Wow. Funny stuff...

>>20672707
>I had my Mac stolen -- that was like $5,500

What the fuck...

> Nan Terrie, 18, a kitchen and legal-team volunteer from Fort Lauderdale.
Anyone got any pics of her?

>protesting against unemployment and wealth disparity
>owns an apple product worth $5,500
Got fucking damn it, these kids...

I guess this is a demonstration in how the food chain works.

99% cries to the 1%
the 75% steal from the 99%

the 50% work in sweatshops making the overpriced gadgets that the 75% waste their money on

Oh my goodness this is gold.

Hypocrites of the highest caliber.

>>20672707
>“I had my Mac stolen -- that was like $5,500.
>get the message out to our supporters that we needed food!

i thought these protesters were poor?

shit. wished I wouldve thought of doing this earlier. lots of expensive hipster shit and more or less free from any remorse.

>>20672732
No it's ok, her parents probably bought her it.

>>20672758
They're not. The real poor people are working three jobs at minimum wage - these are
college dropouts with student loans and expensive consumer technology.

>>20672758
good joke

I was also watching newsnight last night: all dem retards in V for Vendetta masks, thinking they're actually a part of something unique or exciting.
>mfw "Anonymous'" best days are over and these idiots can't see that
And since when was "Anonymous" an left-anarchist movement? As far as I can remember it was a broad community against general injustice, as we saw with Scientology.

>>20672758
they aren't poor. this is the funny part about the protest.

They are middle class college kids with a sense of entitlement.

poor people can't take time off from work or their families go hungry

>“I had my Mac stolen -- that was like $5,500."

WTF man, was it one of those custom gold-plated Colorware fuck-money-I'm-rich-bitch jobs or something?

As if I'm supposed to feel anything for such a whining bonehead. Bitch, please.

>>20672802
>poor people can't take time off from work or their families go hungry
>Last night, our entire [kitchen] budget for the day was stolen
Something doesn't add up here

>$5500 Mac

The only Mac that costs this much, that is not laden with huge SSDs and assloads of RAM, is a Mac Pro. Not a Macbook Pro, but a Mac Pro.

Who the FUCK brings a desktop to a protest?

>>20672707
>mac
>$5,500
>bringing a fucking mac to a protest
fucking hipster cunts

>>20672795
>he thinks anonymous was ever good
Seriously bro just fucking off yourself.

>>20672758

Nope, they're mostly college grads who want in on the gravy train ez money life of sitting in meetings all day and collecting $300K/y + stock options + $50K quarterly bonus.

>>20672830
Feel free to quote me on where I said it was "good".

‌

>making off with pricey cameras, phones and laptops

This is why 50% of the 99% are bullshit.

>>20672824
That's the worst part: she doesn't even know the value of her stolen item, proving she has no actual attachment or care for it, furthering her hypocrisy quite beautifully.

>>20672795

Anonymous is not a group, and the fight against Scientology was for the lulz above all else. Because of all of the meme spewing faggots however, it ceased to have lulz, and was thus ended.

>>20672707
>can afford a $5500 mac
>protesting the rich
>taking a $5500 mac to a street protest
I have no words for this

>>20672824
An idiot, like most of these people.

>$5500 Mac
>pricey cameras, phones, laptops
And they call themselves poor?

>>20672816
It totally adds up.
Crybaby protesters are being supported by charity organizations because they can't do shit on their own. They don't have their parents to support them, so they whine and charities pity them.

Actual poor people see opportunity to improve their situation and fuck the police and rob those bitches.

If those 99% protesters had the drive of your average poverty stricken worker, they would have a job and would be climbing the corporate ladder by now. They are just crying because getting a job requires too much work and they want shit handed to them

>“I had my Mac stolen -- that was like $5,500.
...

I hate this person, I am boiling at their hypocrisy...
FOR FUCKS SAKE, WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?

>>20672824
are you retarded?

>implying it was a desktop and not and overly stocked laptop.

please, you might be intelligent, but use those brains towards critical thinking more often than just when you feel like it.

>>20672732
>my face when

TIME TO DRINK EVERYONE

LOTS OF AMERICANS ITT WHO DON'T HAVE LEGITIMATE NEWS SOURCES ACTUALLY TELLING THEM WHAT'S HAPPENING AND WHY THESE PEOPLE ARE PROTESTING

Go on. Keep defending a small, extremely destructive branch of society you don't even belong to or profit from.

