Occupy

[Guest]

O.K, if we can have laughing quads as a topic in comedy (the video was fun, and has personal meaning to me) then I am going to go a bit social/political.

Comedy is technically different from being funny. But since that distinction has been lost here, I offer the following, because I think it is funny:

[~candice~]

That made me snort a few times

[nebula]

Watching the Te Party vs. Occupy was just as enlightening.

[Guest yod]

Watching the Te Party vs. Occupy was just as enlightening.

and that video blows a big hole in anyone's theory that they have the same goals....or that the Occupy folks have useable brains.

[Guest]

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Amen~!

[nebula]

Of course, what's funny is that in the original video posted, Occupiers are expressing distaste for unions. In the second video (which I mentioned) the Occupiers are in favor of unions.

Or did I just hear wrong on the first part?

[Guest]

Of course, what's funny is that in the original video posted, Occupiers are expressing distaste for unions. In the second video (which I mentioned) the Occupiers are in favor of unions.

Or did I just hear wrong on the first part?

I don't remember whether someone was blaming the unions, or if the interviewer offered the unions as one of the scapegoats and the interviewee went along with it. I think a large part of the problem lies in a differences between how the Tea Party and the OWS groups think, and how they came to be. While the tea party is grass roots, it was not so spontaneous. There was a bit of forthought and organization in the tea party, even if there is not central figure. These were people who thought alike, more or less and came together for a voice with a message. That message identified specific problems, and offers solutions, in other word, it is coherant.

The OWS group is a bunch of malcontents, who know something is wrong, and want 'someone' to fix it. The basically have a list of demands (than no one seems to agree upon - mixed messages), and rather than wanting to help with the solutions, seems to be more into whining about the world not being a Utopia, and hope that protesting and disrupting socierty will somehow force SOMEONE to fix things.

Their groups seems to have a lot of very ignorant and idealistic people with no concept of the practical and realistic. They are misinformed about who is doing what to them, preferring to blame the upper 1% of wealth owners in the world for all the ills of society. They fail to see that a large part, if not the majority part of the problem, is caused by the people they have most likely voted into office themselves, implementing policies they would agree with.

It is almost refresing to see that they do not any longer seem to think the the likes of Obama and his ilk will help them. The are disillusioned with the system. The seem to think the system is broken, and that is the reason while their ideals are not working, failing to recognize that the move toward their ideas, has helped to put them in the position they now find themselves in. I have to say that I am somewhat in agreement with them, that the system is a bit broken.

At least, that is my rough analysis.

[Guest shiloh357]

Excellent articulation of the situation, Ome. I think you hit the nail on the head.

[Guest]

Excellent articulation of the situation, Ome. I think you hit the nail on the head.

Thank you shiloh, even a broken clock is right, twice a day!

[tigger398]

I work at a donut shop. It's not much money I'm sure, But it's a job right ??