Forum Post: OWS -- An pathetic embarrasment to their parents and friends!!
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 11, 2011, 8:21 p.m. EST by twatisha
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Protesters = Pitiful Losers. You know who you are. You know exactly what I am talking about and you know, deep down, that I am describing you. You are a, capital L, Loser with a worthless Liberal Arts degree, no job, no prospects, no future, a bunch of maxed out credit cards and a face that resembles the flip side of a Nestles' Crunch bar.
You crash in your parent's basement and live off of their food. You are a soul-crushing disappointment to them. They never mention your name to their friends and they cringe when those friends talk about their children in deathly fear of that pregnant pause that invariably occurs as those friends sadistically wait for your parents to respond concerning you. Some adults can be so cruel!!!
You are a follower. You will align yourself with any group that will have you. The proof of this is the abject suckness of this particular group. Obama 2008 allowed you to contribute your time and money but most of all, your naievete. Then, after abusing your abject gullibility, they joyfully beat your sick ass like a rented mule. Remember those feelings of Joy and Hope? How did that turn out? Where were those Gitmo prisoners transferred? Has the real meaning of your Messiah's famous line that you "are the ones that we have been waiting for" dawned upon you yet? Do you get it? He used it in the same way that you are the ones that the Uptown 3 card monte dealers have been waiting for." You are a serial victim of demagogues. Do you really believe that they will not yank away the football yet again, Charlie Brown?
Your lack of self esteem is the only evidence that you can get anything right. You are worthless! No matter what you do; nothing will change. As the economy becomes more globally oriented, you will become even more insignificant as we, the winners of America, align ourselves with the like-minded from other nations. You will continue to be ground into the dust beneath our endangered alligator-skin Italian loafers. So go and bang your drums and howl at the moon. Just be sure to remember that, with each successive whack of the economic paddle across you collective collectivist's butts, we order you to demand: "THANK YOU SIR, MAY I HAVE ANOTHER."
The only 'loser' I see is someone who wasted their time writing two long paragraphs of ad-hominem bullshit.
TROLL
http://occupywallst.org/forum/a-union-of-all-dissatisfied-peoples-ows-and-even-t/
Let's start with you.
You are what may defined as the self-herding sheep in the flock. You pour scorn upon those whom you don't understand. You mock people that are less fortunate than yourself. You assume that your situation is static and that you will always be safe from whatever plight or knowledge compells protestors to protest. You use words like "Loser" to create social division between people. You are a follower. You follow the system to near religious proportions, never questioning why you pay your taxes, go to your job, buy your stuff, pay for fuel, never questioning where it came from, how it was made, or why the world is the way it is.
You are in denial thinking that you are a "winner." You assume that you are forever safe as the person sitting on your leather sofa in your condo typing on your iPad. You are wrong.
You do not understand the truth of the world. You do not understand the pain of the world. You live a superficial and shallow existence, exploiting the pain of your brothers and sisters on the planet without even realising it. You're more obsessed with the smell of your hairspray than the ozone layer, more obsessed with your engine size than peak oil, more concerned about saving a pension than sustaining the planet.
People like me pity people like you. I wonder how you arrive at such conclusions, and how you can live in such an artificially detached reality.
But don't worry, I'm just a passing comment on a message board. You can read what I've written and panic for a few seconds, but after you switch off your iPad for the night and had a good nights sleep, you'll forget all about it and carry on in your plastic existence, blissfully unaware of everything around you.
Peace,
Mim.
When I got married, my only possession was a 10 year old van and $36.00. I got a job in a good size company. I worked extremely hard and smart. I identified and hired the company's first female manager as well as its first black salesperson. After 8 years, I had the distinct pleasure of promoting him to sales manager over 31 white candidates because he was better than they were. When I lost him to an outrageously high offer from another firm, I was not resentful. He would have been a fool to turn it down. He was wildly successful because, unlike most of the protesters, he never allowed himself the luxury of self-pity or victimhood.
I see nothing that you have said has detracted from anything that I've said.
Keep living in your illusionary world. Everything is OK.
I don't feel self pity, I feel pity for you. I hope someday you will realise all that you have lost in pursuing such silliness for so long.
