http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2045923#2047038HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Mon Oct-03-11 09:49 AM
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They should just all give up.
They should all just go home now.
They have no coherent message. They have no solidified goal.
“Waaaaah! I hate the banksters! I want them to be prosecuted! I want Justice!!!â€
News Flash, people: Greed isn’t a crime. The “banksters†didn’t commit defined crimes, they’re not going to be prosecuted and they’re not going to make things fairer. Making things fairer is anathema to all that they and their businesses are.
The protesters should just accept this zero-sum life for what it is: The rich will get exponentially richer because THEY are the productive class while the poor get ever poorer, all because the poor want something for nothing and because they refuse to work ridiculously harder than they already are for something better. Don’t grab a sign, grab some work ethic.
They should just accept that capitalism is the greatest, most benevolent, most equally distributive and fairest economic system America could ever have and we should never even think about toying with anything different.
They need to just all wake up and accept that in this modern era, protests don't do an OUNCE of good. They're futile, a complete waste of time that can otherwise be spent doing something monetarily productive and quantifiable. They should just kill this movement before it even starts, go home and watch Jersey Shore . . . because unless it’s March on Washington Part II, writing to your Congresspersons, sit-ins at corporations or attempts at executive arrests, ain't no one going to listen. Go full-on or don't go at all.
Really, what are people protesting FOR anyway? This is a mere burp we're all experiencing, part of a normal economic cycle; doesn't even warrant the overblown hyperbole of "economic catastrophe". Does everything have to require a bunch of unwashed know-nothing college kids gather up and be MAD?
I noticed they're all wearing corporate products made overseas and consuming corporate foodstuffs. So doesn't that make them kind of hypocritical that they didn't weave/knit their own clothes or farm their own food? Walk the walk, don't talk the talk.
America's poor really don't know how good they have it anyway. They have TVs. They have a car, sometimes even two. They still eat. Even the homeless of Cleveland get to sleep under the piss-encrusted lobbies of abandoned buildings . . . I mean, THAT'S a roof. The occasional passerby will give them money and/or leftover food. THAT'S sustenance. I see them all the time wearing stuff. THAT'S clothing. Africa's poor live in mud huts and don't even EAT. How can these food-chillin m'er f'ers insist that they have it bad?
Let's call this for what it is: a bunch of directionless, sad, financially-lull and ill-informed slackers spouting sour grapes for losing at the economic game of life, venting with a losing cause towards an unstoppable capitalist machine run by the successful winners.
If they really want to impress me, they should write a complete dossier with specific goals, specific instructions/details on how they’re going to accomplish those goals and a serious end game plan for when the inevitable fallout happens. Otherwise, this is just more material for Republican TV ads . . . more fodder for Middle America’s already sullied image of our side and since the media doesn’t care anyway; it’s virtually hopeless to continue on.
So, all you OWS disparagers . . . did I cover everything?
Oh Hugh, you loser. Sometimes you speak truth to power even if it is a bit convoluted. You use the sarcasm smiley, the way most DUmmies do, to get around saying how they really feel.
HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Mon Oct-03-11 01:14 PM
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12. The Eternally Screwn.
Telling . . . amidst all the chaos, New York-based CNBC, which we have on at work, has been surprisingly silent about OWS.
Eternally screwn ? You CHOOSE to be. Without that victimhood crown, you might be happy. We can't have happy !
Let's find out why Hugh feels the way he does.
In my redneck shithole of a high school (Vermilion Ohio, and I'll always mention it) . . . .
Posted by HughBeaumont in General Discussion
Mon Sep 26th 2011, 08:29 AM
. . . it was pretty much open season on anyone who didn't look like a JCPenney mannequin.
Band kids got ****ed with the most. As did the learning disabled. So did non-popular smart kids. Fat beta kids had bullseyes on their back. Acne. Brown patches. Skinny. Non-athletic. Bad hair. Socially awkward. Not as attractive. Has no interest in fighting. From the wrong family. Listened to the wrong music. Helped the cafeteria workers. Open season.
Oh, and that whole thing about marijuana being "the great equalizer" . . . like in Breakfast Club, where kids from all walks smoke a doob and everything's Jim Dandy? Bullshit. An asshole who smokes weed doesn't become mellow or accommodating . . . he's still an asshole. Some of the larger burnouts bullied the kids listed above right along with the athletes and cheerbitches. Although I really gotta thank them . . . it's because of people like that I never touched drugs of any kind.
Oh, and if you were gay, you were in a locked-from-both-sides closet or you risked your life. And I'm not even kidding on that one.
Athletes weren't just bullies, they were serial victimizers.
I went to church with many, many victimizing idiots.
Most of my bullies were children of teachers, which is why nothing at all was done about it.
Coaches did absolutely nothing about bullying. Some coaches were bullies themselves and threatened kids with violence (myself included).
Teachers . . . same thing. They berated and humiliated weaker kids in class, often.
Nobody stood up for anyone. It was every person for themselves. Adults failed to protect any of us. My grades suffered tremendously because I couldn't concentrate and was only thinking about 3:00 PM. My relationship with my family was massively strained because they, like many others (including some on this board) blamed ME for it all. My sister never saw where I was coming from because she was friends with all of them.
"It gets better?" No, it ****ing doesn't. It NEVER goes away. It was the most miserable experience of my life and might as well have been an eternity as long as it lasted.
I carry hatred for these ****ers every single day, to this day. I can't go back to that city without my senses going haywire. I can't look at a former asshole without wanting to hospitalize him. I have a grave hatred and intolerance for drunks and assholes. I won't step into a bar because I see these very types of people. They all look the same and if you talked to them, they act the same as well.
Every day one of my former tormentors walk around not giving me or anyone else one "sorry" or feel one ounce of remorse or pay even the slightest bit physically, I feel there's something terribly wrong with that.
Adults (particularly administrators) and police need to get their hands dirty and stop this. There's no two ways about it. Bullying is assault. Assault is a crime, a crime that's being committed by and large BY CHOICE. These aren't kids with mental or behavioral issues, they're normal kids who are choosing to be an asshole and commit a CRIME.
It's just a massive disgrace that there are people on a progressive board failing to see that.
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumontI've seen your picture Hugh. The ones you claim are you. I see someone that chose self pity to excuse being a success. You have no one to blame but yourself. You are not ugly on the outside, it's inside where you cultivate your imagined hate, your true ugliness.
Most people grow up and move on. I see you haven't. That's why your life is so shitty.
You are now my top pick for DUmmy of the Year. CONGRATULATIONS !! You're finally someone's number 1 !
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