yeah this and the nyer piece seem much more embedded than everything else i've read
they 'get it'
harkinson almost feels like 'one of us' by now, too much to really give me any perspective
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 05:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://nymag.com/news/politics/occupy-wall-street-2011-12/
― iatee, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 05:30 (twelve years ago) link
btw iatee apparently the failure of the supercommittee was your fault
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-supercommittees-13th-member-occupy-wall-street/2011/11/28/gIQAIC9C5N_story.html
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 05:36 (twelve years ago) link
^ seeing the occupy rhetoric in the comments section there is hope for me tbh
i wish i could shoot pepper spray out my dick
― Foolio Iglesias, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 05:36 (twelve years ago) link
at copz
“It’s ironic. At first, people thought I was a Democratic Party mole. Now I’m like, ‘Fuck it, Let’s go after Obama!’ and they’re like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.’ ”
lol lol a friend of mine said these exact words the other night
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 05:38 (twelve years ago) link
could get you in trouble with the secret service if you phrase that poorly
― silby, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 05:41 (twelve years ago) link
esp in DC I mean
― silby, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 05:42 (twelve years ago) link
as the cops pour out of the ovens
― Foolio Iglesias, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 05:42 (twelve years ago) link
the fact that he was elected, that so many people came out in the streets for him, that people cried when he won, was an expression of the fact that they wanted what they thought he was, which is an alternative. He wasn’t it. He can’t deliver it. This political system can’t deliver it. This economy can’t deliver it. But there are millions of people who genuinely want it. That’s amazing and inspiring to people like us, who are just, like, ‘Okay. This is for real.’ ”
^
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 05:44 (twelve years ago) link
Stellar nonsense from that washington post column linked above:
...would have raised taxes by $250 billion over 10 years by dramatically reducing the deductions and credits wealthier taxpayers could claim to reduce their tax liability
I love how a freaking measly $25 billion a year in reduced tax credits and deductions becomes a revolutionary proposal that 'raises taxes dramatically'. He must think his readers cannot actually read.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 05:54 (twelve years ago) link
a HOOS or a iatee is there anything a dude can do while not occupy-ing? London is a hassle to get to for us country folk.
In other news I am thinking of doing a politics-based masters, because ambition to become a lolw* level civil servant is how a brother brings about change.
unconsious typo/fruedian slip, leaving it in there. was just supposed to be low, now is lol-w.
― big popppa hoy, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 07:04 (twelve years ago) link
I was at "eviction night" at Occupy LA yesterday and took a bunch of photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/quartzcity/sets/72157628198758577/
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 07:51 (twelve years ago) link
Stand off...
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6117/6422165189_9fd564135d.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 07:53 (twelve years ago) link
Meta-viewing
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6220/6422170183_50169796aa.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 07:54 (twelve years ago) link
FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT IS NOT ???? ASSEMBLY
― big popppa hoy, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 08:42 (twelve years ago) link
from that New York story, the arrival of Jesse Jackson:
But Jackson played humble, taking the seat next to Nurse, asking if he was welcome, waiting quietly for his turn to speak. Then, holding Nurse’s hand, he proceeded to unfurl a soliloquy in which he described the occupiers as inheritors of the mantle of the civil-rights movement. He talked about Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign, one of the last protests that MLK planned before his death. About Resurrection City, the shantytown on the National Mall that several thousand people populated in May and June of 1968. About how one advantage to having no identifiable leader is that “there’s nobody to assassinate.”
Jackson looked at Berger and asked, “What does Lyndon Johnson mean to you?” Berger shrugged. “The Vietnam War?”
Jackson folded his hands across his belly and declaimed, “Civil Rights Act of 1964—LBJ. The Voting Rights Act of 1965—LBJ. Medicare—LBJ. Medicaid—LBJ. Child Nutrition Act—LBJ. Jobs Corps—LBJ.”
― Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 11:06 (twelve years ago) link
lol:
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/connecticut-asset-managers-win-254-million-powerball-lottery/
― dayo, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 12:09 (twelve years ago) link
Really, dude?
And if Obama thinks that they’re gonna be able to divert this energy by talking about doing something, he’s got another think coming.”
― rusty flathead screwdriver, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, but: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/another-think-coming.html
― Ou est la showaddywaddy (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but lol, british ppl
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 29 November 2011 13:33 (twelve years ago) link
with examples from the US, but don't let that stop you being a dick
― Fake Eyeball, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
'think' makes more sense if you 'think' about it but almost everybody says 'thing'
― iatee, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, but it was (still is) one of those things that people that tut about 'people who cannot use the queen's english properly' will cite as being an example.
― Ou est la showaddywaddy (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/at-top-colleges-anti-wall-st-fervor-complicates-recruiting/
― iatee, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://janelanaweb.com/trends/david-graeber-the-american-empire-collapse-is-effectively-being-negotiated-both-internationally-and-within/
― iatee, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
"The IMF was driven out of East Asia, out of Latin America, just as now it’s in the process of being driven out of the Middle East."
This claim seems dubious to me in multiple ways. I've been reading his book and he makes the same claim upfront, and there also doesn't seem to back it up (although he might nearer the end of the book?)
― sterl, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I also had problem w/ that sentence, I think he might have too much invested in the 90s anti-globalization movement to talk about it objectively
― iatee, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
aw antiglobalization movement miss u boo
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
he proceeded to unfurl a soliloquy in which he described the occupiers as inheritors of the mantle of the civil-rights movement. He talked about Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign, one of the last protests that MLK planned before his death. About Resurrection City, the shantytown on the National Mall that several thousand people populated in May and June of 1968. About how one advantage to having no identifiable leader is that “there’s nobody to assassinate.”
― Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, November 29, 2011 11:06 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
he gave us the same bit a few weeks ago and ppl were like visibly awed by him, it was weird
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
Gah, this reminds me of the well-off attorney I know who just bragged on FB about having won a 100-person poker tournament with a $200 buy-in.
― Louis C.K. Williams (jaymc), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
It's a good anecdote but I don't understand what it's doing in the story. Is it supposed to underscore the importance of using the political system? Show the ignorance of young people? Remind us how Jackson is overweight?
― Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
a HOOS or a iatee is there anything a dude can do while not occupy-ing?
― big popppa hoy, Tuesday, November 29, 2011 7:04 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
Join a working/discussion group remotely, spread the word online, read/learn about the issues involved with a little more than casual depth so you can talk about it with others, donate donate donate. O London is at http://occupylsx.org/?page_id=192
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
repost shit on fb and twitter
― iatee, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
(constantly)
― iatee, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
ahhhh ok my favorite dc band just reached out asking to play this benefit for the occupied wash times ahhhhh
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
a hoos would it be crass to point out that you are gonna be able to get an awesome job somewhere after this
― silby, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
http://jeffburk.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/crasslogo_font.png
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
^ A+
― Tarfumes the Escape Goat, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
Occupy movement definitely needs more Crass in the soundtrack
― sleeve sandbox, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/20111129151234836584.html
― iatee, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
i'm really happy she's gotten so much shit for that bullshit article
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
ya but I think the bigger point goes beyond naomi klein - tons of people wanted to jump to 'national conspiracy' as soon as they heard about the mayors talking to each other. really that's just an unwillingness to deal w/ the more complicated issues.
like, maybe the chancellor of uc davis *isn't* part of a big national conspiracy, she was just a clueless person responding to the situation she's in by doing what she thought she was supposed to do a la stanford prison experiments etc.
― iatee, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
Naomi WOLF
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
oops
― iatee, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
whatever naomi klein coulda wrote that too
― iatee, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
written, even
― iatee, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
klein actually wrote one of the big-time rebuttals, we were calling the whole affair "the two naomis"
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
link?
― iatee, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link