Cheshire the Cat said:
They are hippies. Dirty, whiney, pathetic hippies who expect the rich to pay for them.
I have zero respect for any of them. So they are not part of the 1%, whose fucking fault is that? They had the same chances, they did not go for it so they have no right to whine.
Besides, they piss me off talking about how bad they have it while they have food, clean water, homes, medicines and many luxuries people in other countries could not possibly dream of.
But I guess that saying "We are the lower 99% of the top 25%[footnote]Rough estimate of living standards of everyone around the world.[/footnote] of the worlds population!" just does not have the same ring to it. But then whiney peoples complaints rarely do when you phrase it correctly.
Basically they are pissed off that the top 1% is much much richer than they are while ignoring that they are much much richer than 75% of the worlds population.
Sorry but this is just false. Im actually a bit appauled. Also you trotted out the "youre better off than some so you cant complain about anything ever" arguement that my parents used to use when i didnt want to eat my peas. It was bullshit then and its bullshit now.
Id like to deal with this now. Lets imagine i punched you in the face. Upset? No youre not, someone somewhere just stabbed. So its worse for him. Dont complain then, you have it better so you cant be angry or call the police. What? Im sick of this arguement. Its hollow and downright annoying.
Id like to tread lightly here, you ignored someone rather violently and id like to have a serious discussion with you.
First off you seem to have no idea what these people want. They do NOT want free money handouts. They want to change a system in which large corperations back political leaders for their campaigns so when the campaign is won the political leaders cut them huge breaks and favors to keep the backing for the next campaign. It stinks of corruption and corperate back scratching while keeping everyone else out of the picture.
Second the idea that these people had the same chances as the 1% gave me this reaction:
Im not sure if youre joking. Seriously? The son of a rich oil tycoon totally has the same chance as me, a kid with good grades but a looming 60K debt to attend a biomed course because i want to help people in healthcare. Where ill likely be payed little, appreciated less, forced to work in a bloated NHS that barely run in a job market where frankly starbucks is a fucking light at the end of the tunnel. The only thing keeping me going is that if i land a job at least i can be proud of it, actually helping people not die of easy to treat illnesses. Ill get to this later.
Third: When you are doing three jobs and you cannot feed yourself and have heating and medical insurance something is wrong. In a country where spewing hate toward gays is a right and denying them the right to love is a right but not dying horrifically of cancer in the street is a privilage something is VERY wrong. Id say a country where simple diseases kill people that could be treated because of poverty doesnt even count as a first world country. Thats thrid world standard right there. Can you not see something wrong here? Wages get smaller, pentions get smaller, jobs are harder to find, houses are MORE expensive, degrees become LESS usefull and MORE expensive i mean COME ON. Something here is VERY wrong. And at the same time the parties bend over backwards to help their previous funders and dont give a shit about a single mum pulling 4 jobs just to survive.
The banks went down, they got bailed out. I lose my house, wheres my fucking bail out. In fact listen to this. This is nice.
Capitano Segnaposto said:
Quiet Stranger said:
So I'm just wondering what exactly the people on Wall Street are bitching about, from what I've heard it's mostly people who don't have jobs who have nothing better to do or people who DO have jobs bitching about there being no jobs and that it's all just a waste of time. Could someone explain this whole mess to me?
I always looked at it as the Hipster movement of 2011.
I want to punch every single one in the face.
Smug fucks.
"IM BETTER THAN THESE FILTH! THEY SO SMUG!"
Hypocritical much?
Go on punch this single mother of one pulling 2 jobs to get by. Keep that morale highground you so dearly believe you have. I weep for the future full of people like you.