Occupy Wall Street - one year later, general thoughts

[OsO]

and what? Hold signs with catchy slogans that will be seen on the news around the world at 5pm and forgotten before the sun rises?

no im talking about occupying the city hall or downtown or wherever until shyt gets changed.

you ever seen a flash mob take over a venue before? imagine a strategic flash mob scenario but with a little more discipline, focus, and intention.

 

[PewPew]

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Dad Political: Why Occupy Wall Street Failed

Imagine you’re at work. Your boss comes in calls a meeting of your department and tells you that your whole department is having a salary reduction of 50%, you’ll be required to work weekends and you’ll not be paid overtime. You’re most likely pissed, as is everyone in your department, but hey, you have a mortgage to pay and kids to feed. You grin and bear it, you don’t say shyt. You know who doesn’t grin and bear it? The pink haired new guy with the way to tight jeans and gaping holes in his ears. He speaks up. In fact he’s pissed. He says something. You don’t say shyt. You think it. You silently nod, but you don’t say shyt. He starts to try to organize a meeting, you don’t say shyt. He posts meeting times in the break room, you don’t say shyt. He meets with the boss, then gets fired... You don’t say shyt.

Why, because he didn’t look like you? Forget the fact that you agreed with him 100% he didn’t look like you so when it came time to join up you couldn’t because he wasn’t you…or so you though. Truth is he’s EXACTLY you (minus the hair, jeans and holes). He has a family, he has a mortgage, he even shared the same job as you. The difference was he wasn’t a biotch, re-read the first sentence of this post again. Now you may be asking, “if he wasn’t a bitoch and America doesn’t like biotches, AND he still failed then what’s the problem?”

The answer: “you’re a little biotch”. The problem wasn’t him, he did the right thing. The problem was you. YOU. YOU saw what was going on, YOU had every opportunity to help change things, YOU didn’t…because you’re a biotch...

Soooooo if more people stepped up to help, OWS would have accomplished more things? How many people did they need because at one point they had the whole USA behind them! Sorry but thats a weak ass copout. The tea bag party was a small ass minority and still got people into high positions. And I dont agree with the tea baggers at all but I agree with how they did shyt.

I was out there at Occupy Atlanta for 3 days and nights. i slept on the cold hard ground with these people, surrounded by more than 50 cops at any given moment. I was ready to see the movement spur a new political party that was really for the people, and get some common sense laws put in like glass-stegall or keeping lobbyists out of elections.

If people are still asking what your movement wants/is about ONE YEAR after it started and got WORLDWIDE publicity, then you failed. We are now more watched then ever, the government can indefinitely arrest you, its illegal to protest near certain places now, and no laws to help the middle class has been put in.

But ill let you blame all these folks who didnt help out. Maybe if they knew exactly what they were protesting for, they would have been more inclined to help.

 

[Brown_Pride]

Soooooo if more people stepped up to help, OWS would have accomplished more things? How many people did they need because at one point they had the whole USA behind them! Sorry but thats a weak ass copout. The tea bag party was a small ass minority and still got people into high positions. And I dont agree with the tea baggers at all but I agree with how they did shyt.

I was out there at Occupy Atlanta for 3 days and nights. i slept on the cold hard ground with these people, surrounded by more than 50 cops at any given moment. I was ready to see the movement spur a new political party that was really for the people, and get some common sense laws put in like glass-stegall or keeping lobbyists out of elections.

If people are still asking what your movement wants/is about ONE YEAR after it started and got WORLDWIDE publicity, then you failed. We are now more watched then ever, the government can indefinitely arrest you, its illegal to protest near certain places now, and no laws to help the middle class has been put in.

But ill let you blame all these folks who didnt help out. Maybe if they knew exactly what they were protesting for, they would have been more inclined to help.

it's on thing to say you got someone it's another thing to make moves to do it. ALl that marching and shyt amounted to a "Like" on face book...and held about the same political weight. Had more people stepped up and continued on with meetings and organized and ran for office then yeah, things would be different.

For sure they were mad unorganized, IMHO had they had a simple focused message things still would have resulted the same way.

 

[alpo]

 

[FAH1223]

The comparison with the Tea Party is laughable. Tea Party had the Kochs bankrolling their organizing.

Occupy was organic and now we've seen it morph a lot more with modest electoral gains but has shifted the conversation. Unfortunately, the system will always benefit big moneyed interests.