Three three percenters is short for 33%
by Whichone February 1, 2021
Get the Percenters mug.In 2009, a former member of a radical left student organization from the 1960s (i.e., the SDS) repackaged communist vanguardism into a patriot vanguardism designed to appeal to the far-right ideology of the American militia movement. Instead of building class consciousness, these III Percenters would challenge the growing power of the federal government, and build a consciousness that the federal government needs to return to a more limited form (e.g., the original Constitution). Like radical movements during the counter-cultural 1960s, III Percenters choose direct action to forward their agenda, typically by showing up carrying firearms in situations where police authorities are in conflict with local residents.
The origins of 3% are not clear. Colonists fighting in the American Revolutions were less than 1% of the population, just as less than 1% of the population are veterans today. Support for the American Revoltution was somewhere between 40-45%. Since the 1950s, outlaw biker gangs have claimed they are "one percenters" and "five percenters" are an offshoot of the black nationalist Nation of Islam. It seems likely that 3% simply splits the difference, and linking it to the American Revolution makes it unnecessary to talk about the communist history of vanguardism and where these repackaged ideas came from.
The origins of 3% are not clear. Colonists fighting in the American Revolutions were less than 1% of the population, just as less than 1% of the population are veterans today. Support for the American Revoltution was somewhere between 40-45%. Since the 1950s, outlaw biker gangs have claimed they are "one percenters" and "five percenters" are an offshoot of the black nationalist Nation of Islam. It seems likely that 3% simply splits the difference, and linking it to the American Revolution makes it unnecessary to talk about the communist history of vanguardism and where these repackaged ideas came from.
by cafebedouin April 21, 2016
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yes the whole spiel of the 10 percenters being the ones who know the truth but preach the opposite is true. they also are the same percent of the world that controls the 85 percent. the 5 percenters, however, or rather the Nation of Gods and Earths, is not synonymous with and is not even a sect in the Nation of Islam or even Islam itself even though they have close relations and actually started through the NOI. therefore, 5 percenters do not believe that the "White man is the devil." I will leave an explanation of them for the definition for 5 percenter though so click on that and go check it out. to finish this definition off, the 85 percenters represent the general public, the 10 percenters represent the political and social figures like senators and celebrities (respectively), and the 5 percenters represent the small amount of people that are farmiliar with the supreme mathematics and supreme alphabet and preach its beliefs. once again, go to the definition for 5 percenters to find out some more of what it is really about.
by the way, this was written by a WHITE 5 percenter.
by the way, this was written by a WHITE 5 percenter.
85 percenter: wow! that new lil wayne song is cool. i wish that i had as many bitches as him. i want to be in a gang.
10 percenter: man, that lil wayne is making great sales for us. i know what he says is so immoral, but his lyrics keep his audiences ignorant so we can continue to control them and take more and more of their money.
5 percenter: hey 85 percenters, look out, the 10 percenters are trying to control you. they are just using lil wayne as a puppet to get your money and keep your habits predictable so that they can rob you blind. word is bond.
10 percenter: man, that lil wayne is making great sales for us. i know what he says is so immoral, but his lyrics keep his audiences ignorant so we can continue to control them and take more and more of their money.
5 percenter: hey 85 percenters, look out, the 10 percenters are trying to control you. they are just using lil wayne as a puppet to get your money and keep your habits predictable so that they can rob you blind. word is bond.
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Get the 3 percenters mug.1. People either genuinely crazy or so woefully misinformed about how the world works, the bases for their decision making is so flawed they may as well be crazy.
2. People with a worldview which lead them to disagree with what you consider rationality even though they arrive at their positions through rational means.
3. See also birther
2. People with a worldview which lead them to disagree with what you consider rationality even though they arrive at their positions through rational means.
3. See also birther
Obama vs. Alan Keyes is proof. Keyes was from out of state, so you can eliminate any established political base; both candidates were black, so you can factor out racism; and Keyes was plainly, obviously, completely crazy. Batshit crazy. Head-trauma crazy. But the twenty-seven percenters in Illinois voted for him. They put party identification, personal prejudice, whatever ahead of rational judgement. Hell, even like 5% of Democrats voted for him. That's crazy behaviour. I think you have to assume a 27% Crazification Factor in any population.
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