i think my biggest problem with #ows is that there's so much inequality in America we should have been rallying against for YEARS... and still should be!: The lack of marriage rights for gay couples, the racial discrimination and drug laws that clog our prisons, the wage discrimination that haunts women in the workplace, the lack of affordable health insurance for entire economic classes
It bums me out that a protest movement in america cant get motivated until a bunch of tumblr whites start to feel like "have nots" instead of the privileged "haves" they've always been all along. Sorry you spent too much on college tuition, Brandon. Poor people have been feeling this for years, welcome aboard, lil homie.
― dealwithit.gif, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
a bunch of tumblr whites
you were doing a good job of hiding yourself whiney until that line
― dayo, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
I still love #ows and love what they stand, but it just seems like this energy could be better spent, yknow?
― dealwithit.gif, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
ya can a mod check for a brooklyn ip
― iatee, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
*love what they stand for
― dealwithit.gif, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry you spent too much on college tuition, Brandon. Poor people have been feeling this for years, welcome aboard, lil homie.
vintage
― dayo, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
― dealwithit.gif, Thursday, December 1, 2011 9:53 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
this post is like that LatePassapedia thread but with social inequality instead of hip bands
― wil smif, Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
everyone thinks abt things the wrong way
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
the wage discrimination that haunts women in the workplace
that is some poetical shit right there
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
"Brandon"
― superb mario bothers (crüt) (step hen faps), Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
wonder what dave cool would say about #OWS http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9627011/photos/cool.gif
― dayo, Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
welcome aboard, lil homie. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9627011/photos/cool.gif
― superb mario bothers (crüt) (step hen faps), Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
⚃
― your voice of treason, Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
☁☔
― your voice of treason, Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
☹
☼_☼
Sorry you spent too much on Cheetos, markers. Poor people have been feeling this for years
― superb mario bothers (crüt) (step hen faps), Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
☝ URS
― remy bean in exile, Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
⦁_⦁
― your voice of treason, Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
✔_✔
☝ ☝ ______
― dealwithit.gif, Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
― dealwithit.gif, Thursday, December 1, 2011 4:53 PM (24 minutes ago)
yeah it's crazy how it took a huge recession and lots of people losing their jobs for anyone to give a shit about these things
whiney have you heard of this thing called "concern trolling"?
― k3vin k., Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
"tumblr whites" is killing me tho no lie
Skeptical of the inability to coalesce around clearly understood goals, but maybe that's impossible. Free-wheeling change the world movements are awesome and inspiring, but movements that get shit done in Amerikkka tend to have goals that can be accomplished directly, whether that's a 40-hour work week or voting rights or w/e.
Sometimes vanguardist arguments are easy to understand.
― milo z, Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
how many times do people have to say "money out of politics, reinstate glass-steagall" before this they-don't-know-what-they-want meme dies
presumably the same number of times people have to call obama a tool of wall street before the right stops asking why they love obama so much i.e. INFINITY
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
who's gonna pay for the education, Tom?
"I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. No other sure foundation can be devised, for the preservation of freedom and happiness...Preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people. Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils [tyranny, oppression, etc.] and that the tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance."
― M. White, Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
vanguard of well-intentioned experts prob as good an option as can be hoped for in the real world, if even that much can be hoped for
― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
are we sure dealwithit.gif isn't zachlyon taking the merry-go-round for one more spin?
― v-shasty, Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
you find it unusual that most people don't care about stuff until it directly effects them?
― n/a, Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
i mean yeah that sucks but it's also pretty understandable
― n/a, Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
you guys, TRUST ME, we already had this entire discussion on the first occupy thread. i promise you that once ilx gets back up you will get to read this fascinating ilx discussion of race, so maybe we can hold off on the sequel for a few weeks?
― v-shasty, Thursday, 1 December 2011 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
― v-shasty, Thursday, December 1, 2011 5:50 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark
I approve of the misdirection - goons lookin out for goons
― dayo, Thursday, 1 December 2011 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
if dealwithitgif.com was whiney, he would've made a cutting reference to how to dress well by now
― v-shasty, Thursday, 1 December 2011 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
and he would have posted in the rolling rap thread and the childish gambino thread
― dayo, Thursday, 1 December 2011 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
Thanksgiving night, driving home with my family and my sister, who is down from NY where she is very engaged with . My 7-year-old, from the backseat, asks to hear The Star Spangled Banner (we had been to visit Fort McHenry this summer and ever since, that song just keys him up). So I dial it up on the ipod. As the intro plays, my sister turns to me and says "I learned some new words to this up in Freedom Plaza" and to the tune of "O, say can you see", she sings "No-o war on the poooor!" I don't remember the rest of the lyrics, but the look I tried to give her was "are you fucking serious" and she dropped it after a few lines.
Occupy Wall Street, are you fucking serious?
Like, I honestly stand behind the mission of OWS and I love and respect my sister, but that was some clowny shit like when Christian rock bands rewrite the lyrics of regular rock songs for Young Life campfires.
― rusty flathead screwdriver, Thursday, 1 December 2011 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
where she is very engaged with OWS
p sure zachylon really wanted to start a 77 thread ~~~SANDBOX 77~~~
― dayo, Thursday, 1 December 2011 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
Magazine/website/record store BEST OF 2011 end-of-year list pile-up
do remember zachylon routinely shaking his head over indie rock favoritism in magazine best of lists
― dayo, Thursday, 1 December 2011 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ "tumblr whites"
― upper mississippi 2: still shakin, Friday, 2 December 2011 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
I think we should just keep calling him whiney
― iatee, Friday, 2 December 2011 01:43 (twelve years ago) link
If writing new, corny lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner (the old ones are corny enough - look carefully at that title) is the worst misstep of OWS, they are going to sweep the nation into a new era in a cakewalk.
― Aimless, Friday, 2 December 2011 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
1. Fuck you (from Francis Scott Key and everybody at the Battle of Baltimore.2. Cakewalks not only twice as corny as spangles, but also maybe tied up with minstrel shows in an uncomfortable way?
― rusty flathead screwdriver, Friday, 2 December 2011 05:58 (twelve years ago) link
finally some high-profile celebrities willing to speak out
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/adam-carolla-blames-occupy-wall-street-protests-culture-entitlement-article-1.985880
― iatee, Saturday, 3 December 2011 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.985874.1322850351!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_485/image.jpg
http://thumbnails.hulu.com/19/815/101177_512x288_generated__2xt+PpWGqk6WhIiNv+PUgQ.jpg
― camp yo lo tengo autumn sweater saturday night (rusty flathead screwdriver), Saturday, 3 December 2011 01:41 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Ga9U9.jpg
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Friday, 16 December 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
rich people telling poor people they don't deserve shit is always funny
― aesthetic partisan (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 December 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
xp: was there an article in twitter or something?
― another suggestbanite (rusty flathead screwdriver), Friday, 16 December 2011 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
so what was the point of whiney denying he was dealwithit? has he finally gotten to the point where even he's embarrassed about being who he is?
― iatee, Friday, 16 December 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
sonned by ilx's only sub-jon-via-chi poster
― one pug (dealwithit.gif), Friday, 16 December 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
the evasive dodging continues
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Friday, 16 December 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link