Occupy Wall Street

[RGacky3]

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Anyone here part of this?

Its interesting however, that the media will covor a tea party with 25 people, but not a wall street protest with 5000.

THIS is the way to go.

[Smyg]

We've had some.. interesting.. discussions on this. :D It's a complete failure, I'd say.

[Bud Struggle]

Ever been to Wall Street on a Saturday? There is absolutely NOBODY there.

[danyboy27]

fuck wall street, occupy the goddamn stock exchange floor instead.

[Bud Struggle]

fuck wall street, occupy the goddamn stock exchange floor instead.


These guys are lame. :(

[danyboy27]

These guys are lame. :(
Well, that what you get when you play by the rules; not much.

Now, an alternative to occupy the stock exchange could be to establish litteraly a shanty town on wall street composed of most of the 99er.

people occupy streets all the time worldwide, it dosnt worth a dime if there are no objective around it.

generally, you know you are doing the right thing when the police in riot gear try to weed you out.

[Catma]

There aren't enough people to flaunt the police presence and get away with it. Sure, they could go ahead and get beaten with batons and arrested. Would that really accomplish anything?

There are still about 100-200 people chilling there. The pigs won't let them have tents or any "permanent structures", or even bullhorns. There is another gathering called for this Saturday. Some comrades went down last week and said the numbers of 1000 would be quite charitable. Hopefully it can get bigger this weekend, but the media coverage has evaporated.

[RGacky3]

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[RGacky3]

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Unions come in, hopefully this will be Wisconsin 2.0.

[kapitalyst]

"Occupy the floor of the stock exchange..."
Yeah, better yet, go in there and start beating up all the specialists and pose a bomb threat... let's cause some market volatility and wipe out millions of American's retirement money... and give me a chance to short stock futures and make a huge profit... :rolleyes:

I think it's funny seeing all those people out there screaming about hating corporations, "greed" and "materialism", and then they whip out their iPhones and Apple laptops... *buys Nov. $400 calls on Apple*

No one cares about this, erm... "thingy"... They're totally misguided, unorganized and confused about the real world. If they want to attack the center of oppression, they need to pack up and march on Washington, D.C...

[Revolution starts with U]

Nice bit of intellectual integrity there Kap... occupy = beat up?
You should be ashamed of yourself.

[Spets]

Occupy Congress, it's not like they are using the building.

[DinodudeEpic]

Finally, the people are doing something! And, that something is not being an authoritarian tea partier who wants to take away power from the people!

[Ele'ill]

I'm unhappy about the direction I see all of this going. I see effort and time and all that being put into something that's going to give a false sense of victory when 'successful' when the fact of the matter is, nobody has assessed what the 'victory' actually looks like.

[Drosophila]

Looks like another unorganized, sign-waving protest. And they sure as hell aren't occupying Wall Street, if that really means anything.

[kapitalyst]

@ RSWU: Where's your sense of humor? Those Barclays Capital guys would roll your asses anyway! lol! :lol:

@ dan74:

Exactly...

[RGacky3]

@ RSWU: Where's your sense of humor? Those Barclays Capital guys would roll your asses anyway! lol! http://www.revleft.com/vb/occupy-wall-street-t161492/revleft/smilies2/laugh.gif


You have to say something funny to see someones sense of humor,

Stupid =/= funny.

[Revolution starts with U]

@ RSWU: Where's your sense of humor? Those Barclays Capital guys would roll your asses anyway! lol! :lol:

@ dan74:

Exactly...

If I say something like "you should be ashamed" or especially "jerk" (I use that one A LOT), it means I'm just ribbing. I'm serious, but not so serious I can't laugh about it :lol:

[Bud Struggle]

I'm unhappy about the direction I see all of this going. I see effort and time and all that being put into something that's going to give a false sense of victory when 'successful' when the fact of the matter is, nobody has assessed what the 'victory' actually looks like.

I thnk it's a pretty humorous. I haven't been down there to see it mself, but friends tell me the workers on Wall Street don't take it all that seriously, but the cops definitely do.

