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I thought NYC was already occupied by progressive idiots (but I repeat myself). I guess now it’s doubly occupied.
They are spoiled children.
Radiohead is rumored to be playing an impromptu free show down there in a couple of hours. It’s been fun trolling an NYC music blog today.
I scanned the comments over there, and they are all in line with the same “thinking” except for a few at the end. My guess is those will be removed soon.
As Reagan said (paraphrasing), they know a lot of things that aren’t so.
Have we tried the shiny beads and feathers routine again yet?
Dress for protesty success!
23 Theys.
Hunt Theys down. Talk to They. Tell They they. Get in They’s faces. Wipe They’s ass. Sort They out. Lift They up. Knock They down. Slip They a fin. Finnish Theys too. Shark-bite They’s paperlogs. Give They what. Remind They the Yanks will be impaled on the spear of mighty Verlander. Daub They’s wounds. Dry They’s tears. Hand They a cool beverage. Drink They under. Punch They’s ticket. Foul They’s plate. Touch They’s hand. Suck They’s dick.
To put who is at this protest into perspective, there’s a pinko bookstore in the East Village which is struggling to stay afloat, and 40,000 people have signed an online petition requesting (demanding?) that the landlord reduce the store’s rent so it can survive. A sane person might think “hey, 40,000 people could go there and buy a book or two” but no, never even occurs to them. You’re dealing with fucking infants.
Y’know, there’s plenty of polo-and-khaki-wearing motherfuckers that I’d have no problem watching the cops beat with nightsticks. No problem at all. Might even TiVo it and watch it twice.
So hey, whatever works for them.
They can dress for success all they want, but there will still be the smell.
Dress for protesty success!
What, no over-inflated scrotums, nipple rings and Bush puppets hung in effigy? Count me out.
Think: Business Casual Friday. Don’t play it up like the Billionaires for healthcare. You’re just a guy, going to work in this big office building here.
Yea, as if they know what’s that’s like. Besides, that ear gauging stuff – you can’t just take ’em for a protest.
It occurs to me that when you announce an intent to “occupy” an area, connoting your intent to use force upon the encountering of resistance and rejection of the existing civil authorities in the area, you are likely to be met with force in kind. Your First Amendment Rights don’t trump my right to travel freely, Dickbags.
And just to be clear, Civil Disobedience is still Disobedience.
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Have the residents of NYC been informed that they are now officially occupied by dirty smelly stupid hippies? Because I think they should be told that.
Don’t see a lot of khakis and polo’s at a bank. In New York. Last time I was there I had to buy a tie. The khaki and polo crowd reminds me of the guys who used to work a Blockbuster. Those guys deserved any beating they got.
Maybe someone should tell Mayor Bloomberg that the hippies are threatening to smoke and eat lots of salty foods. I bet he would give the order for wood shampoos if he heard that.
What does this mean? That not all the protesters necessarily agree to all the grievances, or that oh god no there’s even more grievances?
I mean, if it’s the first, cheers!, I’ll even admit to agreeing with a couple of them, beginning with the first on the list.
If it’s the second, and there’s even more grievances, you’re a loser. Khakis or no. I pity you like I would a two year old bawling when the lights get turned out. It must be sad reaching adulthood and still dependent on mommy and daddy. Especially when you consider government your daddy.
Ya little fucking wimps need to get up in the morning and tackle the world, not cower in herds mooing for protection from the capitalist wolf. Starbucks didn’t point a gun at your head and force you to buy that double espresso latte.
“Commence Operation ‘Baby Seal'”
I just took it as a weak-assed echo of the Bill of Rights fight in Convention, ultimately finessed by the 9th Amendment.
Tried to post this at the “General Assembly” website, in response to a protesty guy claiming it takes “a pair” to “take a stand” and try to bring about change.
For some reason that website is going reeeeeally slow.
These are the type of people that I put my military retirement on hold for – Chicago, Spring 2012. Me. Riot Baton. Plexan Shield. I so hope…
Actually, I think Mikey has it right in #16.
Madison was dress rehearsal. NY this fall. Chicago next spring and summer (brings back the good old days eh Billy A). I wonder where the
Team will have the mob next take direct action to impede democratic processescommunity will spontaneously self-organize next fall?Sweet! This means the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder will be totally empty tonight! Looks like I know where I’m taking Ms. scotch tonight!
And yet it’s STILL not as fatuous as the NowhereIsland excursion.
And here, the Freakonomics guys enumerate why the Occupy Wall Street crowd is pissing on the wrong hydrant.
…pissing on the wrong hydrant.
They chose their hydrant based on location and probability of attracting cameras and attention. They don’t really care about anything else.
Er, not:
No, no scapegoat there, Freaks. None at all. Stuff always just implodes … after Wall Street pays out trillions to Friends of Banksters and puts the rest of us in hock through the next three generations.
Assuming we end it now, that is.
The Freaks need to expand their point of view a notch or they only enumerate that they don’t grasp shit about why the place is going up in flames as the direct result of a failing monetary policy bound to fraud at a national level that’s designed to extract and redistribute wealth. Historically. Demonstrably. Evidently. Assuredly.
I give up.
“I give up.”
Eh, you ain’t giving up. This shit is like crack to you.
By the way, I think the concept of a scapegoat is being mangled. In fact, the whole article, building the premiss “we’re all (somewhat) at fault”, is a scapegoat.
Killed by the guilty.
How long would any of those people last in a noncorporate, pre-industrial world?
The heck with it, LBascom. The inherent sacredness of Teh Corporation is too entrenched on the “right“.
tl;dr
They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives or provide relief in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantial profit.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaha no.
Pardon me for having a very narrow focus here but I hate this every time it’s brought up. Forcing drug companies to go to generic faster is not an anodyne to “corporate greed”; it’s a way to make them stop developing new drugs and work on ways to keep what they’ve got under patent as long as possible. When fifty to seventy percent of a drug’s patent life is spent on developing the drug and then FDA-required trials to ensure drug safety, that remaining slice of time before it goes generic is essential for drug companies to get some kind of return-on-investment.
Which is not to say that there’s not a massive profit turned in the pharmaceutical industry and a lot that could be fixed there, but it’s not due to the drug development process. Overprescription of things like statins and psychopharmaceuticals is where I would focus, but that requires changing medical opinion on the necessity of those drugs to quality of life.
You are clearly an anti-science corporatist tool, Pellegri.
Clearly. Even if I have more science in my nail parings than these idiots.