HOLD IT AGAINST ME

3liza:

ACTA passed one of the several voting gates it needs to get through before becoming law.

It was ratified in Poland last night.  This was the scene at Polish parliament afterwards, as (presumably) a bloc of anti-ACTA politicians expressed their displeasure and, perhaps without knowing it, foretell of the Anonymous repercussions to this bill.

Some things you should know:

• Online petitions are meaningless.  While they are well-intentioned and organized, the signing of a digital petition takes about twenty seconds, and does not require that you leave your beanbag chair in the coal cellar.  Politicians know this, and pay just as much attention to online petitions as is warranted by a “political action” that is literally less strenuous than leaving a YouTube comment.
• Nothing except direct action is going to do a goddamn thing.  This means getting out in the street, it means DDoSing, it means vicious and widespread boycotts, site blackouts, and other strongarm tactics that actually impact the flow of money from corporations to lobbyists to politicians.  How do you, as a tiny flailing consumer, do this?  You can’t, really.  You can join up with groups that are intent on doing actions that actually mean something, adding your voice to a chorus of hundreds or thousands, instead of screaming alone.  You can contact celebrities, the spokespeople of our time, as ask them to leverage their followers on the issue.  You can write to Tumblr and ask for more blackouts.  None of these things will be very effective, so don’t be too disappointed when they don’t work, but they sure as fuck are more effective than online petitions, and the intense response to SOPA by corporations and consumers was responsible for getting it “tabled” (not dead, but dreaming lies).
• ACTA was already signed by Obama in September of 2011.  He had been praising the bill for over a year prior, and signed it without reservation.  Most of us didn’t hear about it, and he likely used the 9/11 coverage to make sure of that.
  
  
• Eventually, one of these bills will pass, and the pro-corporate laws will go into effect.  Expect it.  Be prepared.  Learn to circumvent this garbage and you’ll have a leg up when the feds shut down the internet as we know it.
  
  
• The best thing you can do now is install Tor and learn how to use it.  Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.  In order to circumvent the coming corporate takeover of the web, we’re going to have to go underground, creating a sub-internet of encrypted nodes known as a “darknet”.  It’s probably going to be like the internet was in the beginning, with most people only seeing what AOL wanted them to see, and only a small group of super-nerds existing outside of that bubble in the “real” internet.  It’ll take another twenty years for them to catch up to us again.
  
  
• Welcome to the grim cyberpunk future.

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yesimheretoo:

bravenewboi:

javididitagain:

pinkoctopussy:

imafreebitch-on-theedgeofglory:

kevinless:

edwardsixthirty:

it’s better to be humble.

it’s better to be right.

it’s better to sing live.

It’s better to not look like a blonde Jew dying of aids with a cheap wig

It’s better to be original than be a cheap imitation of someone else. 

It’s better to tell real life stories instead of making them up to make people feel sorry for you, in order to sell. 

It’s better not to use the gay community as a way to make yourself bigger. 

It’s better to have most of the industry recognize what a great artist you are than to tell them yourself how vague and conceited and full of shit you are. 

It’s better to sell an album at full price than to sell it for 99 cents and for free when purchasing a phone at best buy. 

It’s better to smile and have fun when performing than to look constipated and trying so hard not to forget the steps that you don’t have time to smile. 

It’s better to be Britney Spears. 

^This

OMG FLAWFREE COMMENT <3

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eveningoutwithyourgirlfriend:

smile-youre-fuckin-beautiful:

dasvidanyaa:

coldcrisps:

I think this is the best pic ive ever seen in my life thus far.

African American doctors attempting to save the life of a Klu Klux Klan member:

This photo left me speechless, this is what respect is.

Such a powerful photo. It just goes to show that through the eyes of charity, humility, and selflessness, we realize that anyone’s life is worth saving.

I never thought this post would get so many notes. I just admire the meaning that is attached with this powerful picture.

One of the best posts i have encountered on Tumblr.

Goosebumps.

This photo says so much.

this picture is so strong.

I don’t know what to say. If that racist motherfucker survived and wasn’t human enough to be thankful…

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nicowl:

me dio escalofrios

get-thinspiration:

“If you deny me in front of your friends I will deny you in front of my father”

he is one of my biggest motivators…if it wasnt for knowing that he is guiding my life i would have quit a long time ago

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