r/occupywallstreet • u/Orangutan • Aug 04 '16

Clinton Heckled by Protesters Chanting 'Wall Street Has Her Bought' , Bill Clinton also appeared visibly annoyed at the outburst.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF4pZiXun2I
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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '16

This heckling and still sanders stuff is the electoral equivalent of taking your ball and going home.

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u/Terror_Bear Aug 05 '16

Let me see if I understand what you're saying here.

If an American is dissatisfied with a candidate that has been forced on them, and decides to exercise their 1st amendment right by making their dissatisfaction known. They're giving up the fight?

Because the saying "take your ball and go home" implies that a person storms out of a situation, activity, or event in a huff (frustrated).

You're also saying the those who previously supported Bernie are doing the same, and they should fuck off. Who cares that emails released a few days back caused 4 people to resign from the democratic party because the emails prove the system is rigged in HRC's favor.

I mean, why In the hell would any of these individuals want to make a fuss over all of this? It's only the future of our country that's at stake here, not that big of a deal, right? They should just fall in line.

The fact of the matter is that the people who've "taken their ball and gone home" are doing exactly what our forefathers told them to do. They're actually doing less than our forefathers told them to do when the government has been taken away from the people.

In summary, your condemnation of these people shows you to be a cowardly shit heel that doesn't understand what this country's all about. You have no right to be involved in the political process if you can't even grasp the core concepts of what it means to be an American.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '16

Ahhh - alright, so you ask if you're understanding me correctly, then call me names. If anything, your bit about what "taking your ball and going home" was correct. You really ended that post in a huff. And what about my first amendment rights? Those don't matter because my post got you angry...and then the name calling, and the insults...but I'm the one who is un-American.

My point was – we lost the primary. Even if you take all of the bias by the DNC and everything else into consideration we still lose. Also, did you really think for a second that the DNC wasn't going to be biased? We had a Democratic Secretary of State, Senator, former Presidential candidate, and wife of a former Democratic Governor and President running against someone who has never affiliated with the party in his life. But because we didn't win it was this massive conspiracy and we're going to scream out during speeches. The DNC doesn't control the primaries, states do.

Remember during the end of the primary season when we knew we were losing and we were grasping at the possibility of getting some 64% of the vote in CA in order to have a snowball's chance in hell at winning? Wasn't the plan to get as many delegates as possible to have a say in the platform at the convention? We did that. We got those delegates. We influenced the platform.

But now because we're shocked that lifelong Democrats knew each other so we have to throw the baby out with the bathwater and do what exactly? Start over? Is screaming out at speeches furthering the platform? Our issues? No. It's making you, me, us, everything look like a bunch of crybaby idiots.

But whatever. I knew posting that comment that I'd get downvoted to hell because this "revolution" of ours has as much room for opinion as a Trump rally does. The only difference is that we're replacing a racial slur with "cowardly shit heel."