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Man I'm tired, and I just realized I'm using my kindle, which means this is my old blog...ugh

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I took the gift of being near them for granted

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It is the single most vile, most twisted piece of porn ever made. 

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being a female means avoiding eye contact with men to not draw attention to yourself as a potential target

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Good afternoon. As of today, I am officially a former ‘digital media specialist’ (a nice way to say ‘paid Internet troll’) previously employed by Hillary Clinton’s campaign, through a PR firm. I’m posting here today as a confession of sorts because I can no longer continue to participate in something that has become morally-indigestible for me. Just to give you an idea, here are some of the guidelines for our posting in October:1) Sexism. This was the biggest one we were supposed to push. We had to smear Bernie as misogynistic and out-of-touch with modern sensibilities. He was to be characterized as ‘an old white male relic that believed women enjoyed being gang raped’. Anyone who tried to object to this characterization would be repeatedly slammed as sexist until they went away or people lost interest. 2) Racism. We were instructed to hammer home how Bernie supporters were all privileged white students that had no idea how the world worked. We had to tout Hillary’s great record with ‘the blacks’ (yes, that’s the actual way it was phrased), and generally use racial identity politics to attack Sanders and bolster Hillary as the only unifying figure. 3) Electability. All of those posts about how Sanders can never win and Hillary is inevitable? Some of those were us, done deliberately in an attempt to demoralize Bernie supporters and convince them to stop campaigning for him. The problem is that this was an outright fabrication and not an accurate assessment of the current political situation. But the truth didn’t matter – we were trying to create a new truth, not to spread the existing truth. 4) Dirty tactics. This is where things got really bad. We were instructed to create narratives of Clinton supporters as being victimized by Sanders supporters, even if they were entirely fabricated. There were different instructions about how to do it, but something like this liberal blog’s post about a ‘disheartened’ Hillary supporter is a perfect example. These kind of posts are manufactured to divide and demoralize Sanders supporters, and are entirely artificial in nature. The same thing happened in 2008 with Obama Boys, but it wasn’t as noticeable before social media and public attention focused on popular forums like Reddit.5) Opponent outreach. There are several forums and imageboards where Sanders is not very popular (I think you can imagine which ones those are.) We were instructed to make pro-Sanders troll posts to rile up the user base and then try to goad them into raiding or attacking places like this subreddit. This was probably the only area where we only had mixed success, since that particular subset of the population were more difficult to manipulate than we originally thought.

Dirty Tricks and Confessions of a Clinton Operative: A Paid Bernie Bro (via odinsblog)

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SO DOPE

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holy shit

#yeah alright thats pretty fucking good #I'm dead

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“One thing that did happen during the Sixties was some music of an unusual or experimental nature did get recorded or did get released. Now look at who the executives were in those companies at those times. Not hip young guys. These were cigar-chomping old guys who looked at the product that came and said, ‘I don’t know. Who knows what it is. Record it. Stick it out. If it sells, alright.’ We were better off with those guys than we are now with the supposedly hip young executives who are making the decisions of what people should see and hear in the marketplace. The young guys are more conservative and more dangerous to the art form than the old guys with the cigars ever were. …Next thing you know [the hip young executive has] got his feet on the desk and he’s saying, ‘Well we can’t take a chance on this because that’s not what the kids really want and I know.’ And they got that attitude. And the day you get rid of that attitude and get back to ‘Who knows. Take a chance.’ That entrepreneurial spirit where even if you don’t like or understand what the record is that’s coming in the door, the person who is in the executive chair may not be the final arbiter of taste of the entire population.”

-Frank Zappa (via keeganmcfly)

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I’m sorry if I call you at 3 am. I just want to hear your voice.

3 am thoughts (via suspend)

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