Meme hijack via SeanAhern
Heard that there was some sort of economic and global rights summit for all of the world’s most important leaders in the world to ‘talk about important stuff’, kinda like when tweens have a sleepover. Apparently, there were ‘protesters’ who wanted these leaders to know that ’shit was fucked’, so they ‘got all violent’ to ‘make a scene’ and ‘make sure that their voices were heard’. It was kinda like they were simulating ‘anarchy’, or other concepts from punk music. Not sure if I identify with them. Feel sort of resigned to not being in control of global policies.
Not sure why every1 wants ‘things 2 get better.’ Wish they’d realize that there’d be no more art if ‘things were perfect’ cuz most great art is inspired by ‘how we wish the world was a certain way’, or something like that. We just want every1 2 relate 2 our suffering and stuff.
Sad that the altBro in a Keffiyeh/neon palestinian scarf gave alternative people a bad name. Think these scarves might be dead. Not sure if I want 2 wear mine, or else riot police will break into my apartment and execute my family. Not sure why the bro is throwing a sweet ass flat screen through a window. Seems like a good screen to chill and watch DVDs on. Think this protest was in France, so not sure why he is wearing an Atlanta Braves baseball cap. Must be ‘alt’ to wear American caps in France.
Do yall ‘believe’ in anything? Or do yall just like 2 go to events with a lot of people because ‘chaos might happen.’ Was hoping that would happen at the Obama Inauguration, but I think every1 ‘pussed out.
Feel upset. Wish that instead of ‘getting violent’, the protestors could have done something zany, like ‘a flash mob’ [sponsored by T-Mobile].
flashmobs seem like the only way to ‘really make people think’ these days about how ‘absurd’ our world is…
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More pix from the G20 protests via ‘The Big Picture’
‘we believe in something, yall. gotta update my fb status 2 tell people i’m chillin somewhere ‘relevant’ on a global scale.’
‘gotta take some kewl pix for my flickr account. might live tweet about how ‘bad ass’ this ’shit’ is.’
‘Wish we coulda broken in2 a Mac Store.’
‘feel angry about society and my parents.’
Sort of wish this was an American Apparel hoodie with the white strings so it could be ‘like an advertisement.’
Man’s Best Friend, yall!
‘Feel sad about my iPhone breaking in a scrum. Wish I had bought the dorky case for it like my parents recommended. Didn’t buy insurance for $5/month.’
What do yall believe in?
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//////////Reply by blues
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 8:05 am
@erc, wow, are there really idiots that still do ‘first’? neat!
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//////////Reply by erc
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
@blues, oh no you insulted me on the internet!!! what am I going 2 do???!!!!
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//////////Reply by HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 10:15 am
@erc, second
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//////////Reply by dronik
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
@HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK,
Yall, SECONDING in replies = instaban. Cheap ass trikksterz.
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//////////Reply by brobro
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
@erc, First.
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Best post you’ve done for a while….
‘Feel sad about my iPhone breaking in a scrum.” lawlz
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//////////Reply by dane
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 9:41 am
@White Blipster, no kiddin’, everything lately has been droll and not meaningful
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I understand that the tone of this post is sarcastic, but it’s sarcastic on so many levels that it could stated to not have a ‘position’ at all. Hence, my serious response could be taken as me “not getting the joke.”
Buuuut…
Don’t project your cynicism or assume superficiality on the part of participants. Very few people subject themselves to tear gas and potential arrest because “it looks cool.”
Regardless of their future decisions or their motivations, everyone at those protests took a position and stood for it, even if only for a brief time.
Politics and economics surround us and condition every decision we make, and our level of engagement should be more than just voting every four years and casting aspersions on those who take direct action.
And finally… the comment about good art being borne of suffering seemed contradictory – does aspirational art become less meaningful if what it speaks to comes to pass? Should we wish to perpetuate white supremacy because James Baldwin wrote some killer books reacting to it? Silly.
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//////////Reply by DNK
//////////Posted April 5th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
@cullen stalin, ugh yr bit about art is ’silly’
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//////////Reply by brobro
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
@cullen stalin, mayb a post-post-POST ironic post??? Big in 2k9.5??
P.S. don’t trust things from ppl named ’stalin’
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//////////Reply by brotest
//////////Posted April 5th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
@cullen stalin, plz leev and go read dailykos ur bringn me down
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//////////Reply by SilverTell
//////////Posted April 8th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
@brotest, teehee
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//////////Reply by love sex magic
//////////Posted April 5th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
@cullen stalin, right on
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//////////Reply by the hitler rundowns
//////////Posted April 5th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
‘giving a shit’ about anything is uh, ‘fkn lame’. leave that to those without a future, y’all. mine’s so bright i gotta wear shutter shades.
