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me after three 6h exams this week

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hmmm

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tbh at this point someone could point a gun to my head and i still wouldn’t study

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people acting like diversity is inherently a political statement or sjw bullshit are so fucking stupid like… thats just how the world is. its almost like the real world is diverse and that its unnatural for media to not reflect this… like these people literally get mad about female protagonists, gay protagonists or protagonists of color bc its “political correctness gone too far” like idk how to explain to you that poc, lgbt people and women existing isnt political correctness its just life dude

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There is strong evidence that the U.S.-U.S.S.R. hostilities of the Cold War years were provokes not so much by the alleged Soviet plans to attack the United States, or its allies, but by the fact that U.S. guardians of world capitalism simply could not tolerate the presence of a planned economy anywhere in the world- a market fundamentalism of fanaticism that continues to this day.  These self-appointed custodians or prophets of the worldwide market mechanism were (and continue to be) intolerant not only of the centrally planned, Soviet-type economies but, in fact, of any ‘undue’ government intervention in the economic affairs of any country in the world.  'Regimented economies,’ declared President Harry Truman in a speech at Baylor University (1947), were the enemy of free enterprise , and 'unless we act, and act decisively,’ those regimented economies would become 'the pattern of the next century.'  To fend off that danger, Truman urged that 'the whole world should adopt the American system.'  The system of free enterprise, he went on, 'could survive in American only if it becomes a world system.’ This was an honest acknowledgement of what in effect amounts to a sacred mission that has guided the foreign policy of the United States ever since it emerged as a world power.  Although the mission of globalizing the American system has always been carried out in the name of spreading democracy, the essence of that mission is not very different from what Lord Cecil Rhodes, who conquered much of Africa for British imperialism, suggested long time ago: the simplest way to achieve peace was for England to convert and add the rest of the world to its colonies. There is convincing evidence that not only Joseph Stalin and his successors in the Soviet Union had no plans to wage war against the United States of its allies but that, in fact, they played a restraining role to contain independent revolutionary movements worldwide.  'It is often forgotten,’ points out Sidney Lens, 'that for a few years after the war, he [Stalin] assumed an exceedingly moderate posture… His nation had lost 25 million people in the war, was desperately in need of aid for rebuilding, and continued for a long time to nurture hopes of coexistence.  Far from being revolutionary, Stalin in those years put the damper on revolution wherever he could.  To accommodate the United States and other Western powers in the hope of peaceful coexistence, Stalin often advised, and sometimes ordered, the pro-Moscow communist/left parties in Europe and elsewhere in the world to refrain from revolutionary policies that might jeopardize the hoped-for chances of coexistence.  The Soviet leader 'scoffed at communism in Germany,’ writes historian Fleming, 'urged the Italian Reds to make peace with the monarchy, did his best to induce Mao Tse-tung to come to terms with the Kuomintang and angrily demanded of Tito that he back the monarchy, thus fulfilling his (Stalin’s) bargain with Churchill… Evidence thus clearly suggests that the U.S. policy makers built the gigantic military-industrial complex not out of genuine fear of Soviet military attack but out of other motives.  Top among those motives, as pointed out earlier, was to establish a U.S.-led world capitalist order in which unhindered market forces would flourish, a world no part of which would be excluded from the free flow of trade and investment.  William Appleman Williams, documenting U.S. policy makers’ statements at the end of the war, shows how those policy makers believed that the United States’ objective must be to seek 'world power as a trustee for civilization.'  He also quotes business and government leaders referring to the U.S. role as 'missionaries of capitalism and democracy.'  More revealing, however, was Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson’s testimony before a congressional committee in 1944: 'It is a problem of markets… We have got to see what the country produces is used and sold under financial arrangements which make its production possible.'  Under a different economic system, Acheson conceded, 'you could use the entire production of the country in the United States,’ but under our system of market mechanism, the government 'must look to foreign markets.'  If it didn’t, he continued, 'it seems clear that we are in for a very bad time… having the most far-reaching consequences upon our economic and social system.’

Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism

Reminder that any sane look at the Soviet Union after World War 2 shows that it had little to no ability (or intent) to war with the United States, or even export communism past its borders.  The Cold War was a ploy the strengthen U.S. dominance in other parts of the world and finish the job of replacing the British Empire.

(via zwischenstadt)

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the whole “fiction doesn’t affect reality” argument is actually kinda racist…

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Rey by Dermot Power, Costume Concept Artist for The Force Awakens

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quick photo study, trying couple things with the brushwork. follow my instagram! https://www.instagram.com/algenpfleger/

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So I was telling some guy online about how my home country has madnatory military service for men but not for women, and once I change my legal sex, their systems will recognise me as a man who has not done military service yet so I’ll get the summons automatically.

 He was like what the fuck where do you live, North Korea?

 And that’s where I do finger guns like nope, I’m from Finland, the most wholesome fucking place in the universe. I’m also in line for compulsory sterilisation and probably can’t adopt.

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Minä klo 9: Tänään teen asian X

Minä klo 12: Kohta alan tekee

Minä klo 15: Jos pienen "tauon" jälkeen aloittais

Minä klo 18: Jos sitä söis ensin

Minä klo 21: Vois huomenna tehä asian X

Toista joka päivä kunnes asia X tulee tehdyksi

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They are a sign that this forest is healthy

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Viewing politics as a spectrum with a ‘middle’ and ‘extremes’ is a really powerful and dangerous ideological concept. The prevailing ideology decides what constitutes the middle, its arbitrary, it doesn’t represent any sort of ‘balance’ or any other properties outside of its material content. If your ideology occupies the ‘middle’ space, it’s because the ideas constituting it are normalized in the prevailing mainstream, which speaks to the position of power it occupies, not to its inherent truth, practicality, or morality. There is no such thing as neutral, inaction and abstention are passive support of the underlying power structures of our society.

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John Boyega photographed by Patrik Giardino for Men’s Health UK