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phantom power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 02:35 PM
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Right wing projection and Occupy Wall St.
In short: conservatives are whiney-ass titty babies:

One thing I found interesting when a bunch of right wingers ganged up on me on Twitter, screeching incoherent nonsense at me in response to this bit of satire, was how most of them assumed that I don't pay federal income taxes. They coughed up the same crap about how those of us who support Occupy Wall St. are lazy parasites who don't want to work, and are playing victim. And that we hate people who do work and pay taxes.

But of course I pay federal income taxes. I'm a 34-year-old woman who makes a middle class living. That I don't throw a fit about it and act like it's the greatest injustice in the world doesn't mean I don't pay federal income taxes. That's because I'm a fucking grown-up. The ready assumption that everyone who pays federal income taxes is a big, screaming toddler about it is what probably galls me more than anything about the "53%" nonsense. Screeching about your taxes just makes me assume you are in a constant tantrum because of other things in life that are less than pleasant: that you have to work for a living, that food has calories, that not everyone you want will have sex with you. Of course, you see a lot of Americans, especially right wing Americans, whine about that crap, too. So maybe that's the problem here.

But it is interesting how much they project onto the left. Liberals are protesting real problems: unemployment, the foreclosure crisis, the war. And conservatives respond by saying, "Quit whining about real problems and listen to me whine about having to be a fucking grown-up. Wah!" And then say that liberals are "playing the victim". It's just one of the worst cases of projection I've seen in all the years I've spent observing right wing projection.

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Avalux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 02:38 PM
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1. Me me me!!! It's all about me!!!!!
That's how those on the Right think; they don't care about anyone except themselves and their families. The difference - liberals - and the message from OWS - WE. Those who cannot shift their thinking to the collective and understand we are all connected, will be left behind.

They call themselves Christians too. HA!
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FarLeftFist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 02:40 PM
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2. It's so adorable how fright-wingers minds just can't comprehend what is actually taking place.
The depth of OWS goes straight over their blind sheepish brains. From this day forth anyone who is opposed to OWS and isn't a 1%er should be immediately discredited as primitive and ignorant.
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AleksS Donating Member (213 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 02:48 PM
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3. Worth it if only for the phrase: "whiney-ass titty babies"
HA!

Seriously though, just par for the course isn't it?

The best way to tell what a republicon is guilty of is to listen to what they're accusing others of doing.
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DCKit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 04:31 PM
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4. She done blowed their cover.
Then insulted their lack of intelligence and pet issues in a way even a majority of THEM can understand.

Fun times.
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