Ladies! Better move fast if you want to sink your talons into some hard-working, high-earning beta man-wallet! Men’s Rights Redditor ShinShinGogetsuko is on to you ladies and your devious ways, and he’s taking his video games and going home. By which I mean: he’s GOING GALT!
Men are choosing to reject the culture that is being forced upon them which tells them to be anything but MEN. What they want us to be is slaves, to throw away our souls and toil away while women get to do whatever they want in the name of “female empowerment” and with a court system that will side with them. Equality is the ideal, but it’s not about equality–it’s about control. Men are going Galt.
When society takes a stand against the destruction of men’s character, then men will return to being men. Until then, Xbox 720.
See, I wasn’t kidding about the video games bit.
LINK and SCREENSHOT.
Thanks to tim-buckles on ShitRedditSays for the link (and the screenshot).
She was originally going to call Atlas Shrugged “The Strike,” so I think there is an element of hoping society will realize they need Galt’s genius and call him back. This might be hampered by the fact that other ubermen are actively trying to destroy society. I think Galt’s radio address might even be a plea for reform, though I don’t remember.
Anyway that whole angle tends to get buried under the apocalyptic atmosphere of the whole book.
“Ozy, that’s the third reference to that Tumblr I’ve seen today, so I knew I had to check it out. Now I’m going to cry at work.”
We Are the 99% is the most depressing thing I’ve read this week.
Maybe those 99 percent fucks should stop bitching on the Internet. That’s time better spent building skills or looking for a job. No sympathy.
Is it compatible with sonic screwdrivers, though? Because that’s an emerging market.
We anarchists call that a “General Strike”. 😉
Though considering the timeline between when the concept emerged in communist and anarchist circles versus the publication date of Atlas Shrugged, I’m pretty sure it’s more accurate to say that Going Galt is a Reverse General Strike. 😉
The most depressing thing about We Are The 99% is how familiar those stories are. They’re not hard-luck cases; they sound more like most of my friends and family.
I know the Occupy Wall Street movement is hopelessly unfocused, lacking in diversity, and doesn’t have super specific demands or goals. But I’m still happy for it, because it means that at least people are pushing back, that someone is taking some action other than going through the “proper channels” so they can be most easily ignored.
If anyone in the top 1% wants to Go Galt, I sure as hell hope they don’t let the door hit their ass on the way out. There’s probably someone cleaning toilets right now who’s better qualified for their job anyway.
I know the Occupy Wall Street movement is hopelessly unfocused, lacking in diversity, and doesn’t have super specific demands or goals.
The annoying thing is that the media acts as though this invalidates the protest, as if the right to peaceably assemble were revoked if your reasons weren’t good enough.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/will-bunch/occupy-wall-street-revolution_b_995238.html?ir=New%20York
I think the demands and goals of OWS are fairly easy to formulate, even if they are only instinctive to most people:
1. End outrageous tax breaks for the rich, starting with “business deductions” for luxuries, travel, food, entertainment, and second (third, fourth, tenth, twenty-fifth) home mortgage interest.
2. Change corporate codes, forcing corporate executives and directors to put their personal wealth on the line, just like in the old days.
3. No bailouts. Let’em fail.
4. Either abolish or radically change Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. There is a reason why Chapter 11 filings go up when the economy is good. Even if we still allow companies to undergo “reorganization” bankruptcies, it should be the rule of thumb that old executives get the boot, without their “golden parachutes”. And that’s just for starters — in cases of gross mismanagement, shareholders and creditors should be able to take all of their money and assets, down to their Georgio Armani underpants.
5. Change the law to give more power to shareholders to go after corporate elites that bleed their companies dry and run them into the ground.
6. Get rid of the special capital gains tax. Revenue from selling assets should be taxed like any other income, at regular income tax rates.
7. Outlaw automatic electronic trading and take other legislative measures to curb stock trading practices that inflate stocks through feverish trading. We should go back to the model where we buy stock because the company is profitable and we like what it makes.
8. Make it illegal for companies to have unpaid “interns” do stuff that they would otherwise have to pay money to people to do.
