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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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Oct 15, 2011 - 08:53pm PT
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War,
How Christian Fundamentalism Helped Empower the Top 1% to Exploit the 99%
Deference to religion masquerading as politics must end.
Excellent post and excellent link:
http://www.alternet.org/occupywallst/152724/how_christian_fundamentalism_helped_empower_the_top_1_to_exploit_the_99/
I've been thinking along similar lines for a several years now. Either with no one interested or no one picking up on it. Maybe increased attention will now be given to this amazing amalgam - between rich and religious.
Hey I'll start paying more attention to your posts now, you've earned it!
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Edit to ADD.
That was coincidental, your posting just now. I was referring to your earlier post. Linking religious fundamentalism, God and Country and Freedom, and Republican Party and poor republicans voting against their (economic) interests.
I look forward to reading that link tonight after dinner. tfpu
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John Moosie
climber
Beautiful California
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Oct 15, 2011 - 09:07pm PT
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No wonder no one will hire them. They are too stupid to be employed. They protest on wall street yet they don't even vote. So besides taking a shower, it would appear that some of them need to grow a brain, as well.
Could be they believe that their vote wont matter because all politicians are bought and paid for by wall street and the wealthy. Which is what they are protesting against.
But all you give a sh#t about is whether they took a bath recently or not.
Meh..
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Oct 15, 2011 - 09:12pm PT
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Wall Street (particularly Goldman Sachs who have an unrepresentative number of ex employees in the BHO administration)
Mega Banks, (The local community banks were allowed to fail or forced to be swallowed up by the mega banks)
Big auto, (Ford managed to not put its hand in the public's pocket)
Were all BAILED OUT BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE!
Why aren't the fleabaggers protesting big Socialism?
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Oct 15, 2011 - 09:39pm PT
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The entire right wing and some of the left....
They all need to sit down and think about this...
In my world I've see the development of huge corporations that have been lauded by wall street, government officials and radio talk show hosts alike.
But then, once everyone finds out just some of what they are doing they fall flat, like the fake-show that they are. One example that comes to mind is Enron. Totally fake.
Here's the thing: Enron, prior to being found to be a total fraud, provided some of the big catch phrases used in America today: Jobs and Profits.
I agree with the right: Corporations provide jobs.
And people on the right seem to always want to make a connection between jobs and regulations, saying things like regulations are job killers.
I say corporations should just say what regulation really is: The peoples wish for the industry to be safe, clean and effective.
Safe Jobs is what the corporations need to provide, otherwise I am against your corporation.
Your corporation needs to be clean: If your corporation pollutes air, water or land, then I am against your corporation.
If your corporation is only in the business of moving money around the world in order to reap a profit, chances are you are not very effective for very many other than those above you in your chain of command, and I am against you as ineffective. To prove my point: People don't get public awards for shifting moneys around the world, and if they do it's probably an exclusive club that meets up in board rooms of hotel ball rooms to give out the awards to each other (much like a circle jerk of the wealthy). Due to the fact that this is a pointless activity... I am against you.
And if your corporation actively seeks to legitimize your unsafe, unclean and unnecessary activities with no regard to the workers, the citizens or the environment... well then,..... I am against you. Just like you are against me.
And though conservatives will rail against me for saying so they are ignorant for putting their faith in their corporate gods hands because eventually they will do to you what they do to anyone who stops to question them or their methods.
corporate shamelessness coupled with Conservative lameness equals a very much worse America, indeed.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Oct 15, 2011 - 09:45pm PT
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The Tea Party went home after cleaning up after themselves, leaving the premises cleaner than they found them, and won the House, came within a couple of seats of taking the Senate and sent hundreds of their members to state legislatures.
The fleabagers will leave a landfill, broken windows and general public disgust in their wake and then go back to momma and daddy's to sleep off the hangover.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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Oct 15, 2011 - 09:45pm PT
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"Fundamentalist religion of all kinds is the enemy of democracy and thus of America. It is also the enemy of working people everywhere, when its bogus moral crusades empower the rich to thumb their noses at our government.
