Occupy

It's been forever since anything new came up in here. I'm kind of terrified to make a thread, but I'm curious to see what everyone here thinks of this new Occupy Wall St. movement.

It seems the response is kind of polarized on the whole thing.

I'm curious to see if maybe we could talk about it here, since there's nothing better going on in the Palace. I doubt the responses will be too varied on Gamingforce, but you never know.

What do you think of the movement? Dirty hippies pooping in NYC, Boston, Chicago, etc? Would you go to one of the protests? Do you think the kids should shut up and deal with their decisions already?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Rychord

The biggest victory that has been achieved so far is the amount of attention the protests have been getting, which precisely serves to get people to focus on something besides the mainstream media's regurgitating of politicians' and bigwig types' diversionary tactics.

Honestly, I'm not hearing much positive from any media outlet, and this includes my beloved NPR (although they're a little less hateful about it than the mainstream media).

The way I heard about everything was via Facebook, blogs, and people talking about it. At first, I was like a lot of you and I was all "well this is kind of stupid."

But then I saw union pilots occupying alongside with the kids. And then nurses joined up, too. Sure, they're union, and the union has it's own (often greedy) agenda, but it's interesting to see more than "just unemployed kids without a message" show up and protest. Say whatever you want, but these trained professionals who actually had experience out there are standing alongside the youth.

I think the message is pretty clear. "The other 99%" hits it home for me.

I wanted to go to our local protests, but I won't go alone, and after asking Chris about it, I'm pretty sure we won't go. I'm curious at the very least. I want to see just what kind of people are down there and how they're conveying a very important message.

There's nowhere I can't reach.