Superintendent’s an Apple shareholder

Absolutely no way this is gonna backfire at all.  I wonder how much replacing lost or stolen Apple products is gonna cost the poor kids?  I bet none of these kids are just gonna use these things for personal use at all, or maybe the school will put all manner of blocks on them so the kids don’t give a shit about the product in the end.  Man, with how much people carry on about how the U.S. spends nothing on education (which is bullshit http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=66) I find it funny schools are wasting millions on shitty Apple products.  Worst thing is, people are gonna scream about free market capitalism as the culprit for bad public sector policy.

http://reason.com/archives/2013/06/18/nsa-scandal-how-leaks-advance-liberty-an

For all the people I know who don’t agree with me on things, throw shade at the strawman they’ve made in place of what I actually think, and are just cantankerous sass mouths, I haven’t heard no one yet think that the NSA wiretapping all the things, holding companies rights to do any business until they comply, or just forcing their way in secretly is a good thing.  I got some sweet friends people.  Too bad we don’t live in a country that treats its own citizens better

captioningcrusader:

The basic plot of every Star Trek episode ever.

Based off this post (x)

Toolishly reblogged to have forever on my page

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Holy shiz, new Revocation.  What do you know about freedom, thrash, or anything else?

wehadfacesthen:

Katharine Hepburn, 1936, with her hair cut short for Sylvia Scarlett

If loving this makes me a communist then sign me up and gimme some goddammed utilitarian brown work clothes.  It isn’t you say?  Awesome!  Short hair lady folk ftw

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1pint:

me on my way to steal yo man

Old man swagger reporting for duty.  Ain’t no Abercrombie on that back

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animenigga:

Old Man Logan

Wolverine kills Jubilee

Mark Millar and Steve McNiven

actually really sad.

And from then on, he ventured into the forest for all major holidays.  For him, fireworks were dead forever

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earth-song:

This image was taken now on RJ-Brazil. 

Thousands and thousands of Brazilians who living in the state of Rio de Janeiro not accepted, and with reason, increased passage of transportation.

The BRAZIL WOKE UP!THIS IS BEAUTIFUL!!

And this is what happens when a state thinks they can run an economy upwards as opposed to from the bottom up.  People will go apeshit on you over a small bus fee increase.  The government of Brazil apparently didn’t learn much of the failing of mercantilism

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But Yojimbo does justice for money.  POLICING FOR PROFIT!  How effin dare you vulgar libertarian scum

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whakatikatika:

utilitymaximiser:

Henri Rochefort is reported to have said in an interview the other day: “Anarchists are merely criminals. They are robbers. They want no government whatever, so that, when they meet you on the street, they can knock you down and rob you.” This infamous and libellous charge is a very sweeping one; I only wish that I could honestly meet it with as sweeping a denial. And I can, if I restrict the word Anarchist as it always has been restricted in these columns, and as it ought to be restricted everywhere and always. Confining the word Anarchist so as to include none but those who deny all external authority over the individual, whether that of the present State or that of some industrial collectivity or commune which the future may produce, I can look Henri Rochefort in the face and say: “You lie!” For of all these men I do not recall even one who, in any ordinary sense of the term, can be justly styled a robber.

But unfortunately, in the minds of the people at large, this word Anarchist is not yet thus restricted in meaning. This is due principally to the fact that within a few years the word has been usurped, in the face of all logic and consistency, by a party of Communists who believe in a tyranny worse than any that now exists, who deny to the laborer the individual possession of his product, and who preach to their followers the following doctrine: “Private property is your enemy; it is the beast that is devouring you; all wealth belongs to everybody; take it wherever you can find it; have no scruples about the means of taking it; use dynamite, the dagger, or the torch to take it; kill innocent people to take it; but, at all events, take it.” This is the doctrine which they call Anarchy, and this policy they dignify with the name of “propagandism by the deed.”

— Benjamin Tucker, Liberty (March 27, 1886), The Beast of Communism, Part VI. Methods.

It seems pretty clear that Tucker regarded anti-propertarian anarchists as being usurpers of the anarchist doctrine from the individualist propertarians, and not the other way round.

I try to avoid caring or commenting on the silly narrative that says largely wrong things like “libertarian and anarchist originally meant anti-propertarian socialist before those American capitalists stole the former and attempted to steal the latter” because such etymological bickering is almost completely unimportant and irrelevant to anything. However those left-libertarians who try to use Benjamin Tucker as some evidence in this semantic regard are seriously misguided or ignorant. See in addition to the passage above:

The editor of the Herald of Revolt has gone farther than to express the opinion that I am not an Anarchist, and it is perfectly proper that he should do so. It is a liberty that I have taken repeatedly with reference to Johann Most, Kropotkin, Emma Goldman, and numerous other so-called Anarchists, and there is no reason why their sympathizers should not retaliate in kind.

I do not agree with Mr. Owen that Anarchism does not commit its adherents to any economic dogma. Anarchism is a word without meaning, unless it includes the liberty of the individual to control his product or whatever his product has brought him through exchange in a free market—that is, private property. Whoever denies private property is of necessity an Archist. This excludes from Anarchism all believers in compulsory Communism. As for the believers in voluntary Communism (of whom there are precious few), they are of necessity believers in the liberty to hold private property, for to pool one’s possessions with those of others is nothing more or less than an exercise of proprietorship.

— Benjamin Tucker, “Anarchism and Property” (1913)

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.

— Benjamin Tucker, ”The Baskette Collection” (1933) 

Holy damn, I’m rebloggin this for posterity.  Benjamin Tucker for the win. Look upon his words and be stoked that such a man once was.

