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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Attero Dominatus on February 26, 2008, 12:11:19 PM
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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Feb-26-08 12:05 AM
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So you say you want a revolution
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"The peasants are revolting."
"Tell me something I don't know."
"No, really. They've got torches and pitchforks and they're approaching the castle gates."
Do they really think they can continue stealing our future from us indefinitely? Apparently they do. They think they can sit behind their gates in their ivory towers and suck on expensive drinks while we toil away at meaningless jobs simply to provide for them in the way to which they've grown accustomed?
Do they think that the rising cost of fuel and the rising cost of food won't cause fallout? When people are scrambling to feed their families, they're going to forget about those who sit in the catbird seat and look down on our petty difficulties with casual disinterest?
The American people fall too easily into complacency. When things are good, or at least tolerable, they'll ignore the things that are setting the stage for future problems. They live in the now, mesmerized by their televised sports and their reality shows, forgetting for the moment that nothing in the "******* noisy box" actually reflects real life.
Real life is going on in places they do not tread. Decisions are being made that affect their lives in the most basic ways and they have NO say in it. They don't even know it's happening. The corporate media won't tell them...not until it's over and done and it's too late. Their only hope for grasping the reality of the situation is here, in the electronic hinterlands.
They want us to be fighting one another for the scraps they leave us as they sit in comfort. I think they underestimate how angry people are going to be over what has to be seen as a Great Betrayal.
They've fed on us, these economic cannibals--gotten fat and indolent on OUR lives, and will try to escape to their refuges before their chickenhawks come home to roost. But when the people realize what has been done to them, there might not be anyplace far enough away to hide. When the security moms realize that they have no security, when the NASCAR dads realize there will never again be enough fuel for the cars to circle that track, what do they honestly think the end result will be.
Fury. Rage. And a hunger for payback SO deeply ingrained that safety from the angry masses might be unattainable.
It's time they gave us back our country, and take back from the cannibals what they've taken from us. In the end, that's their only recourse. Because of the Republican policies of the past decade or more, our economy teeters on the edge of disaster. Sure, they'll try to blame it on the Democrats.
But Americans may be lazy, and far too happy with their own comfort, but only a small percentage of them are completely clueless. There has NEVER, in the history of the world, been a more comfortable bunch of people. Take that away and they're going to realize who to blame: The oil companies, the car companies, the credit card companies, the banks, and, above all, the politicians who didn't protect them like they promised to.
It ain't going to be pretty.
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liberal4truth (46 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Feb-26-08 12:47 AM
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2. Thats just an old Beatles song. The "revolution" isnt coming, ever.
This isn't 1776 any longer...
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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Feb-26-08 01:18 AM
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7. Wrong? What's going on NOW is "wrong."
And, no, two wrongs don't make a right. But if the people see everything they worked for, everything they thought they were entitled to, slipping away, I'm not sure there's a force on Earth that can stop them.
And legality and morality won't have a damned thing to do with it.
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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Feb-26-08 01:16 AM
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6. You think that if we sink into another depression
all these complacent, comfortable Americans won't be pissed? They're not the same kind of people who suffered under the first depression. They have a HELL of a lot more to lose and they're going to be a hell of a lot angrier about it.
If you don't think so, you're underestimating the situation as much as the PTBs.
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davidthegnome Donating Member (157 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Feb-26-08 12:11 PM
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14. You're right
It won't be pretty, it'll be a damn nightmare. If we think the civil war was bad - imagine what a second one, with modern weaponry could do. Where would the lines be drawn? Would there be any clear distinction between friend and foe?
A bloody massacre from start to finish, and who would be left standing? Not just a revolutionary war, but a civil war - an idealogical war. The far left and the far right would be just as quick to fight each other as the government officials that have displeased them. Our Country is so divided that we'd have a million different groups with a million different goals - almost impossible to organize into one movement.
Do I want a revolution, considering the reality of the situation? No. Do I think it will eventually come anyway? Yes. Even in this small, conservative community in Northern Maine, people are talking about it, some quietly, some loudly (after a few too many drinks) in bars. If they're talking about it here, then I have no doubt that millions are thinking it.
I'm all but convinced that a violent revolution, in the near future, is inevitable. It is something that goes beyond party lines, we are living in a Tale of Two Cities - and one thing almost everyone can agree on - is that we're pretty pissed off.
