The Real Occupy Wall Street

[Dari]

I like to observe people as they are, not as they want to be seen. So, last night I decided to visit the OWS protest movement on Maiden Lane. It was raining, snowing, freezing, and windy. It was nasty. Police were huddled in the nearby McDonalds or their patrol vehicles or paddy wagons. The park looked like a military encampment or colonial outpost on an alien planet with tents all over the place. Then I heard this:

Woman: Go get it!
Man: No!
Woman: Go get my stuff!
Man: ...
Woman: You slapped me in the face and threw my stuff outside now go get it!
Man: No!

Ouch!!!

 

[Rage187]

Even mother nature wants them to STFU and go back to their dorm rooms.

 

[zinfamous]

Oh, OK.

 

[disappoint]

A couple fighting? What does that have to do with greedy criminals who are never brought to justice fucking up the global economy you fucking muppet?

 

[Dari]

A couple fighting? What does that have to do with greedy criminals who are never brough to justice fucking up the global economy you fucking muppet?

This is a republic, fool. If you don't like the current system there is the ballot box. Or your lazy ass can run for office. If you don't like either or those options you can either pound sand or jump off a bridge. Your options are clear. But this thread has nothing to do with politics so fuck off.

 

[disappoint]

Don't cry to me because you can't see the forest for the trees.

 

[jruchko]

This is a republic, fool. If you don't like the current system there is the ballot box. Or your lazy ass can run for office. If you don't like either or those options you can either pound sand or jump off a bridge. Your options are clear. But this thread has nothing to do with politics so fuck off.

Last I checked you also have an option to protest.

 

[Zeze]

This is a republic, fool. If you don't like the current system there is the ballot box. Or your lazy ass can run for office.

Okay, I'm politically apathetic, but this is naive and stupid. Even I know anyone running for office needs $$$. And $$$ comes from campaign contributions given by all the mega corps that want their favor back.

By the time you're in office, you're already corrupted to the core.

THAT is what's wrong with this 'republic' system. THAT is why people are pissed off.

 

[jruchko]

delete

 

[Zeze]

They know, but it doesn't matter how much sense you make, if Democrats support something, Republicans will automatically take the opposite stance.

Neither OP and I were talking about right-wing republicans, but a republic system.

This corruption applies to both parties. Both are rotten bastards and neither serve the people.

 

[cKGunslinger]

This is a republic, fool. If you don't like the current system there is the ballot box. Or your lazy ass can run for office. If you don't like either or those options you can either pound sand or jump off a bridge. Your options are clear. But this thread has nothing to do with politics so fuck off.

.. or protest? :hmm:

 

[Phokus]

.. or protest? :hmm:

He probably doesn't believe in freedom of assembly.

 

[dwell]

A couple fighting? What does that have to do with greedy criminals who are never brought to justice fucking up the global economy you fucking muppet?

Criminals? Like the rapists, perverts, and thieves who are occupying the parks? How many reports of rape, public lewdness, and theft have been reported so far?

 

[Zeze]

Criminals? Like the rapists, perverts, and thieves who are occupying the parks? How many reports of rape, public lewdness, and theft have been reported so far?

For every idiot hippie occupying wall street, there are a thousand of real people who share the same sentiment.

 

[soulcougher73]

This is a republic, fool. If you don't like the current system there is the ballot box. Or your lazy ass can run for office. If you don't like either or those options you can either pound sand or jump off a bridge. Your options are clear. But this thread has nothing to do with politics so fuck off.

lol noob

 

[911paramedic]

 

[irishScott]

For every idiot hippie occupying wall street, there are a thousand of real people who share the same sentiment.

And if they all listened in English and Civis class they'd know that thousands of people writing to congressmen would have a far greater effect than thousands of people standing around chattering like a bunch of disgruntled penguins.