Favourite Quotes

[Canna Chameleon]

I call and raise!

 

[florduh]

Happy January 6th Eve to all who celebrate!

The suburbs dream of violence. Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world…
—JG Ballard, Kingdom Come

 

[macbill]

 

[florduh]

 

[florduh]

 

[just_the_flu]

 

[vapviking]

"The medium is the message."
Marshall McLuhan, 1964

The medium is the message - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Canna Chameleon]

 

[florduh]

Just a reminder that the Feds didn't murder MLK because he said we should judge a man by the content of his character.

 

[Ramahs]

 

[macbill]

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. -- George Orwell, "1984"

 

[Bologna]

 

[macbill]

 

[Canna Chameleon]

 

[Canna Chameleon]

 

[macbill]

 

[florduh]

*it's even worse because you still have to wait in line for "free market healthcare" as well

 

[NYC_Frank]

 

[florduh]

 

[florduh]

Refaat Alareer, a professor and writer, penned this poem on November 1st, 2023

Refaat died in a targeted airstrike on the school he, his brother, sister and her 3 children were sheltering in on December 7th, 2023. He is survived by his wife and 6 children.

 

[Bologna]

 

[Bologna]

Ok, how about this one then...?:

Boxing Only Full Fights on Instagram: "Mike Tyson gives his simple comparison of Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. "Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people, greatness is being accepted by the people.""

48K likes, 495 comments - onlyfullfights on February 11, 2024: "Mike Tyson gives his simple comparison of Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. "Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people, g...".

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[florduh]

“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.”​

― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Putting it more poetically:

 

[just_the_flu]

 

[macbill]

“You don't see too many people brag about passing a dementia test.”
- Al Franken