poor people ftw

@Anonymous: So this means what now? Should we burn the banks down? Go communist?
What exactly does this person want? Also, never use anecdotes to try to convince intelligent people. Remember there are bankers (Americans who also are hard workers) that benefited by the government bailouts.

We still have a democracy. We aren't forced to vote for the candidate that advertises the most. That is a choice that we make. We can improve the campaign process, but as long as people are stupid enough, it won't help. How do we unstupid people? That is the question.

This is from the Occupy Together movement. And no-one is burning anything down. You can be peaceful and still have something to say.
http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/

@Anonymous: 1. tumblr
2. no burning?

@iamboat: When it's one person, that's a valid argument. When it's a huge number of people, there is something else going on. Did a shitload of american's forget to man up, all at the same time?

@Anonymous: It's not just Americans though. This whole Occupy Together thing is now worldwide, these life worries are universal. The people still protesting after 3 weeks in Wallstreet should be so proud for fuelling it on further.

when will people realise that striking and demonstrating just makes these economic problems worse

@Anonymous: You can blame the US government as much for the status of things as Wallstreet. Doesn't matter though. Standing around protesting and feeling bad for ourselves does JACK SQUAT. What do these people think is going to happen? That Wallstreet is going to close its doors, come down like Willy Wonka and start throwing out their cash to us? Let's get real.

@iamboat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5um8QWWRvo

Rioting and causing problems is OBVIOUSLY the way to solve this problem.

I mean, writing your senator or something obviously wouldn't work!

@Anonymous: A senator's aide reading your letter is less effective than that senator's billionaire donor taking him out for a lavish dinner.

@iamboat: This story is special enough to make a movie about it. Think about that.

@Anonymous: It's official. The protestors are just angry hipsters.

@hamslice: First off...love the RSA Animates. Big fan of the style. Unfortunately, they only cater to mostly (self-proclaimed) Marxist, Socialist and Communist speakers. Therefore, I take them in at aesthetic value only.

@Anonymous: Hipsters = 20 somethings to 30 somethings.

Yup, these are indeed the people worried about having no future. Or at least one that's not terribly bright.

Power to them, I say.

@Anonymous: How we un-stupid people is by having more of them relate with people like this. If that guy had "the solution" then the country would be in motion around it. No one has seen the solution yet.... or if they have, they're sitting on it.

AFAICT, the thing that is needed most is education about how to live in the civilized and technological world that we do..... but it seems that we leave people uneducated about how to avoid making bad decisions that benefit the clever few.

@newalexandria: perhaps clever people should trick stupid people into doing manual labour instead of just writing off stupid people as useless

@Anonymous: Done. and. Done

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius

@Anonymous: perhaps... if by glory you mean 'sad desperation to keep living'

@Anonymous: It's not, and it's not like the "1%" don't live sad, desperate lives or struggle either.

@Anonymous: Why, if 100% of people live sad desperate lives, would anyone bother to keep living? Or was that not your point. I'm not that anon btw

@Anonymous: Remember the magically number they pulled from the socialist handbook was "the 99%." They'r...err...we're (since I guess I'm in that group) are all on the verge of blowing our brains out evidently. lol

@Anonymous: Because around 30% of the 99% are actually pretty well off. Although 1/6th of Americans are now on food stamps because wages have stagnated for the last 3 decades.

Apparently 99% of us are stupid, lazy, failures...I say fuck 'em.

Funny how you dumb fucks stick up for the biggest frauds in history, while saying anybody who speaks out against it is a hippy, hipster, communist, what have you. The bastards behind the housing scam should be in jail.

P.S., stop calling this class warfare. Class warfare is rivers of blood, not peaceful protest.

Any movement starts with crackpots on the fringe. How far the movement progresses towards the center is a function of how real the problems are.

Because corporate tyranny has eroded away the sovereignty of the people, public outrage is the only real way for real people to influence politics. Just look at the success of the Tea Party. People aren't angry that they're poor. They're angry that we have to struggle while the 1% has the ability to exploit the current system and not struggle at all.

@Anonymous: But how can corporations have control of an elected body? If they have control, it is only because the voters gave it to them.

@Anonymous: Consumers choose their consumption based on prices. Voters choose their candidates based on production value. Corporations fund that production value.