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Post by Doctor Fishcake on Oct 7, 2011 5:49:49 GMT -5
Lol, you wish. You might be higher up the food chain, but you're still just fucking peons. Well, there's being the 1% and then there's being the 1% of the 1%. Whoever put this sign up is more likely to be the former. |
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Post by lighthorseman on Oct 7, 2011 6:00:15 GMT -5
I think the dichotomy is fascinating... when this sort of thing happened in Egypt, Morocco and Libya, it was praised by Western media as the "Arab Spring". But when American disenfranchised voice their frustrations, eh, not so much. The people involved with the protests in the Middle East didn't come off as a bunch of pissed off smelly hippies. I rather suspecvt that to the Egyptian rulng elite, that is EXACTLY what they came off as. Initially. |
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Post by chad sexington on Oct 7, 2011 7:06:29 GMT -5
Well, there's being the 1% and then there's being the 1% of the 1%. Whoever put this sign up is more likely to be the former. I guess that makes sense, of a kind. |
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Post by malicious_bloke on Oct 7, 2011 8:36:18 GMT -5
Well, there's being the 1% and then there's being the 1% of the 1%. Whoever put this sign up is more likely to be the former. I guess that makes sense, of a kind. It's pithier than "WE ARE THE 0.01%" too |
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Post by rookie on Oct 7, 2011 10:06:42 GMT -5
I am all for what the wall street protesters are trying to achieve, but really, their target is wrong. The people working in wallstreet and the financial district are pretty much peons just like the people protesting outside. I have to disagree. Yes, Wall Street itself is where people go to work, not live lavishly. However, Wall Street has become the symbol of corporate greed and fat cat-ness. |
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Post by Tiberius on Oct 7, 2011 10:34:38 GMT -5
I am all for what the wall street protesters are trying to achieve, but really, their target is wrong. The people working in wallstreet and the financial district are pretty much peons just like the people protesting outside. I have to disagree. Yes, Wall Street itself is where people go to work, not live lavishly. However, Wall Street has become the symbol of corporate greed and fat cat-ness. And that's why I'm here to tell you the Seven Financial Secrets Those Wall Street Fat Cats Don't Want You To Know. |
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Post by Armand Tanzarian on Oct 7, 2011 10:36:09 GMT -5
Dear 1%: FUCK YOU!! YOU GO TO HELL!! YOU GO TO HELL AND YOU DIE!!! I hope you all choke on your champagne and caviar.  About that... |
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Post by brendanrizzo on Oct 7, 2011 10:41:45 GMT -5
Dear 1%: FUCK YOU!! YOU GO TO HELL!! YOU GO TO HELL AND YOU DIE!!! I hope you all choke on your champagne and caviar. About that... That's it, lemme strangle them with my own two hands... |
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Post by worlder on Oct 7, 2011 11:06:08 GMT -5
Hmm, what are the chances of escalation?
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Post by Thejebusfire on Oct 7, 2011 11:12:58 GMT -5
The comments on that video were incredibly stupid.
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Post by Bezron on Oct 7, 2011 11:15:22 GMT -5
A couple people have wondered if my experiences were the norm. Considering that they happened on different days, and other people I talk to have had the same ones, I would venture to guess yes.
Also, bear in mind (since they have harassed me), I don't go to work in a suit or a tie or anything. I wear jeans and t-shirts or casual button down (camp style) or whatever. I look more like the protesters than the protestees. So it seems as if they are just looking to harass ANYONE, whether or not they are actually involved. Good way to drum up support...for squashing your cause...
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Post by worlder on Oct 7, 2011 11:42:25 GMT -5
A couple people have wondered if my experiences were the norm. Considering that they happened on different days, and other people I talk to have had the same ones, I would venture to guess yes. Also, bear in mind (since they have harassed me), I don't go to work in a suit or a tie or anything. I wear jeans and t-shirts or casual button down (camp style) or whatever. I look more like the protesters than the protestees. So it seems as if they are just looking to harass ANYONE, whether or not they are actually involved. Good way to drum up support...for squashing your cause... As long as it is isolated incidents, not a frequent string of incidents, then they should only have to worry about people actively trying to defame the protests. |
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Post by Kit Walker on Oct 7, 2011 12:02:48 GMT -5
As long as it is isolated incidents, not a frequent string of incidents, then they should only have to worry about people actively trying to defame the protests. I would define several incidences on separate days occurring to multiple innocent people as a "string". It is one thing to direct your anger at people who are actually doing something you feel is wrong, it is quite another to direct it at anyone in your general vicinity. I'm also really wondering about the point of all this. I mean...I've got money tied up in stocks. I have a trust fund. A trust fund made up of five years worth of social security death benefits because my mom died when I was 13. It is how I pay for college. If, for instance, there was a riot on Wall Street or the Anonymous took out the stock exchange, I would be about a hundred times more fucked in the ass than the rich fuckers they're pissed off at. |
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Post by worlder on Oct 7, 2011 12:19:00 GMT -5
I'm also really wondering about the point of all this. I mean...I've got money tied up in stocks. I have a trust fund. A trust fund made up of five years worth of social security death benefits because my mom died when I was 13. It is how I pay for college. If, for instance, there was a riot on Wall Street or the Anonymous took out the stock exchange, I would be about a hundred times more fucked in the ass than the rich fuckers they're pissed off at. Well only a person in blind anger would call for dismantling certain companies. The goal here is to make the companies yield and to make sure they don't get try to "pass the savings on to you". |
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Post by Aqualung on Oct 7, 2011 14:31:55 GMT -5
Actually if you look at it this way, they've been telling us to eat cake for years, just compare the cost of healthy foods to the cost of junk foods.
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