It just rankles me so,. And I will explain why, in no uncertain terms, that Tim and Travis are fucks that I shan't respect and instead openly revile.
Puppet masters or corporate entities like Freedom Works have dressed up their outreach in conjunction with the Koch brothers to try to persuade the public that the Tea Party is "grass roots". Except that it isn't -- being paid a salary (the upper echelons of the Tea Party) by said companies by definition removes the quality of 'grassroots' from it.
Not to mention, the Tea Party's political leads and member (of congress) acts paint a picture rather different from their public mantra.
So, what we have hear is a lie. And a powerful one at that.
Rather intolerable, don't you think?
Now take a real grassroots organization that is protesting the loss of jobs, house and livelihoods for corruption, greed and so forth. It's not "Godless atheists", "baby killer abortionists" or "pinko democrats" that characterizes the vitriol of Occupy Wall Street (a stark contrast, I might add, to the Tea Party's rhetoric from day one, where they blamed the democrats -- go figure), but simply "corruption, greed and debt."
They're not advocating for the execution of business owners.
They're not advocating for massive class warfare.
They're not placing maps on political websites with cross hairs placed over their opposition's facial shots.
They're protesting not being able to escape massive college debt; enslaved to such debt, one might phrase it as. They're protesting that a CEO of a company makes obscene salaries and then invests in buying up land (thus freezing the value of the money out of the economy), frivolous acquisitions or simply holding on to it. They're protesting that the former sentence has become the rule, not the exception.
So, with all this, we have a movement that embodies something very, very, very needed -- disentangling the influence between Wall Street's private oligarchs and the government.
And then Travis and Tim, while the media is facing considerable criticism for remaining silent on Occupy Wall Street and police brutality is occurring against Occupy Wall Street protesters, think is is oh-so-smart-and-special-of-them to debunk a user generated photo manipulation while simultaneously associating it with Occupy Wall Street (when it is really some no name "protestor").
Furthermore, these "skeptics" can't be arsed to point out that the photomanipulation carries the tag of a graphic designer in mother fucking Vancouver. That single bit of information can take a lazy, piece of shit post on "oh look, its a faaaake" for a viral image and instead turn it into a deep sleuthing post.
However, that did not happen.
And you can see through out the comments section that others raise similar issues. The first commentator notes that it is unjust to hold Occupy Wall Street responsible for some west coast Vancouver-ites made up image.
The response?
"Regardless of the intent, when I saw it this morning it had been shared over 50 times on facebook by, mostly, Occupy Wall Street supporters who took the image as real. I’ve posted it on twitter with the hashtag #occupywallst asking what people thought of it with zero response from anybody on it."
Over 50 times. 50. Not 1,000 reshares. Not a 100. Naw, just "over 50".
That must mean that we can disregard intent, and possibly some more context!
Not impressed.
There's a word for this entire event courtesy of Travis and Tim -- dogpiling.
I don't care much at all for people who dog pile, even to make a few page views.
By the way, this is a poster used by Occupy Wall Street. Perhaps Tim and Travis can be skeptical of it too?
![[Image: Wall-Street-1.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=upload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fen%2F5%2F57%2FWall-Street-1.jpg)
It used to be that skeptics took up people on what they wrote and said. Sad to see that it's devolved to debunking 4chan quality Photoshops...
Puppet masters or corporate entities like Freedom Works have dressed up their outreach in conjunction with the Koch brothers to try to persuade the public that the Tea Party is "grass roots". Except that it isn't -- being paid a salary (the upper echelons of the Tea Party) by said companies by definition removes the quality of 'grassroots' from it.
Not to mention, the Tea Party's political leads and member (of congress) acts paint a picture rather different from their public mantra.
So, what we have hear is a lie. And a powerful one at that.
Rather intolerable, don't you think?
Now take a real grassroots organization that is protesting the loss of jobs, house and livelihoods for corruption, greed and so forth. It's not "Godless atheists", "baby killer abortionists" or "pinko democrats" that characterizes the vitriol of Occupy Wall Street (a stark contrast, I might add, to the Tea Party's rhetoric from day one, where they blamed the democrats -- go figure), but simply "corruption, greed and debt."
They're not advocating for the execution of business owners.
They're not advocating for massive class warfare.
They're not placing maps on political websites with cross hairs placed over their opposition's facial shots.
They're protesting not being able to escape massive college debt; enslaved to such debt, one might phrase it as. They're protesting that a CEO of a company makes obscene salaries and then invests in buying up land (thus freezing the value of the money out of the economy), frivolous acquisitions or simply holding on to it. They're protesting that the former sentence has become the rule, not the exception.
So, with all this, we have a movement that embodies something very, very, very needed -- disentangling the influence between Wall Street's private oligarchs and the government.
And then Travis and Tim, while the media is facing considerable criticism for remaining silent on Occupy Wall Street and police brutality is occurring against Occupy Wall Street protesters, think is is oh-so-smart-and-special-of-them to debunk a user generated photo manipulation while simultaneously associating it with Occupy Wall Street (when it is really some no name "protestor").
Furthermore, these "skeptics" can't be arsed to point out that the photomanipulation carries the tag of a graphic designer in mother fucking Vancouver. That single bit of information can take a lazy, piece of shit post on "oh look, its a faaaake" for a viral image and instead turn it into a deep sleuthing post.
However, that did not happen.
And you can see through out the comments section that others raise similar issues. The first commentator notes that it is unjust to hold Occupy Wall Street responsible for some west coast Vancouver-ites made up image.
The response?
"Regardless of the intent, when I saw it this morning it had been shared over 50 times on facebook by, mostly, Occupy Wall Street supporters who took the image as real. I’ve posted it on twitter with the hashtag #occupywallst asking what people thought of it with zero response from anybody on it."
Over 50 times. 50. Not 1,000 reshares. Not a 100. Naw, just "over 50".
That must mean that we can disregard intent, and possibly some more context!
Not impressed.
There's a word for this entire event courtesy of Travis and Tim -- dogpiling.
I don't care much at all for people who dog pile, even to make a few page views.
By the way, this is a poster used by Occupy Wall Street. Perhaps Tim and Travis can be skeptical of it too?
It used to be that skeptics took up people on what they wrote and said. Sad to see that it's devolved to debunking 4chan quality Photoshops...
Slave to the Patriarchy no more
