Forbes Magazine, which is as popular as a wank sock to anyone with an IQ over 100, has a comments section problem. Mostly, it's full of upper-class dudes who discovered the Internet is more than cat pictures and Asian porn, and figured a comments box is a great way to vent out his Randroid fantasies and how the brown people are taking his money. It's a disgusting, yet expected phenomenon.
Here's the problem with upper-class people posting on the Internet: They're very ignorant. Not ignorant on their job, mind you - but on basic, social people skills. These guys operate on a very strict marketing level until they're given the moniker "Anonymous". Then, all bets are off. Racist, xenophobic nonsense spews from their mouthfingers so fast you'd think Halliburton and BP would be fined for it. Why, you ask? Because they're not 100% in the "game" anymore since 2009, and they're a bit pissed off.
You see, when the US elected Obama as President, a small group of rich people realized that lobbying alone doesn't help if a bunch of angry young people use technology to get out the word on their plans. Therefore, rich greedy people such as the Koch Brothers started to get into politics. Because what shuts up kids (that can vote) more than buying everyone up and starting a blackmail system? Astroturf, America!
But back on the subject. I read a comment on Forbes that read like this (before it was taken down):
"You liberals just don't get it. Obama has destroyed this country. Obama has done nothing for me. You'd think that after polls showed that people do not want his agenda, he'd step aside and let the true party take over."
Okay. So, let's take this apart. Notice how he says "liberals"? Because this is key: Liberal as a term has become a "bad word" for the fringe right. Why? Because the liberals aren't associated with the party for the rich anymore. And he's right, by the way. I don't understand a damn thing he says.
Obama has destroyed the country = "I can't screw people over as easily". Mostly related to the threat of removing At-Will employment on the federal level, even though that has never even been brought up by Obama, ever. But it should be brought up. At-Will employment means your employer can fire you because you had celery for lunch that morning and he hates your crunching. Or, more relevant, people are being fired right now for being gay. Laws that stop that nonsense? Destroyer!
Obama has done nothing for these people because they already have everything. What more can you get than 1%? This is a spit in the face of anyone affected by DADT, pre-existing conditions, undocumented immigrants, and anyone with a conscience. We can safely assume the comment author is either a rich white male, or brainwashed by a rich white male, because if you're middle class of ANY race, Obama's policies have likely benefited you in some way. Whether you choose to accept that or not is none of my business.
Regarding the polls statement: This is hilarious since polls are now seen as gospel since Nate Silver used a bunch of them (along with fancy, spooky math) to predict the 2012 election perfectly. Websites like unskewedpolls.com did nothing but lie to their base (and each other) yet died immediately in the wake of Nate Silver pwning Karl Rove in front of america with his fancy math stuff. Let's wonder why that is, shall we? You'd think an election of absolute hilarious pwnage to the Republicans would have killed the right-wing meme of Americans hating Obamacare. But it didn't, because, as I said before, maybe money and polls will change their minds!
His last clause is the most damning though - it reveals that the battleplan is to make Obama blink a lot. The GOP knows that they have nothing left , and out of fear of being primaried away by Kochsuckers with lots of money, have gone full terrorist in the past few weeks. As a result, we hear the left comparing the GOP to being less negotiable than Iran. FUCKING IRAN. And as stupid as that might sound at first, given the latest developments, it might be 100% true.
Ohh, right.
If anyone is wondering why the GOP is going the way of the Whigs, just look at its supporters. This was just one of many ignorant, yet successful fools in today's economy. How can people be so successful yet so tone deaf and politically stupid, I have no idea.
