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This kinda makes me want to have 100% surveillance on the internet so sick fucks like these have it a lot more difficult to spread their videos. But at he same time we need freedom, so it’s a difficult topic.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ ... a_gives_her_hell/ezafv86/

Und grämt dich, Edler, noch ein Wort
Der kleinen Neidgesellen?
Der hohe Mond, er leuchtet dort,
Und läßt die Hunde bellen
Und schweigt und wandelt ruhig fort,
Was Nacht ist, aufzuhellen.

Johann Gottfried von Herder

"Der Mond"

Words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details.

George Orwell

I believe in living.
I believe in the spectrum
of Beta days and Gamma people.
I believe in sunshine.
In windmills and waterfalls,
tricycles and rocking chairs.
And I believe that seeds grow into sprouts.
And sprouts grow into trees.
I believe in the magic of the hands.
And in the wisdom of the eyes.
I believe in rain and tears.
And in the blood of infinity.

I believe in life. 
And I have seen the death parade
march through the torso of the earth,
sculpting mud bodies in its path.
I have seen the destruction of the daylight,
and seen bloodthirsty maggots
prayed to and saluted.

I have seen the kind become the blind
and the blind become the bind
in one easy lesson.
I have walked on cut glass.
I have eaten crow and blunder bread
and breathed the stench of indifference.

I have been locked by the lawless.
Handcuffed by the haters.
Gagged by the greedy.
And, if I know any thing at all,
it’s that a wall is just a wall
and nothing more at all.
It can be broken down.

I believe in living.
I believe in birth.
I believe in the sweat of love
and in the fire of truth.

And I believe that a lost ship,
steered by tired, seasick sailors,
can still be guided home
to port.

Assata Shakur

"Affirmation"

Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.

Desmond Tutu

Niemand wird den ungeheuren Zuwachs an Wissen und Mach leugnen, den die Entwicklung der Naturwissenschaften dem Menschen eingetragen hat; kurz vor dem Anbruch der Neuzeit wußte die europäische Menschheit weniger als Archimedes im dritten Jahrhundert vor unserer Zeitrechnung, und die ersten fünfzig Jahre unseres Jahrunderts enthalten eine größere Anzahl entscheidender Entdeckungen als alle Jahrhunderte der uns bekannten Geschichte zusammengenommen. Aber wer wüßte nicht, daß man die gleiche Entwicklung mit kaum weniger Recht auch für das nachweisliche Anwachsen der Verzweiflung, für die Entzauberung der Welt, für die Entstehung des Nihilismus, der ein spezifisch neuzeitliches Phänomen ist, verantwortlich machen kann, daß diese einst esoterischen Phänomene sich immer breiterer Bevölkerungsschichten bemächtigt haben, und daß heute - vielleicht das bezeichnendste Symptom für die Unvermeidlichkeit dieser Begleiterscheinungen - auch die Forschung selbst, deren begründeter Optimismus sich noch im neunzehnten Jahrhundert so auffallend von dem nicht weniger gerechtfertigten Pessimismus der Denker und Dichter abhob, von ihnen nicht mehr verschont ist. Das Naturbild der modernen Physik, dessen Anfänge man bis auf Galileo zurückverfolgen kann und das dadurch entstand, daß das Vermögen des menschlichen Sinnesapparats, Wirklichkeit zu vermitteln, in Frage gestellt wurde, zeigt uns schließlich ein Universum, von dem wir nicht mehr wissen, als daß es in bestimmter Weise unsere Meßinstrumente affiziert; und das, was wir von unseren Apparaten ablesen können, sagt über die wirklichen Eigenschaften, in dem Bilde Eddingtons, nicht mehr aus, als eine Telephonnummer von dem aussagt, der sich meldet, wenn wir sie wählen. Anstatt mit objektive Eigenschaften, mit anderen Worten, finden wir uns mit den von uns selbst erbauten Apparaten konfrontiert, und anstatt der Natur oder dem Universum begegnen "wir gewissermaßen immer nur uns selbst".

Hannah Arendt

"Vita Activa"

Criminals don't actually don't belong in a concentration camp. That they still form a permanent category in all camps is, from the viewpoint of the totalitarian power apparatus, a kind of concession to the prejudices of society, which in this way can be made to get used to their existence the most easily.

Hannah Arendt

"Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft", S. 657

[Q: can you conceive of any form in which you might support American military action taken, like the President's justification, in anticipation of an imminent and dangerous threat?]

