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Fifth Column
Some of the far left are tired, throwing up their hands in frustration.
2017-05-07
[Caucus99Percent] Debbie from Sane Progressive posted a 2 hour long rant which she soon deleted. From the half-hour I was able to catch before then it was obvious she was....tired. She wasn't the only one. Many other activists have thrown up their hands and quit because they feel like they have no way to fight back.

We can't protest because the paramilitary police will gun you down while using the corporate media to vilify the protesters.
F'in seriously? These people actually believe this. After the Berkeley Anti-Free-Speech Riots were allowed to continue by the chief of police and the mayor.
Strike? Same thing. And in both cases, because this entire shit country is so polarized, there's no way in hell anyone would be able to rally enough people to participate.
No, it's because nobody will rally behind you because you're America-hating assholes.
We can't vote either because the bourgeoisie control the scope of opinion, the candidates, the parties, etc. Not to mention that despite the fact that only 25 percent of the voting population identifies as D or R, too many people still make the 'choice' between the turd sandwich and the diarrhea soup for any meaningful change to take place. Boycott? Again, no one could ever get enough people to participate, at least in 'Murica.
Fuck you for that 'shit country' remark. This is why nobody likes you.
But what about that lawsuit against the DNC? Please. Their fuckin' lawyer pulled a literal Donald Trump/Mitt Romney when they said 'Oh yeah, we could decide the nominee in a back room over cigars and the voters can't do shit.'
LOL
I don't have any solutions of my own and my frustration exhausts everyone around me, so why bother? After all, the only time anyone in this shit country seems to do anything is when the shit hits the fan...no, wait, I take that back. The 2008 crash happened and all people did was whine about big gubmint and 'freeloaders and illegals on welfare' while their savings, pensions and wages were looted to bail out the bourgeoisie.
As I recall, the small banks and the bourgeoisie, that is to say the working middle class, were looted to bail out the Wall Street firms and the big banks. But anyone who talks about the bourgeoisie in this way is a Marxist of some sort, and by definition wrong about absolutely everything.
The same thing happened with the installation of Dipshit Trump by Billary Clinton and friends. Oh sure, there were plenty of astroturf divisive identity protests led by old guard board room 'feminists' like Gloria Steinem and Madeline Albright (Hell, I'm surprised Christina Hoff Summers didn't join them on stage) and the like while real leaders like Kshama Sawant
...a local Trotskyite Socialist politician in Seattle who was born and got a degree in computer science in Mumbai/Bombay, India, but she was only shocked into action by the poverty she saw in America. She entered politics as a local Occupy organizer; since being elected to city council only her effort toward the $15/hour minimum wage has been successful, which makes her exactly the kind of spokeswoman current Feminism should have...
were outright ignored. And don't forget the continued vilification of Bernie Sanders as a white male only candidate despite multiple studies and polls now saying the exact opposite (Actually, Sanders had a bigger coalition than Billary ever did).

Oh yeah...I'd almost forgotten about Bernie. I'm glad I mentioned him because I'd love to scream right in his face too. He refused to contest the blatant fraud. He refused to walk away and join up with Jill Stein and the Greens. He would have taken plenty of voters with him as well, more than enough to be a threat to the ClinTrump corporate war machine, I'd wager. But now we have him running around on the Subjugation...I mean, Unity tour with that slimeball Tom Perez because 'we have to take them down from within' he says. Oh, and 'RUSSIARUSSIARUSSIA'. Right. And I'm Ulfric fuckin' Stormcloak.
Perhaps not wrong about everything...
The people of this idiot shit country will never see decent governance or living standards unless they're willing to fight and die for them in some cases. And too many are too damned comfortable to care. Too many have forgotten about the struggles, suffering and death that happened over centuries to get what little has been whittled away by Reagan and friends.

So, since we can't work and fight alongside each other in solidarity, I guess we'll all just hang separately.
The comments are worth reading, too.
Posted by:Herb McCoy7309

#25  Wahhahahaha #19, a true classic.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-05-07 17:46  

#24  Those on the left spend most of their life protesting or being against something. It's like the old '60's saying: "What are you protesting?" The retort was "What've you got?"
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-05-07 17:01  

#23  Many other activists have thrown up their hands and quit because they feel like they have no way to fight back.

Does that mean they'll, like, get jobs and start minding their own business?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-05-07 15:25  

#22  #16 Frozen Al--I assume that this is from some experiment with all the monkeys at keyboards trying to type out Shakespeare...this excerpt is one of the rejects.
Posted by: Tom   2017-05-07 14:09  

#21  I always thought of Sawant as a Obama wanna-be. Basically being a community organizer agitator.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2017-05-07 13:51  

#20  re #16 on that wall thing

Where upper class workers, forlorn, dwell
(in college!), I guess they read Cornwell:
Mnemonic didactics
Of rancor, vile tactics,
Sharp language of them that ain't born well.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2017-05-07 13:34  

#19  Eventually it always seems to come to either collapse or violence. In the case of the latter, I know where I would place my bets.