Ok, i’m getting the feeling someone else started a shit-fit on tumblr and now i’m taking the heat for it.  Well played tylerferrari!

enemyofthestatist:

chrisray:

enemyofthestatist:

chrisray:

enemyofthestatist:

tylerferrari:

The biggest joke Tumblr killed was communism.

dismissing legitimate schools of thought without understanding them is always cool.

Nah, Tumblr killed communism pretty terribly.  I mean, when you actively hate any private ownership of anything that could be deemed useful to someone else, and then you carry on about it on a privately owned for profit website, you pretty much just strangled Karl Marx’s gross ass beard. 

says an anarchist who probably went to public school and probably drives on roads.

That’s a shitty argument. Of course people who are communists use things that are privately owned, and in fact, even privately own things themselves. It’s the only way to survive in modern society, just the same as using public roads and public schools is the only way for a lot of people to survive.

A lot of anarchists on here need to get over their self-righteous “other forms of anarchy are stupid” phase and realize that anarchy is anarchy.

Dude, I am absolutely for people setting up all manner of different ways of doing things.  That said, I have literally had people scream at me that when the revolution happens, I’d be an enemy combatant just like the capitalist scum and taken away with them.  Don’t throw shade at me man, I’m pretty down with whatever voluntary associations people want.  It isn’t my fault that allowing someone to privately own stuff has made people actually hate me.  I’m down with Karl Hess my friend, anarchy without hyphens, people taking it upon themselves to be decent to one another and not be a dick.

Also, not a damn person asked me about the roads or the schools, my family and I were obliged to pay for those things whether we wanted or not.  Can’t say that about a tumblr account can you?

So because some people who are communists are dicks, the entire philosophy is wrong? What the fuck must that mean for libertarianism or really any political philosophy you care to name.

So what if you payed for them? You could sure show that evil government by not using their free things! I’m never going to fault anyone for using a free service, even if they aren’t crazy about how it came to be. Sorry.

Willfully using a privately owned for profit service isn’t the same as being forced by law to go to and fund public school (which suck ass by the way, yet again, no say in the matter) or use the roads (which were built by crony companies often handed sweet heart deals with money taken from me, yet again no real say).  The first, willfully making a tumblr account, isn’t the same as the second group, using roads I was already forced to pay for, that are the only roads allowed anywhere I might live outside of a neighborhood private drive (even then the cities often subsidize that shit), or being forced to go a shitty public schools that my family and now I am forced to support with what we earn.  Every anarchist in any city is forced to deal with the state, and robbed to fund it, regardless of ideology.  My point before wasn’t that assholes in a group (which are often gonna be the minority of said group) means you dismiss the group, it was that their are way more collectivist anarchists who are actively slamming the doors of their glass houses.  I believe in anarchy in the sense that it allows almost infinite possibilities for people to exist in a society, voluntary associations can take all manner of form, some I want to be a part of, and some not.

That aside man, I think personal socialism and having a personal code of ethics in line with communism can translate into people taking it upon themselves to help and care about others.  It doesn’t always, but it can, and I think that is absolutely great.  If someone reads Das Kapital and is inspired to go out and feed the hell outta people who need the food, or reads the Bible and does the same, at the end of the day people in need are being helped and fed.  Motivations aren’t as important as actions, which is why although I believe in market anarchy, I don’t need other people to believe it as long as they aren’t being dicks.

enemyofthestatist:

chrisray:

enemyofthestatist:

tylerferrari:

The biggest joke Tumblr killed was communism.

dismissing legitimate schools of thought without understanding them is always cool.

Nah, Tumblr killed communism pretty terribly.  I mean, when you actively hate any private ownership of anything that could be deemed useful to someone else, and then you carry on about it on a privately owned for profit website, you pretty much just strangled Karl Marx’s gross ass beard. 

says an anarchist who probably went to public school and probably drives on roads.

That’s a shitty argument. Of course people who are communists use things that are privately owned, and in fact, even privately own things themselves. It’s the only way to survive in modern society, just the same as using public roads and public schools is the only way for a lot of people to survive.

A lot of anarchists on here need to get over their self-righteous “other forms of anarchy are stupid” phase and realize that anarchy is anarchy.

Dude, I am absolutely for people setting up all manner of different ways of doing things.  That said, I have literally had people scream at me that when the revolution happens, I’d be an enemy combatant just like the capitalist scum and taken away with them.  Don’t throw shade at me man, I’m pretty down with whatever voluntary associations people want.  It isn’t my fault that allowing someone to privately own stuff has made people actually hate me.  I’m down with Karl Hess my friend, anarchy without hyphens, people taking it upon themselves to be decent to one another and not be a dick.

Also, not a damn person asked me about the roads or the schools, my family and I were obliged to pay for those things whether we wanted or not.  Can’t say that about a tumblr account can you?

enemyofthestatist:

tylerferrari:

The biggest joke Tumblr killed was communism.

dismissing legitimate schools of thought without understanding them is always cool.

Nah, Tumblr killed communism pretty terribly.  I mean, when you actively hate any private ownership of anything that could be deemed useful to someone else, and then you carry on about it on a privately owned for profit website, you pretty much just strangled Karl Marx’s gross ass beard. 

dudeistlibertarian:

the-absolute-best-gifs:

Jon Stewart, explaining to young people why books are awesome.

But rather than carry around one big bulky book you can carry around hundreds on your tablet device. 

So I don’t really see the point he’s trying to make. 

Shit, if you are a stickler for only carrying around one book, you can just have the same book on your kindle or pad device 100 times and it magically doesn’t weigh any more.  Any book in pdf downloaded for stupid cheap or just free.  Man, fuck that noise

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