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I've been actively involved in Occupy Wall street for 3 months now
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Islandbud
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Dear 99 per cent,
On behalf of the one per cent, we just wanted to send you a sincere and heartfelt thank you for your recent efforts at the "Occupy" protests.
We, the wealthiest people in the world, are extremely grateful you took to the streets to get the word out about the insane lack of parity in wealth distribution in the United States and Canada, and we are glad that you gave the issue of corruption in the world's financial markets a global stage.
No really, we are.
The truth is, yes, of course it's pretty awesome being this wealthy. I'm dictating this to my personal assistant right now, who is riding shotgun while I'm speeding down the highway in my Ferrari throwing caviar out the window -- I'm not even eating it! I bought this caviar just to huck it at other, lesser cars. What's more, this is the only thing for which I use this particular car.
Sure, I'm living the dream now, but to level with you, before you guys started the Occupy movement, we were all just a little bit uneasy with the situation.
What I mean to say is, being able to buy and sell most of the other humans on the planet is great, but can you consider the relative unease that comes with amassing so much wealth and power, so quickly, so easily?
Put yourself in our shoes made from Iberian Lynx for a minute. It's estimated that today we, the one per cent, control 40 per cent of the world's wealth and that just 25 years ago, the corresponding figures were 12 per cent and 33 per cent. Surely, we all thought in this meteoric rise to history's worst balance of wealth, someone, somewhere, would take notice and do something soon.
It's been nerve-racking waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Yes, we still routinely gathered to laugh at the poor as we drank the world's best scotches out of the hollowed-out skulls of endangered species, but it was not without the odd shaking hand or niggling doubt.
Once in a while, lighting one of the world's finest cigars with flaming copies of corporate tax legislation, one of us would look around the country club, wave a diamond-studded sceptre, and shout, "Surely, it can't be this simple to dupe so many people?! Some day they'll come for us!"
And it really killed our buzz.
But now, thanks to your "protests," we know we're safe.
What I mean to say is that, thanks to your efforts, we now know there is absolutely nothing to fear and that we are comfortably entrenched as the ruling class.
Watching both the left and right wing media relegate coverage of your protests to short interviews with weird, fringe characters and watching how easy it was for the general public to simply ignore your efforts while they continued sucking down our corporate coffee-chain beverages and downloading music for which we pay artists a mere pittance, we breathed a collective Courvoisier-scented sigh of relief.
We dodged a real bullet.
Without a doubt your "movement" represented the largest potential threat to our ridiculously over-the-top well-being that we have ever had to face (sure, we had some anxiety when Obama was elected, but we've straightened all that out now).
I mean, the movement had real, scary potential. According to the communist information-sharing site Wikipedia, the Occupy movement started on September 17, 2011 and by October 9, protests had either taken place or were ongoing in over 95 cities across 82 countries, including over 600 communities in the United States. And yet...we're still here, living large.
In fact, we're hard pressed to find any unifying mission statements, any clear leaders within the movement, and, thankfully, any change in the situation you purport to be protesting at all.
Sure, the movement seemed like a big deal, but in reality, nobody really noticed.
Things are pretty much the way they were before.
So...thanks!
Before you guys, headlines like this one in the National Post revealing that Canada's CEOs make an average worker's salary in just three hours would have been met with shushes, attempts to oppress the news, and possibly even hostile takeovers of the news source just to raze the organization responsible.
But now, thanks to your impotent efforts, we know that no one really cares how wealthy we get. We've seen your efforts and have been reassured that our face-meltingly stupid levels of wealth -- amassed in a time where an estimated 25,000 people die every day because of hunger -- are safe.
Now we can read headlines like the one in the Post with open, public, and enthusiastic high fives (conducted of course by our butlers while we look on from comfortable seats atop our saddled albino elephants).
So we just wanted to say thanks. I mean we always knew we were virtually unstoppable, but it's nice to be just a little more sure of ourselves.
Fight the power and so forth. We think it's hilarious.
Sincerely,
The One Per Cent
On behalf of the one per cent, we just wanted to send you a sincere and heartfelt thank you for your recent efforts at the "Occupy" protests.
We, the wealthiest people in the world, are extremely grateful you took to the streets to get the word out about the insane lack of parity in wealth distribution in the United States and Canada, and we are glad that you gave the issue of corruption in the world's financial markets a global stage.
No really, we are.
The truth is, yes, of course it's pretty awesome being this wealthy. I'm dictating this to my personal assistant right now, who is riding shotgun while I'm speeding down the highway in my Ferrari throwing caviar out the window -- I'm not even eating it! I bought this caviar just to huck it at other, lesser cars. What's more, this is the only thing for which I use this particular car.
Sure, I'm living the dream now, but to level with you, before you guys started the Occupy movement, we were all just a little bit uneasy with the situation.
What I mean to say is, being able to buy and sell most of the other humans on the planet is great, but can you consider the relative unease that comes with amassing so much wealth and power, so quickly, so easily?
Put yourself in our shoes made from Iberian Lynx for a minute. It's estimated that today we, the one per cent, control 40 per cent of the world's wealth and that just 25 years ago, the corresponding figures were 12 per cent and 33 per cent. Surely, we all thought in this meteoric rise to history's worst balance of wealth, someone, somewhere, would take notice and do something soon.
It's been nerve-racking waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Yes, we still routinely gathered to laugh at the poor as we drank the world's best scotches out of the hollowed-out skulls of endangered species, but it was not without the odd shaking hand or niggling doubt.
Once in a while, lighting one of the world's finest cigars with flaming copies of corporate tax legislation, one of us would look around the country club, wave a diamond-studded sceptre, and shout, "Surely, it can't be this simple to dupe so many people?! Some day they'll come for us!"
And it really killed our buzz.
But now, thanks to your "protests," we know we're safe.
What I mean to say is that, thanks to your efforts, we now know there is absolutely nothing to fear and that we are comfortably entrenched as the ruling class.
Watching both the left and right wing media relegate coverage of your protests to short interviews with weird, fringe characters and watching how easy it was for the general public to simply ignore your efforts while they continued sucking down our corporate coffee-chain beverages and downloading music for which we pay artists a mere pittance, we breathed a collective Courvoisier-scented sigh of relief.
We dodged a real bullet.
Without a doubt your "movement" represented the largest potential threat to our ridiculously over-the-top well-being that we have ever had to face (sure, we had some anxiety when Obama was elected, but we've straightened all that out now).
I mean, the movement had real, scary potential. According to the communist information-sharing site Wikipedia, the Occupy movement started on September 17, 2011 and by October 9, protests had either taken place or were ongoing in over 95 cities across 82 countries, including over 600 communities in the United States. And yet...we're still here, living large.
In fact, we're hard pressed to find any unifying mission statements, any clear leaders within the movement, and, thankfully, any change in the situation you purport to be protesting at all.
Sure, the movement seemed like a big deal, but in reality, nobody really noticed.
Things are pretty much the way they were before.
So...thanks!
Before you guys, headlines like this one in the National Post revealing that Canada's CEOs make an average worker's salary in just three hours would have been met with shushes, attempts to oppress the news, and possibly even hostile takeovers of the news source just to raze the organization responsible.
But now, thanks to your impotent efforts, we know that no one really cares how wealthy we get. We've seen your efforts and have been reassured that our face-meltingly stupid levels of wealth -- amassed in a time where an estimated 25,000 people die every day because of hunger -- are safe.
Now we can read headlines like the one in the Post with open, public, and enthusiastic high fives (conducted of course by our butlers while we look on from comfortable seats atop our saddled albino elephants).
So we just wanted to say thanks. I mean we always knew we were virtually unstoppable, but it's nice to be just a little more sure of ourselves.
Fight the power and so forth. We think it's hilarious.
Sincerely,
The One Per Cent
Luv-U-Long-Time
Member
What is the single most important item we need to change,and what steps can be taken to accomplish it right now?
Most people are like plump turkeys oblivious to the sound of a sharpening stone.Info overload turns to white noise and artificially induced Utopia.
Help a brother out.
Most people are like plump turkeys oblivious to the sound of a sharpening stone.Info overload turns to white noise and artificially induced Utopia.
Help a brother out.
IslandBud, it took several hundred years to get rid of slavery of African Americans, and there were hundreds of revolts in between. So, your point is invalid.
Luv-U-Long-Time, I believe the most important issue is to get corporate, lobbyists money out of politics. I can't say how it should be gotten besides abolishing K street , no one can. But, a good start would be to have many, many, many more referendums.
Luv-U-Long-Time, I believe the most important issue is to get corporate, lobbyists money out of politics. I can't say how it should be gotten besides abolishing K street , no one can. But, a good start would be to have many, many, many more referendums.
Hey Islandbud, the way you described "the rich" was hilarious!
Hey occupy good to see threads like this, that make me go learn a little more about the subject titles. Ya'll take care 1
Hey occupy good to see threads like this, that make me go learn a little more about the subject titles. Ya'll take care 1
yea, i have a couple of q's - did you graduate from a university? what was your GPA? what did you study?
I work with a lot of people who are in the 2%, and most of them DO NOT fall into the stereotypes the occupy movement unfairly created. These people are highly intelligent, motivated and friendly to those who do not judge them (aka not OWS kids).
I also know a lot of old high school classmates that are active in OWS. In high school, they were the ones who never showed up to class, didn't have many friends and just plain slacked. They also gave me a lot of hell for being a 'nerd' so I have 0 sympathy for their lack of success in life. it really is no wonder why they are a part of the 98%. karmas a bitch yo.
Thats not to say ALL of OWS is lame. I still care about people regardless of their social status, and some people just simply didnt have the resources or opportunities to succeed...but dude a girl I work closely with had an abusive father, lived in her car for 6 months, and still managed to keep a 4.0 in high school. she basically said fuck you i create my own opportunities, and now she's a part of the 2%. She is also a minority, fwiw. This is America, if you think you don't have a chance then that's probably why you don't.**
All the same, I hope you get what you want out of the movement. this is just my 2cents. best of luck.
**edit: the exception here is the disabled. I do feel we should have better benefits for those who are physically or mentally challenged. maybe we should work on that?
I work with a lot of people who are in the 2%, and most of them DO NOT fall into the stereotypes the occupy movement unfairly created. These people are highly intelligent, motivated and friendly to those who do not judge them (aka not OWS kids).
I also know a lot of old high school classmates that are active in OWS. In high school, they were the ones who never showed up to class, didn't have many friends and just plain slacked. They also gave me a lot of hell for being a 'nerd' so I have 0 sympathy for their lack of success in life. it really is no wonder why they are a part of the 98%. karmas a bitch yo.
Thats not to say ALL of OWS is lame. I still care about people regardless of their social status, and some people just simply didnt have the resources or opportunities to succeed...but dude a girl I work closely with had an abusive father, lived in her car for 6 months, and still managed to keep a 4.0 in high school. she basically said fuck you i create my own opportunities, and now she's a part of the 2%. She is also a minority, fwiw. This is America, if you think you don't have a chance then that's probably why you don't.**
All the same, I hope you get what you want out of the movement. this is just my 2cents. best of luck.
**edit: the exception here is the disabled. I do feel we should have better benefits for those who are physically or mentally challenged. maybe we should work on that?
anditwasfun
Active member
What have you accomplished?
occupy - If you represent the 99% then why did you shut down the ports of Oakland? Or the Subway in New York? Are you guys confused on who the 99% really is? Let me give you a hint, people that have to take the subway are not rich.
Also, your group claims the constitution is a dated document and you guys want revolution. What constitution would you guys move to? After revolution who would be in charge? Or have you guys not thought that far out?
Personally I think anybody that is part of the OWS movement is a communist and has no love for America. Prove me wrong.
Also, your group claims the constitution is a dated document and you guys want revolution. What constitution would you guys move to? After revolution who would be in charge? Or have you guys not thought that far out?
Personally I think anybody that is part of the OWS movement is a communist and has no love for America. Prove me wrong.
Hello occupy,
you and your guys make the world better! Thanks and walk on!
Stand up, fight back!
you and your guys make the world better! Thanks and walk on!
Stand up, fight back!
budlover123
Member
The 1% or 2% or whatever you want to call them don't love the Occupy movement, but they are always trying to hurt it, so of course they'll pretend like they're enjoying this, but they're not.
America went from having a "grass roots movement" that generally only pushed corporate agenda through manipulation of otherwise sensible people to having a real movement.
Sure the occupy movement lacks a real voice, a voice can and will be easily distorted through the lens of the media, many of us know why they are there and more and more people are seeing the truth than ever before as far as I can tell.
The presence of these protesters has already changed the tone of American politics, keep it up
America went from having a "grass roots movement" that generally only pushed corporate agenda through manipulation of otherwise sensible people to having a real movement.
Sure the occupy movement lacks a real voice, a voice can and will be easily distorted through the lens of the media, many of us know why they are there and more and more people are seeing the truth than ever before as far as I can tell.
The presence of these protesters has already changed the tone of American politics, keep it up
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stratmandu
Sorry, I can't take you guys seriously, and won't until you can articulate your position rationally. Y'all come across as a bunch of anarchists and weirdos, and from what I've seen, most of OWS are anarchists and weirdos. You should be protesting outside the White House and Capitol Hill, not camping in some park and behaving like a bunch of wayward Bonnaroo wookies.
Why did you guys target wall Street who buy/bribe/control Congress so they can do what they have done and will continue to do instead of targeting Congress who set the rules and have the power, supposedly, to change the rules?
Did you know that obama's new chief of staff, Jack Lew made 950K at Citibank in 2009 AFTER the bank bailouts. Lew replaced Daley, who made millions at JP Morgan, who replaced Rahm Emanuel, who made 20 million at Fannie Mae. Just curious, since you Occupiers only seem to notice the 1% who are Republican. When you guys head down to DC and protest the REAL enemy; a large out of control, broke beyond repair, power hungry Federal Government, I will take you seriously. Until then you are exactly how you are portrayed: Mindless morons who are mad that their lives suck, even though all of you are in the 1% of the worlds wealthiest.
Islandbud
Member
The letter posted is from the 1% whom hit it right on the head.
Because OWS was all over the map the support you needed wasn't there. Perhaps a more organized firm statement would help but I fear the damage is done against your movement.
The fundamentals of your protest is worthy of merit but your leaders need to be more clear and vocal. Good luck regardless.
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Iron_Lion
Hows the weather at Gitmo?
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