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“The man in the white house sits, naked and obscene, a pustule of ego, in the harsh light, a man whose grasp exceeded his understanding, because his understanding was dulled by indulgence.” ―Rebecca Solnit 👊
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“There is no animal worse to its own species (male and female) than the human beast.” ―T. Kira Madden 💡
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“No matter how often we say we’re creeped out by technology, we tend to acclimate quickly if it delivers what we want before we want it.” ―Cliff Kuang 🔫 🔫
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“With infinite choice comes infinite opportunities to judge. The more options that exist, the pickier you become.” ―Joe Berkowitz & Joanna Neborsky 🐦
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“‘Let’s face facts: They don’t ask me to come back because my movies are such blockbusters lately’. It’s taken the role of his nightmares to make him feel the most like a star.” ―Chris Jones
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“Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you – that would be the real betrayal.” ―George Orwell / “1984” 💡
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“The hope and promise of new computer technology have given way to the malaise of living with it.” ―Ian Bogost 🎨
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“...so I have refrained from informing her that the light in me is sometimes a government building on fire.” ―Laurie Penny 💡
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“Or, if you wanted to be cheeky about it: No gods, no masters; no bosses, no landlords. It’s an enticing idea: After all, we’ve rightfully lost faith in all of the above.” ―Molly Osberg 🎨
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“Every time a young person declared all politics equally dirty and all governments corrupt, corruption won. The regime could just sit back and keep winning, in a self-propelling loop of triumph ―because everyone else had lost this battle long ago.” 🎨
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“Such loyalty can be expected only from the completely isolated human being who derives his sense of having a place in the world only from his belonging to a movement.” ―Hannah Arendt
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“The notion of ‘slow’ is entirely antithetical to modern urban life.”
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“What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites.” ―George Orwell
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“The wellbeing ideology is a symptom of a broader political disease.” ―Laurie Penny 🎨
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“Above all, horror finds us wherever we are. This is one of the costs of having a network organ, and the full-spectrum awareness it underwrites: a low-grade, persistent sense of the world and its suffering that we carry around at all times.” 🎨
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“I am exactly what they want until I am not.” ―Namwali Serpell
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“And by the way, it's no coincidence that all of these women are white—they've been given leeway to screw up and court public disapproval in ways that a woman of color would never be afforded.” ―Sady Doyle 🎨
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“We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“It was a personal thing—for so long, this place always had control over some part of how I felt. For me, it was like, ‘It’s gonna end today’.” ―Justin Bamberg 🎨
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“And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end.” ―Morrissey 🐍
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“Every new relationship is a potential future ghost. It takes an almost delusional level of optimism to ignore the possibility. But we try our best.” ―Joe Berkowitz & Hallie Bateman 🎨
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November 9, 2106 ― The Election of Trump
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“First we computerized work, then we computerized home and social life, then we condensed and transferred that life to our pockets.” ―Ian Bogost 🎨
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“It takes courage to admit fear.” ―Daenerys Targaryen
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“In the face of pain there are no heroes.” ―George Orwell / “1984” 🎨
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Whiteness is “the last vestige of something that has no future. In reality, no color can be assigned to a given human being, not black, of course, but not white or yellow or any color identity whatsoever either.” ―Alain Badiou
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“That Lloyd could afford not to have much of an opinion—that he simply didn’t have to think about race while making choices big and small—was a privilege he had never considered.” ―Lauren Collins 🌸 🇺🇸 🌼
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“The truth is, there is absolutely nothing unique about my Russian experience. To live a privileged life in the West also means to engage in daily hypocrisy and selective blindness, no matter who’s in charge.” ―Michael Idov
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“a word after a word after a word is power” ―Margaret Atwood / “The Handmaid’s Tale,” 1985
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“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.” ―George Bernard Shaw 👶
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“The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.” ―George Vaillant
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“However, less than one hundred hours after the 2016 election, my assumption that virtue overcomes corruption seemed utterly naive.” ―Nicole Pasulka
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“Late capitalism is like your love life: it looks a lot less bleak through an Instagram filter.” ―Laurie Penny 🐦
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“He will have achieved the exact opposite of what he believed he was going to achieve when he set out to do this in the first place.” ―Alec Baldwin
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“Only those who fully embrace cynicism are free to give their undying loyalty to a leader who promises to grant importance to the purposelessness of human life.” ―Roger Berkowitz
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“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” ―John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
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“The next thing you know, Trump is going to call the head of some country a whore. ‘GET THAT WHORE OUT OF HERE’.” ―Alec Baldwin
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“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.” ―Shane L. Koyczan 💡
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“When I had planned this trip months earlier, and even as I packed on the afternoon of November 8, I had imagined that this indifference to fraud and graft would place the artist on the wrong side of history.” ―Nicole Pasulka
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“In ‘Defending My Heritage’, he claims that he and his family always treated black people well, citing his father’s practice, at a restaurant he owned, of giving a black employee discarded food and old grease.” ―Lauren Collins
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“Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.” ―George Orwell / “1984” 🐖 👊 🎨
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“Fuck is what you need, the more so, Adams says, because it doesn’t just express an emotion; it states a philosophical truth. By its very extremeness, it is saying that ‘one has found the end of language and can go no further’.” ―Joan Acocella
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“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“Sharing a sidewalk with a diversity of people is a vastly different experience from sharing a freeway with them.” ―Ian S. Port
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“Is [Trumpzilla] strategic, or is he sophisticated enough to know the power of the kind of linguistic hand grenade that he has become?” ―John Oliver
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“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“Staying in an unhappy relationship because you were afraid you weren’t strong enough to be on your own — that [is] lonely and sad.” ―Lisa Ko
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“Smooth Imperial” ―Jakim Kalonji, 2017 / acrylic on canvas 🎨
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“...a book without women is often said to be about humanity but a book with women in the foreground is a woman’s book.” ―Rebecca Solnit
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“We live in a culture that hates us. We get that. Misogyny is the water we swim in.” ―Claire Vaye Watkins 🎨
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“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“The basic experience underlying totalitarianism, the experience that continues today to make it likely that totalitarianism remains a constant concern, is loneliness, an alienation from political, social, and cultural life.” ―Roger Berkowitz 🐦
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“[The white supremacists] also made a point to defend Donald Trump, at one point chanting ‘Russia is our friend’.” ―Adam Peck 🎨
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“Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“But if planning the end of a relationship feels like plotting a murder, then planning the start of one feels more like donning a suicide vest.” ―Joe Berkowitz & Joanna Neborsky 🎨
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“Trump is a painful reminder of what America is at risk of losing, and how far high it has yet to climb.” ―David Masciotra
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“As an artist right now there’s so much to work on and figure out and explain. I definitely shy away from ‘Trump is stupid’. No, he’s breaking the law. That's clear, I don't need to embellish.” ―Robin Bell
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“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“I have trained myself, through dedicated practice on and off the mat, to find enough inner strength not to burst out laughing when the instructor ends the class by declaring ‘let the light in me honor the light in you.’” ―Laurie Penny 🎨
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