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I guess you think that how the police treated the "protesters" was riotous on their part but that the "protesters" doing their thing was not riotous. I wonder how people can talk about the police brutality and avoid what the "protesters" were doing.
I would guess that you wanted to quote what I said without listening to what happened when West was ranting against anything not progressive (politically speaking). You need to see that video to see just what really was going on at the "protest" meeting. I bet you don't have the guts to watch it because of the source I took it from.
Your thread title mentioned a 'riot' - I was simply asking where it occurred 'cause I sure didn't see one in the video you provided.
Your thread title mentioned a 'riot' - I was simply asking where it occurred 'cause I sure didn't see one in the video you provided.
I guess you failed to watch enough of that video to get to the funny part. Oh yes, you know the part where the group of useful idiots repeating his every word failed to stop when he was thanking them for being there. They were started on their second repeat when some of them caught on to what they were doing.
Unless this thing turns into a real riot soon the planners will back off and let it ride. They wanted it to be an "American fall" to compare with the Arab Spring and so far it has failed but there seems to be a lot of college students whose semester hasn't begun yet.
Have those useful idiots done anything to compare to the Egyptian riots, yet?
I think that the planners of this thing that Cornel West called the American fall will soon tire of what they planned to be like the Egyptian riots. Did you make it to the end of the video to see how that bunch of useful idiots made complete asses of themselves?
I don't care if 50,000 "over-educated / under-employed" Borg show up to chant in unison, I still would like to know how they have such free time and how this is going to improve their situation in life.
Americans don't have the free time to do this. They are worked to death, barely scraping by. If they get so much as a misdemeanor they are excluded from all types of jobs for the rest of their lives. There is a good chance the police will abuse them.
Why would a working adult go out and protest? They don't have the free time, health care, and job security that European countries have.
You're bragging about how crappy US citizens have it....LOL
Americans don't have the free time to do this. They are worked to death, barely scraping by.
Uhuh.
So instead of trying to work on themselves with their endless days of free time, trying to train, learn, look for employment, volunteer, or even *network* (vomit), they've each decided that the thing most likely to mitigate the condition of being "over-educated and under-employed" is to camp out on the street looking for most of the world like idealistic hipsters who didn't get chosen to appear in an indie rock music video and come up with witty slogans and borg-like chants? So preposterous...
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Why would a working adult go out and protest?
Why indeed? Protest against what? Against choosing an unmarketable and esoteric major? Against voluntarily and over a period of years racking up massive school debt? Against failing to do the things it takes to improve and become employable? Against being raised in such privilege and affluence that it's necessary to "blame the system" for perceived transgressions and invent a cause rather than accept individual responsibility?
"We have jobs," said P.J. O'Rourke's friend.
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They don't have the free time, health care, and job security that European countries have.
So is the mob lobbying for the US to introduce a collection of Europe-styled Federal policies? Things like employees being prevented by law from working past 35 hours a week (regardless of whether they'd prefer to work longer), or single-payer disease management, or mandatory national worker's unions?
Are you saying working adults should work during the day, then when they get off work they should head down to wall st for the evening? Or should they be able to walk off the job with no repercussions to camp out on wall st day and night for a while?
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You're bragging about how crappy US citizens have it.
You're bragging about a group of simpleton students who are mad at the fact that things aren't going be to handed to them on a platter, who somehow think running around on wall st is going to best ensure their success, who may have made poor educational choices, and who have failed to articulate a clear, coherent, and realistic message.
If I didn't have a job, my job would be trying to find a job. It wouldn't be blaming everyone else. It wouldn't be making a bohemian pilgrimage with my hipster buddies to wall st to show the world how naive, simplistic, and over-privileged I am.
Just to quickly reply. It's called the people's mike. They are not allowed to have any kind of PA system or use a bullhorn. This is their way around it. ETA: The mike there is media not to help them hear.
I've been following the protest and am going to protest in my own city. I'm not a hippy. I am a 31 year old mother of 3, a small business owner and I am fed up with how this country is going.
Also, many of the people there do have jobs, families and are going back and forth from the protest to their responsibilities. If you watch the live feed @http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution people talk to the camera and will tell you about themselves and why they protest. There are Republicans, Libertarians, Democrats, war veterans and everyone else in between there. They are these people: We Are the 99 Percent
Just to quickly reply. It's called the people's mike. They are not allowed to have any kind of PA system or use a bullhorn. This is their way around it. ETA: The mike there is media not to help them hear.
I've been following the protest and am going to protest in my own city. I'm not a hippy. I am a 31 year old mother of 3, a small business owner and I am fed up with how this country is going.
Also, many of the people there do have jobs, families and are going back and forth from the protest to their responsibilities. If you watch the live feed @http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution people talk to the camera and will tell you about themselves and why they protest. There are Republicans, Libertarians, Democrats, war veterans and everyone else in between there. They are these people: We Are the 99 Percent
I would like to invite you to watch the video I had in the OP. You may get a kick out of what was going on and it wouldn't take a lot of your time, if you get it done before you start your own protest. Seriously, watch it and get a laugh at the end of it.
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