Yes, yes, very good. You're good corporate lapdogs, very good. The corporate media propaganda has worked. Just as planned.

Here is why these people are actually protesting. I know you don't hear that on the news, but here in Europe the news channels are actually news, that's why all polls in nearly all countries show 90-95% support of the protesters while in MURRKA it's like 60%.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8o3peQq79Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIfEw1V8_Ls

>>20672707

I thought we had this thread already. But, it's not old until everyone says something about it, huh?

>$5,500 Mac guy

obviously an agent provocateur sent to discredit the movement

stop being so gullible

>take very expensive toys to a "protest" to have gay orgies and pretend you are "taking down the man"
>be suprised when people who aren't completely retarded loot you for being the scum of the earth.

Srsly guys

/g/ is FULL of retards...

Yes, buying an apple PC is stupid.
Yes. Buying one for $5500 is stupid.
Yes, taking it to a street protest is stupid.

But being able to do all of that doesn't make one rich.
hell, even the upper middle class of Americans making six-figures are still poor compared to that 1% that control an unproportionate amount of wealth. That 1% are not the people that made the right decisions when they were going to university either.

>>20672897
That what she valued it at including software and probably music and movies that no doubt she paid for.

The 99% don't have to be poor everyone is the 99% if we nationalize the assets of the 1% and give them back a _fair_ amount the country will be better. 1% should not control 42% of the wealth that is the real crime.

>>20672992
>Complain about having to many bills and being in debt
>buy a $5000+ mac

yeah fuck off faggot

>"It's ok to steal from others who have more for the sake of the needy!"
>"HEY that's MY laptop you can't have that! What gives you the right to take other people's money!?"

>>20672992
It pretty much does damn it. You Americuns really do think you deserve the world.

>>20672992
if you live in America, you are the 1%. Welcome to the real world.

>>20673047
I disagree.

There are some really poor people in the US, but even they are still in the top 10%

okguys thats all said and good but what you're forgetting is that regardless of who is doing it theyre in NEW YORK FUCkING CITY

aka nigger-land of the NorthEast
aka If you bring expensive shit to NYC and dont keep an eye on it you're retarded to begin with regardless of where youre at , what you're doing

also - not all of the crows supports of the protests, there are DEFINITELY insider-agents placed in it by govmt/corporations as well as random sleazy ass people like everywhere else in the world

why is this so hard to understand?

Pfffft.

Dirty populist scum.

>>20672953
Just because someone disagrees with one group doesn't mean they love the opposite.
I hate the banksters and the hippies on protesting.

>>20673047
God this argument is so fucking stupid.

So Americans have no right to complain about their standard of living until it's comparable to that of a third world country? Give me a break.

>>20673168

Americans shouldn't complain about being marginalized because they do it to others on a larger scale in worse ways. It's like a suburban teen complaining about child abuse because they didn't get the latest iPad.

They can still complain about the million other things that are wrong.

>>20672857

yeah, it's great watching the videos of cops beating them up, and seeing around $30K of DSLR shit with top-notch optics and flashes firing off (and no, they aren't photojournalists), people taking video with their fucking iPads, etc.

>>20673077
>this is what unemployed prostitutes who go to college to get customers actually believe.

>>20673140

What I find funny is people like this who pretend / really think that they can look down on others as if they're part of the TRUE %1.

Let me put this way

to be a TRUE %1, Youd have to have as much money/influence as JP Morgan because even HE was merely a lieutenant at BEST to the true financial elite which continues to this day. Do you think the true %1 would even WANT people to know that they're the %1

fucking retards everywhere unless you're literally making more Bank THAN the banks even if you WORK for a bank , you are still the fucking 99 fucking percent

this aint checkers you bunch of dumb-ass pawns

>>20672997

Oh god I don't want to feed the obvious troll.

Here's the answer to this whole thing:

The government has proven that they'll spend revenue acquired from taxes irresponsibly. Now we will tax the rich, and give more revenue to the government.

That's like giving more crack to a crack addict. It makes no sense.

Once the tax is in place, they'll progressively lower the wage requirements of "who's the rich", justified to pay off the increased dept they'll keep making so long as we keep giving them more revenue to irresponsibly spend!

One year people who make over 1 mil a year is affected by this proposed taxation. The next year $100,000. The year after that $60,000. "Hey! They make more money than these people, so I consider them rich!"

