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etalian posted:I liked how the movement begged for free pizza each day. And they were picky too. Half vegetariqn, quarter vegan, quarter cardboard only please!
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A bunch of people took over public parks for their private use and resisted attempts by the cops to ensure that parks are open to everyone
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Mar 31, 2015 09:36
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They also pooped in them
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Mar 31, 2015 09:49
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCwhlZtHhWs The awkward silence after "Isn't this an egalitarian movement?" will never not be funny to me (and perfectly sums up the decline of OWS imo)
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Lil Bit O Vitriol posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCwhlZtHhWs The entire movement was predicated on violently taking over a space meant for everyone lol
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I think OWS deserves respect for bringing empty quoting out of GBS and into the real world: https://youtu.be/xIK7uxBSAS0?t=27
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Testikles posted:Occupy Wall Street would have been more effective if they had occupied Wall Street. Crazy idea, try barricading Wall Street and preventing anybody from getting in or out. Yes you'd probably have the police out in full rear end-whomping force but that would have been a better image instead. they would have just beat up the protesters and cleared them out before it caused any significant problems. you would have had at most, a partially interrupted day on wall street which doesn't really matter because nearly everything is traded electronically. OWS did nothing but gets a gold star for good effort and a certificate of participation in public disobedience.
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Mar 31, 2015 14:50
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Take THAT
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Frijolero posted:No poo poo. Nearly every local Occupy was infiltrated. For being so dismissive, the gov was purty scared about the whole ordeal. Salt Fish posted:You could tell that the establishment was terrified of OWS by watching their violent reactions. You don't spray down peaceful protesters literally sitting on a park sidewalk with pepper spray in front of multiple cameras unless you are scared and desperate. Scalding Coffee fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Mar 31, 2015 |
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Mar 31, 2015 15:33
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Salt Fish posted:You could tell that the establishment was terrified of OWS by watching their violent reactions. You don't spray down peaceful protesters literally sitting on a park sidewalk with pepper spray in front of multiple cameras unless you are scared and desperate. lol
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hemophilia posted:fracking is bad because it needs huge profit margins to be profitable and if i could choose between murdering the fracking industry and having cheap gas i'm taking the cheap gas and all the oil rush assholes that industry employs can live and die as street urchins for all i care
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People remember OWS? WTF was that all about anyway? People were angry that other people were too stupid to read a mortgage before they signed it?
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Antillie posted:People remember OWS? WTF was that all about anyway? People were angry that other people were too stupid to read a mortgage before they signed it? Or the fine print on their student loans they took to go to $65k/yr NYU to get their BA in Victimization Studies with a minor in Safe Spaces
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Mar 31, 2015 16:12
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it was just really surprising that college kids arent as smart or as important as they think they are
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Mar 31, 2015 16:16
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agreed, three posters above me. my halfwit gibbis cynicism also makes me smart and interesting
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Deer Dance - System of a Down
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poors are the real problem in the world today
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I mean, have you ever heard of a political movement that was able to function with both government surveillance and pepper spray? I mean get real!
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:poors are the real problem in the world today Let's Soylent Green them already. As bad as the poors are though, the OWSers and lil' tykes at NYU taking over the cafeteria are even more insufferable
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It never ceases to amaze me how people who weren't involved sadistically look at those who were involved in OWS as scum; but a lot of them change their minds once they start looking at all the poo poo OWS protestors endured. From Bank security literally forcing people inside a bank and then arresting them for trespassing, to protestors at UC Davis being doused with pepper spray so that some of them vomited blood (and the officer got a better payout than any of the protestors did), reporters getting their credentials taken away and being beaten and arrested, to the war vet who got his skull cracked open and put in a coma from a tear gas canister, to the mayor of Oakland letting slip that the Feds were coordinating suppression of OWS (which violates the 1st Amendment of State and Federal Constitutions), to the cointelpro-like infiltrations by local cops, and that sniper-assassination rumor which was never fully explained. And what were they protesting? Trillions of dollars in bailouts to banks who leveled the global economy such that middle class American families lost 40% of their net worth in three years, two decades worth of economic growth, and not a damned one of the big bankers were indicted or convicted of massive fraud because they were too connected. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/25/shocking-truth-about-crackdown-occupy http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/fed-americans-wealth-dropped-40-percent/2012/06/11/gJQAlIsCVV_story.html
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Laughter eases the suffering Kumo. Also, everyone is poo poo. The liberals are faggo crybabies and the conservatives are lapping at the cum of cops hoping to get baton sodomy from papa. The leftists should have armed themselves and torched the city, but they're afraid of guns. So they sit in a circle and snap their fingers??
