
| Anonymous #571379 9 months ago |
This pic is meant as a joke, it's probably not accurate on what the OWS moment means <_< |
| Anonymous #571386 9 months ago |
Imagine if Big Mac was hoarding 99 other toys just like it, and you'd get close to the truth. |
| Anonymous #571387 9 months ago |
Ooh, ponytics. |
| Anonymous #571391 9 months ago |
http://www.cracked.com/blog/3-types-wall-street-protesters-hurting-their-own-cause/
tl;dr: assuming that the only problem is people being greedy assholes playing keepaway is incredibly simplistic and naive. |
| Anonymous #571392 9 months ago |
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| SpecialAnon #571396 9 months ago |
More like 99% is clusterfuck of seperate ideas (sane/crazy/logical/illogical, all of which are a part of the American people) while the 1% dangle the thing the 99% percent either want for themselves or seperated for everyone to enjoy and be equal. The rest of the world doesn't give two shits about us, they go about their lives like nothing...and that is fine. Of course, I'd rather just not talk about politics or grass-roots movements here. Just my 3/4-educated two-cents and opinion on OWS I guess. |
| Anonymous #571397 9 months ago |
Politics and ponies. They don't mix well, but to be honest I enjoy it. |
| sparkle #571401 9 months ago |
Can someone explain this to me? |
| Anonymous #571403 9 months ago |
Anyone want popcorn? |
| packer_dash_52 #571415 9 months ago |
^
yes, this is gonna last a while |
| Anonymous #571417 9 months ago |
I'm glad I'm part of the rest of the world. I better get going now, I'm meeting my friends at the food bank line. Two ounces more chocolate candy this week! |
| cthulhlu #571420 9 months ago |
how can there be a rest of the world if the ponys are 99percent and macintosh 1 percent.. |
| cthulhlu #571426 9 months ago |
plus this leaves out the fackt that the second anyone of those 99 percent ponys gets thier hands on the thing they want, they will immediately do what big mac was doing.. |
| sploich #571500 9 months ago |
So greed is something that only exists in the U.S.? The More You Know. |
| Anonymous #571510 9 months ago |
The whole OWS thing is a painfully transparent attempt at astroturfing. |
| Anonymous #571512 9 months ago |
^
No, apparently greed is only something that affects 1% of Americans. And everything is their fault. |
| smiley_V #571529 9 months ago |
Here's the message I've gotten from listening to protestors. "Blah blah blah, corporate corruption, blah blah greed, blah blah taxes are too high! Tax the rich!" All the while prancing around in Guy Fawkes masks thinking their in Anonymous, hell, they probably don't even know who Guy Fawkes was other then a vague idea they got from watching V for Vendetta. |
| Anonymous #571536 9 months ago |
Sorry, but no, 510. Astroturfing is when a small but wealthy group of people convinces a presumably large group of people to do things, creating a fake grass-roots movement (hence the term, astroturf).
Nobody is funding OWS. If they were, the protestors would have hotel rooms and buses. The real problem is that everyone has corporations and the wealthy confused, and CEOs are sucking the life out of their own companies to have it all for themselves. Big banks are convincing the government that they need money, and then promptly taking that money and putting it into their own accounts. Capitalism used to be about long-term growth. Now it is about loot. If we had a new tax code that severely penalized executives getting gluttonous bonuses, rewarded corporations for hiring Americans, reinstated Glass-Steagall and added other banking regulations, and created a financial-transactions tax to stop Wall Street from being a casino, some of this shit might come to a stop. |
| Anonymous #571538 9 months ago |
People just love protesting. It gives them the sense of having a purpose in life.
Every now and then people find something they feel like they're justified for getting angry over, like greedy people stealing everyone's money. It doesn't really matter if it's true. |
| CasualWisdom #571553 9 months ago |
This makes a lot of sense. |
| Anonymous #571616 9 months ago |
lame |
| StalkerZHS #571810 9 months ago |
I DONT GET IT |
| MonkeyKing #572257 9 months ago |
Needs more random labels attached to things. |
| Calbeck #572342 9 months ago |
And in the end, the reason the 1% got it was because he kept after it when the other 99% gave up. |
| Huacaya #572477 9 months ago |
if 100% are involved, then who is the rest of the world? |
| Atiarotias #572689 9 months ago |
^ha, good math there.
I don't know clearly what's going on with this whole news but they want to share the wealth and make everyone, or most of people equal? But they (stereotypical [in my head] US citizens) hate idea of the old Soviets, or I must be missing something huge |
| Anonymous #572731 9 months ago |
the problem, in a nutshell, is that social mobility is the lowest in a long time.
being tenacious and hard-working - holding down multiple jobs to get by and trying your hardest to move up - doesn't work nearly as well as it used to. people try, and try, and get nowhere. they seem, at least to themselves, to be stuck. so people feel like they need to protest it, because the effects are being felt, even if the solution is unclear. |
| Anonymous #572883 9 months ago |
In a nutshell-
Income inequality, war, mass poverty, intrenched corruption, environmental and ecological decline, are all symptoms of a fundamentally unsustainable social system that is now globalized. We cannot draw artificial lines between these issues because they are symbiotic to one another, not mutually exclusive. |
| Martingale #573161 9 months ago |
@Huacaya
Because when Americans say 100% they mean 100% of Americans. |
| Anonymous #573337 9 months ago |
It's the people who think of themselves as 'the people' It's the most dangerous force of the universe. |
| Calbeck #573391 9 months ago |
Everyone thinks of themselves as people. |
| Anonymous #573420 9 months ago |
huh...i dont get politics that much but i like the pic anyways. |
| Anonymous #655631 8 months ago |
Well I want Derpy and not the stupid doll. What was its name again? Stupidpants? |
| Anonymous #657211 8 months ago |
^Oh wait that was cloud kicker never mind.
I then want lyra. |