Barkley: 'Brainwashed' Blacks Hold Up Success By Breeanna Hare, CNN, Cnn.com

I love this woman's work. She deftly captured the fiery, beautiful essence of the Highland sprawl of my family's ancestral roots, the Isle of Skye, in glorious Scotland.

Photography by Xuebing DU

I'm not endorsing the man, but look around you, wherever you are in the world, and ignore the incessant babble and lies, the painted, staged scenes. After you've closed off the interference and static of the world's leaders and businesses and celebrities, begin to FEEL what is true and real. It will awaken you. To awaken from the slavers. Awake is what we need, not Woke. Woke is a diversion, a script that other people have written for the lesser of us all...

What does it mean if I see a donkey?

That’s a horse’s head, tho.

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I thought that Supreme Court Justice were supposed to be impartial and well-removed from political affiliation and influences while delivering opinions and decisions on matters facing the Court....

But I guess it's okay for the Democrats to give her an atta-girl for successfully riding out (with a packed and stacked Congress) the confirmation hearings' stormy seas... I mean it's not like she's a shill or anything for pedophiles and other sex offenders in high places... not that there are any of those types in the federal government, Congress or the White House...

This has got be one of my favorite photographs of all time. It offers up so much, from the half-tones, b&w treatments, texture, composition, detail, color theory, and contrast, that I could spend days just meditating on it, absorbing it all.

Fanart and fanfic are still in the works… Just terribly stressed and busy.

From my urban adventure the other day… A fun view that always gives me mild vertigo.

Regardless of the white noise pollution that coughs up from the frothing crowd, this collaborative work was brilliant, imaginative, funny, intelligent and some of the best music I've encountered today. Superior stuff. This is what the Internet is for me. Keep the bullshit politics, posturing, and the stench of the roiling cesspool generated by people who like to swim stick waters, and just give me art, literature and beautiful, provocative music.

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Wag the Dog - Wikipedia

Read slowly and deliberately...

And while doing so, please don't ignore those itchy feelings that ripple underneath your skin as if to say: You're seeing this movie, again or for the first time, as it is being produced. Ukraine is the new Albania, much to the delight of a certain mockish President...

Let's just pop this into the "Good Shit to Know" category...

Heres your reminder to use literally anything but chrome

If I were inclined to wage a pointless war with someone given over to vast, sweeping generalizations, I would have to counter the OP, by asking: Does capitalism truly suck, or is it more that your grasp of that system and your aptitude for creating income and wealth suck?

I'm thinking it's the latter. Its archetypal of this site's population...

Sorry to all the BO$$ BABES out there but working sucks, money worship sucks, capitalism sucks, online influencing sucks.

Where do these people come from? Is there some hole in space that vomits forth moronic, race-baiting douche canoes, whose entire existence hinges upon them "connecting all the dots" to make everything about race? Hey, if you want to change things, then start having conversations and interactions with people while neglecting skin pigment. Focusing on skin pigment is wrong any way you look at it. People should be recognized for the value they possess, not their ancestry. When you rant about race and "take up the cause" for others who did not necessarily ask you for those things, you are truly mocking them and shoving them into controversy. Let it the fuck alone! Do some good ok, instead of adding to the bad...

Something I think a lot of fantasy roleplaying fans don’t pick up on is that the reason many games’ depictions of orcs and other “monstrous races” get criticised for being racist isn’t just because they’re dark-skinned and evil.

I mean, yes, there’s that, but it’s also that a lot of the tropes that are associated with orcs and such in fantasy RPGs are literally eugenicist rhetoric – and, more specifically, anti-Black eugenicist rhetoric – with the serial numbers lightly sanded off.

Like, you ever notice how common the following elements are?

Being capable of using complex tool and weapons, but relying on raiding and pillaging to obtain them, not because they’re incapable of making them, but because they’re simply too congenitally lazy to do so

Having an intrinsic drive to despoil and corrupt the fruits of civilisation, and in particular, taking pleasure in destroying beautiful things specifically because they’re beautiful

Being treated as childishly superstitious for believing in evil spirits, even though such treatment makes no sense from a worldbuilding perspective because they live in a fantasy setting and evil ghosts are objectively real

Reproducing rapidly and reaching sexual maturity quickly, typically at an age when a human would still be a child, with great emphasis placed on the danger of them “outbreeding” civilised peoples if left unchecked

Lusting for the women of other species, resulting in all manner of twisted half-breeds; “heroic” members of their kind are typically drawn from these half-breeds, who must struggle constantly with their base natures

Seriously, a lot of this stuff is copied and pasted directly from 19th Century eugenicist screeds about the intrinsic inferiority of the Black race – they basically just scratched out the n-word and wrote in “orc”.

(And no, you can’t pass it off as folks imitating Tolkien without realising what they were doing. While Tolkien’s orcs undeniably employ racist imagery and stereotypes, there it’s mostly anti-East Asian stuff, not anti-Black stuff. The incorporation of explicitly anti-Black tropes into fantasy fiction’s depiction of orcs is a more recent development, and at least some of the folks doing it absolutely knew what they were up to.)