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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #100 on: October 26, 2011, 09:10:36 AM »

It's not like Wall Street gaming didn't exist before computers.  Hell, we even have a name for the last time bad investments got out of control and needed a series of sweeping reforms and regulations to get things back to normal.  It's called The Great Depression.
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #101 on: October 26, 2011, 09:21:29 AM »

Indeed, which is part of why going back to the gold standard clearly wouldn't save the economy.

You certainly don't need modern technology to be corrupt.  But complexity makes corruption easier to hide, and modern technology has added layers of complexity to an already-complex economic system.

Moving back a bit:

You seem to be predicating these awkward statements on the twin ideas of "The OWS Movement has a lot of current media coverage" and "There is no central OWS group."

Have you considered the possibility that there actually is a central OWS group, and you don't know about it because it hasn't gotten a lot of media coverage?

Fox News is on the case: it's all ACORN's fault.
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #102 on: October 26, 2011, 09:35:19 AM »

Speaking of which, nobody's mentioned that the most obvious reason the Tea Party got so much news coverage is because it was the invention of a company that calls itself the News Corporation.
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #103 on: October 26, 2011, 09:59:46 AM »

Felt it went without saying. Fox did have sections of their website dedicated to interactive guides to locating a Tea Party rally in your area. It's easy to just state that we're talking about coverage in venues like MSNBC and CNN, which didn't have direct connections to the astroturf organization. At least, as far as I know.

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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #104 on: October 26, 2011, 01:46:36 PM »

Jobs is just one jerk, sure, but there are a lot more like him.  Together they're hoarding about 25% of the nation's total currency and are totally ready to go fuck up Laketown if anyone dares to take so much as a cup from them.  The economy's ruined DuckTales for me, because now I can picture and eccentric millionaire keeping all his cash locked up in one place just to use as a swimming pool and that's not fucking funny anymore.

So the next time you hear somebody say "The rich spend and it trickles down", punch that person in the face and say "THAT WAS THIRTY YEARS AGO, AND THIS IS THE iBILLIONAIRE GENERATION."

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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #105 on: October 26, 2011, 01:53:28 PM »

Fun fact. Duck Tales will teach you about inflation better than any classroom.

Duck Tales Inflation Lesson

(ignore the black screen text nonsense)
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #106 on: October 26, 2011, 02:52:17 PM »

Two-tour Iraq veteran has skull fracture from tear gas cannister. Nothing but lazy debtor liberal arts majors here.
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #107 on: October 26, 2011, 03:21:41 PM »

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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #108 on: October 26, 2011, 03:56:12 PM »

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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #109 on: October 26, 2011, 04:00:20 PM »

(ignore the black screen text nonsense)

This is really essential, because the video is compiled by the Ludwig von Mises Institute, which among other things supports the gold standard. So when the blackscreen nonsense is complaining about the Fed, they're not complaining about how it (indirectly) obviates the increased risk involved in using leverage and permits (indirectly, and in spite of its intended charter) a nearly unlimited use of leverage, they're complaining about how the dollar is not tied to precious metals.

So yeah. Taking them seriously is dangerous for me.
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #110 on: October 26, 2011, 04:21:56 PM »

The Washington Post may be slightly biased

http://t.co/NpEtbZiw

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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #111 on: October 26, 2011, 04:48:02 PM »

The Washington Post may be slightly biased

http://t.co/NpEtbZiw
Rat fucked shitsuckling scumbags.

Hell, let's just Godwin this shit right now: If a bunch of people got shot and gassed the Post would run a picture of a stormtrooper snogging a puppy.

... except if you replace "puppy" with "kitten" that's technically exactly what they already did, so whatever. This is already too far past satire.
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #112 on: October 26, 2011, 07:29:32 PM »

Iraq war vet critically hurt in Oakland protests. I'm raging pretty much as hard as sharkey right now.
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #113 on: October 26, 2011, 07:48:22 PM »

I don't want to make you guys angrier, but that photo of the WaPo page is 100% real

They were actually called out on it by some readers: Tooootally no bias here, no sirrreeee
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #114 on: October 26, 2011, 08:38:25 PM »

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The photograph was chosen because it was a visual "moment" in time showing a police officer doing something interesting--not just walking through tents and trash.