Fundamentalist religion here and around the world must be stopped in its anti-fact, anti-progress crusade. The alternative is chaos, decline, oligarchy and theocracy."
http://www.alternet.org/occupywallst/152724/how_christian_fundamentalism_helped_empower_the_top_1_to_exploit_the_99/
I've said it before: My own aunt and uncle vote Republican cycle after cycle. Because they're religious fundamentalists and because they they think the Party of Reagan and Lincoln cares more about religion, religious values. That's right - they vote Republican cycle after cycle for religious reasons, not economic reasons. They live in a trailer.
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Tax the filthy rich. Then tax em again.
Offspring who inherit $2 million can sit on their asses, do nothing, and make 100k a year. Year after year their entire lives. While creators, producers, might work eight hours a day to solve life problems or contribute to a better world and only make $50k if that. There's something fundamentally wrong about this set-up. Time for change.
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It's about time partisan politics became (economic) class warfare between haves and havenots. Long-overdo. I for one look forward to it.
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John Moosie
climber
Beautiful California
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Oct 15, 2011 - 09:48pm PT
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lets argue about who is cleaner instead of whether they have a reason to be frustrated. The original tea partiers probably weren't all that clean.
Nice post Jingy.
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Oct 15, 2011 - 09:57pm PT
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"Mine is for the GOP"
 one meaningless vote for business as usual...
(Edit - I hear in some circles the Tea Party was refered to as "Tea Baggers". And as we all know that's the same as a group of people who gobble c*#k and balls.)
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John Moosie
climber
Beautiful California
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Oct 15, 2011 - 10:02pm PT
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The KKK marched with the newest tea partiers. Another stupid thing to argue about.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Oct 15, 2011 - 10:23pm PT
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I can not even talk to you people anymore. You are gone!!
You think the flea-baggers want a just system? Read about Mao and Lenin. You are all being used.
And you could say that about us 'tools' that work for the man, but I still have a choice as to who will be blessed with my skills.
It's called a free market. Everybody should jump on the Cain-Train.
Woo-woo!
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Oct 15, 2011 - 10:28pm PT
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Blue...you've been polishing too much cain..
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Oct 15, 2011 - 10:30pm PT
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TGT - Why do you waste your life on this stuff....?
All I know is that the people hanging out on wall street are more closely aligned with the original tea party (the one that started the American revolution The Boston Tea Party was a key event in the growth of the American Revolution. Parliament responded in 1774 with the Coercive Acts, which, among other provisions, closed Boston's commerce until the British East India Company had been repaid for the destroyed tea. Colonists in turn responded to the Coercive Acts with additional acts of protest, and by convening the First Continental Congress, which petitioned the British monarch for repeal of the acts and coordinated colonial resistance to them. The crisis escalated, and the American Revolutionary War began near Boston in 1775.)
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Oct 15, 2011 - 10:32pm PT
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More-on Blue
"I can not even talk to you people anymore."
You could leave and never come back like another one of the troll tools out there.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Oct 15, 2011 - 10:34pm PT
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Keep trying, wes.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Oct 15, 2011 - 10:40pm PT
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Bluering - Curious how do you reconcile the tea partiers (sp?) who are marching in the Denver OWS? They are proudly waving their tea party flag and being peaceful like the rest of the folks there.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Oct 15, 2011 - 10:45pm PT
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No, wes, I don't 'try', I just walk the line.
I live my own life and raise my family based on my own standards. Unfortunatly for you, most Americans agree with me.
The WOS dirtabags can have their say. But at some point they should be jailed, let's be honest. They are loitering losers.
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Oct 15, 2011 - 10:46pm PT
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"Here is a very simplistic take on things. Before we had much industrialization, people were forced to take care of themselves and their families. You really couldn't carry too many people on your back and still survive yourself,"
How wrong of me would it be to say that all tea-partiers be jailed?
What if I took it a step further as said that republicans should be jailed?
And what if I took it a step further and called for the jailing of those corporations that gained the most in the economic downturn of 2008?
Would I be considered American?
How many people do you think would agree with you then?
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