In spite of it all, you should probably buy this book.

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Deportations are cruelty to families, and an inhuman injustice in the name of “The Law.” #Not1More #StopDeportations #ShutDownICE #BordersAreStupid

That must be so hard, being forced to go on at a job where work and struggle for a mere $170,000+ / year. If only there were some way they would no longer have to suffer this grievous exploitation. If only there were some way they could all quit. #AbolishCongress

“(3) Are these cases of infelicity mutually exclusive? The answer to this is obvious. (a) No, in the sense that we can go wrong in two ways at once (we can insincerely promise a donkey to give it a carrot). (b) No, more importantly, in the sense that they ways of going wrong ‘shade into one another’ and ‘overlap’ and the decision between them is ‘arbitrary’ in various ways. “Suppose, for example, I see a vessel on the stocks, walk up and smash the bottle hung at the stem, proclaim ‘I name this ship the MR. STALIN’ and for good measure kick away the chocks: but the trouble is, I was not the person chosen to name it (whether or not–an additional complication–MR. STALIN was the destined name; perhaps in a way it is even more of a shame if it was). We can all agree “(1) that the ship was not thereby named; “(2) that it is an infernal shame. “One could say that I ‘went through a form of’ naming the vessel but that my ‘action’ was ‘void’ or ‘without effect’, because I was not a proper person, had not the ‘capacity’ to perform it: but one might also and alternatively say that, where there is not even a pretence of capacity or a colourable claim to it, then there is no accepted conventional procedure; it is a mockery, like a marriage with a monkey. Or again one could say that part of the procedure is getting oneself appointed. When the saint baptized the penguins, was this void because the procedure of baptizing is inappropriate to be applied to penguins, or because there is no accepted procedure of baptizing anything except humans? I do not think that these uncertainties matter in theory, though it is pleasant to investigate them and in practice convenient to be ready, as jurists are, with a terminology to cope with them.” – J.L. Austin, HOW TO DO THINGS WITH WORDS, Lecture II (23-24)

Being able to leave your house without being molested by arbitrary searches and seizures is a privilege, not a right. #AbolishThePolice

Really dude if you claim that you like “all music except for country and rap,” I’ma start playing an hour and a half Japanoizu medley and then crank it up for some atonal jazz and some Death, and we’ll see how long you stick to that “all music” thing instead of just “Well basically I like the fairly narrow range of music that they play on pop and alt. rock stations.”

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http://ift.tt/1jIkVBV Slothageddon. That is all.

O.K. so, any ALLies, left-libertarians, market anarchists, mutualists, free-market anti-capitalists et al. in the area of Schenectady, N.Y., Albany, N.Y. or surrounding environs? I have an inquiry from an interested ALLy in Schenectady who would like to get in touch with others in the area to meet up, talk, possibly raise some ruckus. Are you one such? Or know anyone who might be interested? If so — let me know, here in comments or via private message.