Necessary & Proper





Morgan: 18, New York
Liv: 17, Chicago

We are two students at a gap year school in Southern France who have come to find that our societal and political frustrations cannot simply be kept at bay. So we're gonna rant.


 
lovelyv0nne: Amurr’ca

lovelyv0nne:

Amurr’ca

wrecklusive: fightfighters: misantrophywife: theresolutionyear: thepoetfromthehood: missdimples2012: I was speaking with a Black friend of mine earlier today about this and he brought up a great point. The Elite, White media can literally stir an entire Nation into a frenzy over the massacre of 20 suburban white children but simply overlook the deaths of over 100 Black children in Chicago. Wake up,  People, you are being played by the Government and the Media. All children should be equal in the eyes of our Government. Truth. “They don’t give a fuck about us” - Tupac Shakur We talked about this in my history class last week. The media is absolutely absurd.  Signal boosting the fuck out of this. if anyone wanted a list, here they are. all 107 children. it’s all such bullshit CT already banned assault rifles, criminals do not listen to LAWS like fuck don’t take innocent peoples guns away when they OBVIOUSLY need them now more than ever fuck.

wrecklusive:

fightfighters:

misantrophywife:

theresolutionyear:

thepoetfromthehood:

missdimples2012:

I was speaking with a Black friend of mine earlier today about this and he brought up a great point. The Elite, White media can literally stir an entire Nation into a frenzy over the massacre of 20 suburban white children but simply overlook the deaths of over 100 Black children in Chicago. Wake up,  People, you are being played by the Government and the Media. All children should be equal in the eyes of our Government.

Truth.

“They don’t give a fuck about us” - Tupac Shakur

We talked about this in my history class last week. The media is absolutely absurd. 

Signal boosting the fuck out of this.

if anyone wanted a list, here they are. all 107 children.

it’s all such bullshit CT already banned assault rifles, criminals do not listen to LAWS like fuck don’t take innocent peoples guns away when they OBVIOUSLY need them now more than ever fuck.

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wherearemyeyeballs: liberalsarecool: America: where pro-life has nothing to do with a baby or a mother. way to go canada

wherearemyeyeballs:

liberalsarecool:

America: where pro-life has nothing to do with a baby or a mother.

way to go canada

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anarcho-queer: NYPD Arrests Homeless Man And Puts Him In Body Bag Thursday (December 20) afternoon in midtown New York City (57th street and 10th avenue) a handful of NYPD thugs stood around waiting for an ambulance to pick up a man they had arrested and then put into a bodybag. The bag covered the man´s entire body, except for his boots. The man could be heard saying to the officers, “You´ve had me on the ground for an hour! I can´t get transported or nothing!? when you take this off my eyes, I´m taking everybody´s names and numbers!” In response, the officers just stood around laughing because they know, just as well as we all do, that NYPD officers can get away with almost any kind of mental, verbal, or physical abuse and violence against those they arrest. When the ambulance finally arrived, the officers picked up the man, still in the bag, and roughly put him onto a stretcher. The ambulance took him away. It is thought that the man might be one of the neighborhood´s homeless people who often sit in front of stores in the area. It is not known by us what the situation was that led up to the arrest, or why the officers put the man into the bag. The fact that he was sent away in an ambulance, and not in a police car, is indicative that the man had health problems. Related: Oakland Police hogties woman, puts a bag over her face and strap her to a stretcher

anarcho-queer:

NYPD Arrests Homeless Man And Puts Him In Body Bag

Thursday (December 20) afternoon in midtown New York City (57th street and 10th avenue) a handful of NYPD thugs stood around waiting for an ambulance to pick up a man they had arrested and then put into a bodybag. The bag covered the man´s entire body, except for his boots.

The man could be heard saying to the officers, “You´ve had me on the ground for an hour! I can´t get transported or nothing!? when you take this off my eyes, I´m taking everybody´s names and numbers!” In response, the officers just stood around laughing because they know, just as well as we all do, that NYPD officers can get away with almost any kind of mental, verbal, or physical abuse and violence against those they arrest.

When the ambulance finally arrived, the officers picked up the man, still in the bag, and roughly put him onto a stretcher. The ambulance took him away. It is thought that the man might be one of the neighborhood´s homeless people who often sit in front of stores in the area. It is not known by us what the situation was that led up to the arrest, or why the officers put the man into the bag. The fact that he was sent away in an ambulance, and not in a police car, is indicative that the man had health problems.

Related: Oakland Police hogties woman, puts a bag over her face and strap her to a stretcher

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veracache Asked:

Yeah, I hope your generation ushers in a higher level of consciousness.

i think we’re all going to hope the same thing…i just wonder for how long

politics-war: Fashionistas pose for photographs in front of a homeless man outside Moynihan station following a showing of the Rag & Bone spring/summer 2013 collection during New York fashion week. Photograph: Lucas Jackson My life in manhattan. fuck materialism and fashion and greedy empty shit.

politics-war:

Fashionistas pose for photographs in front of a homeless man outside Moynihan station following a showing of the Rag & Bone spring/summer 2013 collection during New York fashion week.

Photograph: Lucas Jackson

My life in manhattan. fuck materialism and fashion and greedy empty shit.

