SHIT - GD is ANAL! Be thee ware all that travel here, for there be dragons.

[HopeHoops]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[Richardo]

1. "'Anal' is a polite word for what you are."

- Annie Hall (Not speaking of GD, but might as well have been.)

[HopeHoops]

2. Yeah, well, I've been called worse (and generally don't deny it).

[Richardo]

5. I was thinking of her quote applying to GD, not HH

[HopeHoops]

8. Hell, it works either way.

[kentauros]

3. Maybe they need to take some anal care:

I’ll Take An Album Cover For 7000
Pharmacy | California, USA |

(I work in the OTC section of a well-known pharmacy chain. I’m stocking the shelves in an aisle when a customer approaches me.)

Customer: “Excuse me. I’ve looked all over here. Where are your hemorrhoid wipes?”

Me: “Oh, those are actually down on Aisle 20.”

Customer: “Really? Why are they over there and not in this aisle with the rest of the anal care?”

Me: “I’m sorry, what?”

Customer: “Anal care!” *points at the aisle’s sign*

(The sign she was pointing at? “Analgesics”.)

[HopeHoops]

6. (*groan*)

[Chan790]

4. I think you walked into that one.

At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of Sasha, a young boy, took me aside. With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade, he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance. Certainly not with such reckless abandon, anyway. It was undignified for one who was on the way to become a force in the anarchist movement. My frivolity would only hurt the Cause. I grew furious at the impudent interference of the boy. I told him to mind his own business. I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown into my face. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it. "I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things." Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.

-Emma Goldman

Later summarized as "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution!"

[HopeHoops]

7. I meant it as a serious message - don't undermine your own objectives.

[Chan790]

11. Right and...

as I think was Goldman's point, if you're going to attempt to impose such restrictions on self-expression and frivolity, then we have no base root-of-it-all objectives in common.

[HopeHoops]

13. I have no intention of "imposing restrictions". It is a matter of supplying the Foxoids with ammo.

No matter how well intentioned they are, if they present themselves in a way that appears like a drunken party, that's the only way they will be seen by those who watch the non-news station that will carefully edit out anything that appears constructive and emphasize the "we're just two wild and a crazy guys" stuff.

[MiddleFingerMom]

9. Duh.

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Even though sacred cows do sometimes make the best burgers... you've
encroached into the sacred cow territory -- do NOT make helpful
suggestions if they are the LEAST bit critical.
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This is a People's Movement -- and if we piss off the majority of the
People with a poorly-chosen tactic -- well, that's their own damn fault.
They should just give up that obsession with patriotism and THEN we can
talk to them/encourage them to join the movement!!!!!
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We don't NEED to be judicious in our behavior and/or message. Fuck 'em.
Fuck the People and their evil ways. Let 'em "catch up" to us and THEN
we can march in solidarity.
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Damned lumpenproletariat!!!
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Oh... because there ARE so many who ARE anal -- this smilie with which
I hate to insult the majority of your intelligences:
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[HopeHoops]

10. Winter commeth.

[MiddleFingerMom]

12. Oh, do I EVER have a picture that I can't respond with!!!!

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[HopeHoops]

14. You always seem to. WHERE THE FUCK IS IT?

[Chan790]

15. Really they should shitcan patriotism.

“Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.”-Emma Goldman (again)

Oh how I wish Emma were here to see OWS. She'd be leading parades into the police vans, shouting down the talking heads of the corporatist oligarchy, making riot cops cower and scaring the shit out of Wall St...and she's still have time to take time to dance.

[MiddleFingerMom]

16. Those are longterm goals -- OWS's more immediate goals should NOT be dependent...`

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Focus, dammit... focus -- you can NOT do it ALL at once.
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You end up doing nothing at all.
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If you looking for some kind of solidarity among the 99%, you
CAN NOT alienate 80% of them right off the bat (arbitrary figure).
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That's the kind of naivete that too often handcuffs the idealistic.
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[Chan790]

17. Can I demand that we need another Emma Goldman at least?

She's like a superhero, dammit. We have no protest superstars like that anymore.

[Bucky]

18. Give it a rest, then. It's nothing worth getting riled up about

[MiddleFingerMom]

19. I saw that cartoon long ago on the Intertubes and went back looking for it...

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... much later. What I found was one that said "SomeTHING is wrong
on the Internet". It just wasn't NEAR as funny as "someONE".
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Saving this. Who knows... it might just come in handy again.
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Every freakin' TEN SECONDS!!!
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[Manifestor_of_Light]

20. GD is VICIOUS.

You never know what they will bite your ass for.

[Angry Dragon]

21. You called.............