The problem is not under-taxation...it's over spending.

Finally, the "99%" are not really the 99%
The REAL 99% is busy working hard, hating their bosses, but thankful they have a job in the first place.
These people protesting are the minority of the population that's poor AND/OR are young kids who make so little while living off of their parents while in college, they are exempt from paying taxes anyway! So who are they to represent anyone?

Most people understand this. That is why everyone is laughing at them.

>>20673223

The 1% are the Jewish bankers.

We need a final solution to the Jewish question.

Wonderful. Entitled socialist scum got what they deserved.

>>20672919
Why even take that claim at face value? Are you legally required to wear a helmet at all times?

The main problem I have is that their motivation is all wrong.
And its essentially the same as the 1%.

They both want more money.
What they should be looking at are ways to circumvent the widening rich/poor divide.

The worst thing is that nobody gives a fuck. Has there even been an official statement from the whitehouse on this?

>>20673168
Actually yes. Go donate some money and quit acting like you are entitled to your new Mac every year. Maybe now you get why the majority of the world hates your country and it's citizens.

I'm sure mommy and daddy paid their pricey material goods.

>>20673223

I hate the protesters because they are led by emotion and are easily manipulated by leaders. They don't stand for reason and principal as much as blind self interest and mob mentality.

To put it in another way: I prefer Louix XVI over the reign of terror.

>>20673291
Fucking this especially the last part.

>>20673223

> unless you're literally making more Bank THAN the banks even if you WORK for a bank , you are still the fucking 99 fucking percent

Not true. The "top 1%" is anything over $250,000/yr.

>>20673223
Actually anyone making over 200,000 a year makes more than 99% of America, therefore they are the 1%. Math is fun! My dad is part of the 1% and he's just a lawyer/judge.

>>20673291
>>20673291
>>20673291


>>>I hate the average non-protester because they are led by emotion and are easily manipulated by leaders. They don't stand for reason and principal as much as blind self interest and mob mentality.

>>>To put it in another way: I prefer getting ass-raped over freedom

fix'd for democracy

>>20673340
>he thinks that the protesters want "freedom".

>>20673332
Can you tell me the percent of americans that make less than 75k, how about 50k, 25k even?

I bet you these kids come from families in the 75k bracket

>>20673340

>implying tyranny of the majority is any more pleasant than tyranny of a minority

You're the type who would advocate joining a gang for protection instead of working against all organized crime.

>>20673340
>Terror
>Freedom
Pick one. There is such a thing as negative freedoms.

>>20673358

Indeed. They don't really want a free society. They just want to swap places with the people they think are oppressing them. In a free society they would have to take responsibility for their own lives.

>>20673273
I see them as
Tea Party 2: Revenge of their Children.

A study done by University of Texas economists James K. Galbraith and Travis Hale found that most of the gains enjoyed by the top 1% came from a small number of counties, rather than a national trend. Almost all of the richest 1%'s gains occurred in the economic hotbeds of Silicon Valley and New York City. If the top four counties in those regions are removed, there is almost no trend towards income inequality in the US in recent decades. On this basis, the researchers ascribe the recent growth in income inequality to the growth of information technology.

>>20673332
>>20673332
>>20673332

>>>Dad makes under quarter of a million a year from legal work
>>>Implying you're part of the top the pyramid of power/influence(what %1 is referring to)

thismustnotbegettingthrough.jpg

>everyone at OWS is beyond poor and being supported by parents
>expect them not to be thieves and scum

>>20673204
>>20673274

Jesus Christ you smug assholes are even worse than I thought. You honestly believe Americans shouldn't be concerned with how the conditions of their country affects their lives because someone on the other side of the world had it worse? Who isn't living in the "real world", again?

>mfw the British news isn't even bothered
I'm more interested in Dale Farm. I think we can all agree that those gypos need to be removed.

These people are NOT just stupid college kids and if that is your reason why you don't defend the protests I feel very fucking sorry that you are so narrow-minded. Nobody except very few people benefit if the current trend of the richer getting even richer and the middle class being systematically destroyed continues, let alone gets worse if another corporate puppet like Cain or Perry get elected.

You don't profit, your children don't profit and your grandchildren most certainly won't profit because I doubt that they will have clean air to breathe, water to drink or land to farm just because "it was good for the economy" today.

