Hey, thanks for pointing that out, Captain No Shit, Man. We sorta figured that out 27 fucking pages ago. If you haven’t noticed, we have sorta wandered around discussing several things, as Dope threads tend to do. We are now ruminating on exactly fucking stupid Gonz is. We have determined that he may or may not be as dumb as a bag of hammers because we do not have bag of hammers posts to compare to. We also determined that he does not eat shit on toast as he has lost the recipe for toast. (THanks, Shodan)
Now that you are caught up, feel free to post your own cute little story about how stupid Gonz is. Otherwise, ya know, you could always pound a few shovelsful of salt up your ass.
I confess, I have a powerful sexual fetish for desecrated public spaces. Don’t talk about it much. Not because I’m ashamed, mind you, only that nobody else finds it remotely interesting.
It’s not that much of a secret 'luci. Daily Kos uses an old pic of you masturbating like a motherfuck to the graffiti on Jim Morrison’s tombstone as a URL avatar.
No. Allegations of police brutality tend to turn off swing voters and independents. They only prop up the choir. A partial exception might be a rogue like Lieutenant Bologna. Even in that case though, if the victims were people of color, the sympathy garnered would be substantially less.
Phase 1 of OWS was a rousing success. 1) We know this because of the massive and purely ad hominem and hysterical attacks on it. Wingers used to see a Red in every bed: now they spot an Acorn around every corner. What they won’t do is engage on the substance of the protest. 2) The public discourse has shifted from crank-economics - expansionary austerity- to textbook economics, or economically defensible stimulus and pro-growth financial and physical infrastructure policies. The Plutocratic emperors have no clothing.
Phase 2 began two days ago, with the storming of Camp Oakland. This is a counter-productive development in my view. Plus, I doubt whether the group is likely to pull together and go Woodstock or Gandhi on the cops: there’s some local history of police brutality which has put them out of the mood. The optics of this are bad, from a swing or independent voter perspective.
The only silver lining is that apparently independents are over-represented within the OWS. In fact perhaps 70% of them are. Occupy Wall Street: Who Are We? | The New Yorker So bad behavior may be internally denounced, which could form a useful contrast with the Tea Partiers. Another twist is that Oakland has a few progressives on the local council, unsurprisingly. Some are even sensible.
I can’t tell if you’re dumber than you’re dishonest or vice versa. Regardless, my money is on “drunk”. Look you dumb bastard. You said I said something and then when asked for a cite you provide a Google search proving that some people somewhere used the descriptor you cited, but not me.
I must admit to being flummoxed. It’s hard trying to have a coherent discussion with a drunk.
Having participated in mass protests including Occupy Austin, I’ve seen that the grounds are generally kept very clean by the protestors.
If you bother to watch some of the videos from Oakland, you’ll see the police knocking over garbage cans and scattering trash.
Why?
To provide an excuse for mass arrests, of course.
The occupiers aren’t preventing the general public from going about their business.
We have a right to be on the sidewalks and in the parks.
We don’t need a permit- we have one.
It’s called the First Admendment:
We’re playing the dozens, gonzo. It’s supposed to be semi-lighthearted fun.
I say you lost the recipe for toast, then you come back and say I could not play in the sand as a child because the cat kept trying to bury me. Then I tell you that you are so insignificant that you came in second in the Invisible Man Look-Alike Contest. And so on.
The Pit can be too serious sometimes. Once in a while we need to riff off each other and zing each other and so on.
It’s not a serious debate. It’s just fooling around. It’s not exclusive to right-wingers, or at least it doesn’t have to be.
In Clark v. Community for Creative Non-Violence, 468 US 288 (1984), the US Supreme Court considered that very claim. Attempting to demonstrate, protesters camped out in parks administered by the National Park Service.
