‘It Gets Heated’: Twin Sisters Divided Over Occupy Wall Street

Started by garbon, October 28, 2011, 08:34:32 AM

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garbon

http://news.yahoo.com/gets-heated-twin-sisters-divided-over-occupy-wall-120036018.html

A poor attempt to be the Onion?

QuoteGrowing up, twin sisters Nicole and Jill Carty had a lot in common.

But around the age of 14, Nicole Carty told ABC News today, they started going in different directions — and they never stopped, with Nicole Carty attending Brown University for a degree in sociology and Jill Carty heading to the University of Pennsylvania to pursue degrees in international business and studies.

Now with the Occupy Wall Street movement more than a month old, the recent Ivy League graduates have found themselves on Wall Street but on opposing sides.

Nicole Carty, who works for a television station, spends her free time in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street's headquarters, organizing general assembly meetings for the demonstrators.

Jill Carty works for a company that assists financial service  clients. She said although she agreed with some of the protesters' sentiments, she did not support more government regulations and intervention.

"I feel that's what's gotten us into this mess in the first place," she told ABC News Wednesday. "There are always unintended consequences with government intervention."

She said it was no secret among her family that she and Nicole Carty had different views on Occupy Wall Street and its message.

"I'd be very much more pleased if she [Nicole Carty] would be able to come up with solutions to these problems [voiced by protesters] that use the tools of the country and the world like economics and things that I feel have potential really to change the way that things work and the way people behave," Jill Carty said.

But Nicole Carty said that her sister's politics were completely wrong and off base.

"[Jill Carty] lacks a fundamental understanding of structural oppression that is inexcusable and immature," she said. "She just really trusts capitalism and doesn't recognize that capitalism is kind of responsible for a lot of the injustices we have in the world."
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News organizations run this shit all the time. I think it's an attempt to "humanize" what's happening.
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PDH

Structural oppression?  Given the current state of the infrastructure in the USA it will collapse on its own in a few years unless the concrete is replaced.
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HisMajestyBOB

Quote from: PDH on October 28, 2011, 09:47:57 AM
Structural oppression?  Given the current state of the infrastructure in the USA it will collapse on its own in a few years unless the concrete is replaced.

As long as it's not my tax money paying for your socialist concrete  :mad:
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Quote from: chipwich on October 28, 2011, 08:16:36 PM
I've been hearing that "OMG Infrastructure" yarn for a decade now, so far everything's intact.
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MadImmortalMan

Ivy-educated people both using the stupid "I feel" statement. Bleh.

Do they think anything?   :P
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Come on, T Rex got millions of years and we've barely gotten thousands.
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Quote from: MadImmortalMan on October 29, 2011, 12:47:46 PM
Ivy-educated people both using the stupid "I feel" statement. Bleh.

Do they think anything?   :P

The leftie neither feels nor thinks.  She just knows.  :)

Razgovory

Quote from: chipwich on October 28, 2011, 08:16:36 PM
I've been hearing that "OMG Infrastructure" yarn for a decade now, so far everything's intact.

Well except for that bridge in Minnesota.
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Neil

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 29, 2011, 01:16:54 PM
Come on, T Rex got millions of years and we've barely gotten thousands.
We've had hundreds of thousands, which is a good run.  And Tyrannosaurus never exerted the same power that a human does.
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Quote from: Neil on October 29, 2011, 07:51:28 PM
We've had hundreds of thousands, which is a good run.  And Tyrannosaurus never exerted the same power that a human does.

I'd imagine they had comparable power to a Stone Age band of hunters. So we're back to mere thousands.
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