I don’t agree. Especially since I think that the election campaigning will put Conservatism in the spotlight. And it’s miles away form anything that resembles conservatism.
Huh?
I agree that it is very anti-conservatism… and I hope I am proven wrong about republicans refusing to overturn it… I have just become so cynical politically lately that I tend to err on the side of the plutocrats and lobbyists who have more to say about politics than the politicians themselves.
I do share your concern. I just try to stay a bit more optimistic.
sigh You’re right, I should try to be more optimistic too. I guess I am just so pissed off with both parties right now it’s hard for me not to be cynical.
I never join those “equality” movements because, at least the ones in my country, have a complete lack of grasp of basic sociology and economy aside form “I don’t like this stuff” and “We need more equality”.
My personal work towards equality is helping a parochial daycare center for extremely poor families. My tiny help there is much more real and powerful than 1000 protesters going home to their 42" LCDs complaining about “the rich”.
In my country, on the other hand, we’ve had 20 years of hard work and as a result poverty has been cut in half. It’s still a massively unequal country and seeing how those profeesional I-care-for-the-poor guys never come out of their offices if there are no cameras and hold the poor like disabled babies rather than real people has vaccinated me from middle-class people chanting and never doing real work. “Fuck the rich” has normally meant “Fuck the poor harder while telling them you really care”.
Globalism, sure, that’s exactly why I don’t care for movements, I care for people who do actual work.
I’ll bash teapartiers in the appropriate thread; this isn’t it.
My point was, these protests are regarding wealth disparity in this country. Pointing out the relative poverty in other countries has no bearing on domestic class inequality.
What kind of “Christian” are you again? Oh, right, the GOP kind. Nevermind.
-Joe
God, I can actually feel magellan’s hysteria right through the internet. It’s incredible.
You might want to look up the word that you think you feel. Yeesh.
Maybe, but I’ll take the US wealth disparity to my own country’s any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Scientifically verified. The hamster cage is located 30 feet from his latests posts. Move the cage one foot closer, the rate of hamster wheel rotation goes up 10 percent. At fifteen feet closer, the wheel was going twice as fast as compared to the original location. At ten feet, the hamster trumpeted his distress and began furiously gnawing at the bars of his cage. I removed him to a safe distance, and he lapsed into a torpor.
Didn’t even know a hamster could trumpet distress! I’m making a note here: big success…
He’s got sort of a Denethor thing going on, right before the fiery jump. More manic than hysterical.
Sad, really.
Don’t kid yourself, they’re still a joke.
Mobs are counterproductive, liberal or conservative.
I’m sorry you live in a shitty country. Can we talk about the US now?
The voice of the American Left.
Sure, go ahead, don’t let your Chardonnay get warm on my account.
It’s okay, I have these electronic Chardonnay glasses that keep it at the perfect temperature. [/first_world_problems]
The voice of the American right.
(In case you can’t parse through the moronic message, it’s from a Tea Party protest.)
I can play this game all day long.
That photo also proves the left doesn’t have a lock on “dirty, filthy” protestors.