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Kumo posted:It never ceases to amaze me how people who weren't involved sadistically look at those who were involved in OWS as scum; but a lot of them change their minds once they start looking at all the poo poo OWS protestors endured. um excuse me but they weren't massacred. worthless pussy faggots
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Kumo posted:It never ceases to amaze me how people who weren't involved sadistically look at those who were involved in OWS as scum; but a lot of them change their minds once they start looking at all the poo poo OWS protestors endured. they were scum
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Slipknot Hoagie posted:Laughter eases the suffering Kumo. Also, everyone is poo poo. The liberals are faggo crybabies and the conservatives are lapping at the cum of cops hoping to get baton sodomy from papa. The leftists should have armed themselves and torched the city, but they're afraid of guns. So they sit in a circle and snap their fingers?? um excuse me they are drum circles nonviolent protest doesn't work unless you have a huge % of the public supporting you and they are willing to withhold the only thing that capital gives a gently caress about, their labor. having a violent wing doesn't hurt either.
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Kumo posted:It never ceases to amaze me how people who weren't involved sadistically look at those who were involved in OWS as scum; but a lot of them change their minds once they start looking at all the poo poo OWS protestors endured.
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Kumo posted:It never ceases to amaze me how people who weren't involved sadistically look at those who were involved in OWS as scum; but a lot of them change their minds once they start looking at all the poo poo OWS protestors endured. omg you're a giant homo
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Kumo posted:It never ceases to amaze me how people who weren't involved sadistically look at those who were involved in OWS as scum; but a lot of them change their minds once they start looking at all the poo poo OWS protestors endured. You mentioned pepper spraying people like it was the most horrible thing a government can do. Scalding Coffee fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Mar 31, 2015 |
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Mar 31, 2015 17:32
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OWS was going to disrupt the labor pool but then the reality of scabs and the fact that anybody skipping out on their labour job would be replaced for cheaper by illegal immigrant mexicans sunk in.
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Scalding Coffee posted:You can thank the administration for letting the bankers laughing at you and the cops getting away with all of that. Was the OWS crowd not black enough for Holder to step in, like he did at Ferguson? Nice edit, should have kept the zinger in there
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the only thing that would've resulted in ows getting anywhere would've been massive involvement from the working class and unions, and ows did a really good job of ensuring that wouldn't happen all on its own.
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Adventure Pigeon posted:the only thing that would've resulted in ows getting anywhere would've been massive involvement from the working class and unions, and ows did a really good job of ensuring that wouldn't happen all on its own. Yeah no room for blue collar working stiffs, this revolution is all about Pansexual Demiqueer Otherkins and other assorted unique snowflakes
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Slipknot Hoagie posted:Nice edit, should have kept the zinger in there
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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Pauline Kael posted:Yeah no room for blue collar working stiffs, this revolution is all about Pansexual Demiqueer Otherkins and other assorted unique snowflakes It's a pretty basic thing to understand. Someone who just lost their house or is in danger of losing their house, works an actual job or just lost it, and is responsible for their family isn't going to feel too enthusiastic about ritualized college kid protesting. Especially if someone in their early 20s calls them out for an offcolor joke or a lack of understanding about an academic left wing concept.
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Academia is a bigger loving joke than OWS was
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Adventure Pigeon posted:It's a pretty basic thing to understand. Someone who just lost their house or is in danger of losing their house, works an actual job or just lost it, and is responsible for their family isn't going to feel too enthusiastic about ritualized college kid protesting. Especially if someone in their early 20s calls them out for an offcolor joke or a lack of understanding about an academic left wing concept. Slipknot Hoagie posted:Laughter eases the suffering Kumo. Also, everyone is poo poo. The liberals are faggo crybabies and the conservatives are lapping at the cum of cops hoping to get baton sodomy from papa. The leftists should have armed themselves and torched the city, but they're afraid of guns. So they sit in a circle and snap their fingers??
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OWS was 100% worth it for laughs, not for anything OWS related, but for the fact that it introduced us to Justine and let us follow along as she completely reversed her ideologies upon being presented with a job offer
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OWS wasn't actually the 99% though, a lot of people there were quite literally trust fund benefactors I mean it's great to try to do something about corruption but the 99%-1% slogan is an odd way to go about it. I think good people who want to do something about income inequality are good regardless of their actual income. Maybe that's why the slogan worked but the movement didn't. Just putting some thoughts out there into the e-zone
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I guess OWS has been kind of successful in creating teams of well-educated people who are fighting malicious debt practices in various ways Like, these people are pretty badass http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/get-there/wp/2015/03/30/a-revolt-is-growing-as-more-people-refuse-to-pay-back-student-loans/?tid=sm_fb
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