We disagree about OWS, let's leave it at that...

[TJM]

Now that really is asking for it isn't it?

If I'm not mistaken, The woman here:

Is none other than Tracy Blevins, AKA Medical Marijuana Barbie, AKA WTC Dust, her name here at JREF. Ms. Blevins is under the impression that no planes were involved in the destruction on 9/11, the twin towers were turned into dust where they stood by... something.

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=189421

Nice find Virus.

 

[shuize]

I did like the chick with the red and black though.

She was attractive ... until she started talking.


This made me laugh:

News Reporter: "Why are you here?"

OWS Protesters: "Why are you here?"


You know, I think my 7 year-old could out debate these people.

 

[Noztradamus]

Bury the hatchet ?

Hell no

As long as these asshats are claim to speak for me, yep I'm a 99 percenter, refuse to listen to a thing I have to say,preferring to suggest I'm an agent of the state or some such nonsense for trying to dialogue with them, make the entire protest about them and their wants, occupy public spaces and deny those spaces to the use of non occupiers, rant on like crazy religious folk to whom critical thinking is an anathema, continue to slavishly support the corporations they claim to hate by purchasing their products, treating politics like it's some sort of pre-school "that's not fair" game, display their dirty laundry like it's art, engage in stupid street theater, whine about corporate personhood, lie about foreclosed properties, go all smashy smashy and claim it's not "violence", wear those idiotic masks from that movie, and fail to appreciate huge run on sentences.

I ain't burying no hatchet.

Why didn't you mention "drum circles"? Do you like "drum circles" or something?



There's a reason why the Tamil word for "drummer" is pariah

 

[angrysoba]

You are aware that moveon.org is at a different URL, right?

soba, I wonder if the gent in your video is aware that China may be transforming into a major capitalist-possibly-fascistic global power even as he protests under their banner.

Probably not.

I don't know. The guy with the beard and mad, staring eyes in the stripey top seemed to offer a get-out clause: Maybe nobody knows what the Russian Revolution was about and therefore nobody can talk about it. Or something.

And if we don't know what it was about then who is to say what "Socialism" or something is anyway. So...er...not sure where that leaves marching around in a Maoist uniform with a PRC flag.

 

[Darth Rotor]

WTC Dust is kinda cute.

I took a look at the dusty steel thread, and the mercy killing kmortis gave it at page 135.

I am trying to weigh cute versus ... uh, well, dusty steel.

As I won't be in New York any time soon, I guess I'll not ever be faced with a decision regarding that dichotomy.

 

[dc1971]

Well, I am mainly thinking of the people I saw from the Occupy LSX where they were talking about making "tree spaces" in banks for elves and things.

Honestly it was so incoherent I couldn't exactly tell you what they believed.

And you are to expect that a large group of people... hundreds maybe... ALL OF THEM should follow a rational train of thought. What planet is this?

 

[dc1971]

Ms. Blevins is under the impression that no planes were involved in the destruction on 9/11, the twin towers were turned into dust where they stood by... something.

And...

I will ask again...

Everyone at a protest this large is expected to follow a certain protocol and be a perfect citizen just like AJM8125 is??

And I will throw at you the same argument you use to defend police and law enforcement (being that it's this wonderful hobby you and other JREffers have)... Just because one person is a bad apple does that make that representative of the whole lot of them???

 

[dc1971]

WTC Dust is kinda cute.

I took a look at the dusty steel thread, and the mercy killing kmortis gave it at page 135.

I am trying to weigh cute versus ... uh, well, dusty steel.

As I won't be in New York any time soon, I guess I'll not ever be faced with a decision regarding that dichotomy.

She's an idiot! And she does not represent the whole of the Occupy movement.

 

[angrysoba]

And you are to expect that a large group of people... hundreds maybe... ALL OF THEM should follow a rational train of thought. What planet is this?

No, but a few would be nice.

And anyway, I only pointed out that I find some of the people they attract weird. You asked for evidence and it really wasn't hard to find.

Can we agree I was right and leave it at that?

 

[dc1971]

To little effect, because we saw it as the latest bored middleclass kid fad akin to goldfish swallowing or streaking. But, like any impassioned missionary, you saw our failure to join your crusade as us "being set in our ways" and not seeing that tomorrow belonged to you.
You now have buyers remorse because we may just have been correct.

Oh, and it's YOU who is the decider of what tomorrow brings! Okay, I have seen the errors of my ways. I must now live like Mr. Anonymous poster on a piddly internet forum who calls himself Nostradamus.

Hey Nostradamus, aren't you some sort of predictor of the future? Tell me, oh wise one from the internet forum, what's in my future??? **cue Jeopardy music**

 

[Sam.I.Am]

When a substantial portion of a group can't come up with, much less follow a rational train of thought then you end up with the mentally ill (or just people who are high as a kite and just don't care) and anarchists. Which is exactly the type that OWS attracts. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy that other rational people can see coming from a mile away and steer clear of.

 

[dc1971]

No, but a few would be nice.

And anyway, I only pointed out that I find some of the people they attract weird. You asked for evidence and it really wasn't hard to find.

Can we agree I was right and leave it at that?

The only thing I'm going to agree with is that we disagree. I will never agree that some [person] from an internet forum is right! 'Nuff said! Thank you and NEXT!!

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[dc1971]

When a substantial portion of a group can't come up with, much less follow a rational train of thought then you end up with the mentally ill (or just people who are high as a kite and just don't care) and anarchists. Which is exactly the type that OWS attracts. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy that other rational people can see coming from a mile away and steer clear of.

Oh, I see...

The Occupy movement are AAAAAAALL Mentally retarded!

Good job, critical thinkers! You make JREF so warm and fuzzy!

 

[TJM]

And...

I will ask again...

Everyone at a protest this large is expected to follow a certain protocol and be a perfect citizen just like AJM8125 is??

If they want to be taken seriously.

And I will throw at you the same argument you use to defend police and law enforcement (being that it's this wonderful hobby you and other JREffers have)... Just because one person is a bad apple does that make that representative of the whole lot of them???

No. But sane and responsible people tend to throw the bad apples in the trash, not let them lay around and stink up the house.

 

[dc1971]

Maybe you guys need to re-read what I said about the Occupy movement...

Here it is again in case you don't feel like looking for it or you're like Ziggurat and you're lazy...

"Sure. There are faults with the Occupy Movement. I don't argue that for one second." <--- Yes, I said that!

Why are you all misunderstanding this?

Oh, I forgot. This is a critical thinking forum. Leave your emotions at the door, unless you disagree with someone who is posting comments!

 

[angrysoba]

The only thing I'm going to agree with is that we disagree. I will never agree that some [person] from an internet forum is right! 'Nuff said! Thank you and NEXT!!

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So you will only agree with what you believed before you even began the discussion. And you cannot and will not change your mind. And your opponents are incapable of rational thought, or something.

You are an exemplary representative of the OWS. Congratulations.

 

[dc1971]

I they want to be taken seriously.

LOL!

No. But sane and responsible people tend to throw the bad apples in the trash, not let them lay around and stink up the house.

Okay!

 

[angrysoba]

"Sure. There are faults with the Occupy Movement. I don't argue that for one second."

Such as?

 

[Noztradamus]

Oh, and it's YOU who is the decider of what tomorrow brings! ~~~~~

I speak for the 99%

 

[dc1971]

So you will only agree with what you believed before you even began the discussion. And you cannot and will not change your mind. And your opponents are incapable of rational thought, or something.

You are an exemplary representative of the OWS. Congratulations.

SHOW ME where I said anyone here who disagreed with me was "irrational"???