Occupy Wall Street Turns 2

[Josephus]

Not sure how a movement that pretty much fizzled out in four months can "turn two"

[mongers]

The occupiers I'm still aware of, or the few I'm still in contact with, have migrated to other things, currently chiefly the anti-fracking campaign, so in some ways they're performing the function of a rent-a-crowd. 

[DGuller]

It's a shame that a movement with a rather valid premise would up being overtaken by the easily-dismissed wackos.  The increased role of casino capitalism in our economy is a problem, and will continue being a problem until we have another wake-up call like we had in 1930ies.  Hopefully we won't have to waste tens of millions of lives this time to re-learn the lesson that some pockets full of free speech have successfully made us forget.

[Admiral Yi]

It's a shame that a movement with a rather valid premise would up being overtaken by the easily-dismissed wackos.  The increased role of casino capitalism in our economy is a problem, and will continue being a problem until we have another wake-up call like we had in 1930ies.  Hopefully we won't have to waste tens of millions of lives this time to re-learn the lesson that some pockets full of free speech have successfully made us forget.

I don't see how you can possibly infer that as the premise of Occupy.

[CountDeMoney]

Occupy won't mean anything until they figure out the proper use of explosives.  Movements tend to get taken more seriously when body counts start climbing.

[Eddie Teach]

Occupy won't mean anything until they figure out the proper use of explosives.  Movements tend to get taken more seriously when body counts start climbing.

Like Al Qaeda and the Klan.

[CountDeMoney]

Occupy won't mean anything until they figure out the proper use of explosives.  Movements tend to get taken more seriously when body counts start climbing.

Like Al Qaeda and the Klan.

As you saying a hijacked airliner couldn't hit a Baptist church?

[Eddie Teach]

Occupy won't mean anything until they figure out the proper use of explosives.  Movements tend to get taken more seriously when body counts start climbing.

Like Al Qaeda and the Klan.

As you saying a hijacked airliner couldn't hit a Baptist church?

I don't think it would make people more receptive to their message.

[Phillip V]

Occupy won't mean anything until they figure out the proper use of explosives.  Movements tend to get taken more seriously when body counts start climbing.

No. They should make proper use of hunger strikes and self-immolation.

[Admiral Yi]

Occupy won't mean anything until they figure out the proper use of explosives.  Movements tend to get taken more seriously when body counts start climbing.

Like Al Qaeda and the Klan.

Or the Weather Underground and the Symbionese Liberation Army.

[Admiral Yi]

Or Timothy McVeigh.

[DGuller]

It's a shame that a movement with a rather valid premise would up being overtaken by the easily-dismissed wackos.  The increased role of casino capitalism in our economy is a problem, and will continue being a problem until we have another wake-up call like we had in 1930ies.  Hopefully we won't have to waste tens of millions of lives this time to re-learn the lesson that some pockets full of free speech have successfully made us forget.

I don't see how you can possibly infer that as the premise of Occupy.

Wall Street is the biggest symbol of casino capitalism.  Occupiers may not have had quite the same nuanced understanding of casino capitalism and the damage it inflicts, but the instincts were right.

[CountDeMoney]

Occupy won't mean anything until they figure out the proper use of explosives.  Movements tend to get taken more seriously when body counts start climbing.

No. They should make proper use of hunger strikes and self-immolation.

   I doubt a Tibetan monk-b-que would even be noticed on Wall Street.  Just another day in the Big Apple.

[Razgovory]

Occupy won't mean anything until they figure out the proper use of explosives.  Movements tend to get taken more seriously when body counts start climbing.

Like Al Qaeda and the Klan.

Or the Weather Underground and the Symbionese Liberation Army.

Remind me how many people died in Weather Underground attacks.

[Admiral Yi]

Wall Street is the biggest symbol of casino capitalism.  Occupiers may not have had quite the same nuanced understanding of casino capitalism and the damage it inflicts, but the instincts were right.

That's about as reasonable as saying the starting premise of Occupy Wall Street was a visceral hatred of suspenders.

I judge their beliefs by what they said, printed on signs, and wrote.  They thought their student loan loads were really bad.  They thought their inability to get cool jobs was really bad.  They thought banks were really bad.  They thought unequal income distribution was really bad.