as one would
― v-shasty, Monday, 5 December 2011 07:20 (twelve years ago) link
solidarity hoos
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 5 December 2011 07:21 (twelve years ago) link
*lifts fist*
― k3vin k., Monday, 5 December 2011 07:28 (twelve years ago) link
one of the highlights of this whole thing has been the realization a few weeks into it that we weren't doing that ironically anymore </tumblrwhite>
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 5 December 2011 07:32 (twelve years ago) link
also david shuster rolled though to give daps to our livestreamer for his impressive reporting from the front line; easily a half dozen people found him and said "your commentary on this stream is the reason i came out here."
that dude was incredible all day
in general i think you guys are doing a great job of media and community relations - yeah, there are gonna be assholes saying "the first amendment doesn't say anything about FREEDOM OF PLYWOOD amirite" but kst's messaging hasn't really been amorphous or didactic at all (and working with agents like positive force is only gonna strengthen/legitimize kst to the dc community)
and i realize there are a lot of reasons why kst never really got confrontational before this, but don't think for a second that the media work you're doing isn't one of them
― screwy lobsters and mice blights (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 5 December 2011 07:34 (twelve years ago) link
(although this all would have been a lot funnier if it had happened the day BEFORE i had to endure a night of hanging out with matt ygl3sias at some party)
― screwy lobsters and mice blights (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 5 December 2011 07:36 (twelve years ago) link
yo as someone1 who is ostesibly on ys side where is this bad mattyglesisas article?
― k3vin k., Monday, 5 December 2011 07:39 (twelve years ago) link
HOOS do you have a twitter handle, I would totally follow / retweet that shit.
― Simon H., Monday, 5 December 2011 08:06 (twelve years ago) link
@thebibandit
― v-shasty, Monday, 5 December 2011 08:07 (twelve years ago) link
good goin i saw about 5 mins of the afternoon standoff
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 December 2011 12:26 (twelve years ago) link
btw, Naomi Klein on why climate change is (as the righty nuts fear) the key to upending the corpo-capitalism state
http://www.thenation.com/article/164497/capitalism-vs-climate
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 December 2011 12:27 (twelve years ago) link
― Simon H., Monday, December 5, 2011 3:06 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
i am @hoosteen
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
btw, Naomi Klein on why climate change is (as the righty nuts fear) the key to upending the corpo-capitalism statehttp://www.thenation.com/article/164497/capitalism-vs-climate― Dr Morbius, Monday, December 5, 2011 4:27 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
― Dr Morbius, Monday, December 5, 2011 4:27 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
this is the one thing i am just terminally pessimistic about; i think that after a few billion of us have died we'll come out the other side a different and better-educated race, so that's gonna be fine, but why anyone thinks we're gonna break six-thousand-year-old habits before the mass suffering when most people can't even quit smoking i have no idea
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
like if you think heroin's hard to kick before you hit bottom try Extraction
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
sadly I agree
― sleeve sandbox, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
well this might cost some rich people money, for one
― iatee, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I think climate change is gonna have some really unexpected effects on things like distribution and supply chains (i.e. Thai flooding) and it may give capitalism a good kick when it's already down
― sleeve sandbox, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
(which, unfortunately, probably translates into famine as dlh was saying, but oh well)
― sleeve sandbox, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i think once stuff really starts happening (to sufficiently pink people) we will do all kinds of inspiring stuff! just not now.
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 5 December 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
How many poor people should drown in rising oceans?
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 5 December 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
livy says there's only two ways civilizations learn, from their own mistakes and others', and he's not sure about the second one. with this thing we don't even have the mistakes of others! unless you count like easter island.
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 5 December 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
and who counts easter island
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 5 December 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
anyway though, that naomi article is really good and this as far as i'm concerned is totally otm and The Point of the whole ows thing:
It is not the job of a transformative social movement to reassure members of a panicked, megalomaniacal elite that they are still masters of the universe—nor is it necessary. According to McCright, co-author of the “Cool Dudes” study, the most extreme, intractable climate deniers (many of them conservative white men) are a small minority of the US population—roughly 10 percent. True, this demographic is massively overrepresented in positions of power. But the solution to that problem is not for the majority of people to change their ideas and values. It is to attempt to change the culture so that this small but disproportionately influential minority—and the reckless worldview it represents—wields significantly less power.
