[Dragaera] Off-Topic Discussion: Occupy Wall Street

[Matthew]

On 12/14/2011 05:09 PM, andy wrote:
> Eh, legislature has become the biggest arena for regulatory capture.
> Business used to focus more on penetrating the commissions and governing
> bodies tasked with overseeing their particular bailiwick, and
> influencing congress critters was the means to that end.  Now industry
> is quite simply going for the jugular, and you have private entities
> like Koch industries starting political entities such as the tea party. 
> I always have been and remain a firm believer in sunshine laws, with
> full disclosure in bill creation and campaign financing.  If there was
> some bloodless way for the OWS movement to help with that (such as
> kicking the moribund journalism in the country square in the jibblies so
> they get off their chubby butts), I'd be whole heartedly behind them. 
> The whole thing just seems incredibly amorphous and goal-less (is that
> even a word).  It's the anti tea party. OWS seems to have vast
> intelligence and no point, whereas the tea party had zero intelligence
> and the great focus of a fat kid on a biscuit.

I feel obligated to point out that there are people here who don't agree
with your politics, and who are unlikely to be convinced by ad hominem
attacks.

This list has hosted interesting political discussions in the past, and
I certainly tolerate skzb's political leanings with the fond indulgence
of minor patron to artist, but your message in particular was written
with the kind of oblivious intensity that suggests you assumed everyone
in your audience was in full agreement with everything you had to say
and would accept your pronouncements in the spirit they were intended,
that is, as the rhetorical reverberations of perceived conventional
wisdom suitable for a snide cocktail party among friends who have
carefully vetted the invitation list to exclude contrary opinions.

I write this message with no intent beyond the simple reminder that
reality may not conform with your assumptions, and you may wish to bear
that in mind in the future.

With delicious restraint,
A fat kid focused on my biscuit