Why don't you generalize it, and say, can you conceive of any action which any state might take? Sure, you can imagine such things. Let's say you're in Iran right now. [audience laughter] It's under attack by the world's superpower, with embargoes... It's surrounded by states either occupied by its superpower enemy, or having nuclear weapons. Little way down the road is the regional superpower, which has hundreds of nuclear weapons, and other WMDs, and is essentially an offshore US military base. And has a bigger and more advanced air force than any NATO power, outside the United States. And in the past year has been supplied by the global superpower with 100 advanced jet bombers, openly advertised as able to fly to Iran and back to bomb it. And also provided with what the Hebrew press calls special weaponry, nobody knows what that means, but if you're an Iranian intelligence analyst you gonna give a worst case analysis, of course. And has actually been publicly provided with smart bombs, and deep penetration weapons... They have a terrific justification for anticipatory self defense, better than any other case I can think of.

But would I approve of their bombing Israel, or carrying out terrorist acts in Washington? No, even though they have a pretty strong case, better than anything I can think of here. Just as the Japanese had a much better case than any that I can think of here, but I don't approve of Pearl Harbor. So yeah, we can conceive of cases, and in fact some of them are right in front of our eyes, but none of us approve of them. None of us.

So if we don't approve of them in real cases, why discuss hypothetical cases that don't exist? We can do that in some philosophy seminar, but in the real world there're real cases that ought to concern us.

Noam Chomsky

Talk at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, New York. November 16, 2004

We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread products. Just as food can be bad for your system, music can be bad for your spirtual and emotional feelings. It might taste good or clever, but in the long run, it's not going to do anything for you.

Bob Dylan

Man muss etwas machen, um selbst keine Schuld zu haben.

Sophie Scholl

There's a pattern on the internet where as soon as someone's name is mentioned, people trot out the #1 worst meme about them and act like it ends the discussion. It's as if there's a big hash table in the sky that maps public figures' names to most-rage-inducing detail, and when a name in the hash table shows up, someone invariably rushes in with the value. That is a Pavolvian reflex, not thoughtful discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9722096

It's the standard tech company mentality: Deliberately make your product different and incompatible with everyone else and compete instead of cooperate. Best case outcome is monopoly and customer lock-in. Most likely case is no one solution gains enough traction and you end up with 15 incompatible chat apps.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22632886

Ohne Anmaßung nimm an, ohne Bedauern gib hin!

Marcus Aurelius

"Selbstbetrachtungen"

To be an effective trader, basically what you do is step in to a transaction between two people and shove them far enough apart that they can't communicate. Then you go to the seller, tell them that you and your buddies are their only market and you will pay them $XYZ for everything they have. A real low-ball figure. Do your best to put them in the fucking poor house.

You then take whatever you bought to the person who was already interested in buying it, and tell them you and your buddies are the only source for whatever it is you bought, and if they want any of it they'll have to pay you $XXYYZZ. An absurdly overvalued figure. Do your best to put them in the fucking poor house.

What's going on is that traders at no point are about facilitating exchanges between two parties. Every step of the way, their goal is to screw everybody who's still holding a single red cent so hard that their fillings fall out, and then collect those fillings -- gold, too, is an investment.

http://yro.slashdot.org/c ... ?sid=1954458&cid=34912840

It doesn't matter what our parents think. Most of our parents, despite their big careers and degrees, are zombies brainwashed by television, and think they are informed by watching the news and reading the new york times. They are, for the most part, lost. Not to mention, they will be dead soon.

What matters is our generation, and the generations after us. Edward Snowden, Bill Binney, Thomas Drake, and others have made the information available so we can know the truth, and act accordingly. People are now able able to choose, rationally, based on factual evidence, what side of history to be on. The true revolution begins in people's minds, after all. We are in a position to choose between an enlightenment and a dark age.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8513546

they set my aunts house on fire
i cried the way women on tv do
folding at the middle
like a five pound note.
i called the boy who use to love me 
tried to ‘okay’ my voice
i said hello
he said warsan, what’s wrong, what’s happened?

i’ve been praying,
and these are what my prayers look like;
dear god
i come from two countries
one is thirsty
the other is on fire
both need water.

later that night
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?

it answered 
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere.

Warsan Shire

A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare

"Julius Caesar"