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//////////Reply by Vexster
//////////Posted April 5th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
@the hitler rundowns, Yes Mam, you betta werk dead trend.
R.I.P.- shutter shades [via mnstrm tweens]
//////////Reply by nightheat
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 2:49 am
the hitler rundowns = entry level altFGGT
//////////Reply by the hitler rundowns
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 3:52 am
@nightheat,
‘entry level’ is a term for nineteen year old douchebags who take HRO/VICE seriously; congrats, you win jackass.
//////////Reply by the hitler rundowns
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 4:04 am
@the hitler rundowns,
actually i am a faggot, or at least i’m part-faggot. big fucking deal, you fucking vanilla square.
//////////Reply by johan
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
@the hitler rundowns, he could be a pizzaALT too …
//////////Reply by Gurkman
//////////Posted April 5th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
@cullen stalin, d00d, these rich kids who read Bakunin and Bernstein are doing what they always do, protesting shit and mock-philosophizing.
besides, the only political theorist who ever ‘gave a shit’ abt ‘new aesthetics’ was Edmund Burke, who kinda believed that we’re HUMAN AFTER (Y)ALL. Yall should ‘buy his book’ [via Tao Lin] abt the ‘French Revolution’ and shit.
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//////////Reply by gavin mcinness
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 12:02 am
@Gurkman, Burke is for crusty old grampas of the aristocracy. As for new aesthetics, that would be Deleuze/Ranciere, et al And as for rich kids who don’t know shit about shit, isn’t HRO/VICE completely obviously the fkn mothership?
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//////////Reply by tragedy in toyland
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 9:58 am
@gavin mcinness, yall need to read boris groys. he is an ‘authority’ on aesthetics [via waht is art yall?] and also my ‘dissertation advisor’ [via the most culturally relevant institution of higher learning in the universe]. deleuze is over yall. kind of sad about what agamben taught me about my value as a public individual.
miss u subjective identity
//////////Reply by angelheaded
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
@gavin mcinness,
yeah you’re right, “borin groys” has far more traction than deleuze, wtf was that guy *thinking*????
//////////Reply by bob dylon
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 9:07 am
@cullen stalin, James Baldwin = not worth reading via richard wright trumping him in style and content
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kind of ‘don’t believe in anything.’ makes life so much easier.
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Wow cullen it sounds like ‘feeling sort of resigned to not being in control of global policies’ is something you struggle with. But don’t worry, I am sure that vandalizing a bank branch did make some substantive change in the current state of world political/economic affairs. Lolzers
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//////////Reply by Vanna
//////////Posted April 5th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
@Burd,
haha.
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//////////Reply by whatever singularity
//////////Posted April 5th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
@Burd,
“make some substantive change”
Hey bro you’re the one talking change. The rest of us know that playing with banks while dressed like ninjas is just plain FUN :D
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//////////Reply by cp
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 3:25 am
@whatever singularity, play is capture.
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THey can suck a nutt. thats what i think
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congratulations crls, you made a good post
keep it up
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This is why I read HRO. It’s ironic how most of us are so attached to material things (via capitalism & being jealous of the tween w/ an iphone sitting on the train), but we detest the richest & most powerful countries.
Thanks Carles & for the twitter following.
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//////////Reply by the hitler rundowns
//////////Posted April 5th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
@▲, tru dat, privilege should be *embraced*, NOT ’smacked down’, y’all.
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//////////Reply by gavin mcinness
//////////Posted April 5th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
@the hitler rundowns,
sometimes hro reminds me of what i said in the NY Times long ago: “I love being white and I think it’s something to be very proud of. I don’t want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life”. luv u guyz.
http://gawker.com/topic/vice-white-supremacist-monthly-013457.php
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//////////Reply by Vexster
//////////Posted April 5th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
@gavin mcinness, Too bad white people don’t really have culture to begin with.
[via middle-class suburbia]
they have g-unit in france yo?
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uhh carles,
the french alt bro could be wearing the atlanta braves hat because the G8 summit was in georgia last year?
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I almost sent u this pics [via flickr] last nite but i think i got to bizzy/stoned 4 stupid rl world sht. they r pretty pics tho and r relevant if U R N2 this kinda stuff. makes me sad when ppl get bit by fascist dogs. my dog duzznet care about politics.
