“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
~Mohandas Gandhi
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Unionchondriasis, sometimes referred to as unemployment phobia or benefit separation anxiety, refers to excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious occupational crisis, which causes the sufferer to feign or fabricate illness, ironically, to avoid performing the responsibilities of the very job believed to be at risk in order to protest the terms and conditions of his or her current employment, usually in a highly public display or demonstration which is often reported in the media.
Unionchondriasis disorder is a political form of conscious malingering, and often involves group factitious disorders (deliberately producing, feigning, or exaggerating symptoms), in extreme cases aided and abetted by a conspiring sympathetic physician.
See also American Federation of Teachers, National Educators Association, Wisconsin Education Association Council, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, Unions, Teachers, Public Employees, Organizing for America, Wisconsin, Madison, Scott Walker, Wisconsin University School of Medicine and Public Health, Physicians, ObamaCare, Hippocratic Oath, ad naseum
SILICON VALLEY — In high level, top secret meetings union leaders, community organizers and social media gurus have been urgently huddling to explore ways to leverage technology in order to conduct traditional picketing and demonstrating on the world wide web.
“Having thirty-five thousand people show up at the Wisconsin capitol building in Madison certainly makes a statement,” said Albert Slaughter, Vice-President of Outreach for the Coalition of Labor Against Penuriousness. “But imagine if we could get all sixteen million of our folks right in the face of everybody on Facebook and shut down their daily lives until our demands are met.”
Tens of thousands of concerned citizens have gathered to protest a Republican bill eliminating most collective bargaining rights from nearly all Wisconsin public employees.
It is estimated that Facebook has over 600 million active monthly users. Social media web sites like Facebook and Twitter have been credited with a key role in organizing the recent revolution in Egypt and demonstrations in Iran, Yemen, Bahrain and Libya.
Internal CLAP documents released by Wikileaks show that unions and activist groups are suffering under the weight of increased transportation costs due to rising oil prices required to get significant mobs of protesters bussed to a growing number of demonstration sites. Those expenses would be eliminated with on-line demonstrations, where protesters would, presumably, participate from their home or work internet connections. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in printing costs for signs and banners would also be saved by using gif and jpeg images.
Another leaked memo postulated that not having to contend with cold weather demonstration locations, like Wisconsin, Ohio and Minnesota in February, could allow for a more attractive visual protest presentation, thereby garnering more support for their cause, especially from so-called angry white male “NASCAR dads.”
“Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.”
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2009 Sharpies 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway
Conjoined twideologies (also known as Siamese twideologies) are diametrically opposed concepts, viewpoints, opinions, or political positions, whose bodies are joined in crainio, and find oral expression in campaign speeches, legislative debate and media interviews. Once thought to be a rare phenomenon, occurrences have become more commonplace, which a consensus of scientists attributes to repeated and prolonged exposure to political polling and cable news programming. Approximately half are stillborn and a smaller fraction of pairs which survive a twenty-four hour news cycle have abnormalities incompatible with common sense and reality.
Conjoined twideologies should not be confused with the so-called political “flip-flop” in that the politician actually endeavors to accomplish the epistemological, ethical and metaphysical impossibility of occupying two discrete points of space on the political spectrum at the same time.
The most famous conjoined twideologies are:
Democrat: “I oppose the war, but support the troops.”
Republican: “I support the workers, but oppose the union leadership.”
See also Politicians, Democrats, Republicans, Presidents, Senators, Congressmen
