The Latest Facebook Picture Demeaning The Occupy Movement

[ChoppinBroccoli]

See if you can spot the gaping hole (aka LIE) contained in this. Hint: notice the part about, "not getting any free handouts," then read pretty much everything written before that.

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Oh dear lord, it's another Bush family member..

[Webster Green]

2. He forgot the part about coming home in a box.

Dumbass!

[RKP5637]

4. Gift wrapped in a box for Christmas. So sad. So much propaganda. Picture

looked like an ad to me that killing is good for business.

[musette_sf]

11. Be the first one on your block

to have your boy come home in a box

[The Doctor.]

36. It's another hoax.

Look at 'his' right hand.

Keeping this kicked to make up for my accidental unrec.

[Gman]

3. Yeah well, if he could've found a job on the outside

he wouldn't be in the Army now.

[cherokeeprogressive]

7. You have no way of knowing that. n/t

[galileoreloaded]

10. You have any idea how hard it is to get into the Army right now? N/T

[Lex]

5. Risking your life or at least risking life and limbs

will in fact get you a regular paycheck in this country.

[chollybocker]

6. "I am the 1% of the 99%..."

Not even close, sucker.

Stay "prudent," bro. :eyes:

[The Doctor.]

37. It's another photoshop.

It's bullshit. They did a better job of covering his face to prevent discovery this time.

Just look at that hand.


Keeping this kicked to make up for my accidental unrec

[ThoughtCriminal]

8. Don't be so sure about that "Guarantee" young man

The 1% spit on your service:

For the past two months, the unemployment rate among veterans who have left active duty since 2001 has steadily climbed, from 9.8 percent in August to 12.1 percent in October. That puts the current rate more than three percentage points above the civilian unemployment rate.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/as-nations-jobless-rate-dips-veterans-unemployment-rises/2011/11/04/gIQAkHD9lM_blog.html

Edit to add:
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/1_in_4_homeless_are_veterans/
Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population,

[Kaleko]

12. Indeed, the 1% find useful idiots like that expendable at best.

This little reminder can't be quoted often enough, it seems.

"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy."

- Henry Kissinger
quoted by Bob Woodward in The Final Days, 1976

[The Doctor.]

38. I doubt the young man in the photo is the one with those sentiments.

It's another photo-shop by the bullshit brigade. Check the hand.


Keeping this kicked to make up for my accidental unrec

[Bigmack]

9. Gen. Smedley Butler USMC...

Said this.... "My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military."
Gen Smedley Butler... 2 Medals of Honor... 8 Purple Hearts.

This young man certainly fits that quote.

Free food, housing, medical/dental/optical aren't available in other jobs.

He's also some kind of Boot... or whatever the Army calls them. He ain't seen shit yet. His "hard work and sacrifice" may end up being a lot harder than he thinks.

In the Corps, we would have said... "Hey... Fucking New Guy... STFU until you grow some hair on your balls."

[MindPilot]

13. That "US Army" patch looks out of proportion and out of position.

Isn't it supposed to be parallel to the top of the breast pocket? and about the same length as the pocket is wide?

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. New uniform.

[The Doctor.]

39. Don't even bother looking there.

The proof it's a photo-shop is the hand holding the note.

Either he has a very unfortunate condition, or that's not his hand.


Keeping this kicked to make up for my accidental unrec

[msongs]

14. umm he is a federal employee which t3abaggers consider the ultimate welfare handout lol nt

[a simple pattern]

15. Don't get hurt, kid.

And if you do... well you know the rest

[Selatius]

16. I find it totally fucking ironic he's complaining about handouts, yet he holds a government job.

And a government job, if you want to get down to it, is just another fucking government hand-out, hypocritical to the point of sad.

[RZM]

21. How is a government job a 'handout'?

I thought a handout was something for nothing. If you're working for the government, you're getting something for something.

[Selatius]

45. I'm using the idiot's logic against him, not that I agree with said logic.

They like to call it entitlements, but if we pay taxes into a program, it's our program and our money, not theirs.

[MindPilot]

25. Reminds me of a friend of mine

We both got out the navy about the same time. He worked at the same car dealer I did for about a year. Then he became a cop, then he became a public school teacher, his wife is an FBI agent. All he can do is complain about how people who live off the government are destroying the county. Now he is out of work, lost his house, and it's all the fault of Obama and the unions.

Now I work for a defense contractor and every day I hear my co-workers whine about government spending...it's actually kind of amusing. Especially coming from my very conservative manager who just got laid off.