9. Punish banks for predatory and deceptive lending practices, especially of mortgages. I think in general, the hysteria surrounding the virtues of home-ownership was artificially whipped up primarily to benefit banks, and made the economic collapse inevitable.
10. Limit the ability of people from out of state, and especially from abroad, to buy residential real estate in desirable places, such as beachfronts and cities like New York. Out-of-town second-home buyers displace the native middle class, contribute to urban sprawl, and ultimately ruin local economies. Regulations like that already exist in certain countries, Bermuda and Mexico, for example. It’s time to do it here, too.
11. Undo the travesties that SCOTUS has engaged in in the last several years by amending the Constitution to define what “speech” is within the meaning of the First Amendment — and specifically exclude the giving of money to political candidates. Hell, I don’t think any of the Bill of Rights was ever meant to apply to non-human “persons” anyway — but hey, one step at a time.
The problem is, in our political climate, only the rich can actually communicate those goals and demands. Unless you’ve got publicists and lobbyists working for you, it’s a lost cause.
(Damnit, I’m still stuck on Bioshock because I have a cluster of 4 slicers, a Big Daddy and a gun emplacement to get around without sufficient ammo or health packs.) 🙁
Well, that’s if you listen to the MSM.
If you want the truth…
Holly,
“I know the Occupy Wall Street movement is hopelessly unfocused, lacking in diversity, and doesn’t have super specific demands or goals. But I’m still happy for it, because it means that at least people are pushing back, that someone is taking some action other than going through the “proper channels” so they can be most easily ignored.”
Is possibly the truest thing I’ll read today. Thank you.
I am not sure that this is the best strategy, tax policy wise. I would rather see dollar caps and limitations rather than full elimination of some of these things. Construction workers and other not high income workers who work away from home do sometimes evail themselves of food and travel expenses deductions, for example. By all means, not to the extent that wealthy people do, but lower class people do utilize some of these benefits to some degree.
A better quick tax change would be things like elimination of the gross income exemption to gains (profit) made through sale of primary residence. That little bit of law allows a person to make an untaxed profit of $250,000 every two years by selling their primary residence and getting a new one. And, no, that one’s not a “loophole”, it is explictily written into the Internal Revenue Code.
well, at least the 1% are amused….
I know the Occupy Wall Street movement is hopelessly unfocused, lacking in diversity, and doesn’t have super specific demands or goals.
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Protip: for Going Galt to have an effect, you have to actually do something useful. Guys who whine on the internet about the imagined feminocracy whose preferred method of retreat is a hypothetical game console are not this.
Although I understand how food and travel deductions can benefit some members of the working class, I am still leaning in favor of abolishing them altogether. The opportunity for abuse is just too great. Dollar caps work in theory, but in practice, they quickly become obsolete (although with inflation, this would work as a phase-out of the deduction, rather than an outright abolition). Even if the ordinary taxpayer ends up not having a deduction for food and travel — I think with the benefit of not having to subsidize the posh lifestyles of the jetset, it will be a net gain.
Have fun there ShinShin…don’t forget to pick up Gears of War 3.
Honestly who gives a shit what this dude does.
Ooooh, I’m not sure I agree with any of that.
Though I’ll grant you it’s more complex than “I’m butthurt there’s a nigger in the White House.”
^That about sums it up.
@Zombie
Wow. Just wow. They really don’t get it, do they?
Is this just a joke to them?
Come on, Kollege, it’s all your fault. If only you’d had the foresight to be born rich, white, upper-middle-class and soulless! I mean, seriously, you should have thought of this shit BEFORE you picked which family you were going to be born to. Duh!
I think that’s just good old-fashioned taunting. The 99% can protest all they want — we have no power.
I wonder if they had an underpaid secretary make those signs.
I guess if they just watched Rosanne Barr advocate beheading for sufficiently rich people, they might perceive it as a joke. Or the content right below their picture. Guillotines, one big joke, har har.
I know how to make a guillotine out of old pallets and a dumpster lid…
Err… I mean *theoretically*! /whispers, is this ISP secure?