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Monday, October 31, 2011

Talk Back to the Banksters

When you receive unsolicited credit card and other helpful financial offers from the world-destroying big banksters, rather than simply throwing them away as no doubt you do now (I am assuming that few of the bright readership of Amor Mundi would still be falling for their sunny grinning-skull sales pitches), you should always use the enclosed pre-paid postage return envelope from here on out to mail all their materials back to them at their expense, ideally with a note recommending that the everyday people staffed out to open this stuff join a union because they are, after all, like the rest of us, the 99%.

I have noticed that some folks who are recommending this sort of talking back are proposing you make the return envelopes heavier and more rigid by enclosing cheap wood shivs or roofing shingles with the rest of the stuff you return, but there is a good chance that this could damage post office sorting machines. Remember, it's right-wing anti-civilizationists who want to deride, defund, and destroy the post office. We good civic-minded lefty civilizationists actually like things like functioning public postal services with unionized postal workers. Make sure your protests target the actual assholes.

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