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It’s about time someone kicked those bums out of our parks. They were a bunch of squatters who just used protesting as a reason to setup a tent city. A lot of people support this eviction despite what the media says. —Occupy a Job
This article appears in Nov 10-16, 2011.
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(yawn)
You know what would be cool?
It would be cool if you posted two more of these, so that it looks like there are actually more of you out there, but make them all sound the exact same so it’s obvious!
Awesome!
You know what would be cool wheelie?
It would be cool if the occupy supporters stopped shitting on the non supporters. Just because I am a non occupy supporter, I have the right to be a non supporter just as much as these people have the right to be the supporter. You don’t need to bash someone just because they do not support the occupy movement. So, next time I walk by and they try and shove their stinky crap in my face and I say no, I don’t want to hear from behind me that I “do not support democracy”, or a “fuck you.” So shove it, there are lots of non supporters out there, but if they voice it, it’s like an American not flying an American flag in their yard, they are called un patriotic.
I support peaceful free speech and freedom of assembly.
I agree with some of what the occupy people say. Some not so much.
As much as I hear occupy people not enunciate their grievances when asked what they’re protesting(the majority seems pretty eloquent and can lay out several points), the majority of anto occupy people like to point to their presence of iPhones as proof the movement is bullshit or that their concerns aren’t valid.
I haven’t heard much but polarizing slogans from the anti people. Talk of “squeege kids” and “spoiled rich kids” and how they’re all “unemployed”, and even that these politically-motivated people have no rigjt to complain because they “don’t vote”.
If someone tells you that you don’t believe in democracy because you don’t support them, pull on your big girl pants and tell them to fuck themselves. Or ignore them.
I thought three nearly identical Love posts looked like they were written by the same person. So I commented on it.
Otherwise, I really don’t care what “side” you’re on. I’m on whatever side likes free speech and doesn’t use te police force to shut down legal protest and reframe the whole thing as a “camping issue”.
Mmmmm Hmmmmmm. Same old come back. Use the iPhone thing, squeegee kid thing, unemployed thing. Face it, they can’t deny supporting these massive corporations, when they go out and buy their products (iPhopne, Blackberry, cigarettes), it totally goes against everything they are protesting. It’s kind of like when a PETA protester wears leather boots.
Don’t get me wrong, I totally support free speech. However, don’t let that free speech insult your cause.
When people stop using slogans and generalizations in place of actual thought, I’ll stopp pointing it out.
As much as I dislike Peta and their judgey assholeness, “a Peta protester wearing leather boots” isn’t what most of them do, but guys like me who think Peta sucks use it whenever we can because it’s a quick way to discredit them without needing to get into troublesome things, like specifics.
If someone’s big gripe with the protesters is the kind of phone they use, I need more than that, if you want me to not support them.