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I bet mythsage lives a nice cushy life where she/he really has no cares. She/he sits at home all day thinking up these horribly fantasies of the boogey man named Bush, and convinces herself/himself of them. Then she/he rambles on and on online about it.
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I bet mythsage lives a nice cushy life where she/he really has no cares. She/he sits at home all day thinking up these horribly fantasies of the boogey man named Bush, and convinces herself/himself of them. Then she/he rambles on and on online about it.
The same could be said of all DUmmies. They claim to be poor and desperate, yet they have computers, internet access, a place to live etc etc etc
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All the DUmmie dreams work on the premise that the masses are of one mind. Unfortunately for the DUmmies, nothing could be further from the truth. Reality is not a DUmmie's strong point. They've seen too many movies.
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Well we know how the DUmmies react whenever you take away their cheetos and pot.
the herb primitive must be partaking. or aspiring to Pitt like flights of fancy with all that talk about the Great Betrayal. Classic victimhood!
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I've said this before, and it bears being said again....
The revolution will not only "not be televised", it won't leave it's mother's basement. :-)
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Yeah yeah yeah.
Another wanna be Boston Drunkard demonstrates his/her complete lack of analysis skills and Hemmingway-like purple prose.
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Ah.
It looks to me like the legendary herb primitive read some comments of Freeper over in the other place some time ago, and borrowed the "picture."
By the way, the legendary herb primitive was some time ago demoted from a first-tier primitive clear down to merely being part of the unterprimitiven, the mindless lynch-mob.
I really disliked doing the demotion, but one does have standards.
It had to do with two things; the persistence of the legendary herb primitive in trying to be "literary" rather than trying to be a good writer. No matter how hard the legendary herb primitive tries, he's never going to be literary. But if he threw those pretensions overboard, he'd naturally evolve into a good writer.
For the record, good writers make good bucks.
The other thing was that after the big blow-up with the primitive woman troubled by cold weather, and then a second one involving Ms. Ed the unappellated eohippus and the greedy thorn primitive, the legendary herb primitive was more gracious than the occasion demanded.
He had every right--and in fact an obligation--to tell these old biddies to **** off.
And then to make it worse, the legendary herb primitive tried to be "friends" with these bitter old women, tried to gain their approval, by "proving" he Hates George Bush more than they do, during a large spate of Hate-filled rants.
What the legendary herb primitive forgot to remember is that the primitive woman troubled by cold weather, Ms. Ed the nonmonickered equine, and the greedy thorn primitive, are NEVER going to like him no matter what, so he might as well not even try to gain their approval and affection.
Youth.
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Unless revolution can be done from the parent's basement, DUmbasses won't be involved.
I bet this moonbat won't throw rocks at a violent protest against the IDF again.
http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?collectionId=1604&galleryName=All%20Collections#a=1
BTW, nice shot.
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that's two new DUmmies who have used "PTB's" in their posts... whats that about?
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that's two new DUmmies who have used "PTB's" in their posts... whats that about?
I dunno.
"Powers That Be"?
The primitives like to contrive their own "secret" language, like they're little kids up in a treehouse.
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Unless revolution can be done from the parent's basement, DUmbasses won't be involved.
I bet this moonbat won't throw rocks at a violent protest against the IDF again.
http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?collectionId=1604&galleryName=All%20Collections#a=1
BTW, nice shot.
HA HA
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And what are these mystical entitlements that are slipping away from the populace?
:loser:
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Unless revolution can be done from the parent's basement, DUmbasses won't be involved.
I bet this moonbat won't throw rocks at a violent protest against the IDF again.
http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?collectionId=1604&galleryName=All%20Collections#a=1
BTW, nice shot.
Love it!
I absolutely love it!
Too bad the mouth breather is still living.
Now watch the asshat sue the rubber bullet company for his injuries.
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Unless revolution can be done from the parent's basement, DUmbasses won't be involved.
I bet this moonbat won't throw rocks at a violent protest against the IDF again.
http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?collectionId=1604&galleryName=All%20Collections#a=1
BTW, nice shot.
Love it!
I absolutely love it!
Too bad the mouth breather is still living.
Now watch the asshat sue the rubber bullet company for his injuries.
Hopefully, it's an Israeli company . . . which would mean he'd have to sue in an Israeli court, where he'd have far less sympathy.