That's not the message the Republican candidates are putting forward.
troll
we are victims to our government and we need to recognize that and protest it, we need to stop them from ruining our lives any further millions of other people are being killed our troops and citizens in the middle east all for our government. Its horrific, we need to change that they're spending so much money bailing out ge, banks, "trying to create jobs"(so they say) through stimulus plans. A horrible healthcare plan that will bankrupt us if not taken away. WE NEED TO PROTEST. Forget your political view or through it into the mix but don't call people names. sory for your insecurities but thats not my problem or anyone elses
“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” what jefferson was trying to say was get back to work protestors.
Ye protest too much! You sound as if you are afraid. I suspect you would like to be part of this but you don't understand what the big fuss is all about. I feel sorry for you.
You want to discuss my fear. OK, I fear that the future of my country will be determined by people, like you, who do not posses even a modicum of understanding of economics. People who, like you, are educationally, emotionally and psychologically unfit to compete in a global economy. You and your racist comrades are not going to be able to keep the citizens of less developed countries down by your anti-globalization nonsense forever . While you and Johnny Creamcheese were playing soccer without keeping score, the rest of the world's children were learning math and science. And I can assure you that their parents and teachers were keeping score. So, OK, if I need a question answered about womyn's contributions to indigenous Andean poetry, I'll give you a call. But in the mean time, if I need something built right, I will go where the core competencies reside.
24 years old, been working part time since I was 14 and full time since I was 17, couldn't afford college, parents couldn't either, barely ever take a day off work... All of this work has led to an $11/hr job, 40/hrs a week, with expensive health insurance I can choose to buy into and nothing else. Yeah, you hit the nail on the head, dude!
Also pay my own way, have been doing so since I was 19. Pretty good complexion. Not in debt but have about $3000 in savings that will be wiped out when I buy another "decent" used car, voted for Mike Gravel in 2008 because I knew Obama was a Wall St. Democrat(what we used to call republicans,) know that whatever you are representing has been earning what we used to call "unearned income" off of my and my fellow americans since about the time of the "reagan revolution." Welcome to the jungle.
Unearned income is an accounting term of art, it is an incoherency in economics.
Incidentally, I'm fully behind the protests, and I'm a computer science major at MIT. Underachiever? Pfft. Don't make me laugh; if you can call three to four hours of sleep per night underachieving then I want to see your schedule. I came from a working-class to poor family and I'm already reviewing high-level internship opportunities from companies like Boeing. And yet somehow I'm still behind these people. Why?
Because my family went through hell in order to put my sister and I on the track we are now; my mom left a teaching job to homeschool my sister and I to keep us out of a dysfunctional inner-city school system, so we've been living on one rather precarious income since I was three. My dad's union job got through almost to the end, until a hedge fund by the name of Brynwood Partners took over and decided to break the union. We would not have survived the resulting eleven-month strike and plant closure were it not for unemployment benefits, food stamps, and a strong community that really cared for us when we needed it most.
Here's the thing: because of our family and community my sister and I were uniquely equipped to weather the storm that hit us; not everyone is so lucky. Any number of small things could have derailed us at that point, and for every one of me who makes it through there are ten more who through no fault of their own get screwed out of an opportunity to move up.
I was raised the old-fashioned way; life doesn't owe you one particular outcome over another. Life doesn't owe anyone a job simply by virtue of their existence. Jobs, wealth, happiness: all of these things are earned. The one and only thing in this country that a man is owed is a free and fair opportunity to better himself, and it is these opportunities that have been drying up over the past three decades.
In the old days, if you were good with your hands and willing to work you could get top-notch vocational training and hold down a solid middle-class career with just a high school diploma (or sometimes not even that). In the old days, the ordinary American had opportunity after opportunity available to him and all that was asked of him in return was that he got off his ass and grab one.
These days, that's all drying up. Vocational training of the old sort is dying out, and half the new sort is provided by for-profit "colleges" that often screw unsuspecting students. Academic degrees leading to the professions are hardly for everyone, and whole groups of people get closed out of that game before they even realize they're playing. Getting a decent job of the type that sustained our parents and grandparents is getting more and more difficult.
In short, we will be happy to stop stinking up your parks and get jobs if you will point us toward opportunities we can reasonably be expected to be able to take advantage of. Until then, we will stay exactly where we are and grow stronger and stronger until the system has no choice but to make these opportunities available to us again.
