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There are many layers to the OWS onion, and each one is more difficult than the last to peel back. But it's starting to look like there is a single, rotten core at the dark center of this movement, and that core's name is ... ACORN
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Weaver95
2012-02-13 01:16:15 PM
I get so confused without my fear calendar - is this socialism week or communism week? And when does shark week fall this year? I think we already had our gay conspiracy week.
sigdiamond2000
2012-02-13 01:16:57 PM
ArkAngel
2012-02-13 01:17:59 PM
Since this article is from Fox News, I predict a very polite thread full of well-reasoned discussion, a lack of logical fallacies, and behavior that upholds the dignity and authority of the Fark Politics tab.
liverleef
2012-02-13 01:19:42 PM
Acorn? I thought it was George Soros. I can't keep up with this shiat.
Peter von Nostrand
2012-02-13 01:20:05 PM
Since we're recycling 2008 boogeymen... might as well recycle those memes as well
Diogenes
2012-02-13 01:21:14 PM
Critics said the fundraising is yet more evidence linking the remnants of ACORN, a national organization that disbanded after a series of scandals, to the national "Occupy" movement.
It's not a scandal if it's found to be baseless after an investigation.
Weaver95
2012-02-13 01:21:19 PM
liverleef
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Acorn? I thought it was George Soros. I can't keep up with this shiat.
Yeah, i'm not sure what it is we're supposed to be afraid of here...
what_now
2012-02-13 01:24:08 PM
Weaver95
:
I get so confused without my fear calendar - is this socialism week or communism week? And when does shark week fall this year? I think we already had our gay conspiracy week.
You forgot fascism week.
Philip Francis Queeg
2012-02-13 01:24:25 PM
liverleef
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Acorn? I thought it was George Soros. I can't keep up with this shiat.
Soros is just a puppet for the ghost of Saul Alinsky.
Eddie Adams from Torrance
2012-02-13 01:24:57 PM
ACORN ass-raped my girlfriend and left santorum all over my new sheets.
Weaver95
2012-02-13 01:25:06 PM
what_now
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Weaver95: I get so confused without my fear calendar - is this socialism week or communism week? And when does shark week fall this year? I think we already had our gay conspiracy week.
You forgot fascism week.
I think that's been rescheduled until after we find out who's the Republican nominee.
namatad
2012-02-13 01:25:35 PM
A re-branded ACORN branch in California is raising money to help fund an upcoming "Occupy" protest in Sacramento, FoxNews.com has learned.
I AM SHOCKED!!!
the people who used to work at acorn didnt all die when it got defunded?
they didnt all just go on welfare and never work again???
hahahahahhahaha
Mr. Coffee Nerves
2012-02-13 01:25:55 PM
liverleef
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Acorn? I thought it was George Soros. I can't keep up with this shiat.
It's the Soros-funded, abortion-fueled, arugula-fed, secret-ACORN-staffed, Lamestream LSM Streaming Media Streamer-promoted, Bible-burning, Jesus-rock-hard-abs-unironically-impressed-by, transfats-banning, soccer-fandom-increasing, soil-ruining, forced-gay-marrying-to an uggo forces of Teleprompterism!
Save us, Blogger-Patriots!
namatad
2012-02-13 01:26:24 PM
what_now
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Weaver95: I get so confused without my fear calendar - is this socialism week or communism week? And when does shark week fall this year? I think we already had our gay conspiracy week.
You forgot fascism
week
millennium
.
fixed that for you
cman
2012-02-13 01:26:57 PM
Oh for farks sake
This is getting beyond ludicrous
Weaver95
2012-02-13 01:27:01 PM
no... really...what's the big deal? I don't get it.
namatad
2012-02-13 01:27:21 PM
Mr. Coffee Nerves
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liverleef: Acorn? I thought it was George Soros. I can't keep up with this shiat.
It's the Soros-funded, abortion-fueled, arugula-fed, secret-ACORN-staffed, Lamestream LSM Streaming Media Streamer-promoted, Bible-burning, Jesus-rock-hard-abs-unironically-impressed-by, transfats-banning, soccer-fandom-increasing, soil-ruining, forced-gay-marrying-to an uggo forces of Teleprompterism!
Save us, Blogger-Patriots!
you know
we should BURN more bibles.
it would go a long way to pushing these nuts over the edge.
/note to self: find a cheap source of bibles
namatad
2012-02-13 01:27:56 PM
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
and if you write to the LDS, they will send you a free book of mormon ....
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Bathia_Mapes
2012-02-13 01:28:00 PM
Eddie Adams from Torrance
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ACORN ass-raped my girlfriend and left santorum all over my new sheets.
ACORN raped my cat and got her teen pregnant.
Weaver95
2012-02-13 01:28:20 PM
namatad
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/note to self: find a cheap source of bibles
go talk to the momons. they GIVE those things away. just don't tell them why you want all those bible for....
give me doughnuts
2012-02-13 01:28:36 PM
Mr. Coffee Nerves
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liverleef: Acorn? I thought it was George Soros. I can't keep up with this shiat.
