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It's like this guy has never seen a protest before.
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A bunch of angry ideologues who don't share ordinary people's concerns.
Dear protesters in New York City,
You are not 99 percent of America. I don't mean that in the obvious numerical sense. If 99 percent of Americans had actually joined your march, Manhattan would have flipped over by now.
What I mean is that if 99 percent of Americans actually sympathized with your cause, the entire nation's economy would have collapsed long ago -- apparently to the delight of the organizers of this current protest.
What I mean to say is, you have a marketing problem.
When you decided to sit in traffic and block the Brooklyn Bridge a few days ago, with that blazing pink "SMASH PATRIARCHY-SMASH CAPITALISM" sign in hand, you probably didn't see the regular people you stranded in traffic.
You know, the ones with real-world concerns, business to attend to, families to go home to, et cetera. You may have read about such people during college in a book called "The Pe Bourgeoisie," or something like that. Many of us grew up calling them "the middle class."
Whatever you call them, they are hurting badly in this economy, probably more than you are. (I'm just judging by that sweet digital video camera I see you holding out in front of the cops, in hopes of provoking them into a viral-video police brutality incident.)
Those people you left stuck in traffic have a hard time paying their bills and rents and health insurance and mortgages. They worry about things like finding decent schools for their children to attend and making sure they don't get fired at work, and fixing leaking roofs and chimneys.
You know what they don't worry about, ever? Smashing patriarchy and capitalism.
So when your organizers go on television and say things like, "It's revolution, not reform!" and they're not joking, those words might give some of these narrow-minded people an unpleasant, October 1917 kind of feeling.
I know you'll find this hard to believe, but these regular people probably weren't very happy to see you on that bridge, carrying your preprinted black and yellow protest sign that hundreds of you got straight from the communist Workers' World Party (or one of its less frighteningly named affiliates). So incensed was one Ground Zero construction worker that he called you "g-ddamned hippies" in the New York Post.
And that underscores the problem with the 100 million-plus people who work for a living in this country. They lack an enlightened perspective that would show them how your camping trip in lower Manhattan has already helped their lives.
See, regular people don't like banks any more than you do. But when they go to buy houses for their families to live in, they often find that they don't have half a million dollars stuffed in their mattresses. So they shortsightedly embrace financial imperialism, otherwise known as a mortgage.
They also worry about corporations, because they're big and powerful. But then, they'd love to own one of those sweet video cameras like yours, and they perceive that they can only buy one if an evil corporation can turn an obscene profit making and selling it.
So the point is, real-life things blind people to the great class struggle you're waging in lower Manhattan. You, and the rest of America's three-tenths of one percent.
You can take some consolation from that next year when you sacrifice your principles, abandon the Global People's Liberation Party (or whatever), and vote to re-elect President Obama.
It's like this guy has never seen a protest before.
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Well there's sympathizing and then there's acting on said sympathy. As long as the toughest decision Americans face is venti vs grande or generic vs brand, corps will be ok. The tough decisions are slowly turning towards mortgages, medical treatment, etc though.What I mean is that if 99 percent of Americans actually sympathized with your cause, the entire nation's economy would have collapsed long ago -- apparently to the delight of the organizers of this current protest.
What I mean to say is, you have a marketing problem.
Things will begin to get interesting in the near future.
What exactly are these losers protesting?
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If you don't know then how in the can you characterize them as losers?
CC rationalization: they seem to be protesting the financial industry so therefore they must be losers.
cc is your typical well-off, self-congratulating, preening asshole.
Again, what exactly are they protesting?
Poor little kid. Should have majored in something employers actually wanted.
He's not big enough to not fail...
Poor little kid. Should have majored in something employers actually wanted.
I love when students hold up signs ing about their student loan debt. Do they think they are the first people to ever have student loans? WTF? I guess those loans were shoved down their throats.
A look, someone made a threat about pro-banker, pro-finance welfare.
http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/01/news...ease/index.htm
Fed made $9 trillion in emergency overnight loans
Top recipients of overnight loans made by the Federal Reserve under special program that ran from March 2008 through May 2009. By Chris Isidore, senior writerDecember 1, 2010: 6:05 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The Federal Reserve made $9 trillion in overnight loans to major banks and Wall Street firms during the financial crisis, according to newly revealed data released Wednesday.
I killed about 20 more jihadists with more integrity than you. You hateful sack of .
Student loans are needed even more thanks to 5 fold increases in tuition costs on average across the nation in the past 15 years. Don't let facts like that catch you though.
What's your point?
If he doesn't go to college: "Look at that moron that didn't go to college and now complains he doesn't have a job"
If he goes to college and has a job: "Nobody forced him to get that loan and go to college"
If he goes to college and doesn't have a job: "Should've picked a career that gets him a job"
Hindsight is great, I guess.
why do you care why they are protesting? What's the point of this thread?
Does anything in the picture indicate that he didn't?
Poor little kid. Should have majored in something employers actually wanted.
There are better questions than the ones you posed. But you already knew that right?
If Team Red doesn't understand what they're protesting, why are they automatically against it?
(Answer: It's because baaa-aa-aa-aaa-aaa)
And really, the whole point is that while this person may have made some bad choices, the bad choices that many of the millionaires on WS made were recouped by the government so they could continue being millionaires.
Yup, and if they keep it up.
I will always side with the students on this issue. I'm very lucky because I only have 18k in student loan debt but I also had a job and help from family. There are tons of students out there who don't have the same help and have to rack up that debt in order to get a good job, or so they are told.
I honestly don't feel college is all that important anymore because you don't really learn a whole lot. My job has absolutely nothing to do with my degree. Most of the people I work with don't have degrees yet our starting wage is 50k. I have friends who just graduated from Columbia with a law degree that can't find a starting wage that high. What's even worse for them is that 3 years ago the starting wage at firms in NY was something like 100k. a year ago it was 50k.
It doesn't help that when kids actually go to schools, the schools push private instead of public loans which kill the kids even more.
What's real funny is most, if not all, of those people will vote for Obama again.
Why aren't the students protesting at the colleges they go to about tuition costs. The colleges aren't loaning them money. The banks are.
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