safflower [she/her]
Im pretty sure tsar and Kaiser mean caesar too
Proles of the Round Table! The End of History and the History of Art are my fav episodes
My aunt in florida died from covid last christmas eve. She worked from home & took it pretty seriously. Sucks really hard.
Salmonella outbreak in my city so I have to stop putting my feeder out temporarily :'(
Howard Zinn! I perused his quotes page on goodreads, and here are some examples, but there are so many to choose from. Some of these are excerpts from his play about Marx but you wouldn’t have to include that bit of info
“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.”
“History is important. If you don’t know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it.”
“But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is… to tell the truth.”
“The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.”
“You can’t be neutral on a moving train.”
“But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.”
“Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.”
“Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is.”
Holy shit that’s VILE
I was homeschooled by southern baptists who eventually turned into self proclaimed “reformed” baptists/ Calvinists. Neither parents were college educated, and i was constantly reminded that my gender required a male guardian even in adulthood, and that my godly purpose was to obey and procreate. i still have social anxiety, intimacy issues, and im terribly insecure about my education, especially math. I dont talk to my family at all anymore either. They would hate what ive become ( a communist with no children or husband!)
How can you boo hillary then do this
They’re gonna use it to hold over everyone’s head to get people to vote for highly unlikable kamala
