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Puzzledtraveller

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19. The 99% is not the peasantry!

Reply to Segami (Original post)

Fri May 30, 2014, 04:20 PM

May 2014

There is no 99%. In fact the idea of there even being a 99% benefits an upper crust who does not want any attention to heir largess. Perhaps the lower 40 is the peasantry, the impoverished and working poor who cling to what middle class lives they have left while that upper crusts tries to mix in as if they struggle like the rest of us.

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The PEASANTS Are About To REVOLT And The 1% Is Already Plotting To Stop It [View all] Segami May 2014 OP

Now, be honest The Traveler May 2014 #1

Nah. If I were the 1%, I wouldn't be concerned. Shandris May 2014 #2

You just uncovered the true clandestine plan... defacto7 May 2014 #4

+1 dreamnightwind May 2014 #13

I agree that's how they want it, all of us, fighting amongst ourselves. But the reason they are sabrina 1 May 2014 #24

Read it and weep... defacto7 May 2014 #3

If the 1% is so myopic and self-involved Tsiyu May 2014 #5

How is that different from what they already do? nxylas May 2014 #6

I always wondered if Obama's 30,000 Drones were going to be in the protection of the 1% from the 99% blkmusclmachine May 2014 #7

"...with PR to promote 'a more nuanced view of society'..." KansDem May 2014 #8

The real question on their minds quaker bill May 2014 #9

Two wars + tax cuts = a greater share of wealth for the 1%. Enthusiast May 2014 #10

And the preordained 2016 nominee helped write the TPP n/t dreamnightwind May 2014 #14

"which will fatally cripple the very system that has been responsible for economic prosperity" sendero May 2014 #11

What they need is 12 hours of new reality-based network television programming.. Earth_First May 2014 #12

The difference now is peak oil and global warming starroute May 2014 #15

I was speaking w/a comrade about this - TBF May 2014 #16

Dog eat dog capitalism makes a dog eat dog world. nt bemildred May 2014 #17

Great articles, Segami. nt. polly7 May 2014 #18

The 99% is not the peasantry! Puzzledtraveller May 2014 #19

And what will they do when they destroy the system that made them wealthy? Ikonoklast May 2014 #20

K&R nt Mnemosyne May 2014 #21

If they really get worried, they'll just throw a few sops to take steam out of the movement pinboy3niner May 2014 #22

All this is well under way now. The corporate state's Eleanors38 May 2014 #23