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So can we finally say that OWS accomplished nothing?

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JimKiler said:
Operation Wall Street, thanks OP for making me guess what OWS was.

If they would have been organized and protested one thing and only one thing, The lack of prosecution from the 2008 housing collapse they could have gotten a victory which in turn could lead them to a new single objective and eventually became a political party. But having a bunch of people protest and there before more reasons that people does not help your cause.
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Occupy Wall Street, methinks. Otherwise known as those smelly hipsters waving $600 phones and $3,000 laptops while demanding free coffee, smoking dope, and complaining that they can't get ahead in the world.
 
OWS was instrumental in getting the politicians and media off the destructive push for austerity. It's sad that OWS's greater goals for social equality were not achieved, but they provided sufficient leverage to swing the narrative back to focusing on fiscal and monetary policy to address economic ills, and for that I thank them.
 
werepossum said:
Occupy Wall Street, methinks. Otherwise known as those smelly hipsters waving $600 phones and $3,000 laptops while demanding free coffee, smoking dope, and complaining that they can't get ahead in the world.
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See, the corporations succeeded in getting dumb asses like you to ignore the part about corporations putting out country into a recession and instead got you to say stupid shit like this over and over again.

You should go die in a fire if you think you're an american.
 
They did show me that the so called news services really do work like a branch of the government. Without other sources like the BBC I would never known how large the movement got worldwide.
 
Take every post ever made in P&N and concatenate them into a list. It will be millions of lines long.

What did all of that accomplish?

So why are we here again?

Maybe "accomplishment" is in the eye of the beholder.
 
airdata said:
Is all that worse than irreparably damaging our nations economy? Or am I missing something somewhere where people being inconvenienced trumps ruining a nation.
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Maybe the protesters should have inconvenienced the 1% instead of doing so to the 99% and they may have actually accomplished something. Most of the 99% have no use for the OWS protesters and this is why the movement went nowhere.
 
GreenMeters said:
OWS was instrumental in getting the politicians and media off the destructive push for austerity. It's sad that OWS's greater goals for social equality were not achieved, but they provided sufficient leverage to swing the narrative back to focusing on fiscal and monetary policy to address economic ills, and for that I thank them.
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lololololol
 
airdata said:
See, the corporations succeeded in getting dumb asses like you to ignore the part about corporations putting out country into a recession and instead got you to say stupid shit like this over and over again.

You should go die in a fire if you think you're an american.
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Nice. Now I know why I prefer corporations (who produce almost every material thing I want) over entitled idiots who wish me dead. It's brainwashing!
 
JimKiler said:
Operation Wall Street, thanks OP for making me guess what OWS was.

If they would have been organized and protested one thing and only one thing, The lack of prosecution from the 2008 housing collapse they could have gotten a victory which in turn could lead them to a new single objective and eventually became a political party. But having a bunch of people protest and there before more reasons that people does not help your cause.
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They didn't want to become a party. However, you're right, they should have picked an issue that all of the various groups in the different cities could have supported.

Prosecution of people responsible the lax irresponsible actions by banks that helped bring about the 2008 crash could have gotten wide support from quite a lot of people who otherwise dismissed OWS.

That being said. 1% vs 99% is in the public conscious more than it was before. Maybe that's significant enough or maybe not.
 
werepossum said:
Nice. Now I know why I prefer corporations (who produce almost every material thing I want) over entitled idiots who wish me dead. It's brainwashing!
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There's a huge difference between trying to get people to be held accountable for ruining the country and entitlement.

You're a fucking dumb ass if you don't think the government is corrupt.

You think entitled hippies caused the housing bubble or all of the bail out fraud?

mmm?

Jack ass.
 
blankslate said:
They didn't want to become a party. However, you're right, they should have picked an issue that all of the various groups in the different cities could have supported.

Prosecution of people responsible the lax irresponsible actions by banks that helped bring about the 2008 crash could have gotten wide support from quite a lot of people who otherwise dismissed OWS.

That being said. 1% vs 99% is in the public conscious more than it was before. Maybe that's significant enough or maybe not.
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They may not wanted to become a political party but when you give someone power (had they succedded) and some higher members of the movement would have ran for office.
 
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This is OWS.
 
So much butthurt here, it's wonderful.

Corporations don't do anything which the American consumer doesn't support 100%.
 
BoberFett said:
So much butthurt here, it's wonderful.

Corporations don't do anything which the American consumer doesn't support 100%.
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I don't think most people supported the calculated fraud which led to the recession we're still in, the subsequent bailouts which were further defrauded and siphoned into pockets of already wealthy people...

No average person supported that bullshit... and that's the core of what OWS was about.

Then you had real & fake anarchists and other types coming out of the woodwork. Police officers in disguise committing crimes in order to make it look like the actual protesters were doing it.
 
I could be wrong though... because with OWS you had people who otherwise pretend to be die hard support the troops types cheering and laughing at police fracturing a veterans skull .

So.. you never know... lots of idiots here. I'm sure some of you give a reach around while the wallstreet guy is all up in that ass taking your money and devaluing everything you own.
 
OWS brought out the worst traits of both the protestors and the police officers tasked to keep them in check.

For a really honest look at OWS, I recommend reading A Eulogy for #Occupy from over at Wired.com. If nothing else it's an excellent study in pack behaviour.
 
airdata said:
I don't think most people supported the calculated fraud which led to the recession we're still in
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Actually they did. People bought into this idiotic notion that everyone should own a home and there's still widespread support for asinine subsidies like the mortgage interest tax credit. People loved the housing bubble.
 
airdata said:
I don't think most people supported the calculated fraud which led to the recession we're still in, the subsequent bailouts which were further defrauded and siphoned into pockets of already wealthy people...

No average person supported that bullshit... and that's the core of what OWS was about.
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Funny, it seems to me that everyone supported fraud as long as we were talking about no doc home loans, interest only loans and other bullshit that enabled the financial shenanigans.

Oh that's right, everyone figured money was free so why not get their piece.

The American consumer was entirely complicit. They may not have known what was going on behind the scenes, but they didn't care. Free money.

Then you had real & fake anarchists and other types coming out of the woodwork. Police officers in disguise committing crimes in order to make it look like the actual protesters were doing it.
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You look good in tin foil.
 
airdata said:
In before some stupid wise and beautiful woman says " old lady shouldn't have been there!"
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She should have complied with the lawful order from the police to disperse however, she chose not to disperse and was pepper sprayed with the other protestors who made the same choice.

She did teach some people a valuable lesson though.......Choices have consequences. some times it not what not what you wanted/expected from your choice.
 
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