Please do not feed the protesters.

Remember all... just like police brutality, harassment, and crackdown on civil rights, the actions of the Fleabaggers are just "isolated incidents". Don't forget to pop out great quips like "the plural of anecdote is not data" and "they're only a small minority" and "I refuse to believe that happened even in the face of overwhelming evidence".

Somacandra: Nels: Fleabaggers

What's a Fleabagger? Is that a Carpetbagger that needs Frontline?

Somacandra: Nels: [cdn.globalgoodgroup.com image 640x360]

I still don't get it. Why are you calling them "Fleabaggers" ? It seems an idiosyncratic designation. Usually a satirical label has some tangential or ironic connection to the population its trying to describe. People use the term "Teabaggers" because those people called themselves the term, brought lots of tea bags to their protests and invoked the spirit of the 'Boston Tea Party.' Is it because they supposedly make corporate executives "itch" or something?

I think it is more of a reflection on the typical OWeS protestors hygiene or lack thereof.

sinschild: Somacandra: Nels: [cdn.globalgoodgroup.com image 640x360]

I still don't get it. Why are you calling them "Fleabaggers" ? It seems an idiosyncratic designation. Usually a satirical label has some tangential or ironic connection to the population its trying to describe. People use the term "Teabaggers" because those people called themselves the term, brought lots of tea bags to their protests and invoked the spirit of the 'Boston Tea Party.' Is it because they supposedly make corporate executives "itch" or something?

I think it is more of a reflection on the typical OWeS protestors hygiene or lack thereof.

It's an uphill battle on that one.

Like many people who have horrible hygiene and stink to high heaven, it's impossible to convince them that they need a bath. They will fight tooth and nail to keep from just showering on a regular basis.

OWSers will just say, "I shower all the time" while stink lines visibly float off of them.

Occam's Chainsaw: sinschild: OWeS

There's a new one. Care to elaborate?

Also, DURR HURR DURTY AND SMELLI. 1960s Conservatism called, they want their ad hominem counterpoint back.

as in "YOU OWES ME MAN!!" seems to be their predominant rallying cry, from student loans to free food.

They are too entitled and too self absorbed to realize that their shiatty little lives have no intrinsic value, so they feel that the very fact they exist means we must coddle them in the manner to which they feel they deserve.

I support their right to protest 100%. I also support being able to mock them for being farking losers 100%. Seems like a fair trade off to me.

Somacandra: sinschild: I think it is more of a reflection on the typical OWeS protestors hygiene or lack thereof.

Ah. I didn't realize that was a common media trope. I've been following the more Midwestern stuff, where Occupy Des Moines and others are talking about taking over Republican and Democratic offices during the upcoming Iowa caucuses (new window). There isn't the same sort of image with Occupy Des Moines, AFAIK.

Meh, I only have the local Austin TX ones to go off of, and they farking reek to high heaven. Then again Austin has always had more than its share of nasty hippies. Perhaps they are cleaner in other cities, but I doubt it.

God dammit, you're not helping the cause, idiots.

ya, ya, protesters do X so that means the stuff they are protesting is somehow not legitimate. Keep trying that spin but wealth inequality being bad for most Americans and the economy in general will not magically go away as an issue.

They should try occupying Wall Street with applications for employment instead of being a bunch of crybabies.

Oh......It's San Diego?


...who cares


Pfffft

Libs don't care about other peoples' property. What's new? Let's see if the left-tard media covers this.

Somacandra: FTFA: And according to one city councilman, bodily fluids were used in the attacks. "Both carts have had items stolen, have had their covers vandalized with markings and graffiti, as well as one of the carts had urine and blood splattered on it," said Councilman Carl DeMaio.

Ah, so the reporter's headline should read "SoCal Street Cart Vendors Hurting After 'Occupy' Group Splatters Blood, Urine, COUNCILMAN SAYS." The reporter is going with one single source for this provocative claim, not specifically verified with the cart owners, and FAILS to attribute the assertion in the headline, thus making it sound like indisputable fact. And has no quotes from any protestors anywhere to either confirm or refute the claims.

That's some real shiatty journalism there, Lou.

It's only shiatty if impartial journalism is your motive. If your motive is propaganda, then mission accomplished.

erik316wttn: God dammit, you're not helping the cause, idiots.

I am waiting, ever waiting, for the bipartisan angels who yelped about liberal deep cover shenanigans at the Tea Party rallies with minimal evidence to consider that the same might be happening here.

Waiting...

Those carts were asking for it!

Kudos Fark trollmitter douchebag!

Somacandra: Nels: [cdn.globalgoodgroup.com image 640x360]

I still don't get it. Why are you calling them "Fleabaggers" ? It seems an idiosyncratic designation. Usually a satirical label has some tangential or ironic connection to the population its trying to describe. People use the term "Teabaggers" because those people called themselves the term, brought lots of tea bags to their protests and invoked the spirit of the 'Boston Tea Party.' Is it because they supposedly make corporate executives "itch" or something?

It's because they're filthy, flea ridden hippies.

gilgigamesh: Ok, so at least this part of the story isn't true, so its kind of hard to credit it.

Oh really, where the goons locked arms in an attempt to prevent people from leaving, causing someone to try to escape, which resulted in him running into another woman?

Farking joke.

meat0918: FlashHarry: Nels: Insta-don't care. Get a job.

there are jobs?

1 job for every 4 of the unemployed.

This is good news actually, because it was 1 job for every 5 of the unemployed.

They can complain when there's zero jobs. I also hear there's some states that needed farming labor. Crops were going to waste because those unemployed were far too lazy to take them. It's so much easier living off the hard work of your fellow citizens while you protest against them for donations.

Occam's Chainsaw: You're the guy that hangs his dick out his drawers before the party's even started, aren't you?

fark Yeah!

I have to admit, that is the first time I have laughed out loud all day. Thank you!

Somacandra: Since reactionary activists have been proudly talking about their infiltration of Occupy movements and initiating violence (new window), how do we know any of these people were legitimate protestors instead of agent provocateurs?

If you legitimately represent 99% of the population, you also represent the agents provocateur.

Headso: ya, ya, protesters do X so that means the stuff they are protesting is somehow not legitimate. Keep trying that spin but wealth inequality being bad for most Americans and the economy in general will not magically go away as an issue.

As long as no one is actually doing something about either, it's a win for the corporate barons.

If we declare the "Occupiers" to be a terrorist organization, then we can send in drones to take them out, right?

Somacandra: Nels: [cdn.globalgoodgroup.com image 640x360]

I still don't get it. Why are you calling them "Fleabaggers" ? It seems an idiosyncratic designation. Usually a satirical label has some tangential or ironic connection to the population its trying to describe. People use the term "Teabaggers" because those people called themselves the term, brought lots of tea bags to their protests and invoked the spirit of the 'Boston Tea Party.' Is it because they supposedly make corporate executives "itch" or something?


I believe the term was originally coined when 14 Wisconsin senators fled the state to avoid a quorum. Republicans, who took the self-proclaimed term "teabagger" as an insult of the highest order assumed that the negative connotations would stick if they attached "flee" to the beginning and used it against their enemies. It didn't really work, and they didn't understand why, and to this day, some (like our not-so-bright troll Nels here) cling to the word in a hoping that it will catch on while remaining ignorant to the origins of the word. Urban dictionary compares it to the dimly conceived insult "jerk store".