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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Occupy THIS!
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I think that's the emoticon for giving someone the finger, although the thumb knuckle looks off to me. Anyway, that's my general sentiment toward the assclowns sitting around smelling bad in the various public squares across America.
Over the weekend, this "phenomenon" spread to Australia, and Tim Blair laments:Leftists unerringly select the very worst aspects of US culture to imitate in Australia. Instead of First Amendment free speech rights, liberal gun laws and Buffalo wings, they go for apocalyptic climate terror, lame white-boy rap and pretending that gay marriage is one of the most important issues of our time.
The latest US import is the Occupy movement, underway in Wall Street since mid September and copied in Sydney (among other cities) over the weekend. Occupy Wall Street basically opposes everything: corporations, governments, university fees, greed, global warming, war and bathing.
My biggest wonder with the spreading "protests" is the adoption of the Guy Fawkes mask as modeled in V for Vendetta, graphic novel turned movie. First, these "occupiers" are "protesting" the wrong things for the wrong reasons (the government is in bed with Wall Street and uses crony capitalism to advance its ideological agenda), and two, they aren't original in either protest message or mask choice. I mean, these idjits are protesting the same exact things leftists always protest in exactly the same way they always protest them, and they've chosen to beclown themselves by choosing a mask of a wanna-be British terrorist from the 1600s (i.e., Guy Fawkes and the Hollywood-designed mask mean nothing at all to Americans).
Yeah, this is a "populist" uprising. Yawn.Labels: Filler Material, Over-Caffeinated Political Observations
William Young 4:12 PM #0 comments
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