Mr. Block
So now a bunch of Pagan's buddies, clever fellows that they are, have started an "I'm the 53% tumblr" here htp://the53.tumblr. The Wobblies have a great name for these guys, named after a cartoon character created by Ernest Riebe in 1912 and immortalized in a Joe Hill song called Mr. Block.
"Mr. Block is legion," wrote Walker C. Smith in 1913. "He is representative of that host of slaves who think in terms of their masters. Mr. Block speaks from the standpoint of the millionaire, licks the hand that smites him and kisses the boot that kicks him." In a sense , it is a collective form of Stockholm Syndrome mixed with a little curmudgeon. Like my grandad telling me he had to walk five miles uphill( both ways!) to school every day and then milk the chickens and blah blah. A funny take on this pathology is portrayed in the Monty Python movie Life of Brian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2TPQ0DEVaEk#!
"Block thinks he may- be President some day." Joe Hill. And he thinks he has a monopoly on virtue and American Spirit.
Maybe worse are the liberals. Here is Benjamin Barber in the latest Nation, trying hard to catch up to Occupy and sputtering nonsense like: "Toward a Fighting Liberalism" ( I shit you not)
"Liberalism's core values remain strong, persuasive and enduring. Their fighting vitality is apparent in the spreading youth-led protests on Wall Street and across the country." It's basically re-hashed "we gotta push Obama" bullshit.Because they lost their imagination decades ago.
A long over-due debate is taking place on a dozen web sites in the "progressive" media-sphere over liberalism. A great example is the comment threads over at Truthout.org where liberals are being criticized from the left and acting very hurt about it. They just can't fathom someone attacking Elizabeth Warren or Michael Moore or any of the other stars and in a big way, this is the divide finally being acknowledged by the Occupy movement as well. Charges of opportunism and Utopianism are flying around and I say it's about time! The tired liberals with their tired approach tried to co-opt the Occupy Montana event on Saturday and unless some youth do show up they will probably be successful.
posted by troutsky @ 10:13 PM
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Ah, Elizabeth Warren. I had actually considered contributing to her campaign. Then she gave a statement on that ginned up Iranian execution nonsense and spilled the beans.
"We have to have all responses to terrorism on the table and that means a strong responsive military". Yeah, we know the drill, Liz.
Just another blue dog Dem. Odd that for all her talk of being an advocate she (and Obummer) managed to do nothing. Voters may wise up and realize they never intended to.
Better to keep spending time with #Occupy. Ran some donations and supplies out to Worcester who got hit with a foot of snow but their going on.
Meanwhile the 52 percenters will join in their own destruction. The income shift continues and these fools have faith that Kapital will leave them the last spot as a WalMart greeter after the 1% has it all and leaves town.
Look at what's happening with Whirlpool, whole towns abandoned, and these fools just don't get it.
Here is a new columnist in the Nation, a black gal who thinks white liberals are cutting Obama less slack than Clinton.
"In a world where capitalism is the only remaining economic system in meaningful operation..They (Occupy) are not calling for an end to capitalism..."
She is in love with the civil rights movement cause it brought us Herman Cain?
On the BBC the newscaster said "European cities are filled with anti-capitalist protesters..." That's the difference. E. Warren is just another lesser-evil pragmatist and probably just as devout a worshipper of Fukyama as The Nation.
Troutsky, you should hear yourself, you and Ducky both. The very idea that you try to promote liberal Democrats as centrists is laughable on the face of it, but when you try to paint them as devout capitalists, that's really a howler.
And yeah, let's keep promoting Occupy, let's sit back and watch the show, adults getting kids drunk, raping young girls, putting other young girls up for sale as prostitutes on Craig's List, shitting on cop cars, flying Soviet flags, stalling traffic in the middle of rush hour, threatening to levitate huge buildings, intimidating restaurant customers, allowing homeless people to die from asthma attacks when they could have easily got them emergency aid, do I really need to keep on about these scumbag hipsters before you realize what asses you look like defending them?
By the way, how many times did the riot squad have to be called out on the Tea Party again, helped me out I seem to have lost track of those times.
Which #Occupy site have you been involved with, Pagan.
I'm calling bullshit. You parrot what you read at some right wing site and call it truth.
