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Originally posted by seabag
reply to post by couldbeanyone
point taken. but thats ows, not odc-- isn't everything much more intense in new york? (that's what the movies made me believe anyway) maybe that's why they're all worked up? ... just kidding. people in odc are getting arrested for standing too close to the gates, not for inciting riots and arson.
Ahhh….but their reputation precedes them, sir.
Everybody knows what to expect from Occupy if things don’t go as planned.
the truth has been spoken. but my question now is... which movement is more organic? the thoughtful planned tea-party, or the mass swarm ideology of the occupy movement? i think mostly the tea party has polished their agenda to such a high degree that they can see their goal like a diamond sparkling in the sky. the occupiers are just waiting to get squashed like a bug. or, as they say PWNED.
Originally posted by jlv70
reply to post by Rockpuck
I've seen some actions by soldiers lately that were terrible, does that mean they represent all soldiers? Or the Army?
Originally posted by seabag
reply to post by couldbeanyone
the truth has been spoken. but my question now is... which movement is more organic? the thoughtful planned tea-party, or the mass swarm ideology of the occupy movement? i think mostly the tea party has polished their agenda to such a high degree that they can see their goal like a diamond sparkling in the sky. the occupiers are just waiting to get squashed like a bug. or, as they say PWNED.
I don’t think it matters which movement is more organic. What matters IMO is which one of these opposing views will lead to a better country. The Tea Party is based on classical views and libertarian principles dating back to our founding while OWS is a radical progressive movement dating back to Roosevelt’s New Deal. One path has grown the country while the other path is destroying it. I’ll let you decide which movement will lead us to properity.
The video below does an excellent job of painting this picture....
edit on 16-3-2012 by seabag because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by popsmayhem
Occupy has been egging this on
for a long time. I have pretty good
feeling tea party will not start anything.
If the occupiers start attacking tea party
protesters, the tea party folks need to use
their right to carry. If things get real bad, i'm sure
the tea party folks now how to survive.
Originally posted by jlv70
reply to post by Rockpuck
The Occupy movement has presented the only realistic assessment of the problems facing this country that I've seen.
I could present you with selective bits of information on Mother Teresa and make her out to look like the devil, every piece of information I would present you with would be true, but overall it would fit into a false narrative.
I've seen some actions by soldiers lately that were terrible, does that mean they represent all soldiers? Or the Army?
Originally posted by XPLodER
well done for bringing blatent untruths and painting an entire group with a political purpose,
"HATE THE PROGRESSIVES"
without really understanding the occupy movemnet itself is without external politics,
ANYONE can be part of occupy but that does not mean if a single tea party member joins that it is now "teaparty occupy"
but as a group the tea party could form a "occupy teaparty" this would make them no less teaparty
what im trying to say is your video is very biased in presenting untruths and presenting them as fact,
as are you with your statements.
i smell an agenda to make occupiers into an enemey,
they are not made up of any one group, they are a collection of all groups,
SO YOUR ATTEMPT TO MAKE A WHOLE DIVERSE GROUP,
look like one particular political bent is laugable.
dont "paint your picture" about others and their beleifs if you are so uninformed to use a video with clear bias and inacuracies
why cant the tea party and occupy get along?
well it would seem misconceptions are abound and strangly enough come to DEVIDE along political lines,
lol
when what is needed is NOT videos on why WE CANT WORK TOGETHER,
but videos of WHY WE MUST work together for the childeren of the future.
wake up grow up and do something productive,
demonizing OWS makes you look a little scared of the movement
the countries are to important to let crap like this devide us,
and i question anyone who wilfully tryes to DEVIDE opinion as this is the time used tool of opresion
xploder
Originally posted by SevenThunders
Are you saying that OWS is not a 'progressive' movement? That it does not support Obama or does not support wealth redistribution?
From a cursory analysis it seems that they are very liberal and do support the basic Marxist idea of taking from the rich and giving to the poor.
The video, however, is right on with regards to the economic outcome of the progressive movement. It will reduce economic activity and ultimately shrink the 'pie' that the liberals are trying to divide. Progressive ideologies have destroyed the economies of every society they have touched and are actually counter-productive in helping the plight of the poor.
It is primarly because they have a failed premise, namely that humans, and their institutions can 'perfect' society by their own efforts. All you need is the perfect group of elitists to run it.
Capitalism, on the other hand has the correct premise, humans are flawed and self serving. Therefore exploit that to induce people to create better products and services in the hopes of a big payoff.
Originally posted by Evil_Santa
Is Belgian's society destroyed, how 'bout Sweden's or Icelands, or even was Libya a bad place before the US staged a coup? These were all progressive liberal societies. Your facts are innacurate.
However, your last paragraph completely sheds light on your psychopathic view of humanity. You're advocating exploiting humans for personal gain. Slave owners have the same outlook. In effect you're advocating slavery of humanity for personal gain, which i think is a lot closer to your statement of "All you need is the perfect group of elitists to run it" as only a few elite gain under the management of your capitalism system, while the greater majority suffer through being exploited.
Right, Dominus?
Capitalism, on the other hand has the correct premise, humans are flawed and self serving. Therefore exploit that to induce people to create better products and services in the hopes of a big payoff.
Originally posted by XPLodER
what do you call the socialist bank bailouts of wall street crooks?