The politics of etiquette and niceties by liberal Americans - let’s not even touch the conservatives.. A little boy in Pakistan lost his legs in a drone strike but let’s not interrupt the President, please. “There’s a time and place for everything,” we’re aggressively informed. We can let another 3000 Pakistanis die in drone strikes because right now we’re terribly in love with the President’s rhetorical skills. He’s got style. And blood on his hands. But that style.
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‘There are things that our age needs, and certain things it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should be happy: it needs the desire for knowledge and the determination to eschew pleasant myths; it needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.’
Bertrand Russell
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BUNCH OF WHITE PEOPLE ON FACEBOOK DECIDED THAT IM OPPRESSED CUZ I WEAR THE SCARF. AFTER THAT ARGUMENT FAILED, THEY SAID I DIDN’T KNOW I WAS OPPRESSED BECAUSE ISLAM DOES THAT TO PEOPLE. AFTER THAT, THEY DECIDED THAT BECAUSE I LIVE IN AUSTRALIA, I DONT KNOW WHAT THOSE THIRD WORLD WOMEN ARE SUFFERING FROM IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES. TO WHICH I SAY, FUCK YOU. THIS OBSESSION WITH SCARF IS ENABLING INSTITUTIONS OF POWER THAT ARE ABLE TO DICTATE WOMEN’S BODIES TO STAY IN PLACE.
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As of December 2012, it is estimated at least 176 children were killed by drones.
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