It's so fucking unfortunate that this 1960 kind of mindset of socialism vs capitalism stuck to America and every time some people stand up for themselves they get called "dirty hippies" and immediately attacked. Do you not see that the reason why they're telling you that the protesters are dirty socialist college kids fighting for communism is that they're actually scared of a revolution?

A healthy society rests on 2 pillars: Democracy and Wealth. If democracy is turned to a plutocracy or oligarchy where only very few people rule the majority of the people, sooner or later the citizens will realize that their needs are no longer appreciated.

If as a result of a few gamblers at wall street millions of americans are suddenly unemployed, lose their home, their life savings, their hope and their future, the second pillar is destroyed.

There wouldn't be hundreds of thousands of protesters in over 1500 cities if something wasn't fundamentally wrong with our system

A German news poll done by ARD:

http://umfrage.tagesschau.de/umfrage/poll_dbdata.php?oid=occupy102

>Do you agree with the protesters worldwide that criticize the influence of banks and corporations on the government?

>Yes: 91%
>No: 3%

>>20673415
1% refers to wealth, not influence.

>>20673434
Ur, yes. When was the last time you saw a mass protest against the famine in the horn of Africa?

>>20673444
This is what happens if you have news that are actually news and not right wing corporate propaganda followed by Mountain Dew and beer commercials on EVERY FUCKING CHANNEL.

Even Ben Bernanke, chairman of the federal reserve, one of the hearts of all evil, agrees that the protesters have a valid point and their concerns are reasonable, understandable and were foreseeable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVXEYoo46ZY

What reasons could you possibly see to defend a branch of society you don't even belong to or profit from? They deliberately fuck you in the ass for decades and yet you fucking defend them under the pretense of disapproving of what... socialism?

If this mindset of the public does not change even when things get even worse, I'm sorry to say that your country is doomed.

Instead of screaming "SOCIALISM SOCIALISM HIPPIES COLLEGE KIDS MARXISM COMMUNISM THEY ARE POOR AND LAZY AND NEED TO GET A JOB AT MCDONALDS LOL WORTHLESS ARTS DEGREE THEY JUST WANT FREE MONEY LOL", take the fucking time and watch this 12 minute video of a senator explaining what exactly is wrong with this country and why there are people on the streets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIfEw1V8_Ls

>>20673444

> Germany in charge of democracy

>>20673415
>Implying you're part of the top the pyramid of power/influence(what %1 is referring to)
I never implied that.
>Thinking that the 1% is only multimillionaires

thismustnotbegettingthrough.png

>>20673434
You people caused the problems for this global economy by buying everything on credit. You are the country that thinks they are entitled to everything where the 99% is for a big part filled with obese fags or arts majors. Your life is NOT THAT BAD. Get a fucking job or start something yourself. Life is not that hard.

This is coming from someone who works minimum wage in a slaughterhouse that is pissed by you guys repeatedly dragging down the global economy and invading random countries in the name of freedom.

Standing in front of your stock exchange doesn't fix the problem since the biggest reason your country is doing halfway decent is that stockexchange since you don't produce shit and shoveling money around is what keeps shit going.

>>20673434

>Americans shouldn't be concerned with how the conditions of their country affects their lives because someone on the other side of the world had it worse?

I never said that. I said that they should argue in a way that doesn't undermine their own legitimacy, like complaining about being at the bottom when they're technically at the top.

2 things, I live in a third world country, I EARN 500 DOLLARS PER MONTH.

FIVE-HUNDRED DOLLARS PER MONTH

IT WOULD TAKE ME A WHOLE FUCKING YEAR TO BUY THAT SHITTY MAC IF I LIVE ON AIR AND HUGS

THERE'S NO AMOUNT OF SEARING RAGE THAT CAN EXPLAIN HOW MUCH I HATE THIS FAGGOTS

But, I do agree with some points they're making.

>>20673444
Europeans hate success and are mad jelly of our country. Everyone loves criticizing americans!

>BAwww I am so poor it is ur fault
>Buys Apple products for 500% of the cost of an appropriate laptop for facebook

It is funny and sad at the same time

>>20673494
I buy my shit on credit then pay it back within the 21 day grace period, so I pay no interest and carry no balance.

Your argument is invalid.

>>20673434
No we are. We just know that hanging out in front of buildings looking like fools is counter productive.

