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So their ground breaking discovery for outsmarting the police is to ... leave and then come back. And maybe play some music. The Art of War style write up is hu
by oldstrangers 15y ago
So their ground breaking discovery for outsmarting the police is to ... leave and then come back. And maybe play some music. The Art of War style write up is humorously grandiose for something so silly. These people take themselves entirely too seriously.
On another note, pay attention to whats happening over on Reddit and their attempt to unseat Paul Ryan in protest of SOPA/PIPA. They're putting their collective time, effort, and (most importantly) money into something that might actually have an effect. Ultimately, the 72 hours or so that Reddit has taken up this initiative is already appearing more effective than months of misguided OWS noise.
Going back even further, look at the Internet's success with GoDaddy and the few other companies changing their stance on SOPA. Get out of the streets already and go actually make a difference with some concentrated focus and brain power.
- easy_rider 15y agoAgreed, this should only be upped for how stupid it is.
- devs1010 15y agoAgreed, I am all for reform but we need to outsmart them, from what I've read lately it seems online activity, like that of Reddit, has effected more change than the in-person protests. The problem is that change won't happen overnight, its a gradual process to awaken more and more people to whats actually going on and get each person to do their small part to help change things.
- jberryman 15y ago> These people take themselves entirely too seriously. > ... > look at the Internet's success with GoDaddy and the few other companies changing their stance on SOPA. What exactly is your metric for success here? A sleazy company changed their stance on a bill that the public is completely unaware of and couldn't give two shits about? I think "the internet" is taking itself too seriously. Meanwhile a nation-wide protest movement has at the very least succeeded in planting the issue of systemic economic injustice into mainstream public discourse on a daily basis. History may show OWS to be the catalyst for the resurrection of a real progressive movement in America.
- JoeAltmaier 15y agoTHe discourse is mainly limited to the crazy antics of the protesters. They have proven profoundly incapable of delivering any coherent message.
- guelo 15y agoThat is just wrong. The whole world now knows the 1% term now.
- philwelch 15y agoAnd to what extent that's the case, the seeds of another Lenin or Robespierre, to slaughter the "1%" wholesale for the perceived greater good, have been planted. Scapegoating the rich, or "bankers", or some ethnic group that's associated with the above, is a tactic we've seen before, and never leads to anything good.
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- JoeAltmaier 15y agoSure; that was good. But so what? Now what? What does this mean for anybody? What does it mean to continue to doodle around in public parks? The message now is, we're having a grand old time getting ourselves in the news, by distracting the police and annoying the public.
- guelo 15y agoWe're having a grand old time getting arrested and harassed in cold winter nights?
- tptacek 15y agoIs that the bar? Doesn't every popular Internet meme cross that bar too?
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- guelo 15y agoI dont get the hatred that people like yourself have for the occupy protesters. If you think it is ineffective then you dont have to participate, they disagree and are not bothering you, you have no right telling people what to do.
- usaar333 15y agoI wouldn't blame him if he is upset that one of his favorite parks has been "occupied".
- po 15y agoHe's clearly upset about the wasted effort on a cause he cares about, not losing access to a park.
- oldstrangers 15y agoYou're right.
- cowkingdeluxe 15y agoGoDaddy didn't actually change their congressional record of support.
- rdtsc 15y ago> their ground breaking discovery...leave and then come back. Or move around, don't give into the tendency to push against the line of the riot police. Not a bad idea. Sometimes obvious things because obvious only in retrospect. > And maybe play some music. Music in general is very effective at keeping up morale.
- baddox 15y agoNot to mention that the whole military analogy is ridiculous. The protesters are essentially "allowed" to do nothing, but the police are "allowed" to do almost anything they want. How does this apply to military battles at all?
- WanderingEnder 15y agoI think the military analogy is to support the claim that police have been extensively militarized. If they really were fighting a military battle, the cops would have suppressed them with direct fire, then maybe taken prisoners from the wounded.