Reddit user Melorga made an awesome shirt, and took it to his local Occupy protest. I concur.
In other Occupy news, Libby breaks down why the movement is lost, unfocused, silly, dangerously misinformed, violent and misogynistic far beyond the worst liberal Tea-Party-fantods and fantasy, and intellectually stagnant, for all that they’ve got catchy slogans and the germ of a worthy cause:
Via Balko, check this out: here’s a mind-blowing list of all the special interests that have lobbied the debt reduction supercommittee. In just three months, over 400 special interest groups have tried to write the budget for their own benefit. If you think getting Elizabeth Warren elected will make a difference, I’m sorry to spoil your fun. Our bi-annual elections are a ceremonial popularity contest in which we choose the next batch of “public” “servants” to go to Washington and negotiate deals to hand money out to the very people you’re protesting. This isn’t me being a reactionary redneck “limited government” libertarian with vague fantasies involving bathtub drownings. Rather, it is a truth, universally UNacknowledged, that a government in possession of great taxing and regulatory power… get’s carved up and parceled out almost as soon as it is formed.
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Hey, it’s Melorga. PM or email me, thanks for spreading the word!