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Chan790

(20,176 posts)
33. Passive Class Warfare.
Sun May 20, 2012, 11:13 AM
May 2012

Let's make being wealthy so unpleasant that the wealthy choose to not be wealthy. No revolution, no need for actual violence...just build an eventually-critical mass of people who refuse to work for them or do business with them on any equitable level, actively discriminate against them, never pass up an opportunity to do something purely because it'll make their lives suck a bit more. Let them suffer our active contempt. Sow evil unto them in our good deeds.

If I had a piece of land and it was next to Mitt Romney's piece of land and he wanted a 4' easement...I'd demand $1B and I'd tell him upfront that I was spending most of the money to destroy the things he loves in life. If I found David Koch's wallet in the street, I'd burn it rather than return it. If I was selling a product, I'd sell them for a loss before I'd ever sell one to Eric Cantor. Get in front of Rush Limbaugh's car on a single-lane no-passing-road in which runs in front of the police station...and drive as slow as legally-possible. If I had a dog, it would never crap anywhere but the best front lawns in gated communities. Actively conspire to make sure that nobody will mow Sheldon Adelson's lawn for any sum of money. Open a homeless shelter directly across the street from their children's prissy little private schools and halfway houses near their homes. Rent office space in their buildings on long-term leases then lend-use to methadone clinics, life-after-prison and social-welfare organizations thus causing the halls of their buildings to be filled with the results of their evil while driving down property values.

The flip side of this is removal of self from their system. Buy and source local; refuse to support large agribusiness, big-box retail or put money into their pockets. Refuse to work for them. Refuse to live in their developments. Refuse to support their banks, their financial planning, their long-cons (like private for-profit health insurance) or their for-profit "public-interest" ventures. Pay attention to what your dollars and labor are supporting. Refuse, resist, disrupt, segregate yourself from their scheme.

I'd do anything I could to make them suffer. Eventually, they'll suffer enough to relent.

My biggest fear... randome May 2012 #1
I like your Plan B. We need more Wellstones. MADem May 2012 #2
Campaign finance reform is key nobodyspecial May 2012 #4
It's time to turn our attention to November. protect our future May 2012 #3
Why? Is there a progressive running? n/t leeroysphitz May 2012 #5
Yes, because we all know letting Romney in nobodyspecial May 2012 #6
Uh, there are a bunch of progressives running. MineralMan May 2012 #16
Added to that we have a progressive President as well RFKHumphreyObama May 2012 #68
I deliberately omitted President Obama, because MineralMan May 2012 #69
You assume a lot, MadHound May 2012 #7
How old are you? TBF May 2012 #8
Sorry that I don't fit your stereotype nobodyspecial May 2012 #10
Most of the revolutions in history did not have "masses" they were often a well organized minority jwirr May 2012 #21
Perhaps so. But OWS is not well organized. randome May 2012 #22
I don't think the leaders of the other groups I mentioned were organized in the way you mean either. jwirr May 2012 #26
Maybe not. randome May 2012 #27
Well I am actually glad OWS is not that. jwirr May 2012 #29
Me, too. randome May 2012 #30
Conditions are nowhere near that - TBF May 2012 #31
Probably a bad choice of words, but used more for shock value nobodyspecial May 2012 #36
This is why the Occupy Underground forum was created. randome May 2012 #39
Yeah, so I gather. nobodyspecial May 2012 #42
My advice: No. Don't give in. randome May 2012 #45
I really don't know what you want us to say - TBF May 2012 #44
Mon dieu...... marmar May 2012 #9
Indeed. That was better than Valium. Nt xchrom May 2012 #12
COSTA RICA!!! KansDem May 2012 #11
what glorious revolution? spanone May 2012 #13
I plan to order a pizza slackmaster May 2012 #14
Plan 'C' for Chinese! randome May 2012 #25
Post removed Post removed May 2012 #15
Hey, thanks for the personal attack nobodyspecial May 2012 #19
Believe me - there is no pack here. TBF May 2012 #32
slackmaster wants to order pizza. randome May 2012 #34
Personally I like pepperoni. TBF May 2012 #35
You have no idea who I am nobodyspecial May 2012 #40
No threats intended - TBF May 2012 #50
The glorious revolution was a theocratic coup. Warren Stupidity May 2012 #17
Well, the first 'Glorious Revolution' (1688) represented a victory coalition_unwilling May 2012 #53
Why is rule by Protestant less theocratic than rule by Catholic? HiPointDem May 2012 #67
There's no Pope at the center of Protestantism sending coalition_unwilling May 2012 #70
There was a king who was head of the state church and persecuted dissenters. Theocratic enough. HiPointDem May 2012 #71
Yes, I take your point. People took their religion deadly coalition_unwilling May 2012 #75
You should go thank the cops for keeping the rabble in line. DefenseLawyer May 2012 #18
That is your projection nobodyspecial May 2012 #20
The revolution is happening lunatica May 2012 #23
what is this revolution? cali May 2012 #24
Looks like porn and basements for awhile. obliviously May 2012 #28
Passive Class Warfare. Chan790 May 2012 #33
I don't think you defeat evil by becoming evil. nobodyspecial May 2012 #37
that's a baby fantasy. cali May 2012 #38
There was a revolution scheduled and I missed it?......... socialist_n_TN May 2012 #41
Exactly - TBF May 2012 #46
"And things are moving much faster than they were even five years ago."......... socialist_n_TN May 2012 #57
OK, you win nobodyspecial May 2012 #43
I don't think that anybody is asking for that at all............ socialist_n_TN May 2012 #56
I will keep doing what I've been doing. JNelson6563 May 2012 #47
Come on. randome May 2012 #49
Oh, you know, maybe once in a while. JNelson6563 May 2012 #61
Electing Romney would send the US into a tailspin (think a U3 coalition_unwilling May 2012 #48
You should read more History. bvar22 May 2012 #51
Bravo! Hear, hear! - n/t coalition_unwilling May 2012 #55
I think I found a way to watch everything that airs on Bravo rucky May 2012 #52
I was onboard at the beginning wendylaroux May 2012 #54
It's ironic, but my experience with the local Occupy movement.......... socialist_n_TN May 2012 #60
My exposure to occupy is very limited wendylaroux May 2012 #62
Revolutions don't come when people are angry..... RagAss May 2012 #58
Probably what people do when they are beaten. raouldukelives May 2012 #59
Revolution? Hardly. Evolution, well it has moved a little faster. Taverner May 2012 #63
Well Stated. bvar22 May 2012 #64
Your "concern" is noted. Odin2005 May 2012 #65
Another *Epic Third Way Fail*. Protesters swarm Chicago for NATO summit Zorra May 2012 #66
We change or slip into fascism for as long as the Earth can support it until the resources aren't TheKentuckian May 2012 #72
The bosses don't make revolutions. America is the boss nation and the revolution has begun. Tierra_y_Libertad May 2012 #73
Jesse Jackson is not amused with your sh1t. Starry Messenger May 2012 #74
The United States is the waning, dominant empire of the post WW I and II epoch FarCenter May 2012 #76
squirreling away savings? planting a garden? Preparing for the GOP overlords Liberal_in_LA May 2012 #77
Face the reality that it's those in power verses all the rest of us Raine May 2012 #78
Well what are YOUR plans, then? For the sake of curiosity... Blue_Tires May 2012 #79
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