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Re: The Occupy Uprising....
Originally Posted by Novocastrian
(Post 9677056)
Occupiers if you please. Protesters are so last century.
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Re: The Occupy Uprising....
Originally Posted by dbd33
(Post 9677059)
That little park already has occupiers, I'd expect them to beat up the newcomers and steal their shoes.
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Re: The Occupy Uprising....
Originally Posted by Novocastrian
(Post 9677085)
Oh yes, there are always a lot of questionable characters around St. James' Park.
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Re: The Occupy Uprising....
you might want to either remove that last picture or at least blur out the sweary words :rolleyes:
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Re: The Occupy Uprising....
Originally Posted by mandymoochops
(Post 9678415)
you might want to either remove that last picture or at least blur out the sweary words :rolleyes:
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Re: The Occupy Uprising....
Originally Posted by macadian
(Post 9676455)
Shades of the 'Jarrow Crusade' (Jarrow March) in the '20's
I'd be far more impressed if they were 'protesting' outside the offices of the politicians who gave hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out the bankers. |
Re: The Occupy Uprising....
Originally Posted by ultrarunner
(Post 9677674)
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Re: The Occupy Uprising....
Originally Posted by MarkG
(Post 9680004)
Except the Jarrow marchers wanted jobs, whereas the 'Occupiers' appear to want more handouts paid for by anyone but them
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Re: The Occupy Uprising....
Originally Posted by MarkG
(Post 9680004)
Except the Jarrow marchers wanted jobs, whereas the 'Occupiers' appear to want more handouts paid for by anyone but them. If it's a repeat of the Jarrow Crusade, I'd say it's in the Marxist sense of history repeating itself as farce.
I'd be far more impressed if they were 'protesting' outside the offices of the politicians who gave hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out the bankers. |
Re: The Occupy Uprising....
Originally Posted by Alan2005
(Post 9680055)
And why not? The banks got the their free money by the billions - why shouldn't the guy on the street get his share?
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Re: The Occupy Uprising....
Originally Posted by Novocastrian
(Post 9680059)
Where on earth did you conjure that strange notion up from? In so far as goals have so far been articulated, just the opposite is true. They appear to me and I think most others to be objecting to massive handouts to bankers, among others, paid for by them, the 99% sacrificing to save the 1% from their just deserts (i.e. gaol).
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Re: The Occupy Uprising....
Originally Posted by Novocastrian
(Post 9680063)
Oh, don't swallow that crap. They're out for reducing the obscene income and wealth gaps which exist today and not for doing that by handouts to the great unwashed.
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/10...ss-ag-offices/ This first line pretty much sums it all up: There is an unfocused financial rage in the United States. |
Re: The Occupy Uprising....
Originally Posted by Alan2005
(Post 9680070)
Most media coverage so far has been to make these people look like crazies. It's quite easy to control the narrative like this because there are plenty of crazy people there to interview - and they are much more interesting than normal people who are simply pissed off with being stolen from.
Everyone is on about social media revolutions and uprisings and such, but we'll see how it develops. I have an open mind on this. |
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