It's the Soros-funded, abortion-fueled, arugula-fed, secret-ACORN-staffed, Lamestream LSM Streaming Media Streamer-promoted, Bible-burning, Jesus-rock-hard-abs-unironically-impressed-by, transfats-banning, soccer-fandom-increasing, soil-ruining, forced-gay-marrying-to an uggo forces of Teleprompterism!
Save us, Blogger-Patriots!
You left out "patchouli-stinking" and "bongo-playing."
give me doughnuts
2012-02-13 01:30:30 PM
namatad
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Mr. Coffee Nerves: liverleef: Acorn? I thought it was George Soros. I can't keep up with this shiat.
It's the Soros-funded, abortion-fueled, arugula-fed, secret-ACORN-staffed, Lamestream LSM Streaming Media Streamer-promoted, Bible-burning, Jesus-rock-hard-abs-unironically-impressed-by, transfats-banning, soccer-fandom-increasing, soil-ruining, forced-gay-marrying-to an uggo forces of Teleprompterism!
Save us, Blogger-Patriots!
you know
we should BURN more bibles.
it would go a long way to pushing these nuts over the edge.
/note to self: find a cheap source of bibles
The Gideons? Those cats just leave 'em behind in hotels and such.
sweetmelissa31
2012-02-13 01:30:57 PM
Weaver95
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I get so confused without my fear calendar - is this socialism week or communism week? And when does shark week fall this year? I think we already had our gay conspiracy week.
I was under the impression that Planned Parenthood was currently to blame.
Weaver95
2012-02-13 01:31:34 PM
sweetmelissa31
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Weaver95: I get so confused without my fear calendar - is this socialism week or communism week? And when does shark week fall this year? I think we already had our gay conspiracy week.
I was under the impression that Planned Parenthood was currently to blame.
Nah, that was last week.
Because People in power are Stupid
2012-02-13 01:35:39 PM
It has nothing to do with the Rich getting Richer on the taxpayer's dime (thank you Bush), and everything to do with smelly hippies.
Acorn!!!
shivashakti
2012-02-13 01:38:10 PM
Just because ACORN supports the Occupy movement doesn't mean that they're behind it. They're not.
That's some crazy Glenn Beck sh*t.
Meatzilla
2012-02-13 01:41:03 PM
Go Get 'Em, Kids.
You Know What To Do.
themeaningoflifeisnot
2012-02-13 01:47:22 PM
I could not care less who's behind OWS. OWS is a sad excuse for a movement.
Weaver95
2012-02-13 01:50:42 PM
themeaningoflifeisnot
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I could not care less who's behind OWS. OWS is a sad excuse for a movement.
I dunno about that. OWS sure rattled wall street and the 1%.
Jake Havechek
2012-02-13 01:52:05 PM
Soros
Soros
Soros
Soros!
Nadie_AZ
2012-02-13 01:52:37 PM
themeaningoflifeisnot
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I could not care less who's behind OWS. OWS is a sad excuse for a movement.
I was listening to NPR this weekend, and they were interviewing one of the founders of the Tea Party movement.
"
Chris Littleton, founder of the Cincinnati Tea Party and co-founder of the Ohio Liberty Council, was recently asked about the state of the Tea Party.
"I said the Tea Party is dead," Littleton tells NPR's Raz. "What I mean by that is that [the] protest idea is gone, and I say that's a good thing."
The people who were leading the charge of the Tea Party protests, among whose ranks Littleton counts himself among, have left that behind, he says. They've now moved away from protesting and toward a more "tactical precision" way of operating, he says.
"
....
"
New York Times reporter Kate Zernike, who wrote a book about the Tea Party called Boiling Mad, tells Raz that the movement might have reached its peak of power in 2010.
"The Tea Party was always going to be a phenomenon of a midterm election," Zernike says.
Midterm elections tend to have a smaller voter turnout and attract older white voters, she says, which by and large made up the Tea Party. So in a midterm election, a group like the Tea Party can, and did, have a greater impact.
What's happening now, she says, is that people are starting to get an idea of what a Tea Party Congress looks like and what the Tea Party stood for.
"They stood for obstruction [and] they stood for not compromising," she says. "When pollsters went back to Tea Party voters and said, 'Is this what you want?' They said, 'No, we want people to compromise.'"
"
Linky linky
(new window)
How's that for a sad excuse for a movement?
Book it. Dead.
GWLush
2012-02-13 01:56:41 PM
ACORN!
Sleeping Monkey
2012-02-13 02:02:54 PM
Sounds legit.
FloydA
2012-02-13 02:31:54 PM
ACORN put water chestnuts in my egg salad sandwich!
vernonFL
2012-02-13 02:33:08 PM
ACORN was such a shady, powerful and dangerous organization that it took
these two
to bring them down:
cman
2012-02-13 02:34:26 PM
vernonFL
:
ACORN was such a shady, powerful and dangerous organization that it took these two to bring them down:
[www.ihatethemedia.com image 250x277]
You gotta admit, you would have fun with the lady on the right.
make me some tea
2012-02-13 02:35:52 PM
liverleef
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Acorn? I thought it was George Soros. I can't keep up with this shiat.
Soros funds ACORN, duh.