I'm pretty damn certain there was something more interesting that police officers did that night.
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #115 on: October 26, 2011, 08:44:18 PM »

I'm pretty sure the person at the paper had only one thought when that picture caught their eye, "KITTY!"
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #116 on: October 26, 2011, 09:01:55 PM »

Welp, if people at the rallies weren't hostile to the police before, they sure as hell will be now!

Maybe "Iraq war veteran" will be the magic words that make the media stop depicting the movement as a bunch of stoned slackers.

But I have a feeling things are about to get worse.



Oh hey, apropos of nothing, here's the first video I found of Neil Young playing Ohio.
Neil Young - Ohio - Live at Massey Hall
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #117 on: October 26, 2011, 09:46:44 PM »

Oh hey, apropos of nothing, here's the first video I found of Neil Young playing Ohio.
Neil Young - Ohio - Live at Massey Hall

The funny part is that this video is region locked against Canada, but not only is Neil Young Canadian, Massey Hall is in frickin' Toronto.
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #118 on: October 26, 2011, 09:52:50 PM »

This is getting reposted quickly in multiple places. WARNING: No confirmation yet of source or whether or not it's real.

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“We are Wall Street. It’s our job to make money. Whether it’s a commodity, stock, bond, or some hypothetical piece of fake paper, it doesn’t matter. We would trade baseball cards if it were profitable. I didn’t hear America complaining when the market was roaring to 14,000 and everyone’s 401k doubled every 3 years. Just like gambling, its not a problem until you lose. I’ve never heard of anyone going to Gamblers Anonymous because they won too much in Vegas.

    Well now the market crapped out, & even though it has come back somewhat, the government and the average Joes are still looking for a scapegoat. God knows there has to be one for everything. Well, here we are.

    Go ahead and continue to take us down, but you’re only going to hurt yourselves. What’s going to happen when we can’t find jobs on the Street anymore? Guess what: We’re going to take yours. We get up at 5am & work till 10pm or later. We’re used to not getting up to pee when we have a position. We don’t take an hour or more for a lunch break. We don’t demand a union. We don’t retire at 50 with a pension. We eat what we kill, and when the only thing left to eat is on your dinner plates, we’ll eat that.

    For years teachers and other unionized labor have had us fooled. We were too busy working to notice. Do you really think that we are incapable of teaching 3rd graders and doing landscaping? We’re going to take your cushy jobs with tenure and 4 months off a year and whine just like you that we are so-o-o-o underpaid for building the youth of America. Say goodbye to your overtime and double time and a half. I’ll be hitting grounders to the high school baseball team for $5k extra a summer, thank you very much.

    So now that we’re going to be making $85k a year without upside, Joe Mainstreet is going to have his revenge, right? Wrong! Guess what: we’re going to stop buying the new 80k car, we aren’t going to leave the 35 percent tip at our business dinners anymore. No more free rides on our backs. We’re going to landscape our own back yards, wash our cars with a garden hose in our driveways. Our money was your money. You spent it. When our money dries up, so does yours.

    The difference is, you lived off of it, we rejoiced in it. The Obama administration and the Democratic National Committee might get their way and knock us off the top of the pyramid, but it’s really going to hurt like hell for them when our fat a**es land directly on the middle class of America and knock them to the bottom.

    We aren’t dinosaurs. We are smarter and more vicious than that, and we are going to survive. The question is, now that Obama & his administration are making Joe Mainstreet our food supply…will he? and will they?”

Oh lord.

Some of the comments from folks I know were precious:

<DS~> It's really cute that the 1% think what they're in danger of is losing some money when actually what they're in danger of is being lined up against a wall and shot.
<Nemryn> I have a hard time not laughing when I hear tough talk like that from someone who isn't willing to say 'ass'.
<Nemryn> "Do you really think that we are incapable of teaching 3rd graders and doing landscaping?" Yes. Yes we do.
<DS~> "hey guess what middle class gardener, your mexican boss who hates rich gringos is going to fire your mexican ass and hire us even though we have no idea which end of a rake goes in the leaves and think a hedge is a kind of fund"

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Re: Occupy Wall Street
« Reply #119 on: October 26, 2011, 10:56:36 PM »

Whoever wrote it is either a brilliant satirist or someone I'd sincerely like to see fed to pigs.
Real or not it does rile the blood.
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