So why in the hell would you continue to perpetuate a false equivalence? You would do better to just call out bandanna’d idiots for doing idiotic things and just leave anarchists and anarchism out of it altogether, right?

Also, yes, I have seen what anarchists do at protests. We chant, sing, pass out fliers, make signs, talk to people, all while trying to make sure that morons with bricks don’t ruin everything by doing dumb shit. Also, there is always the distinct possibility that those dumb shits with the bricks are not morons at all but agents provocateurs with a whole other agenda of their own which is usually something along the lines of defaming real protesters and anarchists in order to give the police a reason to bust out the batons and pepper spray.

You’re speaking to someone who knows more about and cares more about anarchy then he lets on. So I know that anarchism isn’t associated with vandalism. and I too hate the association.

What I’m referring to are those jackasses at protests wearing bandannas to cover their faces who are obsessed with destroying property rights by destroying any corporate property they can see on the city streets.

Anarchists are not rotten vandals out to smash the worthless windows of a over-hyped over-priced coffee slinging chain. Even if you repeat this uneducated drivel non-stop for the rest of your life it still would not make it true. Quit trying to equate anarchists with thugs, vandals and jackasses. If not for the fact that it makes you look dumb, then for the fact that it makes ‘capitalists’ in general look dumb.

As someone who’s family suffered brutally from the Soviets, I find the increasing usage of their propaganda’s visual style disturbing. Liberals need to find their own style and distance themselves from this. If the Left loves Communism so much, then so be it then. To me it’s gross.

Time’s Person of the Year — less credibility or more credibility than Nobel Peace Prizes or Oscars? Discuss.

At this point, I think that the Oscars have more integrity and credibility. Giving Obama that Nobel Peace Prize just for….existing and not being Bush(?) really marginalized them.

This line made me laugh.

. . . and then I cried.

I’m not thrilled of the depiction of “The Protester” as a terrorist.

You’re confusing ‘depiction’ with ‘definition’.

“The bank(st)ers broke no laws.”

(I am Obama of Wall Street, and I approve this message.)

Also, as anyone paying attention realizes, former Bush administration types, and Arnold Schwarzenegger staff types don’t worry about employment, they simply moved on to appointments with the Obama Administration.

You do realize that, don’t you?????

I look forward to the day when that sleazoid rag runs as Person of the Year:

The Wall Stree Bomber

(Oh that will be a delight to behold!)

Since the focus is on protesters and not squatters, leaving out the Occupiers was probably intentional.

Or, as has been pointed out in other comments, a photo of a real person could have been used: a human face to represent all those people in the streets and parks around the world.