“Ultimately the bourgeoisie will not go without violent means.” Which, given the Democrats’ vocal backing of this “protest” movement, means we should probably start worrying that the DOJ is working on plans to funnel these protesters guns.
Paging Professor Brian Kiteley!
I wonder: do these people ever stop to consider what happens to parasites after the host is killed and eaten? — and after the means of finding new hosts is, by violent revolution or otherwise, rendered impossible?
Because someone really ought to tell them: Organic Food Markets? Don’t spring from the earth like redwood trees.
An entire society of black/womyn/gender studies and art students and their professors? yea,that’s going to work out well.
I’ve been listening to this kind of tough talk from Leftists for years. My response? Bring it, bitches…
Yea, between their lack of guns and vegan diets … all that yoga isn’t really the best for preparing them as a warrior class.
Do the words, “Like a hot knife through butter.” mean anything to you? ;-)
This calls for a spot of classic rock.
I could crank that up all day.
They’ve been dreaming of the revolution ever since they got their first swirlies.
yeah, that one’s good Pablo, but I prefer this for my revolutionary bashing soundtrack…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkFqg5wAuFk&feature=related
If Ted Nugent had been a Beatle:
People on the left are calling for armed revolution, people on the right are calling for armed revolution, so now it’s just got to move from the edge to the mainstream. I also don’t think the “armed left” – if there is such a thing – gets that they won’t actually be welcomed and fighting on the same side as the armed right.
They are now denouncing Gandi and Martin Luther King.
Okay. I occasionally see hippies, gen xers, and meth hobos foraging along the roadsides. All I can say is, bring it on. I have a few supplies at my house…come and get them.
I have not seen an ID of this guy. I am going to bet that we pay his bills. Either a public employee, a public employee union rep, a radical community organizer living off of state or federal grants, or he’s getting unemployment, disability, public housing, food stamps, welfare, somehow, someway, we are putting food on this man’s table.
…somehow, someway, we are putting food on this man’s table.
And this is why he hates us.
When your whole life is dependent on receiving scraps from the tables of people more successful than you, the psychological effects are neither surprising nor pretty. You delude yourself into believing that you’ve ‘earned’ the scraps, whether because of the intrinsic value of Medieval Transgendered Sculpture Appreciation Studies, or because of ‘fairness.’ You resent the people you sponge off of, and convince yourself that they cheated to get their wealth, and don’t deserve what they have as much as you deserve it, because you’re a Good Person.
It’s a big part of the reason why we need to restore charity to private actors, and eliminate entitlements. The former is a virtue; the latter breeds dependence, resentment, and despair.
Wow. Armed revolution? This guy could kill people with just his accent it’s so badass.
When they’re done storming Hollywood and start moving inland, let me know. I’ll put out some mosquitoes or honey bees and they’ll stop in their tracks.
“It will be bloody!”
…….you said something there Hoss.
Um, no. The right is talking armed resistance to the left’s revolution. Just defining the rules of engagement, really.
I’m wondering if he’s been nationalized. If not, we should be deporting him back to the shithole from whence he came from tomorrow.
Shorter Occupy LA nutjob:
GUILLOTINE!!!
I would really like to see someone ask these protesters the following question:
“What if everyone who works for a wage (no matter what level) suddenly quit, en masse?”
Where would the “redistributable” funds come from? How would they prevent everyone form “Going Galt?”
Maybe some questions are better left unanswered…
I’m not interested in an armed revolution, not in the slightest. Such things are horribly destructive to people and to wealth in general. I think we can win the war of ideas in the long run, though it will take a long time to get there.
However, if the left thinks it will raise arms against me and others like me and not get a serious response, they are even more delusional than I think they are.
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This revolution (don’t make me laugh) is all about teh Fairness, yes? They remind me of my idiot college students back in my TA days in grad school. “It’s, like, morally wrong to make us take summer classes!” No matter that that was part of the deal when they enrolled. Rules are for other people.
“I think we can win the war of ideas in the long run, though it will take a long time to get there.”
Talk softly, carry a big stick.
Words to live by.
An entire society of black/womyn/gender studies and art students and their professors?
I’d say “‘B’ Ark”, but these guys aren’t nearly as useful as hairdressers and telephone sanitizers…
Ironically, said by a progressive, Lee.
Peter Wallison: Wall Street’s Gullible Occupiers
The right is talking armed resistance to the left’s revolution. Just defining the rules of engagement, really.
Burglar shoots homeowner, homeowner shoots burglar — what’s the diff?
Speaking of which, my house was broken into while I was on vacation. Poor bastard left almost empty-handed (he got my best friend’s electric guitar, which I had borrowed). When the cops finally get this creep (he’s been very busy in my part of St Paul, so the cops are taking it personally at this point), I hope they call me. I’d like to have a chance to laugh in his face, and then kick him in the balls.
And then set the Lovely Bride on him.
A time-honored philosophy: Never start a fight, but always finish one.
What worries me presently is that our counterparts have spent years justifying their little revolution, saying that anyone with wealth attained it on the backs of the workers, or by theft, or by cheating, or by keeping a brother down, or whatever. They’ve pretty much convinced themselves that we’ve already thrown the first punch, just by succeeding within a system they consider corrupt.
It’s kind of sickening to think that when they start breaking things, they’ll do it with a clear conscience.
For thus will the ever even-handed God Obama treat with the Bloody Revolution.
It’s kind of sickening to think that when they start breaking things, they’ll do it with a clear conscience.
There’s something preferable to dealing with good old-fashioned honest thieves. “I’m taking your shit because you have it and I want it, and I think I can get away with it,” has the virtue of at least being (somewhat) self-limiting. The thief knows he’s doing something wrong, knows he’s taking a risk, and (if he’s a professional) will seek to maximize his reward/risk ratio.
In all those “raiding gangs terrorize the farmers” movies (Seven Samurai, Magnificent Seven, etc.), the bandits rarely took so much food that the farmers starved. The smart parasite doesn’t kill its host; the Chinese and Soviet governments… not so much.
People who steal your shit because “it’s morally wrong for you to have had it in the first place” aren’t going to be satisfied… well, ever.
–jhb
speaking of thieves
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That right there is a Quote Of The Day.
[…] Commenter John Bradley, at Protein Wisdom […]
The roots of Occupy Wall Street.
Exchange quality for quantity, at four times the price! How could that lose?
Be careful what you wish for…