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Anonymous asked: You're missing it so I'll spell it out for ya. The taxes you pay, payroll taxes, the taxes on your income? They don't count. Not for the talking point you slavishly expound upon, not for the lie you repeat over and over. Sorry kiddo, you're, "part of the problem," in the realm of political talking points. You're a Lucky Ducky who takes and takes and pays nothing in return. Now in reality you pay plenty, and so does 86% of the population, but that's not quite as tasty soundbyte to swallow.

…okay!

Anonymous asked: I saw your latest comment. So that means you are clearly part of the 47%. You just want to bash the 99% movement. That's fine. But like many of the 53% people, you're no federal income taxpayer. You're just pretending to be so you can claim some sort of moral high ground. Perhaps your counter-movement should change its name to something more accurate.

…what?

Anonymous asked: You aren't the 53%, you are part of the "50% of people who don't pay taxes." Why do you lie?

I’m unmarried and without children. This pretty much limits me to the standard deduction. It’s not very hard to reach that particular bar. So you know.

Anonymous asked: Considering the fact that you are a member of the lumpenproletariat do you consider it self-defeating to take up arms in support of your oppressors?

…I’ve only ever taken up arms to go target-shooting, and I don’t consider myself oppressed. Given these two things, I don’t think I can properly answer your question. I apologize.

(By quick glance at the definitions, I’m inclined to reject identification as lumpenproletariat, as well.)

Anonymous asked: Cite an actual quote of a typical OWS protestor criticizing the armed forces or religious believers. You're strawmanning OWS. Even if the movement is anti-capitalist doesn't mean it's against all conservative elements. Not to mention neither the military nor religion is inherently conservative. Surely there are liberal churchgoers and veterans attending the demonstrations.

Surely there are. And I’m not sure if the comments I’ve seen are representative of “a typical OWS protester.” However, a number of ugly things have been said.

From the comments of this anti-53% article:

“I agree with DJ, generally, but Marines get paid to kill human beings. Now, sure, except for murdering innocent people they’re a swell bunch.”

“the guys a Marine fer christsake. They pride themselves on being a cog (mostly because they can’t achieve anything else.)

They turn their inability to accomplish any measure of human capability other than violence into a virtue.”

This reblog of a 53%er’s post:

“11) I believe that through talking to an invisible man in the sky, everything will suddenly be better, and the world will all be okay. My own personal, selfish, minuscule, meaningless life is 100% fine, so prayer must work.”

And another one:

“The last four points [including two about your belief in God and prayer, and one about support of the military] prove you’re not intelligent enough to comment on the occupations…”

(This ignoring all of the “LOLOL Jesus” comments I’ve seen in various places.)

I’m sure there are liberal churchgoers and veterans attending the demonstrations. Frankly, I don’t think many of the folks at the demonstrations are paying attention to the 53% postings—they’re kinda busy in their occupations. (My local one, Occupy Utica, isn’t very active online at all—when I was there, I didn’t notice any of them having fancy surf-the-web-from-anywhere gadgets, so I figure that’s why.)

That said, there are elements attacking 53%ers for their faith, or for their military background. I uncovered these elements after just a cursory search. And yeah, it cheeses me off. And it seems to cheese of a lot of other folks, too.

Know a man by his enemies. Think I’ve chosen the right one.

EDIT: And shall we not forget the uniformed member of the Coast Guard who was spit on by alleged Occupy Boston protesters…

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