I understand your position completely! It is your youth talking. In my teenage years, I myself dabbled with socialism... not in 'Nam of course. Wait until you get out and start really paying taxes. That will definitely cure you.
I'm curious, though; how exactly is what I posted above evidence of "my youth talking?" In simple terms, I came from a struggling working-class community (of the type that the housing crisis has hit the hardest), and got to where I was because of the support of that community and the union that protected my father. Corporate greed and stupidity almost cost my family everything, and it was a combination of community support and government-provided social services that kept my family surviving.
Because of these things I have little patience for the follies of big corporations, hedge funds, and badly behaved financial institutions in general. I want to see the banks broken up and re-regulated, I want to see manufacturing jobs brought back to this country, and I want to see an end to the current campaign finance and lobbying structures. I'd prefer to see these things effected through Congress and the courts, but apparently it takes a few thousand people living in parks before anyone will take these ideas seriously.
In a union, by definition, the most competent worker is the most underpaid and the most incompetent worker is the most overpaid. I dare you to attempt to prove me wrong!!!
Hmmm. describes me perfectly, 61 years old, working 2 jobs (one full-time), my wife working one job as well trying to make ends meet. If you are such a winner, why are you spending your time writing this if you have so much going on in your life? Since you obviously have no respect for those who you do not agree with, go to hell!
Actually it is not fear that motivates us. Its just that you fools are one of the few hilarities we have left now that your generation has f-ed up Saturday Night Live. Belushi is rolling in his grave and Bill Murray is standing by to roll in his.
Hmm first you criticize the current younger generation, now you criticize mine. I pity someone like you filled with so much hate. In reality I think the one you hate the most is yourself.
What do you think needs to be done, if anything, to get the government working for the american people and not the special interests?
The Government is the problem. They are 95% of the cause of the problem. The bankers, while not blameless, were merely responding rationally to a government policy that effectively stated that the government would buy back or guarantee any and all mortgages no matter what. The government, through the "Community Reinvestment Act," pushed lending institutions to write riskier and riskier mortgages in a politically motivated drive to make credit available to people that the Government considered "socially disadvantaged" or "underserved." The primary and secondary mortgage markets functioned efficiently for well over 200 years in this nation until the government put their thumb on the scale by removing the credit repayment risk from the lender and placing it on the American taxpayer. A moron could have predicted that this would happen!!! Get educated!
and you actually believe that "Big Finance" did not lobby for all of the changes you write of that put the risk on the taxpayer? protesting "Big Finance" is a strategic move - and it's working as it bothered you enough to get you to take the time to construct your above paragraph of name-calling. keep writing, douchebag, as your name-calling serves only to highlight your irrelevance on these issues. the protesters and the people concerned about these issues are way beyond your unoriginal and dull thoughts on the matter. (btw - what frat were you in?)
...as if your statement, "The Government is the problem" is a revelation to people concerned with these issues. goodness, you're such an unoriginal douchebag...
The secondary mortgage market was not "working over 200 years". It was created about 25 years ago with the creation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the late 1970's.
Sorry to differ but mortgages as well as other notes were being successfully syndicated in the early nineteenth century. It was not on the scale of Freddie and Fannie because of the inherent difficulties in servicing them. Your instinct, however, is spot on in that it was that very danger that kept all but the largest investors from trading them. It also proves my contention that the government was 95% responsible for the mess.
Yes the government did have a role. I worked as a compliance officer at a bank in the 1990's and saw how CRA worked. Of course as a small community bank we were able to comply with that law, in fact even got an "outstanding" rating, yet did not make any bad loans to do that, in fact much of the considerations did not come from real estate loans but from personal and car loans. I saw while in banking that the vast majority of home loans were kept in the portfolio until the early 1990's when the secondary market exploded.
From your background, you must be aware that the gov't overtly threatened lending institutions with onerous sanctions, if they did not meet specific quotas in writing sub prime loans to so-called underserved sectors of the population. You must also have had dealings with your in house marketing people who were all too aware that if they did not significantly lower their own lending criteria to match other gov't regulated lenders, they would be out of business overnight.
We did not do sub-prime loans and were never pressured to do so. The sub-prime loans were primarily underwritten by mortgage companies such as Countrywide, which then sold them to Wall Street. This helped fuel the real estate bubble and the spillover from that crisis then affected the rest of the real estate market.
What was the net result of the gov't getting involved with lending????