>>20673517
And every single one thought that would always work out. Protip: it doesn't

>>20673444

The protestors are kids from wealthy white families who are going through an anarcho-marxist phase because they have nothing else better to do while they wait for their moms and dads to retire and some white collar jobs open up. It's why there's been zero participation from minority groups. This is the same shit that their parents did: protest and stir shit up until they get paid to shut the fuck up and become good lil' capitalists, ignoring the people who really are getting fucked over at every point of their loves.

>>20673557
It does work out if you're not an idiot, which excludes a lot of people.

I have a secondary account dedicated to paying credit expenses, I don't ever live paycheck to paycheck and pay my existing obligations off from that second checking account (every day I transfer the money I spent on credit to it).

>>20673464

Shit, when was the last time you saw a mass protest against the famine and violence in the fucking slums of Atlanta or St. Louis or Detroit?

there aren't protesters saying "I want to be just like Rockefeller yall'"

Shit is like blaming a rape victim for dressing too promiscuous so the actual rapist goes free

same reason that its FUCKED UP that the ;single largest case of GLOBALLY FRAUDULENT FINANCIAL PRACTICES which spearheaded this current economic decline has still NOT HAD ONE DAMN PERSON EVEN ARRESTED FOR THIS SHIT

no politicians were even ousted out, no corporate investigations/prosecutions , NOT FUCKING ONE despite for rediculously lesser offense entire boards of directors have been thrown in JAIL for exponentially less serious white-collar crime of a similar nature

WHY?!

answer that with you wannabe-elite trust-fund kids who still think being a millionaire is even top of the financial food chain anymore and that the liquidation of the entire middle-class worldwide is somehow justified because EVERYONE is just a hippie/lazy/socialist further eroding and already long-slipping-slope of losing our own countries sovereignty?

look into history this is the same kind of shit that made the forefathers RISK THEIR OWN LIVES so we can live more free today from a tryannical elite who do nothing in regards of representing the public interests/will but only use the public as a means to fuel their own devious agendas

the facts/history are all there

keep your heads up your ass if you want to

>>20673500
Last I checked there were 40,000 people protesting at the Reichstag.

This is a global problem.

Only that it's the worst in America.

You're like 80th place in income equality just before Uganda. FUCK YEAH, TAKE THAT UGANDA! FUCK YEAH MURRKA #1!

Remember those banana republics they told you about in school? Where a small percentage of the country own all the wealth while the rest of the people get exploited? Yeah. Your country is one of them now.

>>20673595
>comparing Detroit to Somalialand
Oh fucking Jesus.

You'll never break through the system through words.

If you actually want change for better or for worse, you'd be better off just hunting down the children of richest people in the country and killing them, sending a message that those who shall get a free ride through life while others must suffer and struggle don't deserve to live.

Stop being pussies and go full fucking extremist you bitches

>>20673595
You'll have to be shitting me.

>$5,500 for a fucking mac

>complain about needing food

>complain about not having money

>$5,500

>>20673625

The point is that these fucks don't even care about shit that's going on in their own backyard, so how do you expect them to give a fuck about someone getting blown up over coltan in the fucking Congo?

>>20673613
If you're going to steal someone's speech then at least give them credit.

>>20673560

>HEY GUYS

>THIS IS ABOUT CAPITALISM VS SOCIALISM RIGHT?

>MAN I HATE THEM EVIL COMMIES

>HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH A FEW PEOPLE GAINING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF BONUSES FROM YOUR TAX PAYER MONEY AFTER CRASHING THE WORLD ECONOMY WHICH COST YOU MORE THAN BOTH WORLD WARS COMBINED

>those stupid college kids! right? right? guys?

I think we should put these kids in contained "funwork-camps" where they can get things like food, clothes and shelter in exchange for working 16 hours a day making wallets for the UNESCO.

>>20673467
Very few people disagree with the ideals.

The wallstreet idiots aren't supporting a fight against the 1%. They're attacking people that they "think" are richer than themselves (the people on wallstreet). You can write up doctrines all you want, but it means nothing when you're so fearful and hypocritical that the only people you feel safe attacking are the other people going to their 99% jobs. You think Bill Gates has a stroll through wallstreet every day?

They should be in DC barring the gates, at the houses of senators, not at fucking wallstreet with macbooks. Right now their acts are nothing more than terrorism towards their own kind, and attention whoring.

>>20673672
I just watched the link someone posted earlier, that's why.