The Tea Party disappeared long ago, Pagan. Dick Armey swallowed it whole.
Buy a vowel.
You parrot what you read at some right wing site and call it truth.
lol! If the Left didn't print it, it never happened. Ducky loves to wear his ring of Gyges.
Bullshit Ducky everything I said happened at one OWS or another, and if it hasn't been mentioned on a legitimate news site its been videotaped on YouTube, in some cases both.
But you know what, it doesn't matter whether you believe it or not (or say you don't), because what matters is what most people believe.
But hey, guess what? I don't want them to go away. I want them to stay put, and keep doing the exact same shit they have been doing, only more of it, on up until the election, and I hope Obama and the Democrats keep right on sticking up for them.
We'll see then by god.
Care to buy a vowel, duckmeister?
Interesting, The Milk Street Cafe is a corporate caterer.
I don't think OWS was ever interested in catering.
My guess is the guy's business was already on the rocks. But let's all be well behaved while Wall Street fucks everyone over, right?
Bore me late.
A consonant?
No, the are no "a's" in "boner."
... who put the barricades up, Farmer?
OWS or Bloomberg?
Let him talk to the New York cops and ask why the barriers are there.
Or maybe we can do it the Thai way. Flood thousands of people out of their homes to protect the business district. That sounds like something that you Beak and Pagan can get behind.
Damn right wing diaper pissers get all upset by the dirty hippies and the barricades go up. Blame the diaper pissers.
"shhhhhh... don't tell any right wingers."
...the the invisibility cloak might "come-off".
Got a clue yet, duckmeister?
Even Glenn Beck is piling on with the lies... eh, duckman?
Ooooops. Maybe it's not JUST Glenn Beck.
Let's see, camps springing up all over America and Farmer is so fucking stupid he doesn't think there will be crime.
Damn, even for the fringe right that's dumb.
Top notch reasoning, Ducky. The Milk Street Cafe' is a "corporate caterer" so the hell with them. Never mind the 21 employees the guy had to sack, they're just collateral damage. We have to think of the greater good of the great collective proletariat, don't we Ducky? Death To Corporate Caterers As A Class.
Who put up the barricades?
The protesters or the cops?
Yeah, let's blame the cops, let's not put the blame squarely where it belongs, on these scumbag hipsters who have turned the area into as close as you can get to a bio-hazard zone this side of Chernobyl. Newsflash, the police have a duty to protect the general population from these two-bit douchebags.
One thing we can't do is discuss rationally whether this movements contention that the American political system is completely broken and exists only to benefit a small portion of the population.
Nothing but Farmer's anecdotes
Beak starts screaming that they really want to fir the ovens back up.
And I don't know what your beef is. Certainly they are disorganized and not sufficiently reprehensibly "normal" to suit you but if they go away(or are swept away) we'll soon see the laissez-faire machine in top efficiency.
Hallucinating right along with von Mise that a modern society can be built optimally by single units avoiding cooperation and acting in their short term best interest. Sheer insanity.
Son of a gun, trout. Mention the absolute burnt earth policy of Whirlpool and who pops up, why 9-9-9.
He was on the board of directors up till 2008.
Gotta get behind his candidacy trout.
Couple months of this clown and shades of the Paris commune.
It's called interdependence Ducky, look it up some time. No man is an island, nor was he meant to be. It's the height of hubris for commies to suggest the strong arm of government, or "the people" is necessary to enforce something that nature has already taken care of.
Trace the nature of a problem from its beginning on into when it gets constantly and consistently worse, in any area of society, and nine times out of ten, at least, I will show you the increasing interference of some government entity doing more to create problems than it does to solve them.
Socialism has never, in all its history, created a wealthy man, or even a prosperous society. It has created multitudes of impoverished and destitute people, and its record is consistent in this regard, across all decades, nationalities, and ethnicities.
Don't cry at me because you're blind to reality. For me to get drunk enough to believe the shit you believe would require me to break out the after shave.
Well look at it this way, Pagan, the dirty hippies in Oakland managed to get the longshoreman to hold a slowdown at the port.
There was talk of a general strike and a number of labor groups are joining in.
You and Beak can joke all you like but this might have legs.
