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Originally Posted by idnami
I have spent the past two months being accused of laziness despite my hard work, incoherence despite attempts to elucidate and having no idea what I am talking about. I'm cool with that. People don't get it. I try to patiently explain and they still don't get it. Fair enough.
My friends and I have been called hippies, squatters, bums, spoiled brats and worse and that is also fine. I have a job, I shower often, I work hard to make the world just a teensy bit better and people still feel very proud of themselves for ignoring these facts and continuing to spout ridiculous contempt. No problem. I really don't take that personally, frustrating as it is.
However, a group of people who claim to respect hard work, skill and dedication have just suggested that we take someone else's hard work, skill and dedication and disrespect it, destroy it, anything but accept the gift in the spirit it was given. This disgusts me. This is disgusting.
If I suggested we melt down the Stanley Cup because I personally am sick of hockeymania you would all be feeling quite justified in using whatever choice language you wanted in telling me where to go. I have no problem with criticism. I have a big problem with stupidity and asinine refusal to look past the end of one's own nose.
Our world is in all kinds of trouble. Anyone with half a brain can see that. We condone human suffering daily for the sake of our own greed and this is WRONG. So go ahead and hate. Hate and ignorance are what is killing us all. I think people who wear their hate and ignorance so proudly are probably beyond help.
I came to talk to you guys and some of you were civil and reasonable and I thank those of you who were. People who want to destroy a valuable piece of art work given freely to their city are not worth my time. Nazis did that kind of thing. You are truly messed up if you think it is ok to do so.
Now I really am done. If you would like to criticize my ideas further you know where to find me.
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Comparing your statue to the Stanley Cup is probably the dumbest thing I've heard, then you bring up the Nazi's and compare it to us.
The only thing that's truly messed up is you.
Calling us stupid and asinine in the face of your whole post kind of puts the label on you.
Once again you've proven the thesis that if someone's opinion does not jive with the Occupy movement that Occupyer's are just as intolerant and closed minded as the rest of society.
Pretty sad for a group that states that they want to better the human conditions, its apparent that you only want that for a segment of society that agrees with you, the rest of us are clearly Nazi's.
You clearly know nothing about the Nazi's you just threw it around because you think its a argument point. But if you look for example at my families history, my mother's parents fled Germany during the rise of the Nazi's because they saw the rise of antisemitism and they knew that cross hairs were firmly going to rest on them because they were of Jewish decent, and they were successful and fairly well off.
My Grand father on my fathers side fought the Nazi's during the second world war, as did his brothers.
You see, I can do the Godwin argument too. The Jews were targeted by the Nazi's because they were different, and because they were seen as being in control of the economy and taking advantage of the average German.
So I give you a big hearty middle finger up.
And your statue might be valuable to you, but don't pass that value on as a general statement.
I hope you're not typical of the Occupy movement in Calgary but I somewhat suspect you are.
You try to pull the Wall-mart argument and you get booted around because you don't actually know anything about Wall-mart and their practices.
You try to say that the Occupy movement should be some corporate governance body looking for odorous business practices but you know nothing about how business works, nor do you have a clue about the accounting side of finances.
Its tough to respect you after your post and the Nazi thing, and insulting this city, people on this board and anyone else that disagrees with you.
You need to ask you're self why the vast majority of the city turned against your movement.
I'll summarize and tell you why.
Your group is arrogant, condescending, your group makes ludicrous demands which would come right out of the tax payers pocket. Your group talks a very generic game but its clear that Occupy doesn't know what they are talking about , And you need to lecture and educate from a point of lack of knowledge.
And when people don't blindly follow you, or agree with you, then you stamp your feet, cry pout and call us Nazi's.
I was tongue in cheek when I talked about melting your statue into Knight Rider Lunch boxes, you took it and exposed yourself for the fool you are, now I'm not so sure, if Heart of the Beast represents people that are like minded to you, then maybe it should be melted down, and your movement buried and forgotten.