This is not a revolution of the proletariat or whatever like I've seen a lot of people spin it as. I've read a lot of comments from these people complaining along the lines of 'these wall street bankers make lots of money sitting at their desks and doing very little work for it.' I fucking guarantee you almost every one of those kids protesting deep down inside is really just butthurt that they aren't doing that exact thing right after getting their worthless liberal arts degrees like they were promised and deluded into thinking. If they were real poor working class they would be unemployed or on strike pipe fitters or factory workers, not grad students refusing to take jobs that are available. Its not the banks' fault that a degree in anthropology or philosophy or some shit is just about as useful as not having a degree at all to just about everyone who is actually hiring.

>>20673467

> What reasons could you possibly see to defend a branch of society you don't even belong to or profit from? They deliberately fuck you in the ass for decades and yet you fucking defend them under the pretense of disapproving of what... socialism?

If you would actually listen to views other than yours, you might actually understand why people disagree with you. Instead you make the completely unfounded assumption that you have a monopoly on truth and knowledge and start spamming them with monumentally insulting attacks on their character and intelligence and bombarding them with links and videos that you insist they digest in full before they're even qualified to speak to you.

I don't know when this shit became the accepted norm among protestfags and so-called "politically conscious" people, but I find it an abhorrent corruption of intelligent and reasoned disagreement. It substitutes passion and self-righteousness in place of a desire for the truth or a desire to share the world without having to be of like mind on all things. I am honestly more concerned that this kind of mob thinking will overwhelm our society than I am about wealth inequality.

>>20672707
I've personally been to the Wall Street protest in Zuccotti park. You're in fucking downtown New York staying the night in practically the street (although called a park it is more a marble plaza with a few trees in planters and other foliage around). People fell asleep with their backpacks to their side instead of tucking belongings inside sleeping bags or sleeping on them. I tied my belongings to myself when I stayed the night and kept it inside my sleeping bag. Nobody stole anything

>>20673694
Not a very bad idea but put them together with people that have had a real job for a longer time so they don't slack off and have fun and happy thoughts

>>20673672
lol unity

>>20673647

What, you think that grinding poverty and ecological devastation doesn't exist in the US?

>>20672953
Holy shit I would've died of alcohol poisoning by now.

Did anyone of you fucking faggots actually read this?

You're all posting arguments which are on a

>"you are a fucking idiot if you use any of these arguments and here's why"

-list that got posted at the beginning of the thread.

This is just fucking funny.

Why do you not want a more socialist state / federal government apart from racism?

>Lol niggers won't work for more money and will just live welfare because the y they have aspirations or want a better life for their kids

>I had my Mac stolen -- that was like $5,500

And the protesters complain that they're poor.
Fucking pathetic.

http://www.dailyernebraskan.com/article/occupy-wall-street-protest-turns-into-stirring-steve-jobs-me
morial


Not a single fuck given to these protestors.

>>20673678

> A FEW PEOPLE

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1%25+of+us+population

> 3.09 million people (2010 estimate)

If you have a toilet in your own home, you're probably doing better than almost 80% of people in the world.

If Bill Gates is the philantropist everyone say, why don't he help the US ? Why giving money to foreigners instead of helping his people ? Caring for Africa is just some hipster shit, why don't he stop acting like a huge faggot ?

>>20673714
And yet you didn't provide a single counter argument and just went straight full-retard ad hominem.

You even had the arrogance to sage. No, I will not reply to you and I will not tell you why you are wrong.

And it's obvious that you're American by the way. See what TV and "CAPITALISM GOOD SOCIALISM BAD" every day does to ya.

>>20673792
Because the people here are, for the most part, fine. The protesters are just whiny, spoilt, brats like I've been saying ever since these threads have come on /g/.

>>20673792

The Gates Foundation helps the US, focusing mostly on education.

>>20673786
I wasn't talking about the top 1%. I was talking about the guys who crashed the economy and got away with it.

I was talking about these greedy wall street executives who took your tax payer money to buy a new yacht when they should be getting assraped in jail for putting another 20 million people on food stamps and make 6% of the population lose their jobs.

>>20672824
She doesn't know how much it cost because she paid for it out of her trust fund/daddy bought it.

>>20672707
Good. Seriously, somebody should fucking rob these people. They're not only going to a damn stupid protest with no actual goals other than "baww corruption exists/THAT'S NOT FAIR", but they're taking expensive things with them.