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lascocks: arabianidiot: chihuahuawho: History in the making; Saudi women walking proudly among the Olympic athletes for the first time ever This is a huge deal, guys.  work work work it girls

lascocks:

arabianidiot:

chihuahuawho:

History in the making; Saudi women walking proudly among the Olympic athletes for the first time ever

This is a huge deal, guys. 

work work work it girls

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a brief personal rant/vent… (i apologize in advance)

We’re used to surrounding ourselves with people we mostly share similar values and opinions with in our personal lives… we choose our friends, who we of course disagree with at times, but find mutual respect in our disagreements. We don’t get to choose our family members, or people we work with, and contrasting values and morals inevitably surface.

I’m nineteen, and consequently don’t have many options in terms of work. This summer I’m working an $8/hour (plus gratefully accepted tips) job at a local ice cream and frozen yogurt joint. It’s fine and fun at times, but my co-workers and I are very different. One guy has crossed a lot of respectful co-worker boundaries with hitting on me, asking me out several times after kind, clear denials, etc… Not a big deal, but slightly inappropriate in my eyes, especially given our age difference.

Anyway, after a couple months there I’ve accumulated some frustrations.

I’m someone who cares about people and will respect someone simply because they are a person and therefore deserve respect. I don’t just fight for what I see best for my own life, but for the rights I feel people in general deserve. I’m empathetic, kind, and respectful, apparently to a fault. My co-workers call me a humanitarian and a humanist, said in a derogatory way. I’ve been a vegetarian for five years, and they make fun of me for it and say that it’s not a problem because they’ll eat three animals for every one that I ‘save.’ They say Americans are stupid because they’ll start crying over a sick puppy but walk right past a dying human on the street. They think it’s funny that I bring a reusable water bottle to work each day and fill it with tap water. (Gross! Tap water in New York?! I drank it in South Africa and was fine.) Each time they retrieve a fresh Poland Spring bottle, tossing an empty one in the trash (note: not recycling) they say, laughing, “Oh, you just love seeing that waste pile up, don’t you?” They say global warming and the overall condition of Earth doesn’t matter since we’ll be dead and gone long before it adds up to any kind of destruction that will directly impact us; so it doesn’t really matter. They call me a hippie. Sometimes in lieu of my name.

That pisses me off. But I have a pretty thick skin. What really bothers me is the sexist shit. They call me naive because I believe I can be friends with a straight male. (“No, there is no such thing as friendship between a straight man and woman, unless the chick is ugly, or fat. As attractive as you are, guys will always want more. You really think your straight friends are actually your friends? Hahahahhahahha…”) Today, they were telling me about views expressed by my sixteen-year-old co-worker: “She calls herself an anti-feminist. She values role-playing—women are supposed to cook and clean, while men bring home the bacon, like it’s supposed to be. The woman makes sure her husband never goes hungry. He’s the dominant one, she’s subordinate. I LOVE IT!”

I was dumbfounded. I work for these people, so I often maintain a straight face and nod along, but I had a horrible headache this afternoon and couldn’t contain my disgust and anger. How can a woman view herself this way? Have so little respect for herself and everyone of her own sex? Be so oblivious to the enormous strides made by women before her in their fight for equality? How, as a woman, can you proudly label yourself an anti-feminist?!

Just another complaint….

I’m quite sick of Planned Parenthood and things of the like being closed, thanks to some nasty republican bullshit. I drove by one yesterday, all closed up, ready for some other failed business attempt. This just promotes lack of education and lack of choice for women  who can’t afford another option. I guess nobody gives a shit about overpopulation. So, just another fuck you to republicans.

anarchist revival? →
girlinboyclothes: “Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didn’t have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no delinquents. Without a prison, there can be no delinquents. We had no locks nor keys and therefore among us there were no thieves.When someone was so poor that he couldn’t afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift. We were too uncivilized to give great importance to private property. We didn’t know any kind of money and consequently, the value of a human being was not determined by his wealth. We had no written laws laid down, no lawyers, no politicians, therefore we were not able to cheat and swindle one another.We were really in bad shape before the white men arrived and I don’t know how to explain how we were able to manage without these fundamental things that (so they tell us) are so necessary for a civilized society.” — John (Fire) Lame Deer, Sioux Lakota, 1903-1976.

girlinboyclothes:

“Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didn’t have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no delinquents. Without a prison, there can be no delinquents. We had no locks nor keys and therefore among us there were no thieves.When someone was so poor that he couldn’t afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift. We were too uncivilized to give great importance to private property. We didn’t know any kind of money and consequently, the value of a human being was not determined by his wealth. We had no written laws laid down, no lawyers, no politicians, therefore we were not able to cheat and swindle one another.We were really in bad shape before the white men arrived and I don’t know how to explain how we were able to manage without these fundamental things that (so they tell us) are so necessary for a civilized society.” — John (Fire) Lame Deer, Sioux Lakota, 1903-1976.

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Hollande….

France has a new president. Finally, Sarkozy is out. France again is under a socialist president for the first time for over 20 years. I hope he can pull France up. But France is beginning to think capitalism would be a good idea. I say heeeellll no, and thank god a socialist is in power. Let’s hope he doesn’t make the French fall asleep…

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