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| twentypercent |
Who's participating tomorrow at King and Bay????
I just heard the organizer speak on CTV news and what can I say, he's, ummmm, embarrassing.
I'm part of th 99% but I'm not going, actually I don't see what the purpose is and what outcome they expect. Does anyone know?
From what I saw in New York, it seems like the "have nots" want the "haves" to give them their money, lol. I'm sure many TAs will know and explain it better than I did. |
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| Wurm |
We've just come through our third election in the past year.
That's three chances to vote NDP, Socialist, Marxist or whatever. There have been ample opportunities to make these views and issues a matter of public debate.
There is no effing way that this protest represents the 99%.
You watch, it'll be the granola-munching, tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, patchouli-smelling weirdo-beardos that usually drag themselves out for protests. |
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| Elendil |
You can be that I wouldn't be caught within a mile of that thing.
Firstly, they seem (collectively) to seek no definable goal, while offering no viable solution to the problems we currently face on multiple levels. They claim to be a majority of the population, but I certainly don't recall placing my vote in favour. I haven't seen any coherent message coming forward.
All in all, it looks to me primarily like a group of people who have too much time on their hands (which could be spent meaningfully working for change - you know, by starting small businesses, running through typical political channels, starting charities... etc). In fact, it seems somewhat like a minority attempting to force their presence on a majority, which - if I'm not mistaking - is authoritarian in its own right.
You want to occupy something? Occupy your work shoes and stop vaguely complaining about the system without having any improvement to offer. |
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| GGM |
| Some serious hate on for them protesters. |
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| LightsOut |
| quote: | Originally posted by Elendil
You want to occupy something? Occupy your work shoes and stop vaguely complaining about the system without having any improvement to offer. |
+1 |
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| Elendil |
| quote: | Originally posted by GGM
Some serious hate on for them protesters. |
I would say that, in my case, it isn't a hate so much as it's simply a disagreement on method for inspiring meaningful change.
Debate, not hate ;) |
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| d-form |
| I understand some of the frustration. Conrad Black wrote a pretty good editorial about it in todays national post. If I lived in a country that just spent billions bailing out financial institutions at the expense of the middle class only to fall into a possible recession I'd be pissed to. But that didn't happen in Canada so not sure what we have to protest. |
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| Capo di tutti |
^^^^
you're absolutely right. We're a prime example of what to do before and during a recession.
With all of these people capable of staging these senseless, amateur and useless protests, you'd think that a few out of the thousands would actually learn the game, get into politics and try to make a impact that way...or maybe start up a small business that followed their ethics and principles and create a few jobs seeing as we live in one of the BEST countries to be an entrepreneur. |
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| jon jon |
| quote: | Originally posted by Elendil
You want to occupy something? Occupy your work shoes and stop vaguely complaining about the system without having any improvement to offer. |
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: |
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| jon jon |
| quote: | Originally posted by Wurm
You watch, it'll be the granola-munching, tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, patchouli-smelling weirdo-beardos that usually drag themselves out for protests. |
wow bro |
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| jon jon |
| I got love for all the protestors around North America today, the system is ed and I applaud those taking a stance against it... |
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