What the students are learning is that this movement has to be inclusive and they have to involve labor. They are learning and while there may be a slowdown during the winter they'll be back during the campaign with a more fully developed strategy and maybe you can join the general strike.
They're learning, huh? That's good. Do you reckon they might learn to clean up after themselves, or go a week without raping or assaulting somebody?
Arson...
That's what they're learning in Oakland.
Duncy
I have visited multiple times and have seen what the Pagan describes.
David Graeber himself says he wishes the anti semitic banking conspiracies
would stop. Graeber knows quite a bit about the movement.
This is mostly anarchism with some Commies trying to co-opt the movement. Anarchists are quite stupid and should have learned that you and your kind are deadlier
to them than the 1%.
You've seen a rape and you didn't report it Officer Strutter? Very unprofessional. Of course Pagan is full of shit and so are you.
Well, get used to it all because it isn't winding down. Yes Farmer, it just may happen that a wide group of people find common cause in this.
Or we can just go the 9-9-9 route and bring things to a quicker boil, right?
Hey, don't give me any of your sh*t, duckmeister. Unlike your hippie friends, I take the OWS challenge very seriously. At least I understand what Slavoj Zizek is trying to do. You and your "old school" Marxists, on the other hand, haven't a freakin' clue. You need to go to Farmer's Letters and get caught up, because you and YOUR friends are missing the bus.
Duncy
The rapes and crimes have been reported everywhere.
The Occupy crowd is criminal and has annoyed the people in the most left wing enclaves in NYC. The locals are fed up and want the police to remove the communist and anarchist freaks.
Graeber has stated he wants the anti Jewish banking garbage to stop. Are you calling him a liar?
The Occupy movement can't criticize Obama, so they've "transferred" their anger to the Wall Street 1%. Typical case of psychological projection. ;)
Psst
Ducky wants to keep the fact that ACORN has been there the whole time.
ACORN is linked to Obama
Ducky just doesn't want to face the facts that the people he's been going out of his way dishing out food in Boston to are nothing but a bunch of miserable fucks. That's the long and the short of it, but hey, it makes Ducky feel he's doing something good for humanity. If you want to really do something good for humanity Ducky, I got one word for you-
Arsenic.
No Beak, I'm calling you a liar.
Ducky
I have been to the Occupy Site multiple times. The crime, the filthy conditions, Joooo hatred and violent rhetoric are facts.
As these rapes likely take place between 11pm and 4 am in tents I am not apt to be there. However, the criminal element in short has shown why anarchism/ communism doesn't work.
All people have a right to ask for is a level playing field. However, if you wish to get into numerical games kindly let us know how so many Commies and Anarchists are exponentially over represented in academia. This same academia that has been churning out worthless degrees and hiring political hacks like yourself at huge costs to the public.
You are a communist hack and have a history of stupid comments. Your last comment joins the ever growing list.
Why did anarchist clown Prof Graeber say he wishes the talk of Jewish Banking conspiracies would stop? Graeber is widely viewed as the driving force of the special ed Occupy Movement.
The media wants to make a huge deal over imagined racism at well Organized and lawful Tea Party events but ignore repeated Joooo mania at the Occupy Events. Sorry, but bigotry, crime, violence and gross ignorance are common place at Occupy events.
I have made multiple trips to freakstock. The nerds do not enjoy my visits.
Right now the Occupy crowd is about as popular as herpes in the most liberal area of the country.
They have worn out their welcome and if NYPD doesn't remove them mother nature and or the locals will.
Unions that gave support to the Occupy Crowd should have 5% of their jobs cut. This will get the members to hold leadership accountable for alliances with communists and anarchists.
Ducky: Our Man self-destructed a la Clinton. We are gonna get a Mormon by default! Is it too late for Huckabee?
The only reason the John Birch Society has their panties in a bunch is because Occupy is an antidote to their Electric Fence Soma pill. Pagan is missing his favorite tv shows because he has to stay up all night learning Sharia law.
Now I'll have to admit Trout, that was fucking funny.
trout, I'm beginning to doubt your commitment to 9-9-9.
Herman is giving his press conference right now. Gloria Allred is no match for the 9-9-9.
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