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Forum Post: Brecksville Bridge: You know you're an idiot when...

Posted 11 years ago on May 1, 2012, 11:33 a.m. EST by mserfas (652) from Ashland, PA
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http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/cleveland-fbi-makes-national-security-arrests#

You know you're an idiot when....

  • You're detonating a bomb.

  • That could hurt people.

  • On a bridge in the middle of nowhere.

  • A bomb built by somebody else you don't know.

  • As part of (at least) a six person conspiracy.

  • Because you were too lazy or stupid to implement your other genius plot to deface a bank sign.

  • As your method of protesting the domination of the rich over the poor/middle class people who drive over that bridge...

  • In order (you think) to further an anarchist revolution by putting armed police on every bridge in America.

Somebody tell me that this is a lie, and that this kind of stupidity isn't really the face of modern "anarchism" in America?

If people want to do something radical, something that will frighten the rich or send them into a screaming rage, they should find a way to start a worker owned cooperative and employ their neighbors and themselves. Go out and challenge the "free markets" dominated by two or three companies. Start a union, or make one honest and efficient for a change. Merely editing Wikipedia and putting knowledge in the public domain is some kind of progress. But for God's sake don't let me see any of you people out in the next news article, as an idiot poster child for the kind of "anarchism" we're reading about today.

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[-] 2 points by JadedGem (895) 11 years ago

lol! I know! I advocate lifestyle change and anti-consumerism. I'm in a rural area. I fought the power by setting out a garden in an attempt to grow my own tomatoes and other produce. I don't think doing a little damage is gonna do much or scare anyone. I think the market lives in fear of the day people put down their toys and disconnect from blind unending consumerism though. Call me crazy, but if people sell their new car and buy a used one, drop the second job they've been working to pay for that new car, there might just be more than enough jobs to go around? Ya think maybe, considering how many hours the average American is now working???

[-] 2 points by mserfas (652) from Ashland, PA 11 years ago

That's actually a really good point. One of the classic "radical communist" demands going all the way back to Haymarket was a 40-hour workweek - but it's kind of hard for people to demand that of employers if they're working two jobs "voluntarily". It might be very productive if OWS took widely advertised the idea of people quitting their second job to lower the national unemployment rate and improve the bargaining position of all workers.

[-] 1 points by JadedGem (895) 11 years ago

I am pretty much a mom because I have special needs child. She goes to a special school but I can't find childcare at a reasonable cost and must always be here to get her after school. Married women could really look at the math and see if working outside the home is really the benefit it seems to be. A second car, work clothes, grooming goods like salon trips, lunch out, gas, childcare, packaged processed foods for the family, it all adds up. If they could go to thrift stores, drive a cheap used car, cook whole foods, plant a garden and make their time as valuable as what they are earning outside the home, should some lower income earners decide to just stay home? I don't think the sum total of a woman's value should be the size of her paycheck. People that can afford to scale back should consider it as a socially acceptable option.