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//////////Reply by dogboots
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 9:30 am
@AnColonic, <3 <3 <3
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//////////Reply by SilverTell
//////////Posted April 8th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
@AnColonic, lol
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in england its five lbs a month for the insurance
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gawd i want 2 break in to an apple store and liberate a macbook pro to show my distaste for world leaders
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//////////Reply by the hitler rundowns
//////////Posted April 5th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
@louis, luv u.
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summit was in london and the atlanta cap is meant to be ironic, seeing as the bro’s an anti(alter)-globalist. that or he’s just another sportfan with a combined hatred for tinted windows and dell computers
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i used 2 b a christian/anarchist/pacifist/idealist/socialist/hippie-type bro… then i ‘caught up w/reality’ [via Poli-Sci 2300]. Kinda sad that i ‘think through’ issues rather than ‘destroying/protesting shit.’
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//////////Reply by whatever singularity
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 12:03 am
@Gurkman,
Comfortable in that armchair?
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//////////Reply by giorgio agamben
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 12:09 am
@Gurkman,
Yeah Burke is some real high-level poli sci shit, buddy. Your academic cred is *really* fkn impressive. Fkn stupid undergrads.
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“It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the publick to be the most anxious for its welfare.”
-Eddie Burkebro
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//////////Reply by giorgio agamben
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 12:14 am
@Gurkman,
wow that was fkn profound! mixing punk/indie rock aesthetics with the establishment pontifications of a fucking english whig conservative is just downright *earthshattering*.
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//////////Reply by hey anony anony
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 8:51 am
@giorgio agamben, <3 that your post is via ‘the baffler’
might recommend gurkman as a guestblogger for andy sully, if he reads oakeshott/tugs 2 margaret thatcher/watches petshopboyz videos/posts meaningfulcore photos of nature [via cmmntrs w/flickr accounts]
miss u SilverTell
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//////////Reply by Gurkman
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
@giorgio agamben, d00d, xpunk_rawkx wuz ALWAYZ abt ‘conservatism’ since malcolm mcclaren invented it [via 197k7punkbroexperience] by mixing ’shitty ramones cover bands’ w/fashion+anarchy.
miss u Sublime+ReelBigFish+Blink182+other ‘funnie’ punks.
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//////////Reply by Gurkman
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
@Gurkman, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SgvJY9xxcA
//////////Reply by angelheaded
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
@Gurkman,
malcolm mclaren didn’t invent fuck all, and to the extent that he did he deeply indebted to the situationists, who were antiauthoritarian marxists. he lifted most everything else from richard hell and everything else he saw in new york; your cultural knowledge is even less impressive than your political theory knowledge, loser.
//////////Reply by angelheaded
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
@Gurkman,
and btw, don’t think we can’t tell when you mine “wikiquote”: the “ck” in “public” gives you away, you second-rate psuedointellectual douche.
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Whoa, alts in france are having fun too!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/filkaler/sets/72157616382089156/
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i believe in God
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//////////Reply by Guido
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 7:06 am
@pete, I believe in a thing called love
[via The Darknesses, 2k3]
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i believe in carles
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can the poli sci nerds stop ‘measuring their dicks’ in the comments plz?
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//////////Reply by angelheaded
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 6:33 am
@bbbbb,
that depends what you mean by ‘measuring’. you see, according to kant, there is no object means by which to do so, particularly in the midst of sublime experience. indeed, this is why many critical political theorists today are returning to the third critique, reading that rather than explicitly ‘political writings’, as his most politically potent work. your continued arbitrary separation of the aesthetic and the political is entirely out of step with this latest post-kantian turn. but i realize you’re a nineteen year old rich kid who thinks the most important thing in life is making sure you don’t seem like an ‘entry-leveler’. how cute y’all are.
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//////////Reply by bbbbb
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 6:48 am
@angelheaded, do you not have any ‘friends’/people-who-are-nice/lame-enough-to-put-up-with-you in ‘real life’ to bore?
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//////////Reply by hey anony anony
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 8:45 am
@angelheaded, hroexegesis.blogspot.com
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//////////Reply by lawlcatz
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
@hey anony anony, I choked on the pretense.
//////////Reply by angelheaded
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
@hey anony anony,
i choked on the pretense of HRO/VICE “new conservatives”. yr era was that of Bush II, you won’t last long now.
awesome. just what we needed. for the seventies to come back. great way to end the decade y’all.
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//////////Reply by angelheaded
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 5:38 am
@blipOFFurRADAR,
u haven’t seen shit, yet. this is nothing compared to what’s in store.
