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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Aristotelian on December 01, 2011, 11:30:29 AM
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Camps Are Cleared, but ‘99 Percent’ Still Occupies the Lexicon
Most of the biggest Occupy Wall Street camps are gone. But their slogan still stands.
Whatever the long-term effects of the Occupy movement, protesters have succeeded in implanting “We are the 99 percent,†referring to the vast majority of Americans (and its implied opposite, “You are the one percent†referring to the tiny proportion of Americans with a vastly disproportionate share of wealth), into the cultural and political lexicon.
First chanted and blogged about in mid-September in New York, the slogan become a national shorthand for the income disparity. Easily grasped in its simplicity and Twitter-friendly in its brevity, the slogan has practically dared listeners to pick a side.
“We are getting nothing,†read the Tumblr blog “We Are the 99 Percent†that helped popularize the percentages, “while the other one percent is getting everything.â€
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/01/us/we-are-the-99-perc... (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/01/us/we-are-the-99-percent-joins-the-cultural-and-political-lexicon.html?_r=2&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha3)
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Occupy the Interwebs!
Occupy the Dictionary!
Occupy anything that doesn't involve actual movement or action!
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What are the odds that by next March, "the 99%" won't mean anything other than those who don't like the Magic One?
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What are the odds that by next March, "the 99%" won't mean anything other than those who don't like the Magic One?
Yup it will be 99 44/100 % vague reference material. By the way what was the soap that had the Swan on it?
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Yup it will be 99 44/100 % vague reference material. By the way what was the soap that had the Swan on it?
I think it was Swan Soap. Ivory is the soap that claims to be 99 44/100 % pure.
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I think it was Swan Soap. Ivory is the soap that claims to be 99 44/100 % pure.
So, they should become the .56 percent . . .
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I think it was Swan Soap. Ivory is the soap that claims to be 99 44/100 % pure.
Yup, like Ivory, it floated.
(http://130.94.183.233/gif/oldshoe2.jpg)
I remember a business study about a group wanting to buy the logo because of the "good will" it engendered.
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Anything that has to do with soap, will not go over well for the OWSies. :whatever:
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Assumption of the 99% mantle by these misfit toys was always a lie, obvious to anyone but a journalist, and even the rank-and-file Dems weren't buying it. The meme will likely be dead through malnutrition in a couple of years.
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What a waste of time for these idiots.