OCCUPY SANDBOX

(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)

yo as someone1 who is ostesibly on ys side where is this bad mattyglesisas article?

HOOS do you have a twitter handle, I would totally follow / retweet that shit.

@thebibandit

good goin i saw about 5 mins of the afternoon standoff

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

HOOS do you have a twitter handle, I would totally follow / retweet that shit.

― Simon H., Monday, December 5, 2011 3:06 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

i am @hoosteen

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, 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

like if you think heroin's hard to kick before you hit bottom try Extraction

sadly I agree

well this might cost some rich people money, for one

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

(which, unfortunately, probably translates into famine as dlh was saying, but oh well)

yeah i think once stuff really starts happening (to sufficiently pink people) we will do all kinds of inspiring stuff! just not now.

How many poor people should drown in rising oceans?

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.

and who counts easter island

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.

http://i42.tinypic.com/2ypiyxz.jpg

#winning

YES

http://p.twimg.com/Af7N30pCAAAa_8y.jpg:large

ahahahahahah

lego make such convincing asshole-riot-cop figurines

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-05/advice-from-1-committee-lever-up-drop-out-commentary-by-michael-lewis.html

lego ppl are in general kindof assholish

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/occupy-our-homes-wall-street-squatters-foreclosures

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

more on foreclosure action in Brooklyn:

http://www.salon.com/2011/12/06/live_from_occupy_east_new_york/

this would be funny if it wasn't so shamefully dishonest/disingenuous

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

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.

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

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. :(

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/​news/worldnews/northamerica/​usa/8936759/​Occupy-Wall-Street-protester-ge​ts-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,

Radiohead and Massive Attack play at Occupy London Christmas party
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2011/dec/07/occupy-london-massive-attack-radiohead

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, 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

they probably sound something like this "I enjoy being able to pay my rent"

But before that could happen, some occupiers defied the military by mounting an American flag upside down

What total fucking retards.

Sorry about the r-word. But fuck!

It's a distress signal.

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.

Yeah, distress like "people are in danger", not as in "I'm in a park on a barn".

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/

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.

People should tell the protesters to use an ounce of common sense.

haha thanks sterl, using that link w/ record studio dude

Yeah, distress like "people are in danger", not as in "I'm in a park on a barn".

― rusty flathead screwdriver, Wednesday, December 7, 2011 11:37 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

have you like, ever heard of the flag being """""""""""symbolic"""""""""""

People should tell the protesters to use an ounce of common sense.

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m318/HyperonicX/Other/OldManYellsAtCloud.jpg

It's deeply symbolic to lots of potential OWS sympathizers.

Like, fucking with the American flag isn't going to cause the people I know who are conflicted about OWS to dust off their lit crit skills and really think about it.