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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/07/16/talkin-bout-romneys-riches-mitts-money/#comment-16581</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Remarkable.</description>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/07/16/talkin-bout-romneys-riches-mitts-money/#comment-16579</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>is classic bourgeois reactionary fascism. You guys are as familiar as you are predictable.

You&#039;ve screwed up the economy with your ignorance, greed and incompetence, and now you&#039;re terrified your pathetic fantasy of frolicking with the 1% is never going to happen, because you&#039;ve squandered the country&#039;s wealth along with your own.  So you have to find your own equivalent of the Jews and Bolsheviks to blame it all on: Liberals, immigrants, college professors, journalists and movie stars.

You people don&#039;t care about the nation&#039;s problems, you&#039;re just determined not to be blamed for them, or to not have to share in the cost of fixing them. It may make you feel better if you are constantly reassuring everyone (not to mention yourself) about how you and only you see what&#039;s wrong, and how only you and your friends know what to do abou it.  But somehow, the fact is none of your solutions seem to involve the slightest inconvenience or sacrifice to you, so you&#039;ll have to forgive us if we don&#039;t take them too seriously.  Let&#039;s face it, if it was all that obvious to anyone but you, you wouldn&#039;t have to come here peddling your snakeoil on a daily basis, especially considering how unsuccessful you&#039;ve been at it so far.

I don&#039;t need to scrutinize the Occupiers, study alleged Demo class warfare, or spend my life in an orgy of bitterness, blame and sputtering rage like you do, devising anomalous theories and concocting elaborate proofs of statist cabals. Your politics are von Daniken stuff.  Its all Scientology and Mormonism to me.  You&#039;ll have to forgive me, but I&#039;ve made other arrangements, I don&#039;t have time for conspiracy theories. I&#039;ve been in the Bermuda Triangle.  There is nothing there.

But I will give you one bit of advice, free of charge.  Don&#039;t expect any help from the 1-percenters.  They are too busy covering their own jive ass to care much about yours.  The only thing they disdain more than the nouveau riche, is the ex-nouveau riche.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>is classic bourgeois reactionary fascism. You guys are as familiar as you are predictable.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve screwed up the economy with your ignorance, greed and incompetence, and now you&#8217;re terrified your pathetic fantasy of frolicking with the 1% is never going to happen, because you&#8217;ve squandered the country&#8217;s wealth along with your own.  So you have to find your own equivalent of the Jews and Bolsheviks to blame it all on: Liberals, immigrants, college professors, journalists and movie stars.</p>
<p>You people don&#8217;t care about the nation&#8217;s problems, you&#8217;re just determined not to be blamed for them, or to not have to share in the cost of fixing them. It may make you feel better if you are constantly reassuring everyone (not to mention yourself) about how you and only you see what&#8217;s wrong, and how only you and your friends know what to do abou it.  But somehow, the fact is none of your solutions seem to involve the slightest inconvenience or sacrifice to you, so you&#8217;ll have to forgive us if we don&#8217;t take them too seriously.  Let&#8217;s face it, if it was all that obvious to anyone but you, you wouldn&#8217;t have to come here peddling your snakeoil on a daily basis, especially considering how unsuccessful you&#8217;ve been at it so far.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t need to scrutinize the Occupiers, study alleged Demo class warfare, or spend my life in an orgy of bitterness, blame and sputtering rage like you do, devising anomalous theories and concocting elaborate proofs of statist cabals. Your politics are von Daniken stuff.  Its all Scientology and Mormonism to me.  You&#8217;ll have to forgive me, but I&#8217;ve made other arrangements, I don&#8217;t have time for conspiracy theories. I&#8217;ve been in the Bermuda Triangle.  There is nothing there.</p>
<p>But I will give you one bit of advice, free of charge.  Don&#8217;t expect any help from the 1-percenters.  They are too busy covering their own jive ass to care much about yours.  The only thing they disdain more than the nouveau riche, is the ex-nouveau riche.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/07/16/talkin-bout-romneys-riches-mitts-money/#comment-16578</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You firmly believe that your theory is the heart of the modern conservative movement.  It isn&#039;t.

A bit of projection, maybe.

Spend some time looking at the Occupy rallies, and what they were saying. Or consider the root principles of Democratic class warfare, which seems to be their entire campaign so far this year.  Then think hard about what you&#039;re saying.

Who&#039;s really blaming other groups for their own situations in our political arena?

You want to play with historical parallels, we can play.  Tell me who&#039;s pointing at the bankers and the people with money and telling people that these moneygrubbers are the reason they don&#039;t have a job or a house.  Who&#039;s throwing bricks through business windows?

