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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 07:56 PM Original message |
Poor people do not "riot", the rich do. |
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Creative (831 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 07:59 PM Response to Original message |
1. Are you suggesting that tanks would have been mobilized against empty streets? |
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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:02 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. The maximum bank loss was $32k |
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Creative (831 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:04 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Oh, I get it. The tanks would have been their to clean up the corpses |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
2. Okay. Hands down dumbest post on DU ever. Public students in the UK are not "the rich." |
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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:09 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. I assume you mean your post is the most stupid post on DU ever. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:17 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. How does incurring a debt make you RICH? Your logic baffles. |
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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:32 PM Response to Reply #12 |
22. This is not the schools it is the universities. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:44 PM Response to Reply #22 |
27. This is pitting the surviving working class against the working class who've been trampled on. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:03 PM Response to Original message |
4. Is that why all of you keep ignoring us? |
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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:18 PM Response to Reply #4 |
13. I'm not disagreeing. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:27 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. You are speaking to the "left". You are also speaking to a poor person. |
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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:38 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. I'm speaking as someone who is unemployed. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:45 PM Response to Reply #24 |
29. When all the groups can come together and support each other, only then will things change. |
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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 09:01 PM Response to Reply #29 |
37. They do not though. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 09:06 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. You keep saying the same thing, so I will make it clearer for you. |
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Turborama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:49 PM Response to Reply #24 |
32. The students have the NUS and are easy to organize |
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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:54 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. Thank you. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:57 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. There are leftist organizations who also organize the unemployed. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:05 PM Response to Original message |
6. you do realize, of course, that UK universities |
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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:12 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. No they are not. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:16 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. And they were still fairly affordaable |
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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:20 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Current plan is to make University free to poor students, |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:31 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. No its not. Who is feeding you this bullshit? |
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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:41 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. Not Faux News. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:45 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. I know who's in the street and why. And it ain't bankers, whether or not the neoliberals put in a |
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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 09:05 PM Response to Reply #28 |
38. So who is "in the street"? |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 09:13 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. Because it takes time to organize, that's why. Protests are organized, not spontaneous cries of rage |
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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 09:17 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. These people |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 10:11 PM Response to Reply #41 |
44. Um. This is obvious a parody. Get real. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 10:12 PM Response to Reply #41 |
45. If you think women in pearls and men in tuxes are in the street getting beaten by cops |
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Turborama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:27 PM Response to Reply #9 |
18. The fees Blunkett introduced in 1998 were originally means tested and were a max £1k |
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somone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:22 PM Response to Reply #6 |
16. Yep, California's educational system was the envy of the world |
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Mike 03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:12 PM Response to Original message |
8. I respectfully disagree. TARP saved the economy. NT |
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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:14 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. I agree |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
15. Peasants' Revolt, 1381. French Revolutiom, 1789. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:30 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. The Paris Commune of 1871. Black civil rights struggles. Stonewall. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:46 PM Response to Reply #20 |
30. You are suggesting the Civil Rights movement was led by the RICH? |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:54 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. Try to learn to read sarcasm without the tag. |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:25 PM Response to Original message |
17. The "richest of students" are the ones rioting? Is this a joke? |
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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:48 PM Response to Reply #17 |
31. I just watched ABC |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:55 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. Try to remember that ABC has been trying to compete with FoxNews for about 5 years now. |
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somone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:32 PM Response to Original message |
23. What poor people did in 1358: |
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Matariki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 09:53 PM Response to Reply #23 |
42. And yet, the oppressors still live on, and the peasants are still peasants. |
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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 09:59 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. Indeed. |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:41 PM Response to Original message |
25. If nothing else, I've learned a valuable new phrase today |
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