Do You Support The "Occupy"Protests?

Do you support the global "Occupy" protests?


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fdd2blk

Well-Known Member
protestors have closed the "port of Oakland".

crowd was estimated to be 1000 people at noon. it's 6pm and they are saying there are over 4500 people there now. a lot of them are women and child. they have lines of school kids marching out front of the crowds. no police in site. all is calm and peaceful.
 

budlover13

King Tut
protestors have closed the "port of Oakland".

crowd was estimated to be 1000 people at noon. it's 6pm and they are saying there are over 4500 people there now. a lot of them are women and child. they have lines of school kids marching out front of the crowds. no police in site. all is calm and peaceful.
What's your newsfeed?

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fdd2blk

Well-Known Member
What's your newsfeed?

Btw, off topic here, your iso method rocks for potency :)
my news feed is the local news on channel 2,4,5,6, and 7. maybe 11, but i haven't checked there yet.

LIVE news chopper 2. :cool:

it's starting to get dark. the crowd is growing.
 

tryingtogrow89

Well-Known Member
founding fathers didn't own slaves either. although those slaves had every opportunity in life that their slave masters did. and slaves were better off as slaves than they were freed. and fluoride is a conspiracy to give us all chemical lobotomies and make us passive so we turn into nazi germany.
these are all things you have said.

credibility = 0.

Oh you're just upset your hero al gore and obama are nothing but con/scam artists, and you get called out on it by everyone here.

Insight/info = 0

also you are turning what i schooled you on into something else.

Liar = 100%:dunce:
 

UncleBuck

Well-Known Member
Oh you're just upset your hero al gore and obama are nothing but con/scam artists, and you get called out on it by everyone here.

Insight/info = 0

also you are turning what i schooled you on into something else.

Liar = 100%:dunce:
the founding fathers didn't own slaves, you dummy :eyesmoke:
 

Habbakuk

Member
I think 90% of protesters are protesting for the sole reason of wanting to protest and be involved in excitement and clashes for the experience. Sure they want change, but methinks the phrase "the green is always greener" applies here. I don't think most of these people realize how much their everyday lives are dependent upon these big corporations, and yet they want them taken down.

In summary, I think they are idiots who are protesting without much of a cause, but I still support it because at least they are being rebels and defying something and someone.
 

UncleBuck

Well-Known Member
I don't think most of these people realize how much their everyday lives are dependent upon these big corporations, and yet they want them taken down.
are you sure that they want to tae down the corporations, or do you think that they simply want these corporations to play fair, like they do in their business endeavors and like many other corporations actually do?

no one has attended an "occupy ben and jerry's" to my knowledge as of yet.
 

Padawanbater2

Well-Known Member
I think 90% of protesters are protesting for the sole reason of wanting to protest and be involved in excitement and clashes for the experience. Sure they want change, but methinks the phrase "the green is always greener" applies here. I don't think most of these people realize how much their everyday lives are dependent upon these big corporations, and yet they want them taken down.

In summary, I think they are idiots who are protesting without much of a cause, but I still support it because at least they are being rebels and defying something and someone.
The movement isn't about taking down corporations, it's about crony capitalism and corporate influence in politics that lead to economic inequality.

Go to the Internet for information, throw your tv out the window, or pawn it for a better CPU.
 

fdd2blk

Well-Known Member
a lot of people said they couldn't protest today because they couldn't afford to lose a days pay. that alone should have been enough reason for them to protest.
 

sync0s

Well-Known Member
[video=youtube;ZFZrNSa3b8g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFZrNSa3b8g&feature=related[/video]
 

Canna Sylvan

Well-Known Member
I don't support these idiots. My aunt would and so would all her friends. They would make excuses how Arnold Schwarzenegger had ten fuel cell Hummers. But they have environmentally friendly hybrids. So Arnold should be ashamed he's polluting. When I pointed out just one of their hybrids polluted infinitely more since fuel cell is zero emission and compressed hydrogen is renewable. They still fought back with Arnold doesn't need ten cars. They're christian too. Whatever happened to not coveting thy neighbor's ass?
While I do agree corporations need to go and the economy needs to be fair, I don't agree with their socialist to communist ideals.
What would make it fair is laissez-fair capitalism. But you only need government for one function, as a neutral watchdog mediator to allow the following:

1) Individual responsibility for a company's actions. They can be multiple partnerships, with each owner having equal or unequal voting rights. To have a partnership with one owner with 51% and the other 49% with the current system requires atleast an llc. That's not fair. Even limited liability is barbaric. If I owe an llc debt, I personally must declare bankruptcy for non-payment. If an llc owes me money, the founder and none of its members are personally liable the same as I am. That's stealing, unethical and wrong.

2) Individuals can't join together for the sole purpose of forming secret syndicates. This includes and not limited to, price collusion or product dumping. If persons are found guilty of said actions, the persons must reimburse others, including other owners they were trying to defraud and customers, including a extensive fine that benefits public works. If the offense warrants, jail time too.

3) Protection of the people from domestic and foreign invaders who plan or do harm to citizens.

4) Free health care for all citizens in order to maintain a healthy work force.

5) Protection and conservation of wild life and lands, air and water.

Everything else the government doesn't get involved in. No world police, no foreign aid, no sympathy towards illegal persons entering the country, no non-profits or other garbage I can't think of. The rest, the citizens provide themselves. That would be fair.
 

Dan Kone

Well-Known Member
I think 90% of protesters are protesting for the sole reason of wanting to protest and be involved in excitement and clashes for the experience.
In summary, I think they are idiots who are protesting without much of a cause
And I think you're 90% full of shit. The causes they are protesting are real. Economic inequality is at a high. Economic mobility is at an all time low. And Wall St just robbed us for trillions of dollars. You are a fool of epic proportions if you don't think this cause is real.
 

Dan Kone

Well-Known Member
a car ran someone over. i would hope the police would show up for that.
Not only did it run someone over, the car then backed up so it could run over another person. Then the police let the car go without charges. Now the police have the protesters surrounded and are gassing them.
 

Tales

Active Member
Not only did it run someone over, the car then backed up so it could run over another person. Then the police let the car go without charges. Now the police have the protesters surrounded and are gassing them.
Thats f@#king garbage man. I saw the video tape and the driver is seriously at fault. I dont advocate the guy that was standing in his way, but the driver didnt handle that situation well at all.

The driver hits the gas hard with a protester standing at his front bumper and runs his ass over. I bet the driver will be facing charges when the DA reviews the tapes.

This is still a country where you cant run someone over cause they are blocking your way, even if the protester pounded on the car's hood.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/02/BA5G1LQ06S.DTL
 

Canna Sylvan

Well-Known Member
Tales,
Yet another reason I despise these occupy hoods. If it comes to my safety and my family, the guy beating my hood gets flattened. I'm not going to be another Reginald Denny. Group think is dangerous. Mob rule versus my car, get out of my way. Nothing ever happens when prosecuting mobs, but even if they were, you want to look like this for the rest of your life?

Http://jerrybrice.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/reginald-denny.jpeg

These people are rioters and not protesters. They now get zero sympathy from me.
 

Tales

Active Member
Tales,
Yet another reason I despise these occupy hoods. If it comes to my safety and my family, the guy beating my hood gets flattened. I'm not going to be another Reginald Denny. Group think is dangerous. Mob rule versus my car, get out of my way. Nothing ever happens when prosecuting mobs, but even if they were, you want to look like this for the rest of your life?

Http://jerrybrice.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/reginald-denny.jpeg

These people are rioters and not protesters. They now get zero sympathy from me.
I agree with protecting one's family... BUT...

I watched the video and the car drives right into the person who is marching. I mean, seriously, it could have been done differently. The guy in the car was pissed and it showed.

You cant run people over when they are marching in a protest regardless of your personal reasons for not liking the protest. That is common sense, and I dont think the guy standing in the road pounding on the cars hood when the car didnt stop driving forward can be perceived as "threat of great bodily harm".

I feel you on not wanting to become the next Reginald Denny too. That's why most people avoided that area at all cost... not drive your fucking Benz into the crowd and plow over a protester or three. WTF???

But dont take my word for it.... (Reading Rainbow, LOL) watch the vid then chime in.

http://www.ktvu.com/videos/news/raw-video-pedestrian-hit-by-car-in-downtown/vD4pp/
 
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