User:David Howden

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// Ⓐnimal-friendly Ⓐnti-nationalist PhD born 344 ppm

// 1949.Why_Socialism

// 1992.Manufacturing_Consent_Noam_Chomsky_and_the_Media

// 1998.The_Shape_of_Punk_to_Come

// 2002.The_Century_of_the_Self

// 2006.List_of_material_published_by_WikiLeaks

// 2011.Occupy_Wall_Street

// 2018.Extinction_Rebellion

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"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."

- Albert Einstein, 1929-10-26

“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”

- Albert Einstein, 1931, "Mein Weltbild"

“You can’t operate a capitalistic system unless you are vulturistic; you have to have someone else’s blood to suck to be a capitalist. You show me a capitalist, I’ll show you a bloodsucker. He cannot be anything but a bloodsucker if he’s going to be a capitalist. He’s got to get it from somewhere other than himself, and that’s where he gets it--from somewhere or someone other than himself.”

— Malcom X, 1964-12-20, "At the Audubon Ballroom"

"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

— John Ehrlichman, to Dan Baum for Harper's Magazine in 1994, about President Richard Nixon's war on drugs, declared in 1971

“Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.”

― Carl Sagan, 1992, "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors"