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In reply to the discussion: OWS committed suicide.... [View all]The Doctor.
(17,266 posts)143. Shame you buy the propaganda.
How many of the people that have 'shit all over the place' or committed actual acts of vandalism have been arrested?
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Then why do we still have ongoing actions? There is no nail and there is no coffin.
mmonk
Feb 2012
#32
You still don't get it. A single issue and a leader would have ended it long ago.
morningfog
Feb 2012
#38
But how? There was never a coherent manifesto of demands....and by not having leaders....
Joe the Revelator
Feb 2012
#18
This is my favorite part, when all the bad done in the name of OWS is blamed on..
Joe the Revelator
Feb 2012
#71
Why didn't I have to say it? I think I can say what I want if it's on topic.
vaberella
Feb 2012
#217
The warmest winter in decades, when this fall OWS promised to occupy Zuccatti park...
Joe the Revelator
Feb 2012
#21
That's a key point. So many here WANT OWS to be relevant that they give it a pass
Joe the Revelator
Feb 2012
#51
I am curious--why are you so concerned about "the corpo media wish?"
Thaddeus Kosciuszko
Feb 2012
#55
I don't think it is dead. But it will have move beyond the occupation phase
arely staircase
Feb 2012
#28
Yes because being shut down and made irrevalent is a much better outcome.
Joe the Revelator
Feb 2012
#36
They will surface into election 12, embarrassing the left and going into their death spiral.
Joe the Revelator
Feb 2012
#75
I disagree. Without OWS, the term "the 99%" would have never entered current political doscourse.
PSPS
Feb 2012
#34
I noticed the truth is almost always "uncalled for" according to the Neo-Lib Right wingers that have
Dragonfli
Feb 2012
#213
Joe I have seen you on several posts with the anti-occupy stance what gives?? Sounds like you are
NewEngland4Obama
Feb 2012
#49
Remember during the buildup to Iraq, when we all screamed , there's no WMD!!'...
Joe the Revelator
Feb 2012
#59
OWS is not a middle class movement and they are not running for public office.
EFerrari
Feb 2012
#77
Sorry I was being sarcastic about Koch Industries. My bad for the misunderstanding
think
Feb 2012
#79
This week's false reports of famous deaths include Eddie Murphy, Drake and OWS
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2012
#81
Why wait for spring, when winter is mild....that shouldn't matter either, because OWS...
Joe the Revelator
Feb 2012
#88
I don't think that OWS is dead, but I also don't think 2012 will be a big year for it
RZM
Feb 2012
#90
If they were just homeless people squatting someplace because they have no where to go,
Cleita
Feb 2012
#123
"Nothing will change until we force the legislators to change the system"
LiberalLovinLug
Feb 2012
#164
Again, you think telling everyone to 'behave better' is going to FORCE them to listen?
randome
Feb 2012
#168
The worst (I think) OWS faces is MSM ... how to get around the biased 1% reporting
RKP5637
Feb 2012
#189
"But for 99% of us, it has been over for months." Please feel free to explain /nt
think
Feb 2012
#140
I agree. With the help of the MSM most are oblivious to the reality around them.
think
Feb 2012
#152
Me purporting to speak for 99% of us is no more silly than you doing the same.
tritsofme
Feb 2012
#147
"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block..
dana_b
Feb 2012
#157
That analogy doesn't work. We've seen Marxism exist in several countries and don't like it.
stevenleser
Feb 2012
#166
Centrists, moderates, incrementalists, sensible woodchucks... take note
whatchamacallit
Feb 2012
#179
We often interpret a thing as to better fit our own opinion of that thing.
LanternWaste
Feb 2012
#223
The only fear I have is that they get there stink onto democrats this cycle....
Joe the Revelator
Feb 2012
#227