Occupy Wall Street better defend its identity

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Which again is why "occupying wall street" is a retarded protest.
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I wonder if people who use this word would use it so freely if they had a mentally retarded child.
 
portlandatheist said:
Well, I don't want to replace the status quo with Lord of the Flies, which is a great analogy for the Occupy movement. If you want to see the harms of deregulation, greed, corruption, classism and incompetence, then go to your local Occupy circus. Its enough to make wall street insiders blush.

here's a comment from a former Occupier at kgw.com:


If you read the comments, there are many similar comments from folks who have sympathies with the cause generally and were involved in the movement, only to become disillusioned and disgusted with it and have become its critics, no right wing ideology required. The movement is a disgusting train wreck that has not and will not accomplish anything worthwhile. Its costing jobs, tax payer dollars, private property damage and not to mention the thievery and assaults that seem endemic to the movement.
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I read comments, as you suggested, and they are almost universally unsympathetic to the movement and nearly all of them show no sign of ever have been sympathetic. Can you point out where these "many similar comments" are as I can't find them.

More from Wendy_Hamiltf6a:

"I talk to people everyday walking by, I tell them do NOT go into the parks and it is not what we are all about."

"I believe the people who make a lot of money worked for what they have..."


Seems like a very conservative crowd like to comment of KGW or are they actually representative of the people in Portland?!

Some other comments:

"isn't it time to GO OAKLAND on these criminals....so the city can start spending the money they are wasting on this in a better way??"

"I wish that cop would use his baton on those criminals."

"I'm going to take my male dogs for a walk right by them. Can't wait till I see the leg lift and pee on these losers."
 
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JihadJane said:
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I had to go to Iran’s Press TV to find interest to make a short documentary about HOW Occupied Wall Street operates on the ground at Zuccotti Park.

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How's their "Occupy Tehran" protest coming along?
 
eeyore1954 said:
We are in agreement on this. I tell my kids something similar when they say someone is retarded.
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The word exists for a reason: it expresses a very real concept of retardation. You could, for example, say that the crowd in Zucotti Park seems to include a lot of people who are morally, ethically, and/or civically retarded.
 
JihadJane said:
I read comments, as you suggested, and they are almost universally unsympathetic to the movement and nearly all of them show no sign of ever have been sympathetic. Can you point out where these "many similar comments" are as I can't find them.

More from Wendy_Hamiltf6a:

"I talk to people everyday walking by, I tell them do NOT go into the parks and it is not what we are all about."

"I believe the people who make a lot of money worked for what they have..."


Seems like a very conservative crowd like to comment of KGW or are they actually representative of the people in Portland?!

Some other comments:

"isn't it time to GO OAKLAND on these criminals....so the city can start spending the money they are wasting on this in a better way??"

"I wish that cop would use his baton on those criminals."

"I'm going to take my male dogs for a walk right by them. Can't wait till I see the leg lift and pee on these losers."
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There are a lot of nasty comments by conservatives there, we're in agreement there. There are at least two other former occupiers commenting on that specific thread and there are others on some of the other Occupy news stories. Portland is a mostly liberal progressive city, not sure how much of a majority but a definite majority and I like many of the things they have accomplished here such as the MAX lines, Urban growth boundaries, etc. This movement does not paint our fine city if a good light
 
portlandatheist said:
There are a lot of nasty comments by conservatives there, we're in agreement there. There are at least two other former occupiers commenting on that specific thread and there are others on some of the other Occupy news stories. Portland is a mostly liberal progressive city, not sure how much of a majority but a definite majority and I like many of the things they have accomplished here such as the MAX lines, Urban growth boundaries, etc. This movement does not paint our fine city if a good light
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The commenters aren't particularly "conservative". Citizens and taxpayers are more frustrated at accommodating politicians, blaming them for these unsanitary and unsafe eyesores clogging up public space. It's exactly the same in Victoria and Vancouver so Portland is nothing special.

Have any of these Occupy installations, anywhere, achieved any success at all?
 
stilicho said:
The commenters aren't particularly "conservative". Citizens and taxpayers are more frustrated at accommodating politicians, blaming them for these unsanitary and unsafe eyesores clogging up public space. It's exactly the same in Victoria and Vancouver so Portland is nothing special.

Have any of these Occupy installations, anywhere, achieved any success at all?
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The latest success of Occupy Portland is that the park workers have stopped maintaining the public bathrooms and closed them as of this morning because occupiers were harassing them and their personal safety is at risk if they continue to maintain them.
 
Big brouhaha at occupy Vancouver last night. Two cops sent to the hospital with human bite wounds. It would appear that the occupiers are going feral.
 
JihadJane said:
I wonder if people who use this word would use it so freely if they had a mentally retarded child.
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Some people aren't intimidated by the PC speech Nazis.

theprestige said:
The word exists for a reason: it expresses a very real concept of retardation. You could, for example, say that the crowd in Zucotti Park seems to include a lot of people who are morally, ethically, and/or civically retarded.
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Yes, thank you.
 
Back in NYC, local business ower says she is being terrorized by OWS thugs.

A business owner near the Occupy Wall Street encampment claims she has been repeatedly harassed and threatened with bodily harm by protesters after she and her employees refused to give in to their outlandish demands.
“I’ve been told, ‘Watch your back!’ 10 times,” Stacey Tzortzatos, owner of Panini & Co. Breads, located across from Zuccotti Park, told The Post yesterday.
She and her employees are terrified by the constant threats, which she said began after she demanded the protesters stop using her shop’s restroom as a place to bathe every day.
The final straw came about two weeks ago, when the demonstrators broke a bathroom sink, flooding the shop, and clogged the toilet -- setting her back $3,000 in damages.
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/occupiers_terrorize_us_eatery_o4dKzxi3n03WyJWAJu4AhO
 
Would you hire a dude who spent 2 months hanging around parks with a bandanna on his face trying to start fights with reporters and cops?
 
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