Things I've learned from this topic:
1. All rich people and all corporations are rich by virtue of swindling, lying, cheating, stealing, deceiving, and buying off every politician they can to preserve their wealth. None of them ever put in a good day's work for their untold fortunes. They also control the government and get laws passed that work directly in their favor and against the favor of the rest of the country. And they are the only ones that control the government.
2. The police hate freedom, man. I mean, they're like totally laying an unwarranted beatdown on anyone who opposes the system, because those damn rich people and corporations own the police and give them orders to stop these protests. But also, like, man, the police just hate the common man, dude.
2.A. But at the same time, there are no instances whatsoever of police exhibiting poor judgment calls or unreasonably overstepping their bounds.
2.B. Cops getting hit or whatnot by people of an indeterminate threat should absolutely not react in a way so as to subdue said person who, for all they know, may have a concealed weapon and be planning to cause the policeman in question serious bodily harm.
3. Risking crashing a bank is a good way to solve the problem of an economy in the shitter.
4. All rich people hate all not-rich people and are always conspiring to keep them out of the elite circle of "people who are already rich". Refer back to point 1.
6. Everything about this protest is black-and-white in absolute terms. It's a struggle of the disenfranchised against the cheating, lying, immoral, corrupt, degenerate, freedom-hating, filthy, psychopathic, apathetic, and other nasty adjectives rich people, corporations, and government. It's a struggle of the virtuous middle/lower/underclass against the demonic upper class that needs to be abolished or destroyed. Everyone who opposes this virtuous, righteous struggle must hate freedom and America and be part of the secret cabal ruling the world that goddammit I'm not a part of.
Conclusion: everyone, on every side, is insane, noncritical, biased, ignorant, propaganda-happy, inflammatory, and stupid in direct proportion to how vocal they are. Try opening your fucking eyes for once. Nothing is as clear-cut as you think it is, and everyone is wrong. Some rich people legitimately earned it. Corporations do not own every aspect of this country, otherwise, they'd have put this protest down long ago. The protesters aren't some group of righteous social crusaders out to expose the evils of the system. Yet at the same time, corporations and bank and just as much, the citizens of this country are not without blame, and these protesters are some group of crazy hippies bitching about "whaaaaaaa I'm not rich" (well, a fair number of them aren't). They are raising some legitimate issues, even if they are going about it in a pretty damn stupid way.
And this is where I abandon this topic and all further OWS ones, because as someone said earlier in this topic, it's like all your reactions are scripted. I've seen the exact same reactions every time anything remotely controversial pertaining to politics comes up, and it's absolutely fucking hilarious. And then it's depressing. And then it's enraging. And I'm not having anything more to do with the bile flying around here, having contributed my fair share in this one post.
1. All rich people and all corporations are rich by virtue of swindling, lying, cheating, stealing, deceiving, and buying off every politician they can to preserve their wealth. None of them ever put in a good day's work for their untold fortunes. They also control the government and get laws passed that work directly in their favor and against the favor of the rest of the country. And they are the only ones that control the government.
2. The police hate freedom, man. I mean, they're like totally laying an unwarranted beatdown on anyone who opposes the system, because those damn rich people and corporations own the police and give them orders to stop these protests. But also, like, man, the police just hate the common man, dude.
2.A. But at the same time, there are no instances whatsoever of police exhibiting poor judgment calls or unreasonably overstepping their bounds.
2.B. Cops getting hit or whatnot by people of an indeterminate threat should absolutely not react in a way so as to subdue said person who, for all they know, may have a concealed weapon and be planning to cause the policeman in question serious bodily harm.
3. Risking crashing a bank is a good way to solve the problem of an economy in the shitter.
4. All rich people hate all not-rich people and are always conspiring to keep them out of the elite circle of "people who are already rich". Refer back to point 1.
6. Everything about this protest is black-and-white in absolute terms. It's a struggle of the disenfranchised against the cheating, lying, immoral, corrupt, degenerate, freedom-hating, filthy, psychopathic, apathetic, and other nasty adjectives rich people, corporations, and government. It's a struggle of the virtuous middle/lower/underclass against the demonic upper class that needs to be abolished or destroyed. Everyone who opposes this virtuous, righteous struggle must hate freedom and America and be part of the secret cabal ruling the world that goddammit I'm not a part of.
Conclusion: everyone, on every side, is insane, noncritical, biased, ignorant, propaganda-happy, inflammatory, and stupid in direct proportion to how vocal they are. Try opening your fucking eyes for once. Nothing is as clear-cut as you think it is, and everyone is wrong. Some rich people legitimately earned it. Corporations do not own every aspect of this country, otherwise, they'd have put this protest down long ago. The protesters aren't some group of righteous social crusaders out to expose the evils of the system. Yet at the same time, corporations and bank and just as much, the citizens of this country are not without blame, and these protesters are some group of crazy hippies bitching about "whaaaaaaa I'm not rich" (well, a fair number of them aren't). They are raising some legitimate issues, even if they are going about it in a pretty damn stupid way.
And this is where I abandon this topic and all further OWS ones, because as someone said earlier in this topic, it's like all your reactions are scripted. I've seen the exact same reactions every time anything remotely controversial pertaining to politics comes up, and it's absolutely fucking hilarious. And then it's depressing. And then it's enraging. And I'm not having anything more to do with the bile flying around here, having contributed my fair share in this one post.