Ideas and Poverty: Occupy’s Internal Contradictions

by Aaron on November 18, 2011

in Government

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Yeah, they’re dumb and probably taken a bit out of context. But the flagrant hypocrisy and self-contradiction underscore Occupy’s poverty of ideas and naked greed. The elites huddled in the Deutsche Bank don’t object to class distinctions, or “private property”; they’re just making a thuggish push to become the upper class and hold on to their “personal property”.

Would anyone like to help rebuild that library, hopefully with hundreds of copies of Animal Farm?

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Speedmaster November 18, 2011 at 9:53 am

Watched that last night, absolutely brilliant. ;-)

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Aaron November 18, 2011 at 1:02 pm

Yeah, the Daily Show has gotten much better in recent months, since John regained his cynicism.

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