Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[ice grillin you]

oh that....i thought you meant a real apology like for something i did wrong

[phillymic2000]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_Yj8h8m2Gg

[MDS]

oh that....i thought you meant a real apology like for something i did wrong

well technically you were very wrong for not noticing until it was too late. but yes. i get it.

[phillymic2000]

Did he not tell you that you had toilet paper attached to your shoe?

[rjs246]

OWS is at least attempting to confront the biggest detriment to our politics and our society in general. Control of our political process no longer resides with the people it resides with the top 1% who are rich enough to buy influence and with corporations who are now somehow treated as people from a legal perspective. This problem saturates both sides of the aisle which is why OWS is not trying to affiliate with either. In fact a major component of their gripe, Campaign Finance and influence peddling, was championed by John McCain for years and was a major reason for his upstart popularity in 2000. This is a real issue that neither political party wants to see addressed. The only alternative is to take to the streets and I applaud them for doing it.

Color me unsurprised that IGY doesn't see the value in what they're doing. It's not on the bleeding heart social liberal agenda so why would he care? As for conservatives, well the GOP has spent the last 30 years getting their constituency to fall in line with their every dictate (hence the term 'Republican in name only' for anyone that shows a modicum of individual thought), so again color me unsurprised that conservatives fall in line with Eric Cantor and mock a movement that is in their interest to support.

[phillymic2000]

I'm mainly mocking the people that are there, I agree there is big problems, but some of these people are fargin priceless. "mic check"

[SD]

LOL @ CF getting behind occupy wall st.

whos behind it?....its a complete joke

but again much rather be behind that than a bunch of ignorant redneck elders voting against their own interests because we have a black president

Check the No Hippos board... your dream boy Munson and a few others are all behind it.
Do you not count as a black person when you don't vote Democrat, because I'm pretty sure there are black tea partiers.

I'm behind it. If you're part of the 99% of this country who isn't the top 1% you should be behind it. That doesn't mean I swallow every piece of bullshtein they throw out there but the gist of their argument is something everyone should get behind.

And yes, both sides are farged up and responsible for the mess we're in. In that case you have to choose which side you want to be on. Are you for loopholes and tax cuts for the billionaires and their yachts and private jets or are you for the middle class who represents the majority of this country and is struggling big time.

[rjs246]

I'm mainly mocking the people that are there, I agree there is big problems, but some of these people are fargin priceless. "mic check"

Sounds exactly like the Tea Party rallies (some sane rational people, some whckjob lunatics) except for the fact that corporate/economic influence is a real issue whereas 'taxed enough already' is a brainless slogan catering to the wealthy allowing them to whine about their taxes.

[rjs246]

I think it's also worth pointing out that no matter how important the issue of corporate influence is this movement has no chance of accomplishing anything. We live in a two party country (we don't even question the two party nature of our system anymore, the Tea Party was absorbed by the GOP so quickly that it's easy to forget that they pretended not to be republicans for a month or so) and neither party wants this to succeed. Without a party to champion the cause it will never get anywhere.

[Munson]

^^^^Which is why it's gonna take some people running for office and sticking to their guns on not letting themselves be corrupted. It's really hard to break through like that, but if you work your way up through local politics, it is possible. THe problem is a lot of the people that go that route end up being corrupted by the time they break through to the "big" offices.

It's something I plan on trying to do within 5 years, getting involved locally.

[Diomedes]

I'm involved in my neighborhood improvement association.  It's torture.

If Occupy is going to accomplish anything, they have to organize at least as well as the Tea baggers have, which is an incredibly unlikely prospect at this point.  These people are upset right now, sure, but they need to turn that into action.  Lots and lots of boring, time-consuming, mundane action.  They will need to get themselves and their friends appointed to committees, elected to seats on councils, etc.  Fat farging chance this gang of individuals can pull together a unified group with the kind of tolerance for tedium and desire to work that the Tea baggers did.  With this group, we're talking here about a bunch of totally divergent groups of people acting from vastly different motives.  The Tea people don't have much disagreement, they aren't spending a lot of time trying to get everyone on board, arguing it all out, etc.  It's the classic flaw of the liberal mind...so broad as to give though to it's own enemy, and therefore almost totally inadequate for actual action.  They need to organize.

They also need an educated electorate.   We have a fat stupid electorate.  And they need a robust, actively critical press.  We've got Fox News and USA Today.  They'll need statesmen in power to vote to decrease their own.  We've got capitalist pigcork sucking lackeys who worship only money more than themselves.


I'm rooting for Occupy, but not hopeful.

And the Tea party can suck my meatcicle.

[Munson]

I'm probably going to try to run for state house or senate in my district within the next 5 years. It's something I'd really love to do right now, but I want to be finished school first.

[Sgt PSN]

Munson gone fishing.

[Munson]

 

No fishing here, politics has (unfortunately) become something that I've become passionate about, and use a lot of my free time reading about current events and government and etc.

Of course, the other parts of my free time are devoted to killing things in video games and posting here.

[Tomahawk]

Viva la revolution!