Damn. That's just fucking stupid.

This is just a bunch of hipster asshats who decided "let's play Arab Spring/the '60s", and unfortunately some disillusioned and easily lead people got caught up in their bullshit.

The so-called 1% do suck in many cases. So do these people, but they're not successful like the "top".

>>20673678
Bank's aren't paying their executives billions of dollars. BoA's combined payment for all top people is under 50 million. If all that money was paid by the taxpayers, which it wasn't, it would be 0.16$ per person in the country.

If you paid no money to any of the Walmart executives you could raise the wage of the average worker by .09$ an hour.

If you want to see greedy billionaires who would fuck anyone over for an extra 5$ you should look into private hedge fund managers. There are only like 50-100 of them on the planet though, but they manage to manipulate markets as much/worse than Goldman Sachs

>>20673792
Cool strawman, bro.

>>20672729
>Nan Terrie
it's a man

I don't really mind socialists until the mass murders start.

I get it, there's a huge income disparities in capitalist countries but this isn't even news. You protesters can stop spamming the same shit over and over.
I'm still unclear about the demands. What other specific things do you want the government to do besides force the extremely wealthy to get the fuck out of the country/become expats to avoid outrageous income tax?

>>20673850
I wanted to write a small essay to refute everything you just said and tell you how your logic is flawed, but then I saw your trip.

That explains everything. No point in arguing with a mind like this.

>>20673834
>>20673889
Foxminded

>>20673922
>socialists kill 250 million people in the 20th century
>hurrdurr fox

>>20673938
Holy shit, talk about overestimating.

>>20673947
>implying that's overestimating

>>20673938
>confusing socialism with fascism
>implying that isnt overestimated
>implying most of that wasnt war and famine

>>20673947
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_regimes

>>20673938
If you think there was ever a truly socialist or communist country you're a retard.

Communism is a system where everybody, without exception, would be happy.

Dictators hijacked the revolutions and turned them into a horribly oppressive dictatorship.

>>20673494
i guess you have no idea what's going on in europe in 2011

america isn' the only financially irresponsible country, europe as a whole is in a way worse predicament

>>20673914
Sounds to me like you don't have a counter-argument.

If you want to claim that I'm wrong, the burden of proof lies on you. It's simply social science.

>>20673893
A corporation is legally a person, and as time has gone on and as they've gained more money, with it came political power. So, they used it to weigh the system better in their favor which has created an exponential effect of the gap between class wealth.

>>20673494
i guess you have no idea what's going on in europe in 2011

america isn' the only financially irresponsible country, europe as a whole is in a way worse predicament

>>20673328
this is what people really believe

>>20673947
Oh, well it would be fine if it was only 150 million. How silly of me.

>>20673494
i guess you have no idea what's going on in europe in 2011

america isn' the only financially irresponsible country, europe as a whole is in a way worse predicament

>Still believe in left-right bullshit
>2011

not thinking outside the box master race

Jesus fucking Christ why is /g/ so uneducated? I'm really glad for this thread I now know without doubt to disregard any advice I ever see on here because this board is full of brainwashed Americans.

Fox news: "they don't know what they're protesting about"
"they're rich so their opinion is invalid"
"they're poor so their opinion is invalid"
"protect the 'job creators' who statistically store much more of their money, pay lower percentage taxes than the average receptionist and destroy the fucking economy by engaging in tacitly government-backed ridiculous bets which employees of the financial enterprise can only profit from, ultimately from the taxpayer"

/g/ posters: "repeat all of the above"

If I'd been playing the drinking game I've be having my stomach pumped by now. Have you guys really not yet realised that your high court and government have been captured by corporations??? "Corporations have the same right to freedom of speech as people, and we define freedom of speech to include unlimited political donations"

I would put any money on America in the 90s-10s (presuming you eventually stop this shit) being used by political scientists as THE case study in why you keep money out of politics

>$5,500 computer
>I'm poor!
i don't think so

>>20672727
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>>20672890
>Actual poor people see opportunity to improve their situation and fuck the police and rob those bitches.
lol'd

>>20674040
>thinks the current economic climate was caused by changes during the 90s
>implying you know what you're protesting about

Didn't someone post an image of an old guy complaining about the 80s bailout?