You are wrong!!! It was part of the trade-off to relax provisions of the Glass Steagle Act. What do you believe that the CRA was?
How can I be wrong about what happened at the bank i worked for? I was there. The CRA was a 1978 law that was enacted to eliminate the practice of redlining, where banks would put a red line around a neighborhood and refuse to loan there. It was intended to give all persons reasonable access to credit, but not to affect underwriting standards. To the extent that any financial institution felt it needed to do so was a misuse of the law, and thus any bank or government regulator who did otherwise should be shown up.
Wrong again, while originally enacted in 1978, it never had teeth until the mid 1990's when it was amended. Redlining was a chimera. If there actually was systemic discrimination in lending based upon race, then, statistically, you would expect to find minority default rates lower than those of the general population (higher lending qualifications for minority applicants would, de facto, increase the quality of the portfolio of minority mortgagors). In reality minority defaults were higher; giving lie to the myth that there was SYSTEMIC disrimination against racial minorities.
Interesting, but what source do you have for that assertion about default rates? I don;t recall seeing any of that when I attended compliance conferences I went to that were hosted by the American Bankers Association, and I'm sure if there was ammunition to use against the CRA they would have raised it.
Hey Twat. Nice ramble. Hey just curious. Are you Fat?
...and you make baseless generalizations. You know what they say about people who assume, right?
Great news equazcion! Bloomberg says you can stay. Bloomberg, citing an overwhelming number of requests from parents that he continue to provide them with a "time-out" from their leech-like adult "children" who, having found a paucity of demand for jobs requiring advanced degrees in "Trans-Gendered Art History" and "14th Century Bulgarian Poetry", and had moved back into those parent's basements and couches, Mayor Bloomberg, today announced, that Occupy Wall Street protesters can stay in the park for as long as they choose. Bloomberg went on to state that :"Its the least that I can do for the parents, many of whose investing activities contributed to my immense fortune!"
Angry loners trolling for attention are such sad creatures. I feel the truest sympathy for you. I hope someone loves you someday. Really.
This is no longer entertaining. Do you not realize that the gibberish that you spout makes you not only unemployable, but unintelligible as well? Read your own posts.You want to discuss my fear. OK, I fear that the future of my country will be determined by people, like you, who do not posses even a modicum of understanding of economics. People who, like you, are educationally, emotionally and psychologically unfit to compete in a global economy. You and your racist comrades are not going to be able to keep the citizens of less developed countries down by your anti-globalization nonsense forever . While you and Johnny Creamcheese were playing soccer without keeping score, the rest of the world's children were learning math and science. And I can assure you that their parents and teachers were keeping score. So, OK, if I need a question answered about womyn's contributions to indigenous Andean poetry, I'll give you a call. But in the mean time, if I need something built right, I will go where the core competencies reside.
and you, douchebag, don't know enough about economics that from time to time Capitalism needs to be saved from the self-styled Capitalists of the day.
No capitalism needs to be saved from gov't intervention on a daily basis. Without the Gov't, capitalists are forced to compete on a even playing field. Gov't's only legitimate role is to prevent monopoly and the use of force and fraud, narrowly defined.
and why does gov't (as elected by the people) have the legitimate role you write about ("Gov't's only legitimate role is to prevent monopoly and the use of force and fraud, narrowly defined.")? - because Capitalism needs to be saved from the self-styled Capitalists of the day. study some economic philosophy and stop behaving like a douchebag.
No longer entertaining, once someone calls you out for what you are and the true reason you're here, rather than falling for your provocation and sinking into the name-calling bout you wish to begin. Yes, I can see how that would cease to be entertaining for you.
Love is right around the corner. You just have to go out and find it.
you are right about your last 2 sentences. I just hope that you do not come home tonight and beat her for it. She really loves you but she was hoping for more.
I'm so sorry your life ended up this way. Really.
Augggh! My defenseless, Nestle Crunch Bar-like face! It has been owned!
YES THEY ARE RETARDED SHEEP FOLLOWERS! See for yourself: http://www.moneytrendsresearch.com/frightening-ows-atlanta-collectively-protesting-like-zombie-idiots-sadly-the-protests-in-manhattan-are-equally-idiotic/
Thoughtful, clear and concise. I applaud you good sir.
Thank you, we need to show up for this one.