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In reply to the discussion: More and more people are becoming aware of how screwed we the 99% are with no help [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)5. I think of it as The One Who Walks Towards Omelas
Kind of a bizarro world or opposite day version of the classic story, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas
PDF of the story.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCkQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww-rohan.sdsu.edu%2Ffaculty%2Fdunnweb%2Frprnts.omelas.pdf&ei=Q7FyU9W5Fs6jqAbn0oDICg&usg=AFQjCNGuGzgmpuzsL8l6CFtwi-NW_Yp5_Q&sig2=UiaAK05ijp8Kt_c4KDdz5w&bvm=bv.66699033,d.b2k
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More and more people are becoming aware of how screwed we the 99% are with no help [View all]
Dragonfli
May 2014
OP
Fantastic cartoon. And the ignorant assholes need it thrown in their face over and over and over
nomorenomore08
May 2014
#25
That is part of the solution, I speak often to my neighbors and they are as poor as I am
Dragonfli
May 2014
#13
Strange, but that is the election when I first began to feel the way I now do
Dragonfli
May 2014
#18
Thank you, she has been gone 8 years now and I still don't know how I manage to
Dragonfli
May 2014
#49
Nothing about reforming the party in the OP. Just stuff about how we don't have a party anymore
redqueen
May 2014
#43
I don't like Republicans, that is true, even when they masquerade as Democrats while they laugh
Dragonfli
May 2014
#32
I think that if you make it a personal thing about him you would be called out
Dragonfli
May 2014
#35
Indeed, we are legion! United, organized and mobilized only extreme violence could stop us.
Dragonfli
May 2014
#38