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politicartoons2014-06-01 07:13 pm
fizzyland.livejournal.com) wrote in politicartoons2014-06-01 07:13 pm
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Why conservatives are suddenly terrified of revolution
"Warren is quite correct: It is the rich who have made war against the 99 percent, not the other way around. They have dumped the tax burden onto the rest of us. They have shredded our social safety net and attacked our retirements. In their insatiable greed, they refuse even to consider raising the minimum wage for people who toil all day and can’t earn enough to feed their children. And they do everything in their power to block as many people from the polls as possible who might protest these conditions, while crushing the unions and any other countervailing forces that could fight to improve them.
The goal of this vicious war is to control all of the wealth and the government not just in the U.S., but the rest of the world, too, and to make sure the people are kept in a state of fear."
"Warren is quite correct: It is the rich who have made war against the 99 percent, not the other way around. They have dumped the tax burden onto the rest of us. They have shredded our social safety net and attacked our retirements. In their insatiable greed, they refuse even to consider raising the minimum wage for people who toil all day and can’t earn enough to feed their children. And they do everything in their power to block as many people from the polls as possible who might protest these conditions, while crushing the unions and any other countervailing forces that could fight to improve them.
The goal of this vicious war is to control all of the wealth and the government not just in the U.S., but the rest of the world, too, and to make sure the people are kept in a state of fear."
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I agree! I'm mainly being a bit lighthearted now because the fact that I have to take this much effort to explain to a god damn adult that women don't like this shit is fucking baffling.
Why shouldn't I hit on a lady on the bus whom I don't know?
BECAUSE MOST WOMEN DON'T WANT RANDOM STRANGERS HITTING ON THEM, AND YOU ARE NOT DOING IT IN A VACUUM. HOW DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THIS. HOW DOES ANYONE NOT UNDERSTAND THIS. WHY ARE YOU SO GOD DAMN DENSE.
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Please, tell me, when did the womens caucus declare you their official spokesMAN?
Anyway, I'm not in a vacuum, that is true, but it's also true that approaching someone you do not know and asking them if they are interested in, say, getting coffee or seeing a movie, or walking through the park together, is not automatically harassment.
Harassment is ALWAYS bad, communication with strangers is not always bad.
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My stance is that women are tired of explaining this shit and not having it remembered so i'm comfortable explaining this shit because I'm not. Nothing here is crazy new information I'm springing on anyone.
approaching someone you do not know and asking them if they are interested in, say, getting coffee or seeing a movie, or walking through the park together, is not automatically harassment.
Except most women aren't interested in you, and after having to say no thank you to the other goofballs who said the same thing they're kinda sick of having people constantly bother them. As I said, it's the equivalent of real-life spam ads.
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While most women may not be interested in me, I don't hit on most women. Even most women who I find attractive, I do not hit on them. You think of it as spam, I think of it as selective communication.
And unlike spam from a company that wants LOTS of customers, perhaps I am striking up a convo with a lady and I am interested in being with just one lady. So the spam analogy doesn't work--it's not like I go up to each and every lady on the bus with a one-liner hoping I get lucky.
The reality is, I suspect, that of the ~150,000,000 women in the US some will have an opinion like yours and some would have an opinion like mine. (I would use an anecdote of a woman I know, but it's not worth it, as it's merely an anecdote)
Bottom line, IMO, it's a matter of how one approaches, there are sleezy ways of doing most everything, and sleeze is bad. Sorry if other sleezy people confuse you so much that you lump me in with them. I don't cat call. I don't spam. I very rarely, but on rare occasion do, attempt to strike up a convo with a pretty stranger who I see and want to get to know.
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It depends. Do you feel uncomfortable in your own home? Is it heavily pervasive? Do you fear for your safety based on past experiences of trying to stop it from happening? Does it actually bother you?
You think of it as spam, I think of it as selective communication.
You can think of it as a lot of things. I tend to go by what women think of it as. Maybe you should, too!
And unlike spam from a company that wants LOTS of customers, perhaps I am striking up a convo with a lady and I am interested in being with just one lady
Except you're not the only one who does it. Men, as a collective, are the company in this example. You are but one of many unwanted pings that happen on a daily basis.
Here's what I think: the fact that you refuse to acknowledge that women find being approached uncomfortable kinda shows how much you value them. The fact that the previous comic made you go "wow, that's mean to me as a guy" instead of "so that's what women are constantly dealing with" shows how disinclined you are to think about where they are coming from. You just don't give a shit. That's horrible.