATTA
Jarett Kobek
Ours is a century of fear. Governments and mass media bombard us with words and images: desert radicals, “rogue states,” jihadists, WMDs, existential enemies of freedom. We labor beneath myths that neither address nor describe the present situation, monstrous deceptions produced by a sound bite society. There is no reckoning of actuality, no understanding of the individual lives that inaugurated this echo chamber.

In the summer of 1999, Mohamed Atta defended a master’s thesis that critiqued the introduction of Western-style skyscrapers in the Middle East and called for the return of the “Islamic-Oriental city.” Using this as a departure point, Jarett Kobek’s novel ATTA offers a fictionalized psychedelic biography of Mohamed Atta that circles around a simple question: what if 9/11 was as much a matter of architectural criticism as religious terrorism? Following the development of a socially awkward boy into one of history’s great villains, Kobek demonstrates the need for a new understanding of global terrorism. Joined in this volume by a second work, “The Whitman of Tikrit”–a radical reimagining of Saddam Hussein’s last day before capture–ATTA is a brutal, relentless, and ultimately fearless corrective to ten years of propaganda and pandering.



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he stole my fuckin idea
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penitent
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http://www.rhizzone.net/forum/topic/1147/?page=8#post-46900
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Dont Mess With Sucess
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But wait! This doesn’t mean that I massively despise myself. No, I like my printed work. I live for that — for theory, really. And shamelessly. I hate this leftist humanitarian attitude: People are starving! Children in Africa! Who needs theory? No! We need useless theory more than ever today, I claim.
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You don't get to "ask" for a living wage, you get paid what the market has decided your labor is worth, because there is someone else in the market who is willing to work for that level of compensation, unless the state comes in with a gun and forces everyone to pretend it's worth more than it is.

You can make the minimum wage whatever arbitrary number you like, but it doesn't make the inherent value of the labor any higher. Say a firm pays x in wages and taxes for 1 employee and they have 100 employees, then an artificial price floor is introduced (minimum wage) and it becomes illegal for labor to cost anything less than x+5. The company needs to keep its costs at a comparable level to stay profitable and in operation, so they will likely eliminate laborers until their cumulative labor expenditures equal 100x, the same as they were spending on labor before the introduction of the price floor. Either that, or the goods they produce will have to cost more per unit. Minimum wage goes up, so does unemployment. The producer is forced to pay more than the labor is worth, causing laborers to get laid off and consumers to pay a higher price for that same good, the nature of which has not changed at all. This is a form of inflation. Everyone loses.

Wages also serve an information function, with higher wages indicating greater level of difficulty of the skill and greater scarcity of those individuals capable of performing the skill, and this is what drives wages up and down and redirects labor from one industry/role to another. Artificial price floors on wage disrupt this dynamic process. If you feel that your employer is not paying you what you are worth, quit and find alternative employment, there's never just 1 employer in any given geographic area, unless you work for the government. There's always someone out there who is willing to step in and start receiving the wages you deemed too low, and in the event that no one else is willing to perform the job, that is the signal to the employer that they need to offer greater compensation for that type of labor. In that event, there are still laborers who do that type of work, but they are all opting to work for other employers who offer higher pay.
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sounds like a pretty logical and downright reasonable system imo why do ppl get so upset about this economics shit when u can simply explain it so that a 5th grader could understand it?
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wonderful excursion:
http://basecase.org/2012/12/fractals-and-stories/
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objekt-a.tumblr.com
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xipe posted:

wonderful excursion:
http://basecase.org/2012/12/fractals-and-stories/



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mt.real
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badiou's rebirth of history was pretty mediocre, happy new year
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deadken posted:

he stole my fuckin idea

u snooze u looze

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tentativelurkeraccount posted:

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like game of thrones but with marxism
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kinch posted:

like game of thrones but with marxism



you mean Spartacus blood and sand

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whatchall think a this shizz?

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its freakin epic
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