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yet I see the youth beginning to get involved with the politics of this country...but nevermind that, just keep pretending like the problems will just go away...
Goddamn hippies, I wish they'd just go away, instead of whining and bitching about stupid stuff like income inequality, the power of corporations in politics and trivial crap like that?
Dont they know I gotta get home to watch the game?
Ah yes, photos of young people, how quickly we forget history when the last time the young took to protesting... but then again just like history people of the past too sat back and said the exact same thing thinking they would just go away...guess some of us can continue to ignore history and pretend none of this will amount to anything...yet I see the youth beginning to get involved with the politics of this country...but nevermind that, just keep pretending like the problems will just go away...
I don't understand what you're saying. Are you suggesting that there have been successful youth-centered political movements in the past? What are those? And why would they have any bearing on what OWS is doing today?
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Originally Posted by likeminas
Goddamn hippies, I wish they'd just go away, instead of whining and bitching about stupid stuff like income inequality, the power of corporations in politics and trivial crap like that?
I sense your sarcasm. Har. But you miss the point of those criticizing OWS.
Yeah, I know there are problems in the country. They are centered around three groups of people (in order of importance):
1) The Average Joe
2) The Average Joe
3) The Average Joe
Who vote in stupid politicians again and again. Strangely, these same people then complain that "voting doesn't work" and, as a solution, they... don't vote.
The OWS crowd then came up with the brilliant idea of sitting around in parks looking gross and being smelly and - amazingly - believe that this somehow will affect "change."
Do they seriously not see how mind-numbingly idiotic that is? Here's a suggestion for OWS supporters:
NOMINATE, CAMPAIGN-FOR, ELECT, AND PRESSURE POLITICIANS TO DO WHAT YOU WANT THEM TO DO
So far, they haven't even hinted at doing that. So they do NOT get my support as they are just wasting time, money, and effort.
Ah yes, photos of young people, how quickly we forget history when the last time the young took to protesting, but then again just like history people of the past too sat back and said the exact same thing thinking they would just go away...guess some of us can continue to ignore history and pretend none of this will amount to anything...yet I see the youth beginning to get involved with the politics of this country...but nevermind that, just keep pretending like the problems will just go away...
Here's a brilliant solution ↓ ↓ ↓
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Originally Posted by urbanlife78
Oh, then you missed my point, none of us can answer that question. Only time and the people involved will be able to tell after everything is said and done. Who thought the protests in Egypt would go the way they went, but that still doesn't answer what the future of those protests will lead to, all we can do is wait and see, or take part and hope for the best.
Yep, sounds like you got the world all figured out, good luck with that...as for examples, go read some American history books, youth based movements have happened a number of times over the past 100 years, me taking the time to teach you this would be a waste of my time cause you wouldn't listen anyway, so carry on.
...as for examples, go read some American history books, youth based movements have happened a number of times over the past 100 years...
Maybe you missed my post:
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Originally Posted by Jester2138
I don't understand what you're saying. Are you suggesting that there have been successful youth-centered political movements in the past? What are those? And why would they have any bearing on what OWS is doing today?
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