Day of Rage on Wall Street! Protesters Occupy Brooklyn Bridge!

Discussion in 'Occupy Movement' started by skip, Sep 18, 2011.

  1. Hippy-Chick

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    I'm a pragmatist.

    If I see something being done I will make certain to admit I was wrong.
     
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    2 jets filled with fuel couldn't stop wall street.. What makes you think you can?..

    Oh yeah I went there..
     
  3. Regular Guy

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    Howmany demonstrations you think it took in the 60's to get equal rights?
    This demonstration probably doesn't do much except letting them know we are fed up. More demonstrations will follow. Will the ppl get the change they want? I dunno, but with sitting still and doing nothing they sure arent gonna get the change they want. It's better doing something then doing nothing, you'll never know what comes out of it.
     
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    They would be better off halting commerce camping out on a railroad track..
     
  5. Monkey Boy

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    I think this is only the beginning.
     
  6. Hippy-Chick

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    The key word is "demonstration" and not "Tweets" and from what I understand it took a LOT of them. Far more and far larger than most people are willing to do today. Democracy and justice is not in Tweets it's on the streets.

    I have said many times now that I am not going to get involved because I fear a big sufferance coming soon. (war or police state torture or something) But if somoeone really wanted to make change they need to be militant. Block off the trade place exchange and let no one in or out. Hunger and toilet paper needs will win in the end.
     
  7. Meliai

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    Thats silly. Revolutions happen as the result of years and years of oppression and poverty. This is just the beginning. Conditions are going to have to further decline before a full-out revolution begins. Happy, comfortable people don't start revolutions.
     
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    revolutions dont even happen inside prisons.. People are very happy there and very happy in the prison called the united states..
     
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    Defiant Ahmadinejad prompts UN walkout[​IMG]
    Iranian leader accuses US and others of racism, colonialism, war-mongering and blames them for financial crisis..

    Oh yeah remember he's the bad guy.. Lol.
     
  10. scratcho

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    Wonder how he found out from over there?
     
  11. Hippy-Chick

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    Or American Idol, dancing with stars, etc.

    The biggest reason why the United States government never cracked down on piracy is because all those free movies and music keep the population peaceful and indoors.
     
  12. Regular Guy

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    I agree that there probably was more activity on the internet (twitter, facebook, etc) then on the streets. That is the flaw on the internet, easy to respond without being really active. It makes ppl lazy. Look at online newspaperarticles, they usually get many negative reactions where in ppl ventilate their frustrations but no actions. Ppl tend to complain but in the mean time do nothing. So you have to start somewhere. I hope these demonstrations continue and will motivate more and more ppl to come and join in.
     
  13. Hippy-Chick

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    That is why piracy will not be stopped not never. The government and corporations want you to stay home and watch movies.

    As I said it is over. They won. They found a way to change the 80% sheep population into a 97,5% sheep by making people believe "Tweeting" is doing something.
     
  14. RooRshack

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    This gets people who would otherwise never demonstrate on the streets sucked into caring about political things, which is excellent. The internet won't stop anybody from going out and doing their thing, but it can make more do it. Comment a blog post one day, read that author the next day, read his more radical buddies blogs the next, etc.
     
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    Only lost because of people like you. Why don't you go tweet something helpful, instead of wasting our time here accusing us of tweeting. (I've been to the twitter website about 4 times in my life, the most recent of which was because of the link in this thread)

    Maybe if the government wasn't pacifying you with the internet, to spew your nutso crap, you'd be out doing something.
     
  16. skip

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    It took many months before the actions in Egypt and Israel gained enough traction and reached critical mass. Both ended up being successful in their own ways. The people stood their ground once they occupied it, and withstood the onslaught (in Egypt) of paid mercenaries and police who tried to clear them out, arrested hundreds, and hurt hundreds more, killing some.

    The real question is, are these Americans (and foreigners) who are occupying ready to give up their lives for their cause? The Egyptians were. I doubt the Israelis would, since they are just demanding economic changes, not regime change or revolution. Then again, the US protests are also for economic change, not revolution (yet!).
     
  17. Hippy-Chick

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    I have always made my postion that I am not going too stay. To this I am on the Internet downloading big resolution maps for the hike I am going to make from my home to Peru. I truely believe that there will be great sufferance soon. (war or police state or something)

    Finding these things takes time and when I have a download I wander a little bit not too much on Internet.

    I said 10 years ago that we needed to do something. I organised people and other things and no one believed me then. Now I am shown to have had reason and it is too late.

    But I am also not going to lie. The government and the corporations are much too much powerful. We are living in the time of fascism. But fascism can only be halted with tears and sacrifice.

    I am not Che Guevara and I am not going to risk my future for a people that only want to be pigs doing nothing but shopping. So yes I do not care anymore.

    They are just not worth it.

    So I am going to learn lesson of history of world war 2. I am leaving before the Nazis start putting people in camps. (Or whatever it is they will use to lock up people.)
     
  18. Meliai

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    lol your ultimate plan is to hike to Peru but you're going to come in here and bitch about how nobody is doing anything? People ARE doing something, you just aren't one of them.

    Corporations aren't too powerful. WE hold the buying power. WE the people are fucking broke, which means corporations will ultimately fall. We the people are also getting pissed, which means the government isn't going to be all-powerful for too long. Pissed off people can change a lot; thats how the revolutions throughout the middle east were able to happen.
     
  19. ChronicTom

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    That would be the Great Uprising of 2001 you are referring to?
     
  20. Hippy-Chick

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    I talk in other sections about other things. But I must ask you if I am not allowed to speak?

    Yes that is my plan to go to Peru. I must hike because I do not have a birth certificate.
     

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