[RGacky3]

I haven't been down there to see it mself, but friends tell me the workers on Wall Street don't take it all that seriously, but the cops definitely do.

You know the buisiness media is afraid of something when they go out of their way to dismiss it.

As far as Wallstreet people, I don't know.

As far as vicotry, victory is really mostly the fact that now people are looking at class war and thinking of fighting back, thats the most important thing.

[Orange Juche]

As far as vicotry, victory is really mostly the fact that now people are looking at class war and thinking of fighting back, thats the most important thing.

Is that what all those Ron Paul supporters down there are doing?

[Bud Struggle]

You know the buisiness media is afraid of something when they go out of their way to dismiss it.


Granted media has their "issues." They care about some thing--not others. There are lage anti-abortion rallies all of the time that never get covered, too.

Ron Paul wins polls all of the time, Herman Cain won the Florida straw poll, but Romeny and Perry get covered.

[kapitalyst]

@ Bud-Struggle:

You're right... no one on Wall Street is taking it seriously. There a bunch of guys trading stocks, ironically for a lot of people's retirement accounts, and fresh college graduates doing financial research. Definitely not the people who can meet their demands, if they actually had any... What's more, some of our more dim-witted libertarian comrades have mingled with these folks, and are our there with messages like "stop printing money!"... I think I need to go up there and direct them to the Federal Reserve bank! :laugh:

You're also right about the media blackout of Ron Paul. He's kicking arse, and they're running scared. I guess the financial law of the jungle horrifies self-important corporates who've grown accustomed to having a stately nanny to lean on, heheh.

[Bud Struggle]

Yea, there are no big time financiers parking their Rolls Royces and going to offices on WALL STREET. Those are just the worker bees, doing the trades and executing the orders that the protesters are screwing with.

Personally, for the "moment" I was a Trader, (institutional mortage back [Payne-Whitney, sigh]) I was on upper 6th.

Anyway--all in good fun.

And Ron Paul. Watch the news and he barely exists. You know, I think they talk about Communism more than him. :D

But then again--he is more dangerous. :D

[kapitalyst]

Btw... Can anyone show me the proper code for sharing Youtube videos? I've tried every combo I can think of, and it never works. :blushing:

[Bud Struggle]

Btw... Can anyone show me the proper code for sharing Youtube videos? I've tried every combo I can think of, and it never works. :blushing:

The code:

youtube.com/results?search_query=ron+paul&aq=0&oq=Ron+Paul

Use everything AFTER the = sign.

Ron+Paul

Post that between the "youtube" pull down.

[RGacky3]

Yea, there are no big time financiers parking their Rolls Royces and going to offices on WALL STREET. Those are just the worker bees, doing the trades and executing the orders that the protesters are screwing with.

Personally, for the "moment" I was a Trader, (institutional mortage back [Payne-Whitney, sigh]) I was on upper 6th.

Anyway--all in good fun.

And Ron Paul. Watch the news and he barely exists. You know, I think they talk about Communism more than him. :D

But then again--he is more dangerous. :D

Ron Paul is one of the few libertarians in power that actually believes it, some of his ideas (most of his free market economic ideas) are not dangerous infact they are very very useful and are the washington narrative, some of his ideas are very dangerous, like anti-militarism, civil libertarianism, and anti-corporatism.

Communism is talked about more because its just a dirty word to call people on the left.

Wall Street is a symbol, thats why its being protested, the real big institutional guys are not there, its the symbol of power that is being protested.

[#FF0000]

i hope ron paul wins so all the student douchebags i know who support him can suffer

[Drosophila]

So it looks like the arrests have reached 500. So when are they actually going to break into the NYSE? And when are they going to get someone to shut down the Dow Jones Industrial Average? The media coverage of this is so painful to watch. The bimbo news anchors act like they actually give a fuck.

