I can't help but wonder how all the occupy protests would've turned out if the people who actually understood what they were mad about had the drive and firepower of the anti Mubarak protestors in Egypt and all the useless hippies stayed in their acid induced fantasy worlds. The only thing retard protesters, and I don't mean all protesters, in North America have ever been good for is helping the cause they're trying to destroy. Thinking you can fix anything with sit ins and not so clever signage is naive and embarrassing to watch. But the signs are pretty gosh darn cute!
It's amazing to observe how the focus shifts from reason and understanding to "hey, look at how ridiculous this spectacle is becoming". This is the point when the boring people with some sort of insight get pushed to the side by a guy riding a 9 foot high unicycle while juggling and chanting something negative about guys in suits shows up. It's pretty obvious who's going to be getting the attention here. And nobody in their right mind wants to be associated with moron hippies. The only reason hippies haven't figured out that they're the laughing stock of the world is because of some misguided form of self righteousness and that makes it even more fun to piss all over them. Who doesn't enjoy watching a righteous prick fail while trying very hard to force their views on everyone around them?
The point here is this: I'd say most reasonable people would agree that there is some seedy shit going on in Wall Street and it would be nice to see something like commodities trading go away but when you have massive groups of people attaching themselves to the "99%" cause who are on board with their own agendas i.e. "more free bus passes", "lower tuition", "kill the rich because they have money", then you will alienate and annoy the masses and they'll stop giving a shit about you. I feel pretty confident in saying that about 1% of the 99% actually understand economics and were at those protests with reasonable views and demands on government and banking institutions. How boring is that though? You aren't going to be on the news wearing khakis and talking facts. I've got a plan for you reasonable people: Get yourself some flamethrowers and head over to Wall Street. I'm sure your message will be heard.
For the record: I don't condone flamethrower use on Wall St. You hear that CIA and FBI? Boom, disclaimered!
ReplyDeletewow i didn't know you had a blog...cool! i agree that protesters of anything should try to be more aware of the cause that they are supporting, and the way they come across doing it, because the whole idea of protest is to make a message through media coverage or word of mouth... blah blah however, part of the message that i got from wall street was : wow that's a lot of people to stay on wall street for 2 weeks day in and day out... they must not have jobs... that's a lot of unemployed people... many of them look very employable ( looking unemployable at a rally against unemployment would probably not help your message be taken seriously by the masses )... something must be wrong with the economic system that so many people are unemployed!
ReplyDeleteYeah, that makes sense. All those employable people were overlooked by the idiots juggling and drum circling though...bummer.
ReplyDeleteWas the whole occupy thing happening in protest of unemployment? I thought the big issue there was Wall St. bankers who got away with a lot of blatant greasy bullshit and the fact that political campaigns are given power more by the industries and lobbyist groups rather than the voters. The campaign leader is pretty much a useless figurehead at this point and somebody finally became fed up with it.