Hell, our current president makes a career of telling us how great he&#039;d be doing if it wasn&#039;t for Bush, Congress, and all those other obstacles messing him up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You firmly believe that your theory is the heart of the modern conservative movement.  It isn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>A bit of projection, maybe.</p>
<p>Spend some time looking at the Occupy rallies, and what they were saying. Or consider the root principles of Democratic class warfare, which seems to be their entire campaign so far this year.  Then think hard about what you&#8217;re saying.</p>
<p>Who&#8217;s really blaming other groups for their own situations in our political arena?</p>
<p>You want to play with historical parallels, we can play.  Tell me who&#8217;s pointing at the bankers and the people with money and telling people that these moneygrubbers are the reason they don&#8217;t have a job or a house.  Who&#8217;s throwing bricks through business windows?</p>
<p>Hell, our current president makes a career of telling us how great he&#8217;d be doing if it wasn&#8217;t for Bush, Congress, and all those other obstacles messing him up.</p>
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		<title>By: podrock</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/07/16/talkin-bout-romneys-riches-mitts-money/#comment-16576</link>
		<dc:creator>podrock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 06:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You missed the point. Read it again.</description>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/07/16/talkin-bout-romneys-riches-mitts-money/#comment-16570</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 02:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A justification of personal failure or inadequacy (or perhaps even random misfortune or historical accident) as solely the result of an external agent &#039;depriving us of what is our right&#039; is as old as Man. We deserve more than They. That&#039;s Narcissism.

And They always want what&#039;s Ours. That is Paranoia; conspiracy, the scapegoat.  If it wasn&#039;t for YOU, We would have everything We deserve; you treacherous thieving [insert the racial, religious, ethnic or political slur of your choice here].  That meme is one of the driving sources of human behavior. It exists to some extent in every head.

It explains, territoriality, acquisitiveness, aggression, dominance, greed, just about everything ugly in humanity.  It comes right out of the lizard brain. 

Not to pick on the Germans, but they once felt they were the Master Race, superior to all others, and that their true birthright had been stolen from them by a subhuman class of intrinsically inferior creatures (Jews).

The fundamental contradiction of this view is that if they were indeed the Master Race, then how in the hell had a subhuman minority of inferior creatures succeeded in dominating them?  50 million people had to die to demonstrate that fallacy, and some people still believe it, or some variation of it. They just try to dress it up in ideology and pseudoscience.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A justification of personal failure or inadequacy (or perhaps even random misfortune or historical accident) as solely the result of an external agent &#8216;depriving us of what is our right&#8217; is as old as Man. We deserve more than They. That&#8217;s Narcissism.</p>
<p>And They always want what&#8217;s Ours. That is Paranoia; conspiracy, the scapegoat.  If it wasn&#8217;t for YOU, We would have everything We deserve; you treacherous thieving [insert the racial, religious, ethnic or political slur of your choice here].  That meme is one of the driving sources of human behavior. It exists to some extent in every head.</p>
<p>It explains, territoriality, acquisitiveness, aggression, dominance, greed, just about everything ugly in humanity.  It comes right out of the lizard brain. </p>
<p>Not to pick on the Germans, but they once felt they were the Master Race, superior to all others, and that their true birthright had been stolen from them by a subhuman class of intrinsically inferior creatures (Jews).</p>
<p>The fundamental contradiction of this view is that if they were indeed the Master Race, then how in the hell had a subhuman minority of inferior creatures succeeded in dominating them?  50 million people had to die to demonstrate that fallacy, and some people still believe it, or some variation of it. They just try to dress it up in ideology and pseudoscience.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/07/16/talkin-bout-romneys-riches-mitts-money/#comment-16566</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 01:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The only place that particular meme has ever existed is inside your own head.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The only place that particular meme has ever existed is inside your own head.</p>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/07/16/talkin-bout-romneys-riches-mitts-money/#comment-16558</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Don&#039;t blame me for playing by those rules. 

TB, the measure of a man is how well he plays the hand he&#039;s dealt, not to complain about the rules of the game.  

This is still an entrepreneurial society, and as you claim, more so than any other in the world. So go play in that world by those rules and prove that it favors the superior individual.  Don&#039;t complain to me if its not working out for you. I&#039;m not doing anything to stop you.  In fact, I couldn&#039;t even if I wanted to.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t blame me for playing by those rules. </p>
<p>TB, the measure of a man is how well he plays the hand he&#8217;s dealt, not to complain about the rules of the game.  </p>
<p>This is still an entrepreneurial society, and as you claim, more so than any other in the world. So go play in that world by those rules and prove that it favors the superior individual.  Don&#8217;t complain to me if its not working out for you. I&#8217;m not doing anything to stop you.  In fact, I couldn&#8217;t even if I wanted to.</p>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
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		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>IF you can convince yourself it&#039;s all someone elses fault.

You&#039;ll never figure out maybe you are a loser.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>IF you can convince yourself it&#8217;s all someone elses fault.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll never figure out maybe you are a loser.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/07/16/talkin-bout-romneys-riches-mitts-money/#comment-16556</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If we can convince ourselves that it&#039;s all about &quot;life&#039;s lottery,&quot; then being a loser isn&#039;t really our fault.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If we can convince ourselves that it&#8217;s all about &#8220;life&#8217;s lottery,&#8221; then being a loser isn&#8217;t really our fault.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/07/16/talkin-bout-romneys-riches-mitts-money/#comment-16555</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Forced wealth redistribution is not free trade.&lt;/p&gt;

I have yet to see anyone force someone to buy a stock or a product under threat of fine of imprisonment.

Well, until recently.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Forced wealth redistribution is not free trade.</p>
<p>I have yet to see anyone force someone to buy a stock or a product under threat of fine of imprisonment.</p>
<p>Well, until recently.</p>
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