cenobyte40k: rmoody: Love to see the donut sucker brigade go up against a bunch of longshoremen. That would be hilarious.

You mean the brigades made up of vets that have just come back from combat. I am sure that the longshoreman will do well against combat trained angry vets.

BTW, next time RTFA as they longshoremen mostly seemed to support the shutdown but don't let silly list things like that stop you from making wildly misleading statements.

Because the longshoremen are tired of fighting the corruption by themselves.

They had everything you need in a peaceful protest: speeches, signs, media coverage, and a flash mob performing to "I Will Survive":

watson.t.hamster: Some began attacking his car, while others yelled, "Peaceful. Peaceful."


Kinda sending mixed messages there.

Like the martians in Mars Attacks yelling "we come in peace" as they blast humans.

_{I think they were yelling at the people attacking his car.}

dothemath: Splinshints: I love all the bootlicking corporate whores who came rushing in here to scream about the protesters denying hard workers a day's pay, totally oblivious to the fact that the hard workers being denied a days pay were, apparently, complicit with the shutdown.

And so it continues. If you can't argue with their point, just keep trying to make everybody think they're a bunch of flighty hippies no matter how obviously far from the truth you are.

Oh, and I'm sure if you open your mouths wide the wealthy will be happy to trickle down on you in gratitude for all your selfless and idiotic groveling against your own basic interests.

***yawn***
Talk to me in a month when the protesters are gone and forgotten and neither the banks nor 'big business' or the government will have changed one iota.

BOA caved on the $5 debit card fee after all its rivals who were expected to impose thier own $5 fees in its wake, blinked and backed off instead

Obama just proposed a Mjaor shift in student loan re-payment that was more or less the same as the one proposed by OWS supporters


The DNC is now sending out emails supporting the OWS movement and even some of the Tea-party republicans are trying desperately to claim credit/common cause with it.


The protests, which started as few-dozen pissed off people in NYC are now into their second month and rather than dying out, they've spread to dozens of US cities and are even taking root internationally, despite fierce opposition from local authorities.

These are not the ineffectual and often silly anti-war protests of the Bush era, these are protests that are tapping a real zeitgeist in America.

To quote Buffalo Springfield: "There's something happenin' here, what it is ain't exactly clear..."

dothemath: Jack-asses.
Stupid fu*king college kids screwing up the lives of normal working people.

Somebody should have dropped a container of motorcycles on them.

Take your pills, grandpa - then go fuss in the corner.

Wow. The Limbaugh derp is strong in here.

Hey guys, turn off the radio and TV for 2 weeks. It will be hard. Your brains will hurt as you try to find answers to questions posed. Keep at it. Slowly your mind will begin to find answers and you'll be thinking for yourselves. The radio and TV won't sound like an echo chamber in your mind anymore. You'll be free to formulate your own opinions. Rush and Glenn will sound like idiots and so will most TV news.

BeesNuts: c_niswonger: My personal favorite part was all the teachers taking off so the school had to hire subs. Which forced the school to waste $60,000 they could have spent on something useful. Way to punish the big guys there.

It's almost like the labor in this country accounts for such a large number of people yet commands such a small amount of power that we literally have no choice but to succumb to the whims of our economic superiors or risk causing harm to the whole of society in an effort to raise awareness of the social imbalance that affects us all!

/*almost*

It's almost like you are suggesting we live in a feudal society of sort. Almost.