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//////////Reply by Guido
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 7:07 am
@blipOFFurRADAR, sooo scared bell bottoms will come back
miss u skinny jeans
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//////////Reply by hey anony anony
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 8:59 am
@blipOFFurRADAR, miss u ‘collectivist consensus’
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//////////Reply by angelheaded
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
@hey anony anony,
‘collectivist consensus’??? another poli sci ‘entry levelr’, i see.
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//////////Reply by GKChesterton
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
@angelheaded, don’t u realize every1 here is trying 2 b ‘funnie’/ironic, bro? h8 entry-level ‘outraged leftists commenting on days-old posts’.
//////////Reply by angelheaded
//////////Posted April 7th, 2009 at 1:30 am
@angelheaded,
post-post-post-ironic is no longer simply “ironic”, or “funnie”, dumbass. it’s just nihilism.
Read 3x.”This is why I read HRO”I’d be repeating that 2. .Anyway,while I sit at my plastic fantastic Toshiba satellite..multi seed toast with vegan margarine,leftover vegan lasagna, 2 cups of drip coffee w/rice beverage. I wear non animal/plastic shoes .HOO cares.I really don’t bother anyone.
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YAY HRO
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I think the one picture of the riot cop face to face with the dbag in the hoodie should be on the cover of Time. It sort of represents alts vs mnstrm perfectly.
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theres more people with 2000 dollar dslrs than “rioters”, and i use that term lightly.
at this point its more about photo ops than actually accomplishing things. im surprised this shit isnt on nixcky digital or some other pArTEE pix site
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every1 is part of the machine, y’all. get used to it.
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//////////Reply by angelheaded
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
@Mark,
of course, but that doesn’t mean we have to resign ourselves to “getting used to it”.
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Mah favorite post yet tbh
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This sux because it causes the need for a lot of non-existent money to be spent on shit like ‘repairing main street’.
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//////////Reply by angelheaded
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
@chorles,
yeah, i’m sure those bankers with their multimillion dollar ‘bonuses’ can barely afford to rewindow those buildings. that’ll probably do em right fuckin in, eh??
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LOL @the leftwing outrage bros not being able 2 ‘get’ the sarcasmbros!
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//////////Reply by angelheaded
//////////Posted April 7th, 2009 at 1:34 am
@GKChesterton,
post-post-post-irony isn’t “sarcasm”, it’s nihilism. ooooh, what “timely meditations”.
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//////////Reply by GKChesterton
//////////Posted April 7th, 2009 at 11:05 am
@angelheaded, ‘double-quotes’ r so 2k1 [via looking like twin towers]
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I saw the same idea on another blog four days ago.
It was actually funny.
http://toomanysebastians.blogspot.com/2009/04/where-were-you-at-g20-protests_03.html
Well done.
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ahahaaaa funny blog but kinda sad that the person typing about this has no idea on chaos more than just art…. chaos is amazing! art is amazing too….but we need chaoos in this world…. without it we would be the ult controled! americans tweens now in days are tooo scared to stand up for wat is wrong in their society…so much corruption and wat r the american tweens doing?NOTHING! at least the French get wat they want in there society…they got it better because they arent afraid to stand up for themselves…at least those tweens got national health care and we get a nice health insurance giving us crappy ass service….thats if ur lucky enough to have it…. those tweens can go get smashed and hit up their local medical center and get fixed up and do it again if they want! wouldnt that be fun…to bad american tweens cant have riskfull lives like other western civilization tweens……and that Keffiyeh has been offcially played out when the first scene kid wore it for the “coolness” everyone who wears it is a scene kid who tries too hard or a retard…….. and Obama sucks as president…so stop praising him! talk shit about him not good about him….hes done nothing!
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//////////Reply by yea
//////////Posted April 6th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
@yea, hes done nothing but sell his image!
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make sum art of that! HA! HOPE my ass……
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i believe in the venus projjy and ron paulz
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that image of the bro in the braves baseball cap was taken in ‘BANK, EAST LONDON’. and the sweet flat screen was making it’s way through the glass windows of the ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND. bro should have thought to have covered his face.
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i do believe in demonstrations
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fuck i love this blog. good post!
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Not cool, bro. Not cool
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I believe 911 was an inside job.
I believe Jesse Jackson killed MLK killed JFK.
I believe rBST causes breast and colon cancer.
I believe vitamin C supplements cure the common cold.
I believe in Salman Rushdie/post-colonial lit.
I believe in Zeitgeist, the Movie.
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I believe CRLmarkS/Kanye/AnCo is the voice of our generation.
I believe in the cult of the amateur.
I believe in Tweet.
beliefs r s0 siriusss tho. idk
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