Nadie_AZ
2012-02-13 02:36:01 PM
vernonFL
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ACORN was such a shady, powerful and dangerous organization that it took these two to bring them down:
[www.ihatethemedia.com image 250x277]
This is true. A new face on the scene, Breitbart, staged these 2 with their heavily edited footage. Then Fox gave them a bullhorn of epic proportions. A true surprise attack.
The thing that gets me is that anyone gave them a second of air time after everyone found out what they had done. And why he isn't in prison for trying to wiretap a Senator is beyond me.
Philip Francis Queeg
2012-02-13 02:39:46 PM
cman
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vernonFL: ACORN was such a shady, powerful and dangerous organization that it took these two to bring them down:
[www.ihatethemedia.com image 250x277]
You gotta admit, you would have fun with the lady on the right.
Nahh, she's a conservative. You know she just lays there like a dead fish.
shivashakti
2012-02-13 02:42:18 PM
themeaningoflifeisnot
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I could not care less who's behind OWS. OWS is a sad excuse for a movement.
Yeah. It's much better to just say nothing and accept the ass-raping than to try to do something about it, even if unsuccessful.
Somacandra
2012-02-13 02:45:12 PM
Why is Occupy Wall Street so horrible again? I mean, its not like they started a war on false pretenses and a single sleazy criminal source and ended up killing hundreds of thousands of civilians without finding any Weapons of Mass Destruction without ever paying reparations or issuing an apology.
Kazan
2012-02-13 02:45:36 PM
themeaningoflifeisnot
:
I could not care less who's behind OWS. OWS is a sad excuse for a movement.
the "problems" with OWS are largely the signs of a genuine grassroots movement (message randomization due to numerous subgroups)
Somacandra
2012-02-13 02:48:01 PM
It was Bella Abzug.
It was Bella Abzug all along.
/Bella Abzug
Weaver95
2012-02-13 02:50:28 PM
Somacandra
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Why is Occupy Wall Street so horrible again? I mean, its not like they started a war on false pretenses and a single sleazy criminal source and ended up killing hundreds of thousands of civilians without finding any Weapons of Mass Destruction without ever paying reparations or issuing an apology.
OWS is the enemy because they asked why the little people should pay for the mistakes made by rich bankers with powerful political connections. that's...well that's just plain unforgivable man! you can't go around asking dangerous questions like that! what if people started to understand that they don't HAVE to keep bailing out the rich folks!? why...there would be mass chaos!
no...far better to lie and degrade the OWS movement. accuse them of being commies, or socialist. then ignore them as much as possible. the cops will come along in the dead of night to beat 'em down and clear out the parks and then everything will go back to normal.
Nadie_AZ
2012-02-13 02:52:34 PM
Somacandra
:
Why is Occupy Wall Street so horrible again? I mean, its not like they started a war on false pretenses and a single sleazy criminal source and ended up killing hundreds of thousands of civilians without finding any Weapons of Mass Destruction without ever paying reparations or issuing an apology.
My gf works in the media. She spoke to me about the Occupy Phoenix group. She wanted to sympathize with them and give them an opportunity to voice their concerns. They refused to. They had no spokesman. They voted on each thing they would say or do. She came to despise the 'jazz hands'. So they'd say nothing about their issues and then get upset when the media wouldn't cover them.
I am of the opinion that OWS and ODC were and should still be valid movements. But I think Occupy Phoenix was more along the lines of 'Occupy Everything' just because.
But the big occupy movements were derided because they weren't old white people with tea bags hanging from their hats.
Somacandra
2012-02-13 03:03:04 PM
Nadie_AZ
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She wanted to sympathize with them and give them an opportunity to voice their concerns. They refused to. They had no spokesman. They voted on each thing they would say or do.
They probably took it in turns to serve as a sort of....executive officer for the week.
And its clear that your girlfriend was able to see the violence inherent in the system.
I_Am_Weasel
2012-02-13 03:13:13 PM
Occu-pie!
ok, technically octo-pie.
SkinnyHead
2012-02-13 03:20:55 PM
"Thousands of us are arriving in Sacramento on March 5 to Occupy the Capitol with our demand that the 1 percent pay for jobs, education, essential services, and a better future,"
A group claiming to represent the great majority (in Russia, they called them Bolsheviks) threatening to illegally occupy the state capitol building to demand that others be forced to pay for their "jobs, education, essential services, and a better future" sure sounds like communism, doesn't it?
cman
2012-02-13 03:26:56 PM
SkinnyHead
:
"Thousands of us are arriving in Sacramento on March 5 to Occupy the Capitol with our demand that the 1 percent pay for jobs, education, essential services, and a better future,"
A group claiming to represent the great majority (in Russia, they called them Bolsheviks) threatening to illegally occupy the state capitol building to demand that others be forced to pay for their "jobs, education, essential services, and a better future" sure sounds like communism, doesn't it?
Not every protest with those ideals that end up in a revolution automatically becomes communists. Iran is a good example of this.
jehovahs witness protection
2012-02-13 03:27:43 PM
Yep...this turned in to a left wing cry baby thread just as I thought it would.
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