1 year on, Occupy is in disarray; spirit lives on

[Valmy]

I just fail to see the merit of the occupy movement. It is a bunch of people being frustrated for a myriad of reasons, and I am not sure about two things:
-that the number of frustrated people in a society can be pushed below a minimum number regardless of system or efforts
-that the western world's number of frustrated people is significantly above that number

Pretty much, yeah.  The unfortunate thing is that with today's social media these scattered losers can find each other more easily.

They are just the left wing version of the Tea Party movement.  They just chose the Big Bidness as their bugbear instead of the Gubmint.

I think the lower classes in the US are getting restless.  Their avenues of raising themselves in ways that do not involve academic brilliance or shrewd entrepreneurship are getting narrower.  Finding the right people to blame for their problems is challenging in today's complex modern world.

They should just blame foreigners.  Maybe Canadians.

[Ed Anger]

Anti-Capitalist Seedy isn't as fun.

[garbon]

They are just the left wing version of the Tea Party movement.  They just chose the Big Bidness as their bugbear instead of the Gubmint.

I think the lower classes in the US are getting restless.  Their avenues of raising themselves in ways that do not involve academic brilliance or shrewd entrepreneurship are getting narrower.  Finding the right people to blame for their problems is challenging in today's complex modern world.

They should just blame foreigners.  Maybe Canadians.

But a lot of the Occupy people weren't the lower classes. After all, if you're living paycheck to paycheck, you don't really have a lot of time to camp out and play drums in a concrete park.

[Valmy]

But a lot of the Occupy people weren't the lower classes. After all, if you're living paycheck to paycheck, you don't really have a lot of time to camp out and play drums in a concrete park.

If everybody was living paycheck to paycheck, as in getting paychecks, there would not be these movements happening because...well...just as you say.

[garbon]

But a lot of the Occupy people weren't the lower classes. After all, if you're living paycheck to paycheck, you don't really have a lot of time to camp out and play drums in a concrete park.

If everybody was living paycheck to paycheck, as in getting paychecks, there would not be these movements happening because...well...just as you say.

I'm unconvinced that most of the Occupy Wall Streeters were unemployed.  Those photos sure don't look like the unemployed - they often look like Williamsburg.

[Phillip V]

Any good-looking OWS females this week?

[CountDeMoney]

Any good-looking OWS females this week?

I saw a decent brunette.

Oh, here she is:  all serious and whatnot.  Probably fucks you in a beret.

[Ed Anger]

Pass.

[CountDeMoney]

Pass.

[Ed Anger]

 

Seedy is good people.

[Valmy]

I'm unconvinced that most of the Occupy Wall Streeters were unemployed.  Those photos sure don't look like the unemployed - they often look like Williamsburg.

Yeah ok there were no Occupy Wall Street or similar movements going on before 2007.

And what the hell does Williamsburg mean?  Were they dressed up like Colonial Virginians?

[CountDeMoney]

And what the hell does Williamsburg mean?  Were they dressed up like Colonial Virginians?

  Wrong zip code, man.

[katmai]

He means neighborhood of Brooklyn.

[Josephus]

The trouble with Occupy was that it was disorganized and had no focus other than camping out and making silly chants about 1 per cent milk or whatever it was. I'm with CDM on this, they needed some good old fashioned violence. Get the cops out with dogs and tear gas. Do what they did in Egypt. Camping out in city parks just doesn't cut it as far as revolutions go.

It did seem an OK idea at first, got them and their message, whatever it was, on the news. But after a week or so it needed to mobilize and try a different tactic to keep it going. Instead they got silly with all those hand gestures instead of shouting and hippy dippy stuff.

A year later, I'm still not sure what they were up to.

[Admiral Yi]

The big problem with OWS was they didn't have a single person in their slogan production department who had even the dimmest understanding of cause and effect.