[The Doctor.]

40. That's not him complaining. It's another hoax.

This time they hid more of his face, but they're congenitally stupid and used 'someone else's' hand.

[JVS]

17. How much money did he bring into the organization last year?

Oh, 6 figures in the red? Yeah, thanks a lot!

[Luminous Animal]

18. He's sucking off the government teet.

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Son you might get it when you get home

:-)

And I will welcome you home.

[MindPilot]

26. If one assumes home=stateside,

I doubt he ever left. Some time overseas--especially a combat tour--will knock some humility into you real quick.

[nadinbrzezinski]

28. Methinks, look at hair cut, he's still in boot

[JDPriestly]

20. I wonder how long that is going to work for him.

[EFerrari]

23. It's amazing what kind of material the army is taking in these days.

No service ethic whatsoever, no compassion for others, all gimme.

Good luck, son. With your attitude, you'll need a lot of it.

[coalition_unwilling]

24. What a smug, arrogant little prick. He's probably a REMF (rear-

echelon mother-f**ker).

[NavyDem]

27. Here's what I can make out of the picture...

1. He's an E-1, and hasn't been in long enough to use GI bill benefits "Next year I will be paid to go to college".
2. "Lots of room for promotion" When you're at the bottom already, it's kind of hard to not to move up in the Army.
3. "Guaranteed position with a decent salary". Not gonna happen being a field grunt. Might get a job, might be yet another unemployed veteran.
4. Talk to me when you've been in the Army a minute.


I'm already pissed that McCain is looking to take away the health care that I was promised and earned. Don't push your luck you little douchebag.

Edit to add: Show us the courage of your convictions. Show your face you fucking coward.

[NYC Liberal]

29. As others have mentioned: good luck with that "guaranteed" position and "decent" salary.

How many millions of people have been made "promises" and "guarantees" about their jobs, their education, their retirement, only to have those promises broken when it came time to deliver?

[pauldp]

30. Son you became part of one of the LARGEST SOCIALIST PROGRAMS in history.

The bloated US Department of Defense.

[redqueen]

31. Yep. These people are dumb as hell. (nt)

[The Doctor.]

41. It's not his letter.

It's another photo-shop hoax.

[Kat45]

32. These people don't understand what the 99% and the 1% actually mean.

They think the 1% means they're not part of the 99% who are protesting. <shaking head>

[The Doctor.]

33. Dammit! I accidentally hit unrec!

I was trying to rec it. I've only screwed that up a few times, but I wanted this on TGP. Anyone got a spare rec?

[TexasTowelie]

46. I threw in a rec for you. n/t

[The Doctor.]

47. Awesome. Thanks!

Not meaning to detract from CB's OP, but take a look;

They tried to pull http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/10/15/we-are-the-53-using-fake-images-nigerian-dude-living-in-spain-not-really-a-53-percenter/">this one on everyone last month. Somehow I doubt the morons became anymore skeptical and are all over this one too. Now, it's possible I'm wrong, but I doubt it. In this new one, they were careful to cover more of his face to make finding the original photo more difficult. I'm no good with P/S, so I'm not going to try to do the work the guy did on the "Dgangu Mutambe" hoax.

Unless this obviously young man has an unfortunate hand condition, that's not his hand holding the note.

Look Close;





Like I said, I could be wrong and this kid is just really ignorant, but until the rest of the facts come out I'll let you all decide.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2261065

[The Doctor.]

34. This time they did a better job of photoshopping over his face.

What's your name, sunshine?

[The Doctor.]

35. Am I the only one to catch this;

Anyone else notice how this is apparently a young 20-something with an older, whiter, larger, 50-something's hand?

[Skittles]

42. LOL - he's doing it all on the taxpayer's dime

[and-justice-for-all]

43. No one is asking for a hand out...

and college is not a promise of employment.

[The Doctor.]

44. IT'S. A. HOAX.

Seriously, I'm 40 and my hands look MUCH younger than that.

Unless he has an unfortunate condition, this is another hoax.

[FarLeftFist]

48. Congratulations on your steady paycheck. Wall St. raided the country you're protecting's bank.

And it's citizens you are supposed to be protecting.

[nmbluesky]

49. HOAX

photoshop!!!!!!
it's fake!!!

[ChoppinBroccoli]

50. Also Look At The Right Edge Of The Paper

That black outline going down the right edge of the paper tells me that the note was photoshopped on top of another photo. I know almost nothing about Photoshop, but I've seen enough movies to be able to spot bad CGI.