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Occupy Protesters Are Building a Facebook for the 99%
hypnosec writes "In 2011, social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook helped protesters to spread their cause and garner support across the world. What started out as a minor protest comprised of a handful of people turned into a worldwide protest thanks to the use of social media. According to Wired, after seeing the impact social media platforms have had on protests worldwide, several Occupy Wall Street protesters are creating their own social networking platform aimed at spreading awareness about particular causes and rallying people for protests."
Dude, have you ever taken a look at some of the people at a Tea Party protest? They look more like they belong at a NASCAR race...Rockefellers they are not.
Fuck your sig. Liberalism is a mental disease.
Fixed that "fix" for you.
Strat
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
I'm sorry, this really is the dumbest idea I've come across in the longest time. If humans are self-regulating, why don't we just legalize slavery, fraud, rape, and murder? If they have to be mandatory, the idea of preventing these crimes must be horrible if we're to follow your logic.
The reason rich people don't want equity in society is because they want to keep all of their stuff. That's it. There's no shining moral justification for it: they want their third and fourth vacation homes, their exotic luxury cars, their private jets and million dollar birthday parties, and you and your whole community can burn in hell for all they care.
If you're actually interested in liberating humans, you should be primarily concerned with subverting concentrations of power: whether in the church, in the state, the military, or in the economy, it's concentrations of power that lead to injustice. That's why democracy is a vote and not a dollar (or at least, that's how it used to be.) As long as the government is carrying out the true will of the populace, you will typically have very good results. Even if you disagree with that premise, there's no denying what usually happens when concentrations of power abuse their position: there's a massive revolution, and many lives are lost either on the way to achieving more equity in society, or on the way to arriving at a police state like North Korea.
These are the ideas that our nation was founded on: you are no better than me, nor is the King, nor is the Pope, nor is the Banker. We play by the same rules, because all men are created equal, and we deserve equal treatment in front of the Law.
But go ahead; throw it all away for some pithy political regurgitations. We'll see how you like neanderthal ethics when you're the one without a club.
Uhmm ... I disagree. The banks were forced to give out loans to people THEY KNEW could not pay it back. It started with the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 ... and was reinforced by Clinton in 1994 - Trillion-Dollar Bank Shakedown.
And Banks did not want TARP ... because of the strings attached.
Attacking the banks is a nice and tidy class-warfare position that may get some traction among those who are not informed, the real culprit in this case is the Federal Government. By interfering with the "invisible hand" of the economy, it places pressure to do the "wrong thing". Of course, it makes people feel good that they helped out a nice couple trying to buy a house for the first time, however, if it is KNOWN that the payments would not be able to be made ... it doesn't help anybody.
I would argue that it is with the Government that is at fault ... the Government can screw with the economy and nearly collapse it, yet the people just hear "it's the rich's fault ... they're not paying their fair share" ... the top 1% pay >36% of the taxes ...how much SHOULD they pay? And if they don't pay ... they get thrown in jail. So ... in essence, you're saying that the "top 1%" has to be our slaves and give us their money that they earned.
That's assuming that the banks did it on their own. NOT under the threat of former Attorney General Janet Reno