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wall street protests...is this the start of the revolution?
Wealth disparity has reached an unsustainable level in the US. We are a lot closer to violent protest then meets the eye IMHO. Are the Wall Street protests the start?
It would appear that the powers that be are quieting them up real quick and not letting it get out of hand.
The protests are indeed interesting, but most of the actual numbers I have seen thus far are not so impressive. Maybe when they hit the hundreds of thousands the big media will take more notice.
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| Originally posted by Arbiter No. |
You'd think with the internet and all of these social tools and abilities to collaborate easily people could form concrete, simple, and effective messages to rally around, even if the underlying structure and goals were more broad and complicated. The thing that bugs me about these protests is that they fail to achieve either of those things. Their message is complicated and muddied, their goals undefined, and their ability to gain any sort of acceptance by a voting block, or even a popular revolutionary block is nil.
Also there is way too much hyperbole in their messages. Things are not good in the US, they are no where near good, but they are also no where near Egypt, Libya, or Syria bad. We don't have tanks in the streets, we don't have rebel groups, we don't have mass murder committed against our own citizens. These are things that galvanize and motivate a populace to revolt, and its even more true today than it was when we had our first revolution. People are too complacent for them to actually risk anything for change in this country. The problem isn't that they are coerced into being complacent, its that the quality of life in this country still reaches the bare minimum for most people and so they are happy.
Look at China as an example, they are going in the opposite direction. Their quality of life was horrible, and the student democracy movements of the 1980s resulted from that. As their quality of life improved their desire for radical change subsided and they have become mostly complacent. Their quality of life on average is probably somewhat lower on average than the people in the US, but the results are still the same. Even mediocre industrialized, first world standards are enough to keep most people happy enough to not try and make things better for themselves, especially when they have a society that gives them a semblance of free will like our republic does.
MBISON?????
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| Originally posted by jupiterone MBISON????? |
damn those ungrateful hippies! this is AM-UR-I-CA. this country was founded on loyalty! we owe it to the founders to take whatever our g̶o̶v̶e̶r̶n̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ mega corporations give us. fuck freedom, facebook.
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| Differences in national income equality around the world as measured by the national Gini coefficient. The Gini coefficient is a number between 0 and 1, where 0 corresponds with perfect equality (where everyone has the same income) and 1 corresponds with perfect inequality (where one person has all the income, and everyone else has zero income). |
Notice how both black and brown are completely neglected in the legend. What is it you think they're trying to say, nefardec?
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| Originally posted by nefardec damn those ungrateful hippies! this is AM-UR-I-CA. this country was founded on loyalty! we owe it to the founders to take whatever our g̶o̶v̶e̶r̶n̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ mega corporations give us. fuck freedom, facebook. |
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Originally posted by shaw
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A high level of income inequality is actually a good thing. It means that your country is not a communist shithouse where those who are able to perform are robbed by the government in order to give things to all the useless dicks for free. Go South Africa!
ps i'm probably going back down to zucotti park this evening.
It'll grow, it'll get greater media attention, and it might even turn violent. Is it going to start some sort of a massive revolution? No.
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| Originally posted by idoru It'll grow, it'll get greater media attention, and it might even turn violent. Is it going to start some sort of a massive revolution? No. |
RON PAUL 2012
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| Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On RON PAUL 2012 |
Fucking privileged and spoiled hippies.
Not the start of anything meaningful. Just stupid.
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| Originally posted by Lews Fucking privileged and spoiled hippies. |
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| Originally posted by Vector A What is your basis for this characterization? |
Sample size of one is pretty pitiful. 
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| Originally posted by Vector A What is your basis for this characterization? |
Don't you understand, Lews? Conditions are so horrendous for them, they cannot possibly get a job in order to pay off their ludicrous student loans! They are instead investing their time in securing a better future for everyone by holding signs and congregating in public spaces, severely inconveniencing the people who hold the jobs that they, themselves, went to school to obtain in the first place!
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| Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On Don't you understand, Lews? Conditions are so horrendous for them, they cannot possibly get a job in order to pay off their ludicrous student loans! They are instead investing their time in securing a better future for everyone by holding signs and congregating in public spaces, severely inconveniencing the people who hold the jobs that they, themselves, went to school to obtain in the first place! |
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