A follow up to my 100% post.

Someone had responded to my link of this post on Facebook.  Obviously, this being the internet and me being me, I felt that I had to respond.  Presented below is the full post, unedited, as present by this gentleman Brent.

i think you should probably make a list of the bullet points that aren't allowed in the conversation about the occupy movement, or it doesn't really have a starting point.

your rant has a few good points, but is overall fairly ridiculous, and doesn't seem to address a lot of fairly basic issues, or show much understanding of the movement your are bashing. you've also assigned a general "social template" for the people who are out there, which doesn't really apply if you look at the real scope of it. therefore, it would be pretty easy for someone to say, "oh hey, you seem to have completely missed this basic point.." and if your only response is going to be, "this is propaganda. i've heard it before. reposts can gtfo!" then the conversation basically has no starting point.

if you asked me, there are a lot of people trying to prove, or vehemently state the following:
"you are completely responsible for everything that happens to you, and no one else is ever at fault in the end!"
(you, the 53% guy, fox news, etc.)

if that statement were true in any fashion, there would be no need for banks, government, insurance, unemployment, police, etc.

the fact is, you can have years of experience in a field, and end up screwed over and in a 3 month job search culminating in a panicked sale of your belongings and car, and a 6 month stint in fast food while applying and sending resumes everywhere and being signed up for 5 different temp agencies before you win the application process lottery somewhere and get a job that lets you pull yourself back out of the potatoes-and-rice-every-fucking-night hole if you're lucky (like i was before i started working with you). i literally had nothing left when i started. i spent my account down to basically zero to get the clothes that i interviewed in. if i had needed to go to a hospital for anything, or had any sort of financial emergency whatsoever during that time, it would have owned my life for years. and i'm one of the lucky ones. my success story was more luck than hard work. i was running around like crazy for 9 months before anything happened, and probably would have had to move back in with a parent if the dominoes fell even slightly worse.

it is true that hard work can pay off, but it is also true that the system as it is can fuck you with a running start. if you asked me, there isn't a damn thing wrong with the many thousands of people who fell on the wrong side of the poor-panic coin-flip that has been created by our economic system freaking out, rallying together, and trying to force something (anything) different to happen. to get companies and politicians to actually have to listen to that many (muddled, unfocused, blah blah blah) problems that people are really living with every day.

if you're just going to 'tl;dr' everything that's been written about why people are in the streets/parks, then rage rant about them, you aren't really doing much more to better yourself or anyone else than the theoretical and hyperbolic occupy movement you've imagined for us here.

to all of what i read, i'd use your own words in response:
"Your smarter than this, don't feed me propaganda drivel."

side note: when is the last time you went out to one of the parks you are typing in all-caps rage about wanting to get people out of?

I am the 100%

So I generally avoid politics like it was the last nickel hooker on Fleet Night down at the docks.  That isn't to say that I think politics are likely to give me venereal disease, just that the general feeling it leaves you with when you get involved with them is about the same; a general sense of being unclean and needing a topical ointment to stop the itching.  Now don't get me wrong, I like to stay abreast (heh, see what I did there) of what is going on in the world, especially my little corner of it.  One of the hot topics right now is the whole Occupy Everything movement.  I can safely say that without a shadow of a doubt, these people as a whole piss me off to no end.

I hate this planet....

...and most of the people that live on it.  I'm browsing around on YouTube watching videos of dogs and animals being goofy and doing what it is they do, make life worth living.  Then I come across this video that someone took of a dog dragging itself along the ground because its spine had been injured.  They did nothing to help it, did nothing to ease its suffering, just video taped it and put it on the internet as some sort of spectacle.   The worst part, they then made excuses as to why they couldn't, shouldn't, or wouldn't help it.

Lets Get Started!

So, where does one really begin with something like this?  It's not like I have anything to actually talk about.  Okay, so I have a ton I could talk about but not really anything that I want to say.  Know how it is?  I never have been a very good blogger.  In fact, one could say I suck proverbial balls at it.  All the balls in fact.  One could go so far as to say that the balls, they are in fact sufficiently sucked simply by my lack of ability to blog properly.  This is sad seeing as if one where to look at all of the blogs and posts on the internet it seems that every american that is able to cobble together at least two words feels the need to blog ad naseum about everything in their life that has, had, or will have happened.  I seem to have somehow missed out on this particular stream of consciousness vomiting gene.