celebrity, culture and radical politics in the heart of the american empire
I post a more or less equal mix of radical/leftist political, general US celebrity culture and One Direction stuff here. I try hard to use tags that allow people to blacklist stuff they don't want to see.
I will probably never put my asks on anon. Please don't be nervous to send me messages though--even if you're embarrassed because you don't understand something or because you're angry/upset about something I've said. You can always put at the beginning to "please answer privately". I will always respect this.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Never lied!
TRUTH
no lies
(Source: siddman)
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
Toni Morrison (via mangoachaar)
(Source: black-culture)
My friends just met Jedward outside a Bank of America apparently and all I’m doing is drinking wine and telling Directioners to stop using homophobic slurs on twitter.
i AM SO JEALOUS TIME TO DRINK ANOTHER GLASS OF WINE.
there is nothing romantic about
- not knowing you’re beautiful
- loving someone until they learn to love themselves
please stop romanticizing low self esteem.
it’s one thing to love a person who happens to have low self esteem
it’s another thing to frame low self esteem as a desirable trait.
Go Norway!
Those pictures of Harry Styles after a fan ripped off his hat are extremely troubling to me. He looks angry but resigned and shut down. I wouldn’t be surprised if those pictures show a person in the process of disassociating.
Celebrities are people, not objects, and the fact that this society encourages people to dehumanize celebrities in order to maximize their commodification isn’t just about the celebrities. Living in a culture that encourages such behavior to make money and retain power impacts the way everyone sees and interacts with each other.
![zuky:
thesmithian:
…[some] may not remember what made Iran-Contra such an extraordinary scandal. The Reagan administration “raised money privately” by selling weapons to a sworn enemy of the United States. Why? Because it wanted to fund an illegal war in Nicaragua. And when I say “illegal war,” I mean that quite literally—Congress told the Reagan administration, in no uncertain terms, that Reagan could not send money to the Contras. Period. The Reagan administration, unrestrained by laws and the Constitution, did so anyway, and much of the president’s national security team ended up under indictment.
more.
Reagan knew everything. However, I bet this Time magazine piece doesn’t get into the juiciest part of Iran-Contra, which is that in the 1980s the CIA put into operation a crack cocaine pipeline to import narcotics from Central and South America and distribute it in US inner cities. This is not a “conspiracy theory”, this is a documented conspiracy, most rigorously researched and reported by Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Gary Webb, whose series in the San Jose Mercury News and subsequent book “Dark Alliance” literally got him killed. To me, that’s the story of Iran-Contra: not that Reagan sold weapons to Iran, but that the US government imported and sold crack to Black America, as part of an arms and drugs trade which funded war in the Third World and which devastated lives and filled prisons in the USA.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/9745d96274c257550523597f049fc6dc/tumblr_mmugto6Erl1qcwnv4o1_500.jpg)
zuky:
…[some] may not remember what made Iran-Contra such an extraordinary scandal. The Reagan administration “raised money privately” by selling weapons to a sworn enemy of the United States. Why? Because it wanted to fund an illegal war in Nicaragua. And when I say “illegal war,” I mean that quite literally—Congress told the Reagan administration, in no uncertain terms, that Reagan could not send money to the Contras. Period. The Reagan administration, unrestrained by laws and the Constitution, did so anyway, and much of the president’s national security team ended up under indictment.
more.
Reagan knew everything. However, I bet this Time magazine piece doesn’t get into the juiciest part of Iran-Contra, which is that in the 1980s the CIA put into operation a crack cocaine pipeline to import narcotics from Central and South America and distribute it in US inner cities. This is not a “conspiracy theory”, this is a documented conspiracy, most rigorously researched and reported by Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Gary Webb, whose series in the San Jose Mercury News and subsequent book “Dark Alliance” literally got him killed. To me, that’s the story of Iran-Contra: not that Reagan sold weapons to Iran, but that the US government imported and sold crack to Black America, as part of an arms and drugs trade which funded war in the Third World and which devastated lives and filled prisons in the USA.
Did we talk about Liam’s instinct to lick the FUCKING MIC
Did we talk about Harry’s kink, I mean instinct to put his mic in someone’s face.
once you realize that this is about david geffen it becomes such an anticap queer anthem
“thinkin how I’ll feel when I find / that very good friend of mine”
That’s real but also like I think of a lot of Joni as anticap queer anthems
(Source: Spotify)
growing up is realizing that socks for christmas is actually a great present and you react with genuine enthusiasm
(Source: shavingryansprivates)
