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Are they afraid the people’s patience is not endless?

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Originally posted by MIKER:

Steven Pearlstein

Steven PearlsteinColumnist
I am a job creator: A manifesto for the entitled

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/i-am-a-job-creator-a-manifesto-
for-the-entitled/2012/09/28/756f2e90-07ee-11e2-858a-5311df86ab04_story.html

Let's hope this thread stays civil?

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Originally posted by MIKER:

Here's to hoping this thread stays civil

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Originally posted by MIKER:

instead choosing to it let pass.

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
PEOPLE ARGUE, YOU FUCKING MORON. GROW UP AND DEAL WITH IT !!!!

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
Yer a great man Chris.

Ehhh, yer alright.

Well, the good news is you don't even make my Top Ten list of idiots, so that's somethin'

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PEOPLE ARGUE, YOU FUCKING MORON. GROW UP AND DEAL WITH IT !!!!

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Originally posted by MIKER:

Look up the words, they mean two different things. What does being rude and obnoxious have to do with debating differing points of view?

Your whole premise that it is wrong to confront someone who is rude and obnoxious yet it is OK to confront someone who is not, sounds ignorant and contradicting to me.

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
Yer sooo predictable.

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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:

I will not shed a bitter tear.


-Frem

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Remember what happened to Robespierre?

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Otoh, don't Super Heroes solve all our problems with violence?
We are thoroughly brain-washed, living in fantasyland.
And the Gods are laughing.

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Most people, perhaps, are living in a TV-created fantasyland.

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You *HAVE* to address the conditions by which these individuals come about, the misery, deprivation and suffering which creates them in the first place, or all you're doing is just switching out one poison for another,

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Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:
Well. This thread went interesting places in a sudden and all caps way.

Re the OP: there is definitely a rising awareness. I won't say it's heading towards guillotines though, and I certainly hope not. Besides all that unpleasant death stuff, I don't think it'd be effective.

The problem I have with this "kill the oligarchs" idea is that the oligarchs are not some other kind of being. They're human, same as the rest of us. Say you had a brain-exploding beam that you could target to the 1% and wipe them out entirely. So what? S new exploiting caste will take over. The people aren't the problem. The system is. The system has to change.

Money out of politics is #1. Actually, ending the worship of money is #1. It is easily accepted these days that you should do anything and everything to have more money, to have more stuff. Every activity involves money changing hands. The value of a person is rated in money, how much they have, how much they are paid. Punishment is often done by taking away money. If you don't like a person, you don't spend money on the product they're selling. We put people in power not by voting with ballots, but by spending money on their products.

There ought to be an anti-money day, when the goal is to find something to do, a way to enjoy your day, that involves no money changing hands. It's near impossible. And that's not an accident. This worship of money has been injected into the system by those who get a cut from it.

I think the best rebellion would be to get out of the hamster wheel of money money money. Stop living in debt (so a huge chunk of your paycheck goes directly to the banks), stop buying every new trinket that comes out. Stop jumping at every dollar bill or shiny object.

That would crash the system faster than a whole herd of guillotines.




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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:

Why American Conservatives Are Suddenly Freaking Out About Guillotines
http://www.alternet.org/economy/why-american-conservatives-are-suddenl
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Oh Gee, YA THINK ?!!

They know damn well, fucking EXACTLY what their fate is if they continue on this path, and they're scared shitless of it, even with a suborned government and its entire military to protect them from the consequences of those actions cause they're starting to realize both of the latter are full of people.
People their own actions have fucked.

I will not shed a bitter tear.


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Oh, and I'm gonna guess that that mental illness that you wouldn't elaborate on in chat is BI-POLAR DISORDER, 'cause the last chick that jumped right on in and tried to tell everyone what they could say and how they could say it was bi-polar (Riona).

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