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[Euld]

Was really looking forward to school, now after the first day, I'm not quite so excited :/  The teacher in my second class is annoyingly disorganized, it was like we needed to use a crowbar to get a proper explanation of the homework out of her.

[Bohandas]

Was really looking forward to school, now after the first day, I'm not quite so excited :/  The teacher in my second class is annoyingly disorganized, it was like we needed to use a crowbar to get a proper explanation of the homework out of her.

At least she's just disorganized, not passive-aggressive. I once had a professor, a few years back, who would change the requirements for assignments without telling anybody.

[Vector]

Dear “the man”

What were you thinking?

This whole Occupy Wall Street protest was pretty much dropped into your lap.  A bunch of young people, organized via the internet, who can’t even decide what they’re asking for and are generally handling their protest like a joke.  (Soon they’re dressing up as zombies! Oh those wacky kids!)

All you had to do was keep them from breaking anything and point at them.  You fucked over their country’s economy, gave them shittier and shittier opportunities, and when they finally got so angry they “snapped”, all they did was shout memes and come to you like an offended child comes to a parent: “This is bad, and we’re going to stand around saying so until we feel strong!  I’m not sure want I want, just — just fix it! Do you feel bad yet?”  You’d be able to paint everyone who disagrees with you as someone so immature that they can’t even figure out what to ask for.  And it’s not like they’re threatening you in any meaningful way, they’re hanging out on a street in New York where the peons who actually do a day’s work for you are trying to get to their jobs.  You’re off on a yacht somewhere.

So why the fuck did you have to start brutalizing them? Are you children’s story villains who have a daily evil quota and keep a bag of puppies around to kick if you don’t reach it?  People are supporting this now.  People are publicizing one of the rhetorically weakest movements I’ve heard of in recent times, because you made them martyrs. When people hear about protesters being corralled and pepper sprayed, about children being arrested, about whole protests getting herded off to be locked up, they don’t bother figuring out if their original argument is weak or strong, because much bigger rules have been broken here as far as how we run our society.

You had it made. In fact, you still have it made, because even with the added legitimacy of having the shit beaten out of them, this protest is still more about feeling like you’re making a difference than about making actual changes.  But in proper internet fashion, all you had to do was point and laugh, and you blew that.  You fed the trolls.  And the more you make these people look like they know what they’re doing (because part of protests is getting a reaction, and that does seem to be the one part they’ve got right) the more likely it is that someone will rise up in that movement who does know what they’re doing.  And that is something that deserves your fear.

Someone I've known for a long time wrote this.  I don't know why it upsets me so much.  Maybe it's the double-talk.  Maybe it's the usual condescension.

[Aqizzar]

A blogger after my own heart.  I could not have written that any better myself, and it really speaks to my reaction to the "Occupy" thing.  It's finally worth paying attention to, because it got the attention it wanted in the first place.  And it got that attention through no real effort on it's own part, just on a requisite quota of beating up protesters no matter how non-threatening, and that in its own way gives them a point to be there.

[Vector]

Meh.  I think it's that I also have this person's twitter feed, where they're making fun of the protestors.

"They're not cohesive!  Let's laugh at them from our comfy position of privilege!"

[Aqizzar]

"They're not cohesive!  Let's laugh at them from our comfy position of privilege!"

Is this Twit a privileged person?  I know I'm not, and I was making fun of the Wall Street people for being the most stereotypical pile of ungainly, smelly hippies I'd seen holding a protest in my lifetime.  Then shit got serious.  Point is, you don't have to be rich to think those protests were embarrassing.  It's changing now, but that's not the point.

[kaijyuu]

You say "ungainly, smelly hippies" like it's a bad thing

I agree with ya, though; they didn't really have a compelling image to begin with. That's getting fixed it seems.

[Vector]

Yeah, this person is privileged.  Very privileged.

If they were protesting themselves, at all, I'd just say "okay, sure."  But they pretty much use their time being Material Individual.  Comfy.  Decadent.  Liberal sensibilities.  They'll be in the gutter and asking me for help with their thesis and I'll look down and I'll whisper "no."

[Aqizzar]

If they were protesting themselves, at all, I'd just say "okay, sure."  But they pretty much use their time being Material Individual.  Comfy.  Decadent.  Liberal sensibilities.  They'll be in the gutter and asking me for help with their thesis and I'll look down and I'll whisper "no."

The use of the term "liberal sensibilities" actually raises some good questions of whose idea of "liberal" we're talking about, but kudos for proving again that we are all definitely on the same team here.

[Realmfighter]

I have to write a paper for my history class longer then anything given by my legitimate English teacher, and it's about my family history.

I have a single mother who cares as much about our history as me (That amount would be none) for fucks sakes. I got at max about half a page here. Fuck it. I needed to learn how to bullshit spectacularly sooner or later.

[Max White]

You could carefully go over your own life, and your mothers. Then if she asks why there isn't more, just say that is all there is.

[Realmfighter]

You could carefully go over your own life, and your mothers. Then if she asks why there isn't more, just say that is all there is.

The one flaw in this plan is that he marks it. And he's an asshole.

[Bdthemag]

Let me give you some advice that one of my old teachers gave me about writing papers, just make sure you get all of the important stuff down. Once your sure you have all the important stuff down, and it still needs to be longer just bullshit your way through it to make it longer.

And yes my teacher said that (Minus the bullshit part.), and she was one of my favorite teachers.

[ChairmanPoo]

Decided to notify relatives of my dog's death over facebook, mostly to avoid questions about it during christmas

[Bdthemag]

Decided to notify relatives of my dog's death over facebook, mostly to avoid questions about it during christmas

Sorry to hear about it man, I went through the same thing when my dog had a stomach infection.