Occupy Wall Street

[One Brow]

Can anyone list the objectives of the OWS movement?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/almostdiamonds/2011/10/10/understanding-occupy-wall-street/

 

[GoJazz]

I think everyone is getting played. On one side you have Socialist and Communist and on the other you have Fascism and Authoritarianism. Then you have the media that turns it into a left vs. right, republicans vs. democrats, and Fox News vs. CNN issue when the whole time government continues to enrich small numbers of power people at the expense of the middle and lower classes. See either way the rich/powerful win because it doesn't matter which party is in control because they own them both. This is why the republicans took rights via the patriot act, using scare tactics based on 911, and spent money like it was going out of style to enrich there buddies and it is why the democrats do the same. The primary goal for each party is to slowly tax us into slavery, take away our rights, and vote themselves greater and greater authority over our lives.

 

[Scat]

[video]https://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/401092/october-31-2011/colbert-super-pac---occupy-wall-street-co-optportunity---stephen-on-location?xrs=share_copy



[video]https://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/401261/november-01-2011/colbert-super-pac---stephen-colbert-occupies-occupy-wall-street-pt--2?xrs=share_copy

 

[One Brow]

How different is this protest from previous protest movements?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/crommunist/2011/11/28/history-debunks-myths-about-occupy/

 

[Scat]

I heard a great comment today on the occupy movement. About 25-30 years ago society stopped keeping score and started handing out awards to everyone just for showing up regardless of participation level. That generation which has become accustomed to being rewarded just for showing up is now expecting to be rewarded for doing absolutely nothing.

 

[Chris-L]

 

[Chris-L]

Sums up how I feel.

 

[One Brow]

I heard a great comment today on the occupy movement.

That was a great example of the types of things the older generation has been saying about the younger generation for generations.

 

[LogGrad98]

That was a great example of the types of things the older generation has been saying about the younger generation for generations.

The decline of roman society started somewhere. Or is that just something older generations of romans were saying about younger generations of romans for generations?

 

[moevillini]

That was a great example of the types of things the older generation has been saying about the younger generation for generations.

The decline of roman society started somewhere. Or is that just something older generations of romans were saying about younger generations of romans for generations?

OK, perhaps not in so many words, but isn't this pretty much what God said regarding Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden?


Sort of ironic that this latest movement all started in the BIG APPLE isn't it?

 

[One Brow]

The decline of roman society started somewhere. Or is that just something older generations of romans were saying about younger generations of romans for generations?

Pretty much, even while Rome was in its ascendancy.

 

[LogGrad98]

Pretty much, even while Rome was in its ascendancy.

So at some point it became true.


I am still interested in seeing all these quotes from Roman oldsters to Roman youngsters about their loud music and loose morals exactly like today.