Fox news isn't the outlet saying that you have no idea what you're protesting about. They're the outlet calling you people communists. The other news outlets are the ones pointing out that the protest is mindless. Everyone hates the french, but at least they can protest properly and attack specific issues, instead of this vague generalization of how the rich have created a gap of wealth.

It disgusts me the propaganda they feed you Americans, and how eagerly you gulp it down. "Yes, Fox, tell me more about how the protesters are just a bunch of unemployed leftie college dropouts!" "Tell me more about how they have no coherent message!" "Tell me more about how EVIL socialism and communism are, and how PERFECT capitalism is!" "Of course everyone can be easily categorized under one of two political wings!" "Of course we must never agree with the other side on anything!" No wonder you're so obese.

>>20672953
>>20673444

I don't understand why I should be protesting. Sure I am part of the so called 99% but my life is not turmoil. I make enough money to make ends meet and have fun at the same time and I don't plan on getting married or having kids because of all the societal problems associated with divorce and property rights.

So why should I protest if I currently enjoy my life and none of the 1% people even affect my day to day activities?

The OWS people never can answer my question, lol.

>>20673328
>failed statistics

>>20674260
Do you have healthcare coverage? Even if you do you're (directly or indirectly) paying an insane amount too much for it, I don't have the stats but American healthcare costs are (orders of magnitude?) more than the British pay to cover EVERYONE.

Also, the control of the government by corporations in America is already bad but the recent ruling on unlimited donations will take it to a whole new level. If your attitude is that you'll only protest by the time your own middle-class life has turned to shit then by that time you'll be protesting against a police state, I'd sooner take my chance with the tear gas than the tanks ala Tiananmen. And don't think that's a crazy idea that it would get that far, you'd be amazed how fast the shit hits the fan once the government isn't controlled by the people.

>>20674260
>So why should I protest if I currently enjoy my life and none of the 1% people even affect my day to day activities?

Because every white boy deserves everything that they thought their privilege would get them, they deserve it right now, and not a penny less.

And once they get what they want, they'll do exactly what their parents did and turn on organized labor and everything else they stood for so fast it'll make your head spin.

>>20674260

Because your life could be better and you could own more stuffs.

>>20673695
>Right now their acts are nothing more than terrorism towards their own kind, and attention whoring.
>terrorism
Now that's just wrong.
>attention whoring
Oh, you mean trying to draw attention to the cause? What a terrible fucking idea.

>>20674260
I am still waiting for the hipster OWS people to come up with a bullshit answer to my question.

test

>>20673774
Not sure if trolling or stupid

That article was total bullshit. The picture is clearly shooped and the whole article is filled with horse shit. There were probably a few retarded protesters mourning Jobs, but I'm pretty sure the vast majority did not fucking care

>>20673695
>Right now their acts are nothing more than terrorism towards their own kind, and attention whoring.
>terrorism
Now that's just wrong.
>attention whoring
Oh, you mean trying to draw attention to the cause? What a terrible fucking idea.

Storytime! I'm a software engineer making 90k a year. I bought a small house and got a roommate, decent car (used by one owner), decent computer; used speakers for home theater, everything at best price/performance ratio I can manage.

Friend is a substitute teacher. Spends 3k on a computer to have top of the line everything. 4k on tv and home theater. Gets married, buys a house twice as big as mine. Wife pregnant. Keeps buying expensive stuff.
>complains that he can barely pay his bills and he should get more tax breaks because pregnant

Another guy buys a house again twice as big as mine, wife loses job and never goes back to work. Nice furniture, new car etc. - declares bankruptcy. So the rest of us are footing the bill for 80k of his debt (it doesn't just disappear, somebody gets screwed for this type of shit.)

People don't want to live within their means. Maybe you can't afford kids and a designer kitchen. If you don't have money in the bank stop buying shit on credit. If I lived in NY or LA I'd be poor too - that's why I don't live there!

Meanwhile at the protest kitchen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4hQ4J4BFOM

>Paying $5,500 for a computer and bringing it to a public place with no security

This is why we're in debt, because 18 year olds feel it necessary to buy $5,500 pieces of shit.

>>20674317
>>20674355

I have everything I need

I have healthcare coverage and I only pay 11 dollars per month for it. I am not worried about the coverage because it takes care of just about every problem that could happen, but I never get sick so I never used it.

Still waiting for a real reason I should be protesting.

$5,500 is more than I have spent on ALL of my PCs in my entire life.