Jan 25, 2017
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On Facebook I challenge people for their sources. On Tumblr I’m like “Whee! What a good story! I will reblog this because AWESOME!”
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Doublestandard
On Facebook I challenge people for their sources. On Tumblr I’m like “Whee! What a good story! I will reblog this because AWESOME!”
Bad Liberal #1
Okay, so I probably will recycle, but not for awhile...and my apartment will be full of useless junk until I do...or until I devise some sort of re-use system from all the stuff on Pinterest I save but never do.
more occupy wall Street talk from your token bad liberal
the thing is, NYC has well documented anti-protest rules. You. Need. A. Permit.To. March. Period. The march rules are dumb. BUT IF THERE ARE MORE THAN 15 OF YOU WALKING IN AN ORGANIZED GROUP YOU ARE BREAKING THE STUPID LAW. Which is fine. But then you can't really act surprised when you get arrested. It is a well documented stupid rule. Ask Critical Mass.
And it's fucked up, but it is a truth of political protest in New York. And it is well known. Not a surprise. I meant want to be outraged about the mace and the arrests. But. But is anyone surprised? This is what happens at protests that begin with the horribly offensive (I would say naive, but they know what they are doing) idea that "This is our Tahrir Square."
No, it isn't. NO IT ISN'T. But you want to think it is, so don't expect the cops to come out at you with cookies.
A part of the original press release from adbusters that isn't getting as much attention as the Tahrir square bit is a bit where they INVOKE the national guard.
If we hang in there, 20,000-strong, week after week against every police and National Guard effort to expel us from Wall Street, it would be impossible for Obama to ignore us."
You don't get to complain about police violence when it is part of your tactics. Let me say this again. you don't get to complain about police violence when it is a cruicial, planned part of your protest.
Invoking violence is one of my favorite dissent strategies, I find it fucking fascinating to watch unfold. I DO NOT find a bunch of my peers going "oh, it turns out mace in the eyes hurts" fascinating. I find it fucking obvious. I see you are trying to get sympathy, and it is working, and I do feel bad for your eyes.
But you wanted to call attention to yourselves. That is your protest. You are using your bodies to call attention to your cause. Of course you got arrested. Of course your eyes sting. I am sorry if you regret it now, but do not tell me the police are being brutal, because they aren't. They are doing:
1. Their jobs that they, unlike you, cannot leave for weeks to play camp in Union Square.
2. Exactly what you asked them to.
Everything is playing out exactly how you wanted it to.
On Occupy Wall Street
I'm posting this again, not as a reblog, because I want it to stand alone on my tumblr. Sorry for the dashboard spam.
I have so many things to say about occupy wall street, but I am afraid to, because they make me a bad liberal, a bad progressive. So, just one very brief thing I’d like to mention:
The economy of my city is so incredibly dependent on the financial industry. And that might suck, but it is the truth. Financial employees support all the restaurants downtown buying lunch. Okay, that’s a simple enough thing. Financial employees hire domestic workers: All those nannys, maids, cooks, drivers, and so on? Are people who depended on the bailout who have NOT screwed up the economy. Who support the grocery stores and so forth somewhere else in the city. It isn’t just wall street. I hate to sound completely Regan, because I hate this concept, but when it comes to the economy of New York City, Yes, absolutely, it trickles down. It isn’t as simple as “America favors wall street, the people didn’t want a bail out.” Okay, maybe “the real people” in the rest of the country didn’t want the bailout. But “the real people” in nyc? Fucking depended on it. Doesn’t mean we wanted it, exactly. But fucking depended on it.
Anyway, that is kind of in a nutshell why you will never hear me disagree with the bailout. The dislike of wall street is just another way people are so fucking anti-NYC, anti-urban, and it isn’t okay we don’t fucking ruin the nation’s economy for sport, that isn’t all we do, we are schools and art and small businesses, restaurants till you’re sick of food, nail salons and barbershops and children who have absolutely nothing to do with this nation’s economy. So when you remind people how bad wall street is? You’re reminding them how much they hate New York City, how it is only a place for the wealthy, you arelying, you are robbing us of funding for our streets, our schools, our security (that is a whole nother can of em’s-a-bad-liberal worms), our people, you are hurting people who have absolutely nothing to do with wall street except the mixed blessing of living in a city that is so fucking intertwined with those institutions.
We are real people too. Think about that next time you have enough free time in your life to camp out in the streets, cuz plenty of new yorkers don’t. We’re real, too.
oversimplifying
I don't somuch care if i am an awful person for celebrating the death of an awful person.
his death doesn't change anything.
I wouldn't even say I am happy about it; I am just existing...
But all the "it feels wrong to celebrate, I am ashamed to see people celebrate, this makes our country look bad," etc. People saying the reaction of the country doesn't sit right with them? Doesn't sit right with me..
Probably problematic....