Occupy Wall Street

[Zero]

Surprised no one has made a thread about this. It's becoming pretty huge. Do you agree or disagree with this protest?

http://occupywallst.org/

Discuss

[Tupin]

I didn't think it would last this long, so it's good that it has. Wall Street still thinks it's a joke, though.

[CoasterKid93]

A fairly respectable size of the general public maintains general uncertainty towards the protest, mainly because a clear goal in all of this remains unestablished. However, I don't think a goal is necessary for this protest. In my opinion, the OccupyWallStreet movement, and its various consequential branches, are nothing more than a testament to the general, collective anger that has been building up within the middle class, which makes it all the more compelling. It literally invites all of the middle class to come together to support a common cause. However, not everyone is buying in to it. With time this movement will grow into something much bigger than it is now.

[Bearissoslow]

read some of http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/

try not to get mad

[Custom]

read some of http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/

try not to get mad

oh man

[CoasterKid93]

read some of http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/

try not to get mad

What am I supposed to be getting mad at?

[Bearissoslow]

What am I supposed to be getting mad at?

stupidity

[Kayo]

i see that all the time on nsfcd and i'm not even mad

[Zero]

i see that all the time on nsfcd and i'm not even mad

Well its difficult to be angry at yourself Kayo

[PsychoYoshi]

OWS's makeup is as follows:

40-45% hardcore socialists/communists/syndicalists who think that if they had control over the corrupt government/corporatist apparatus everything would be honky-dory and they wouldn't be as corrupt as the politicians who are already there.

10-20% libertarians and more fiscally-minded tea partiers who are attempting to argue that the problem isn't just restricted to those evil Wall Street execs and business mandates and want to throw more spotlight on the politicians who are equally if not more responsible for the current state of affairs.

40-45% members of the general public who are fickle/moderate/opportunists and have a vaguely-defined sense that "something is wrong" with the current state of affairs in the country and are basically there because they're either unemployed or have nothing better to do.

You can see a couple good articles on the protests here and here.

[Mona]

[Custom]

lol

[Zero]

OWS's makeup is as follows:

40-45% hardcore socialists/communists/syndicalists who think that if they had control over the corrupt government/corporatist apparatus everything would be honky-dory and they wouldn't be as corrupt as the politicians who are already there.

10-20% libertarians and more fiscally-minded tea partiers who are attempting to argue that the problem isn't just restricted to those evil Wall Street execs and business mandates and want to throw more spotlight on the politicians who are equally if not more responsible for the current state of affairs.

40-45% members of the general public who are fickle/moderate/opportunists and have a vaguely-defined sense that "something is wrong" with the current state of affairs in the country and are basically there because they're either unemployed or have nothing better to do.

You can see a couple good articles on the protests here and here.

Any sources for these statistics? Curious.

[The Riddler]

read some of http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/

try not to get mad

Some of this poop is actually touching.
Though I don't appreciate the little kid/high schooler ones.

But you'll understand more when you're a little older, Bear.

[CoasterKid93]

OWS's makeup is as follows:

40-45% hardcore socialists/communists/syndicalists who think that if they had control over the corrupt government/corporatist apparatus everything would be honky-dory and they wouldn't be as corrupt as the politicians who are already there.

10-20% libertarians and more fiscally-minded tea partiers who are attempting to argue that the problem isn't just restricted to those evil Wall Street execs and business mandates and want to throw more spotlight on the politicians who are equally if not more responsible for the current state of affairs.

40-45% members of the general public who are fickle/moderate/opportunists and have a vaguely-defined sense that "something is wrong" with the current state of affairs in the country and are basically there because they're either unemployed or have nothing better to do.

You can see a couple good articles on the protests here and here.

Sources? Those seem to be some uninformed and highly generalized statements.