[kapitalyst]

i hope ron paul wins so all the student douchebags i know who support him can suffer

Oh, wow... Then it's settled? You're a true humanitarian! You accept all races, sexual orientations, genders, etc... But anyone advancing conflicting ideology (e.g. religion or capitalism) is deserving of suffering. God bless the left! :rolleyes:

[kapitalyst]

So it looks like the arrests have reached 500. So when are they actually going to break into the NYSE? And when are they going to get someone to shut down the Dow Jones Industrial Average? The media coverage of this is so painful to watch. The bimbo news anchors act like they actually give a fuck.

:laugh:

As I've already said, anything done to disrupt the stock market will fuck the working class and not the wealthy. Creating panic selling just allows the financially sophisticated to short equities and profit... and I'm fast on the trigger! ;)

And how do you "shut down" the Dow-Jones Industrial Average? It's a composite of values. Are they going to shut down math?

[#FF0000]

Oh, wow... Then it's settled? You're a true humanitarian! You accept all races, sexual orientations, genders, etc... But anyone advancing conflicting ideology (e.g. religion or capitalism) is deserving of suffering. God bless the left! :rolleyes:

No it's not that it's that college libertarians are animals.

[Drosophila]

:laugh:

As I've already said, anything done to disrupt the stock market will fuck the working class and not the wealthy. Creating panic selling just allows the financially sophisticated to short equities and profit... and I'm fast on the trigger! ;)

And how do you "shut down" the Dow-Jones Industrial Average? It's a composite of values. Are they going to shut down math?

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[kapitalyst]

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:lol:

[Le Rouge]

I think it's funny seeing all those people out there screaming about hating corporations, "greed" and "materialism", and then they whip out their iPhones and Apple laptops...



I lolled at your total nonsense. You funny boy.

[kapitalyst]

I lolled at your total nonsense. You funny boy.

Glad I was of some service. Sometimes, I guess, truth is both nonsense and funny. :cool:


No it's not that it's that college libertarians are animals.

Anyone else? Jews, maybe? :rolleyes:

[Lenina Rosenweg]

Maybe he/she meant to say "college librarians are animals".

[RGacky3]

As I've already said, anything done to disrupt the stock market will fuck the working class and not the wealthy. Creating panic selling just allows the financially sophisticated to short equities and profit... and I'm fast on the trigger!

Not neccessarily, if you change the system, to where the working class is'nt dependant on the wealthy, then you have a free and independant working class.

BTW, the stock market is'nt the real economy.

[Revolution starts with U]

Wait.. is Ron Paul winning actual polls now? I thought he was just winning internet polls because of the large number of trolls that support him ;)

[Le Rouge]

I think it's funny seeing all those people out there screaming about hating corporations, "greed" and "materialism", and then they whip out their iPhones and Apple laptops...



Ok...The people you are talking about are either : Primitivists or just wierd.
If someone hates corporations, it don't necessarily means he hates their products. We don't hate materialism, we hate the way corporations rule the world, the way they are organised ( the fact that bosses win sometimes 20 times the normal worker salary), that they don't care about environment and they would anilihate everyting for the sake of making money, that their only goal is money!!money!11!one1! money!!, that they are trying to reduce the workers to a non-thinking entity, that they are constantly attacking the workers rights, I could go on and on.

[Lobotomy]

Apparently a significant number of people in the armed forces are showing up to protect the protesters. Might legitimize it further in the eyes of the public.

[RGacky3]

I bet you most in the public are sympathetic, the media will never be sympathetic to a protest like this.

[Revolution starts with U]

Apparently a significant number of people in the armed forces are showing up to protect the protesters. Might legitimize it further in the eyes of the public.

Actually I remember a textbook in my high school basically said that was the final breaking point of the Russian Revolution (and of course I now, after having learned, see how simplistic of an analysis this was); large sectors of the armed forces simply stopped fighting the revolutionaries. :lol:

[Le Rouge]

Actually I remember a textbook in my high school basically said that was the final breaking point of the Russian Revolution (and of course I now, after having learned, see how simplistic of an analysis this was); large sectors of the armed forces simply stopped fighting the revolutionaries. :lol:

We're pretty far from this. But a movement like Occupy wall street can wake up the class consciousness. And only then, there are hope for a revolution.