June 2012
111 posts
Announcing the 2012 ThinkProgress Tumblr Honorees!
think-progress:
The moment you’ve all been waiting for is here! After months (days) of eager anticipation (quiet indifference), ThinkProgress is pleased to award our inaugural Golden Thinkrs to 10 tumblrs that have made us laugh, cry, think, sing, skip and—in one particular moment of weakness—drink heavily.
There are too many unique and worthy voices on Tumblr to cram into one award ceremony,...
aurric asked: Paulites don't need better marketing. They need a coherent, intelligent message. That's what they lack.
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Hey Libertarians and Paul-fans, just so you know...
purely from a messaging perspective. It doesn’t mean anything to anyone who hasn’t already been indoctrinated. Heck most people don’t even know what the Federal Reserve Bank is (and that includes more than a few libertarians that I’ve met).
Just saying, it’s not much of a rallying cry when the only people you can rally with it are people you’ve already...
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I'll bet that the Alien series is probably going...
joetheblogger:
Even hundreds of years from now big businesses in league with the military industrial complex are still screwing over working class citizens.
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i-shit-and-i-stink:
“fuck society i’m not a barcode” says the angry blogger as they reblog an anti-consumerism post on their apple mac computer. later, using the tumblr app they downloaded on itunes, they check the number of notes on their iphone. “ugh yes! saving the world one post at a time” they pat themselves on the back.
Not a lot of people realize that no matter what you do, no matter...
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Remember These Names: Konarka Technologies &... →
Two solar power companies that have gone bankrupt after receiving government loans authorized by Mitt Romney.
So you can just go and shut the fuck up about Solyndra.
cigarettesdrinkingcoffee-deacti asked: At what point do you allow society to dictate the direction it's culture progresses though? I dislike the ever consuming culture of materialism, and gluttony that we live in, and I admire efforts to change it by suggestion, but not by force I think that Aldous Huxley constructed this idea masterfully with his entire body of work. We can craft our own spheres of influence in the cultural and...
cigarettesdrinkingcoffee-deacti asked: I think one sentence "This product, due to the amount of sugar, could be harmful to your health" and a warning label on the cup is a better solution than dictating which sizes companies must sell their products in.
cigarettesdrinkingcoffee-deacti asked: I disagree. I think that, in this case, there's a solid case for self control. I think there needs to be confrontational transparency, a la the reforms I suggested in my previous message. After that information is passed on to the customer though, it's on them to make the rational choice for them. I want the option to be able to get my egregiously sized slushy from 7/11 at 3 AM. I want...