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 5 December 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
http://i42.tinypic.com/2ypiyxz.jpg
#winning
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Monday, 5 December 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
YES
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 5 December 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://p.twimg.com/Af7N30pCAAAa_8y.jpg:large
ahahahahahah
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Monday, 5 December 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
lego make such convincing asshole-riot-cop figurines
― Never translate German (schlump), Monday, 5 December 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-05/advice-from-1-committee-lever-up-drop-out-commentary-by-michael-lewis.html
― iatee, Monday, 5 December 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
lego ppl are in general kindof assholish
― judith, Monday, 5 December 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/occupy-our-homes-wall-street-squatters-foreclosures
― rayuela, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
at a crust punk cafe and overheard a dude with a huge occupy the world thing pinned to his jacket talking about FEMA camps and stuff
― river wolf, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
more on foreclosure action in Brooklyn:
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/06/live_from_occupy_east_new_york/
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
this would be funny if it wasn't so shamefully dishonest/disingenuous
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
While the story lacks specifics on whether he invested the money in a herd of sheep or a hedge fund, we do know that he made his gain by engaging in business transactions of some sort. He used a free market system to bring a tenfold return on investment. No doubt such a return took a lot of diligent, dedicated effort.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/05/31/tzleft.perkins.jpg
― screwy lobsters and mice blights (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
The first "National GA" (which, my soul full of love, was affectionately referred to as OCCUPY VOLTRON) was tonight at the foot of the Washington monument, a couple hundred people from occupations around the country (the likes of Honolulu, Anchorage, Miami, Austin, LA, Wall Street, Atlanta, Duluth, Boston, and on some more), facilitated by an interoccupation team from Boston, LA, DC, and Houston.
It was really more a spokescouncil than a GA--effectively a series of greetings & reportbacks from those present--but it was still an inspiring thing to be a part of. Afterward everybody was invited back to McPherson Square to party. And tomorrow, with everybody's help, will be a fine and busy day: http://occupydc.org/wednesday-day-of-action-occupiers-unite/
Yipeekiyay.
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 07:09 (twelve years ago) link
oh and--an amazing embedded-all-day-with-the-Barn story on Wired: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/occupy-dc-barn/
OCCUPY VOLTRON OMG
― big popppa hoy, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 09:31 (twelve years ago) link
East New York is not very far from me!! I could have/would have been part of that if it weren't on a Tuesday. :(
― OH GNUS (Pyth), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8936759/Occupy-Wall-Street-protester-gets-job-on-Wall-Street.html
one of my fb friends - a 20 y/o who now apparently owns his own recording studio because his dad bought him a recording studio - linked this. sitting on my hands because his sister is one of my good friends, but,
― iatee, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
Radiohead and Massive Attack play at Occupy London Christmas partyhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2011/dec/07/occupy-london-massive-attack-radiohead
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
― iatee, Wednesday, December 7, 2011 10:24 AM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
i'd really, really, really love to get her thoughts on the last couple of comments her nice new bosses made about her apparent lack of intelligence
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
they probably sound something like this "I enjoy being able to pay my rent"
― iatee, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
But before that could happen, some occupiers defied the military by mounting an American flag upside down
What total fucking retards.
― rusty flathead screwdriver, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry about the r-word. But fuck!
― rusty flathead screwdriver, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
It's a distress signal.
― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not sure where you're referring to, but that's the signal for "distress", isn't it?? I thought that was done before, cad referenced it from one of his protests iirc.
― OH GNUS (Pyth), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, distress like "people are in danger", not as in "I'm in a park on a barn".
― rusty flathead screwdriver, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
the job is a publicity stunt and the "firm" is barely there: http://dealbreaker.com/2011/12/former-occupy-wall-street-protester-can-sleep-at-night-knowing-few-people-would-recognize-her-new-firm-as-being-on-wall-street/
― sterl, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
Phew good thing none of us are lost at sea and within moments of drowning. Hey someone should tell those protesters that America is safe and they can go home now.
― OH GNUS (Pyth), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
People should tell the protesters to use an ounce of common sense.
― rusty flathead screwdriver, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 16:40 (twelve years ago) link