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[MetalSlimeHunt]

On a significantly lighter note:

End the disenfranchisement of Pluto! Occupy Pluto!

[Duuvian]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Now how about that?

About the only place that would look good to me is on the T-Shirt of a protestor.

[ECrownofFire]

On a significantly lighter note:

End the disenfranchisement of Pluto! Occupy Pluto!

The Plutocracy must fall!

[Luke_Prowler]

On a significantly lighter note:

End the disenfranchisement of Pluto! Occupy Pluto!

The Plutocracy must fall!

http://instantrimshot.com/

[Sheb]

I like how one of the Tea Party protester get a sign saying "This is a non working replica of a gun". :p

[SalmonGod]

Police refuse to enforce curfew in Albany.

This is a milestone

[Tellemurius]

Too late for Denver, our protesters got kicked out cause they been camping out on our Capitol Hill and our vagrancy laws don't allow that. They can still be there just can't be snoozing under the governor's light.

[GlyphGryph]

The numbers in the "Uni debunking" article are certainly higher than they need to be - you can get by with less. I did for a year. A friend of mine did it for practically the whole run. It's hard, though. We both managed to keep our costs lower. And we both got scholarships, too. I actually got a full ride!

And I've still got debt, and he only paid it off because he's a natural businessman, and has managed to make something on the order of $100/hr being self employed doing contract work while he goes to school.

And here's the thing - it only works because there are so many other people actually PAYING the school - they were subsidizing my education. If they didn't attend, I very much doubt there would be many scholarships going around.

Also, I'm gonna put that picture of the jail thing on a sign and bring it to occupy - It's exactly the reason I go. I despise corruption and toleration of harmful lawbreaking, ESPECIALLY when those criminals are in positions of power or try to actively undermine the justice system.

[Siquo]

Sorry to dig this up, but this struck me as unchallenged BS:

I propose that the income inequality is a symptom of a much larger societal trait, namely conformism vs individualism.

Untrue. Anecdotal evidence: the Netherlands (yeah I know there I go again). Although there's a large conformist movement, it's well known for it's openly heterogenous population in terms of race, ideology, religion, and sexual preference.

Point: You make "economic conformity" and "cultural conformity" the same thing. I highly doubt there's even a lot of correlation, worldwide.

Also, I'm gonna put that picture of the jail thing on a sign and bring it to occupy - It's exactly the reason I go.

Can imagine. That kind of shit is so rageworthy.

[Truean]

Really, we'll never know how much property damage is done by the [insert group here] (tea party/OWS), but it's there. If it wasn't privileged, I assure you, I could attest to some stupid shit that's been done.... Additionally, it will always be denied that this damage was from X source, or someone will say that Y person was not "really" a part of X group. Then there's the "course and scope" argument, which states it was outside the course and scope of the X group or "after hours."

If someone who attends X group functions regularly trashes a bar afterwords, does that count? How affiliated with X group does Y person have to be anyhow? If said person gets into a fist fight outside that bar against a person with an opposing viewpoint after being pumped up at a rally, does that count? How about if Y person abandons their kid who holds an opposing political viewpoint and what percentage of the reason for abandonment must the political difference make up? I've had to deal with all of these and more.

Moreover, the TEA party existed before the OWS movement, so its had more time to create incidents/have morons do stupid things. Thus, would it really be fair to compare the two in terms of incidents if they were/could be properly tracked?

Or, maybe it's just the criminals I see spouting off their political beliefs/event attendance as a BS excuse for crimes they were going to commit anyhow? Who the crap knows?

[SalmonGod]

Just saw the news and haven't looked into it much.  Won't be able to for another 3 hours or so.

But it appears things got really ugly in Oakland last night.  Massive police raid with tear gas, flashbangs, and rubber bullets.

[Bdthemag]

Just saw the news and haven't looked into it much.  Won't be able to for another 3 hours or so.

But it appears things got really ugly in Oakland last night.  Massive police raid with tear gas, flashbangs, and rubber bullets.

Did the protesters do anything besides refusing to move?

[MonkeyHead]

Just seen on the highly trustworthy C4 news (UK) that those "occupying London" near St. Pauls might be taking the piss a little...

1: Many were involved in "defending" the inhabitants from Dale Farm.

2: Many are know to the Police already due to other incidents - the specific one mentioned was the "Climate Camp"

... and the one that made me giggle:

3: 95% of the tents are empty at night according to police helicopter thermal imaging - confirmed by a protestor who gave a statement saying people have to travel home at night as "they live far away and have to feed thier cats"...

[SalmonGod]

Just saw the news and haven't looked into it much.  Won't be able to for another 3 hours or so.

But it appears things got really ugly in Oakland last night.  Massive police raid with tear gas, flashbangs, and rubber bullets.

Did the protesters do anything besides refusing to move?

I didn't want to say it, because I haven't verified it and it barely even makes sense for multiple reasons... but people are saying the protesters were asleep when it happened, and that the police just started firing this stuff into the crowds of tents with sleeping people in them.  I can at least confirm that it was a pre-dawn raid, making it very likely that the protesters were mostly inactive at the time and the police action was an aggressive tactic.

A quick glance at the Occupy Oakland website shows that there were 500 riot police with armored vehicles.  They allowed no media near the event.  They set up barricades over several city blocks, presumably for this purpose.  I saw one short clip from a helicopter, but there was no action in it... just absurd numbers of riot police in line formations marching on a loose crowd of people.

They evicted everyone, arrested 70, and are in the process of tearing down/confiscating everything.  Making much more mess of the place than the protesters ever did, too.

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Spoiler: Apparently the barricades they set up this morning are still standing.  Oakland intends to shut down the occupation there permanently. (click to show/hide)

[MetalSlimeHunt]

They can't do that under the First Amendment, and they have to know it. Truean, how far are you from Oakland? I think you've got a few hundred clients in the making.