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liberalreader:

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor there see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

- John Steinbeck

(via theworldisconfused)

"Man, Danny Ainge I gotta get you on Weight Watchers."

"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it."

(Source: howimadeam0nster, via metheliving)

"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."

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"What the president, the Democrats, always do is, they want to make Republicans look like they’re heartless. Actually, we care about people."

Mitt Romney, on the campaign trail in Ohio today.

If by “people,” you mean “fetuses and corporations,” then sure.

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Are these the same people Mr Romney enjoys firing?

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"I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously."

(via cocknbull)

"I’ll tell you what you did with Atheists for about 1500 years. You outlawed them from the universities, or any teaching careers, besmirched their reputations, banned or burned their books or their writings of any kind, drove them into exile, humiliated them, seized their properties, arrested them for blasphemy. You dehumanized them with beatings and exquisite torture, gouged out their eyes, slit their tongues, stretched, crushed, or broke their limbs, tore off their breasts if they were a woman, crushed their scrotums if they were men, imprisoned them, stabbed them, disemboweled them, hung them, burnt them alive. And you have the nerve enough to complain to me that I laugh at you."

(via metheliving)

"I try to pretend like it’s not a big deal. But really, it’s a big fuckin’ deal"

"No one knows enough to be an atheist."

— Deepak Chopra (via evaevawilcox)

People know enough to be a theist, though?

Wow horrible quote. Atheism has nothing to do with knowledge. It applies to belief.

(via intheshadowofyggdrasil)

"Chris Christie has given you his answer, so stop grinding up against him and asking if you can just put the tip in."

"Because they don’t teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about democracy. If schools were, in reality, democratic, there would be no need to bombard students with platitudes about democracy. They would simply act and behave democratically, and we know this does not happen. The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is."

Noam Chomsky (via r-i-o-t)

Which explains the Republicans’ constant yammering on about it.

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sugaredvenom:

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"It’s President Obama’s birthday this week! Unless the Republicans made him give that up too."

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"Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said early reports of the new deal appeared to be “a sugar-coated Satan sandwich.” The Missouri Democrat said the CBC hadn’t yet made a formal declaration that the group would oppose it, “but this is a shady bill."

Debt Deal Emerging With Rightward Tilt : Roll Call News (via brooklynmutt)

Reblogging for “sugar-coated Satan sandwich”.

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