"Occupy" Superthread

All it says is they don't like the waffling of the situation.

Indeed, it seems to imply the exact opposite.

How exactly does it 'Imply the exact 0pposite'?

At most you can say nothing about the position of the police. All they say is that they are frustrated. It does not say if they want more or less action against the protesters.

they also pretty much started a riot in oakland. this whole Occupy thing really is starting to get out of hand.

Well, different parts of the country have different feels. The Northeast is more fiscally liberal, and the west coast more socially. Thus the movements are different. Unfortunately for the movement the actions of others effect them.

Revolt Oakland, Revolt baby!

oh yes because i'm so sure that the whole foods they destroyed was really the problem with the economy.

They caused the capitalist class to lose money, that is whats good.

FUCK THE SYSTEM, MANNNNN. THAT WHOLE FOODS WAS OUR ENEMY, IT REPRESENTED CORPORATE GREED MANNNN. LETS BURN DOWN ANOTHER ONE! IT'S CLEARLY THE BEST WAY TO GET OUR POINT ACROSS.

MANNNN.

Fuck it let's just burn down Oakland.

now there's a plan

I was watching the whole thing, live. They didn't start a riot. The police attacked them, without warning,with Tear gas, rubber bullets, and flash bangs. They did set fire to a barricade, but that was because the police threw tear gas. Apparently, smoke gets rid of the gas.

Edit: And a couple of rogue people, who did NOT act in the name of the movement, broke a couple of windows on some food-store. Apparently, the managers threatened workers or something.

that time lines mixed up, also the sacking of the whole foods and bank of oakland happened before the cops tryed to stop them so really they still started it and the cops finished it

Saying that those rogue members represent the movement is like saying the KKK represent Christianity, or that the Nazi's represent the right-wing (Very rough comparison though. I wouldn't normally be opposed to it, but this was a peaceful protest). There were 50'000-100'000 people there, and with so many people it is inevitable that somebody would goof up.

'Protest High' I think it is called.

Triple edit: Didn't mean for this to come out aggressive, if it did.

then you should clean house then and put some ground between them and you because people are already getting annoyed with these people and this is not helping in anyway.

I would like to see what happened before this.

And all the lower class workers.

Even so, if you throw your hat in with them you have to take what they do. Even if they do not represent the majority of the movement, their actions are still subject for judgement of the movement as a whole.

It's pretty much inevitable that somebody would goof up in such a large movement like this. There is no real way about this. But being a regular watcher of their Livestreams, My belief is that a lot of the stuff said about them is greatly exaggerated, or plain baloney.

@TheShaw - You do realize that the Libertarian party, the Tea party, and Ron Paul all support the occupy movement, right? I don't understand how you can be so Anti-OWS, considering.