I attended the first general assembly in Austin. The meeting was very well organized and focused on relevant local issues that we* could *impact.
Can someone explain the current conservative obession with the appearance of the protestors?
Holy mother of god-it sounds like we’ve dialed it back to 1970.
The kids look weird!
They’re wearing funny clothes!
And would you look at those haircuts!
I bet they’re smoking the pot, too.
Simple, it’s an easy way too attack something when you don’t want to bother with thinking about or discussing substance.
You and the OP do not get it.
Obama is a friend of Wall Street, but it is a friend that thanks to the people’s protests (and reactions like the 99%) he is getting encouragement to be a **real **friend and tell his Wall Street alcohol (non regulated) addicted friends that they are nuts for continuing to drive home after drinking too much. Like it is happening recently by encouraging the top earners to pay their dues. *
What you are spectacularly missing is that Obama is really active in **deactivating **class warfare, he is still a friend of many well to do people, and the point here is that you are confusing deactivation of class warfare with the war itself.
Tea Baggers and the very rich are the ones ignoring history by continuing to grow and arm bigger class warfare bombs that eventually will go off if the democrats are not willing or encouraged to do something about it.
*(The recent wars that benefited only just about the well to do in the military industrial complex, were unfunded and currently we are winding down our presence there if you are still missing that point.
Lets be clear, I’m not happy that we are still in Iraq and Afghanistan, but many experts did point out that it would be even worse to just quit cold turkey, still, the pressure has to be there to make clear that we are not going to tolerate anything else than the continuation of the winding down and the eventual removal of all troops and military presence there. )
Not to mention that the outrageous levels of taxation that they are protesting are among the lowest in the developed world, and are at historic lows for our nation.
Well then, stop worrying your pretty little head about those “rich” protesters in America***** & start/join your own movement for equality in your country.
*****Doubt there’s any point in trying to explain to you that we live in an increasingly interconnected world (mayhaps you’ve heard of “Globalism?”) and that many of the “rules” set-up by those at the top of the economic pile – be it in the US, Russia, China or your own country – directly affect those that are in “1K of debt” & can’t feed their kids. The Working Poor & The Unemployed: by far the fastest raising class world-wide. Might want to look it up. Just sayin’
You know when children say they really, really don’t care about something and that they are really, really laughing because something doesn’t matter? What ever it is, you know they really do care and it really does matter. A lot.
That is the OP.
Whew! Your commentary fails on just about every level. As far as me not caring, please point to even one instance of me saying I don’t “care”. The threads no the long, so I’m sure that all that “not caring” by me should be easy for you to find. Next, sometimes when we adults claim they’re laughing at something, they actually are. Like now…I’m laughing at you, and how brilliant you must have thought your insights were to have hit the Submit button. And you may want to look up “straw”.
Just noticed: “BLANK SLATE”? Yup, laughing again.
Pretty lame, just to bump a dying thread.
Christ, you’re dim.
The point of the 99% meme is not that 99% of the country is on their side. It’s to point out that the country is being run to serve the interests of the top 1%, not the vast majority of the country. It’s to point out that if you’re making $300,000 a year, you should be making common cause with someone making $30,000 a year, because BOTH of you are being screwed by the wealthy elite. It’s to point out that for thirty years the GOP has fostered “false consciousness” in the middle and upper-middle classes, to convince them that they’ve actually got a shared interest with their financial overlords. It’s to point out that it’s a unity movement, welcoming to anyone who actually works for a fucking living.
The poor and the middle class have been on the losing end of an invisible class war for the last 30 years. 99% is a call to arms. It’s a reminder of who, in a democracy, holds the real power.
Forget Straw Man, you are Transparent Boy. Keep laughing at yourself.
I was not commenting on the accuracy of his statements, just their coherency. “Satanic cults kidnapped my wallaby, and fed it to unsuspecting babies,” is a quite coherent, although certainly false statement.
Are you saying the folks who make $30,000 a year will only want to exert “real power” against the top one percent, or that they’ll also want to take money away from the folks who make $300,000 a year? Put another way, (a) what’s the average income of the majority “who, in a democracy, holds the real power” and (b) where exactly will they stop if they start in on the top one percent? The top four percent? The top forty percent? (The top forty-nine-point-four-nine percent?)
Most of the young idiots banging drums and spouting nonsense will vote for Obama. There’s your difference.
Here’s how I see the groups:
99%ers- upset with Wall Street greed
TPers- upset that there’s a black guy in the White House
99%ers- want jobs
TPers- want other people to give up their government benefits
99%ers- Coming together without corporate directions
TPers- Coming together with sponsorship from Koch Brothers and FOX
99%ers- Seek social justice
TPers- Seek to repeal 20th century
And most of the morans drawing swastikas on Obama will vote for Bachmann/Cain/Perry.
Please stop rehashing that tired argument. The TP is a tax protest movement, not a racial one. You are actually hurting the progressive cause with this type of hysterical wolf calling, and the tea party is quite insane enough already without you adding irrelevant shit to it.
I don’t wish to besmirch your otherwise cogent and agreeable post, but this is the crux. They just so obviously don’t hold the real power. Otherwise they wouldn’t be groveling in the streets.
We, they actually do, but it is largely the power to drag Hank Paulson and Robert Benmosche into the street and burn tires around their necks. If we continue on the current path of wealth concentration, it may come to that.
Bullshit. What specific tax increases were the TPers protesting? The guys who nail hubcaps to the sides of their mobile homes were never threatened by any tax increases by Obama, but they sure as hell came out of the woodwork the minute a black guy set his hand on the Bible and took the oath of office.