phantom power 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 Wed Oct-19-11 03:35 PM
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Right wing projection and Occupy Wall St.
In short: conservatives are whiney-ass titty babies:
One thing I found interesting when a bunch of right wingers ganged up on me on Twitter, screeching incoherent nonsense at me in response to this bit of satire, was how most of them assumed that I don't pay federal income taxes. They coughed up the same crap about how those of us who support Occupy Wall St. are lazy parasites who don't want to work, and are playing victim. And that we hate people who do work and pay taxes.
But of course I pay federal income taxes. I'm a 34-year-old woman who makes a middle class living. That I don't throw a fit about it and act like it's the greatest injustice in the world doesn't mean I don't pay federal income taxes. That's because I'm a ****ing grown-up. The ready assumption that everyone who pays federal income taxes is a big, screaming toddler about it is what probably galls me more than anything about the "53%" nonsense. Screeching about your taxes just makes me assume you are in a constant tantrum because of other things in life that are less than pleasant: that you have to work for a living, that food has calories, that not everyone you want will have sex with you. Of course, you see a lot of Americans, especially right wing Americans, whine about that crap, too. So maybe that's the problem here.
But it is interesting how much they project onto the left. Liberals are protesting real problems: unemployment, the foreclosure crisis, the war. And conservatives respond by saying, "Quit whining about real problems and listen to me whine about having to be a ****ing grown-up. Wah!" And then say that liberals are "playing the victim". It's just one of the worst cases of projection I've seen in all the years I've spent observing right wing projection.
http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/right_wing_...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2147561 
They act as if we oppose paying taxes, what they can't figure out is, we pay plenty in taxes already, and we are sick of our hard earned money going to the government and getting pissed away on stupid things like solar panel companies that all the experts predicted was going to go bankrupt.
And if you want to talk about being a grown up, how about you stop whining and crying because someone has more than you do?
Avalux 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 Wed Oct-19-11 03:38 PM
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1. Me me me!!! It's all about me!!!!!
That's how those on the Right think; they don't care about anyone except themselves and their families. The difference - liberals - and the message from OWS - WE. Those who cannot shift their thinking to the collective and understand we are all connected, will be left behind.
They call themselves Christians too. HA!
Then why is it conservatives in general donate freely of their own will to charity more than you caring libs do?
It's easy to support someone else helping the poor, not so easy to reach in your own pocket and do so.
FarLeftFist (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Oct-19-11 03:40 PM
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2. It's so adorable how fright-wingers minds just can't comprehend what is actually taking place. Updated at 12:10 AM
The depth of OWS goes straight over their blind sheepish brains. From this day forth anyone who is opposed to OWS and isn't a 1%er should be immediately discredited as primitive and ignorant.
OWS is all about freebies and soaking the rich, try to prove me wrong.
