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"This is not collective consciousness, but collective anti-consciousness. The “woke mind virus” that tech lords rail against is a front for their actual fear: that you are observant, awake, and alive." -Sarah Kendzior

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People might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of, or because of, his suffering. I like to think that van Gogh would have been even more prolific and even greater if he wasn't so restricted by the things tormenting him. I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

—David Lynch

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If you made it to November of 2024 with heart left to break I am so so sorry

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using "what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament" to mean "yeah i made an embarrassing reference but you understood it which is also embarrassing" is very funny to me

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"Just like there’s no ethical consumption in capitalism, there’s no ethical way of living within the imperial core. I think a lot of people are uncomfortable with, and struggling coming to terms with our current way of life is only possible through exploitation. It sucks, I know. That’s why so many of us who actually do know how this shit works are in a constant cycle of rage, disassociation, and hope. Hard not to be angry at a world you’re forced to live in, that you don’t agree with and basically have zero control over. It’s suffocating." -Ashley Stevens, @The_Acumen on twitter

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"You want me to accept a genocide not because you actually think I should, but because you want me to match your cowardice and moral apathy so you feel better about it. They say misery loves company. Apathy and evil also hate being alone, but they’re even more hungry than misery. Misery is content to drag one or two people down with it. Apathy and evil want the whole world. Is it not enough for you that almost everyone agrees with you? That almost everyone has taken your path of doing nothing or actively perpetuating? No it’s not enough because you want to decimate the morality of the small group of people who actually stand ten toes down for Palestine — there aren’t a lot of us. Palestine has many supporters and much sympathy, but very few who are willing to fight until the end no matter what." -Nylah Iqbal Muhammad

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"If I had a longer time, I would have written a shorter letter."

-Jake Taplin

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Maturity is when you realize people can't give you what they can't give themselves, so you stop expecting loyalty from people who betray themselves, stop expecting honesty from people who lie to themselves, and stop expecting peace from people who are at war with themselves.

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"I am once again begging society in general to stop ranking people by their labour efficiency. We are human beings not factory equipment."

-Victoria Duncan

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"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." -Howard Zinn, 1971.

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"In reality we do not live in a truth-based society that is guided by morality and governed by basically decent people — we live in a lie-based society that is guided by greed and the pursuit of power, and is governed by unelected sociopaths. We do not live in the kind of world we were taught about in school. We live in a corrupt, mind-controlled dystopia, under the thumb of an undeclared globe-spanning empire which requires more and more violence and tyranny to sustain."

-Caitlin Johnstone

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"It is better to be free than to be cheap, as a matter of character." -Sarah Kendzior

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Getting laughs and being funny are not the same thing.

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“Art is giving yourself permission to translate life. Exactly the way you feel. See. And hear it. Be the artist you are. Give yourself permission to speak your own language.” -— Nayyirah Waheed

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You can figure things out in a hurry, but you can't understand things in a hurry.