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Zorra

(27,670 posts)
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 02:16 PM Jun 2013

Isn't it ironic?

The national and local DU "Anti-Social Justice Movement League" crew keeps telling us that Occupy must have a leader in order to be effective, yet they are the very same people who keep telling us that their favorite leader, President Obama, is essentially powerless to do anything constructive.

"Occupy must have a leader if they are to be taken seriously and get something done, but don't blame our leader Obama for anything, because this, that, or the other thing prevent him getting anything done!!11!! His hands are tied by:

A) Republicans
B) Third Way Democrats
C) Corporations
D) The Law
E) Protocol
F) The Constitution
G) The Supreme Court
H) All of the above, plus more.

So don't blame our leader if he can't get anything done, it's not his fault that he is completely powerless to do anything!!11!"

I'm just sayin'...anyone else see the irony here?


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Isn't it ironic? (Original Post) Zorra Jun 2013 OP
Ironic, and Occupy is a message who doesn't need a figure head... orpupilofnature57 Jun 2013 #1
THAT is precisely why "they" want some 1-2 particular individual human beings 99th_Monkey Jun 2013 #2
Bingo. Scuba Jun 2013 #3
Bingo II rhett o rick Jun 2013 #6
Interesting libodem Jun 2013 #4
Here is a little picture libodem Jun 2013 #5
All the above, and additionally that he's somehow not resposible for the domestic terrorism Fire Walk With Me Jun 2013 #7
You can cut the head off a snake. Half-Century Man Jun 2013 #8
This is a new paradigm. DeSwiss Jun 2013 #9
+1 Zorra Jun 2013 #11
+1, similar to the argument that Occupiers aren't offering any solutions. Joe Shlabotnik Jun 2013 #10
 

orpupilofnature57

(15,472 posts)
1. Ironic, and Occupy is a message who doesn't need a figure head...
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 02:26 PM
Jun 2013

just a common agenda, which as far as I know was only enjoyed by Shrub and lied through his teeth to get it .

 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
2. THAT is precisely why "they" want some 1-2 particular individual human beings
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 02:42 PM
Jun 2013

to be clearly identified as "leaders", so then it makes "their" job so much easier
to buy-off, threaten or otherwise coerce a whole "reform movement" into
irrelevance and invisibility. Leaders can and are targeted and destroyed, one
way or another, which is precisely WHY OWS refuses to play that game anymore.
The jig is up. Game Over.

 

Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts)
7. All the above, and additionally that he's somehow not resposible for the domestic terrorism
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 04:12 PM
Jun 2013

levelled against the Occupy movement and 7400+ arrested in over a years' time.

Joe Shlabotnik

(5,604 posts)
10. +1, similar to the argument that Occupiers aren't offering any solutions.
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 10:52 PM
Jun 2013

In fact they are offering many solutions, that the PTB isn't interested in. Perhaps our elected officials should come up with a plan (like they are paid to do) instead of rehashing the last 30 years of failed economic theory and resultant environmental destruction.

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