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[sardonicarsenic]

So, Clairbourn...

...thoughts on the recent rash of teabaggings?

Comments

[oftherefusal]

Well, I believ large crowds tend to fractionize the intelligence f thse who make them up. But anything that stops the slow advance of socialism into what was once a free land is fine by me, even if it is a little silly.

[sardonicarsenic]

If these people really want a free land, they'd be abandoning cities and whatever leaders are in power, and live in some remote countryside, living off the land.

[stunedge]

It is difficult to say who is truly right in the end...

[sardonicarsenic]

Things are never clear-cut, no matter how easy they should be to solve.

Still, you have to admit... with the way the media's latched onto this, even I'm cracking a grin.

[stunedge]

I'm amused that they are calling them "tea" parties, at least. When they have nothing to do with tea.

[sardonicarsenic]

Nope, just trying to win support by hearkening the mind back to the old Boston Tea Party. A symbol of independence! A representation of what power the common man has over taxation!

Except for... you know, the fact that there's representation now.

[clutzy_firstaid]

Um... why are people throwing teabags at each other?

[sardonicarsenic]

They're trying to go back to old time methods of protest.

They seem to have forgotten we're not in the old time colonies any more.

[clutzy_firstaid]

Oh.

But the government doesn't have any tax on tea. I don't get it...

[sardonicarsenic]

They're trying to be ironic.

Or at least, they think they are.

[space_ripper]

It's an entirely juvenile way to respond to the mishandling of the current economic issues. Letter writing would be far more effective.

[sardonicarsenic]

Or even classic protesting, if they were organizing it right. This is just absurd.

[space_ripper]

Terribly so. Really, a decent protest would have been less juvenile and gotten the attention of their target audience better.

[sardonicarsenic]

As it is, they're just the butt of a very expansive media coverage joke.

[stinger_aim]

I cannot help getting a good laugh whenever it's on the news.

Still, the taxes here are much more reasonable than England. I really don't see why they're complaining.

[sardonicarsenic]

Because it's the 'in' thing to do, Trevor. Bitch about what the current administration is doing wrong, regardless of what they're trying to do right. I don't agree with the tax hike, but things could be a lot worse. Most people are just too short-sighted to get it.

[stinger_aim]

The man's been in office for a whole three-and-a-half months! Do they really expect results that quickly?

People sometimes...

[sardonicarsenic]

Yes, because the problem is, a lot of his supporters touted him as the Second Coming.