I added width=550 so it stopped breaking the Burg.

--trailing wife at 1:40 p.m. EDT

Posted by: Injun Bucket8891   2017-05-07 13:13  

#18  Maybe if we were on the right drugs.
Posted by: gorb   2017-05-07 13:12  

#17  Kshama shaming? Really? How can you not love a socialist interviewed wearing a gray pvssy hat? Okay, so I'm easily amused.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2017-05-07 13:10  

#16  From the comments at Caucus99Percent:

"The wall is meant as a barrier to we the 99percent. It's constructed of wealth that's mortared with the blood sweat and tears of the working class.

The base of the wall aligns horizontally, whereas we confront and tear at each other in a linear fashion upon collision, as it is intended."

Does anyone know what they're talking about???

Posted by: Frozen Al   2017-05-07 12:55  

#15  heh - nice, Dar
Posted by: Frank G   2017-05-07 12:36  

#14  "...real leaders like Kshama Sawant..."

Oh, gawd--the author must be another Seattle-area lefty loon. Sawant is an avowed socialist on the Seattle city council who is constantly screaming about "worker's rights", the $15/hour minimum wage, and for the "resistance" to keep demonstrating and blocking traffic at the drop of a hat.

If you can stomach it:
Recent Sawant articles
Posted by: Dar   2017-05-07 12:24  

#13  Lord knows why (my head still hurts from trying to read that while watching the Milo thing), but I'd like to see the rant. A comment suggests Ms. Lusignan "accidentally deleted" it, and that another post (Saudi defense contracts!) had mysteriously vanished (PR people must have a name for these events, no?). Anybody have non-FB linkage to either?
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2017-05-07 11:50  

#12  #9 plan your escape carefully

Hysterical fiction there, kitten!
Now, "so many things are forbidden"
That, not to be targets
For rabid Ofmargarets,
We'll doggedly stick to our knittin'.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2017-05-07 11:31  

#11  my frustration exhausts everyone around me, so why bother?

Hint: it's not your "frustration", idiot
Posted by: Frank G   2017-05-07 10:27  

#10  I like how she decrys the suffering and death over the centuries but all her allegorical references are from the last ten years or so. In other words, references from within her lifetime. Not at all well read. Now, I'm tired of pointing out the obvious. HEH!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2017-05-07 10:19  

#9  Poor Debbie! 196 counties in the world and she has the bad luck to be born in an "idiot shit" country. You can tell it's an "idiot shit" country because no one wants to move here. Our foreign service officers regularly prowl the streets of Jakarta and Nairobi saying "Hey! Anyone here want an American passport?" and not getting any takers. But good news, Debbie -- if you plan your escape carefully you'll be able to slip past the paramilitary police into Mexico or Canada. Go for it, girl! Make a break for it now! We'll somehow survive without you.
Posted by: Matt   2017-05-07 09:23  

#8  Many other activists have thrown up their hands and quit because they feel like they have no way to fight back.

I don't believe it for a minute. The left is like the Talibunnies, ISIS, and AQ; they have an unending supply of "useful idiot dupes."
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-05-07 09:19  

#7  Huh?

Yep, Pappy, that's right from oxymoron central,

I've heard that China has lots of empty new cities. Maybe Donald can work out a deal where we fill one of them up with Debbie and her cohorts.

China is real socialism isn't it? They can bring their own little Red Books.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-05-07 09:04  

#6  It's like 'Military Intelligence'.
Posted by: Pappy   2017-05-07 09:01  

#5  Debbie from Sane Progressive

Hah?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-05-07 08:23  

#4  Wouldn't work at all, they'd just claim it "wasn't true socialism" and leave after a week. It takes more than empirical evidence to sway convictions like that. The No True Scotsman fallacy is the savior of the intellect of every socialist. You need an emotional appeal to even begin to persuade a mental fortress of iron like that.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309   2017-05-07 07:42  

#3  implies you want them back

I dunno. At the rate things are going in the glorious Bolivarian empire, 6 months may amount to LCt50 for the average American snowflake...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2017-05-07 07:38  

#2  "for six months or so"
That implies you want them back....?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2017-05-07 06:40  

#1  Shipping all these people to Venezuela for 6 months would solve an awful lot of problems. A shock course in fundamental economics.
Posted by: phil_b   2017-05-07 04:24  

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