"Smug, greedy well-fed white people have invented a language to conceal their sins. It’s as simple as that. The CIA doesn’t kill people anymore, they neutralize people, or they depopulate the area. The government doesn’t lie, it engages in disinformation. The pentagon actually measures nuclear radiation in something they call sunshine units. Israeli murderers are called commandos. Arab commandos are called terrorists. Contra killers are called freedom fighters. Well if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?"
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George Carlin.
We are always told to listen to our elders. This is the elder I choose to hear out.
May this brilliant man rest in peace, and may his spirit stick it to ‘em where it hurts.
I bet you he and Hunter S. Thompson are partying like crazy, wherever they are. If the two of them had ever gotten together to write something - that woulda been the manifesto to end all manifestos.
(via dannysokov)
