What do you think about the "occupy wallstreet" protests?

I'm not looking to be told what I should think as I stand firm as hell with what I believe in, rather, I want to hear what your opinions about government, political parties, types of economy, etc. The Occupy protest is coming to a city near me (Charlotte, NC) which happens to the the 2nd busiest banking city in the country with several banks holding their headquarters here. I will be in attendance at the protest because I am tired of the bullshit fucking corporate greed and the top 1% of the population (being the super wealthy) effectively controlling the government. I'm not even a fan of capitalism truth be told. I know this probably sounds like a bunch of rambling but If you've stayed with me this long let me hear what you think.

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Permalink Reply by Brittani on November 3, 2011 at 4:33pm

I've been sleeping in a tent at Occupy Toronto for the past two weeks. :) I think it's great. If anyone against it were to go down and spend 5 minutes with some of the people there....their minds would be changed. I've learned a lot about myself, from the first day. Everyone is loving and accepting, and we all make decisions as a team. The way democracy should be. All protests start out small, and slowly grow. We've had marches that have consisted of 6 people, and others with 6 thousand. Sometimes you need to sleep in a park and march through the city with signs, to get people to hear you. :)

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Permalink Reply by Vox-mercy on November 3, 2011 at 5:49pm

I count my blessings for living in a state that is the top earning in the union, our polititians don't earn nearly as much as say California, Texas, Florida, New York.

We had an occupy demonstration downtown last week, only 50 people showed up... Everybody else was working. There is money flowing in Alaska, there are jobs.. I'm seeing people come up from America to work quite often.

If I had ditched and moved to America, I would definatly consider camping out with you all. This all took 30+ years in the making to unfold. Myself and everyone I know were always certain that unregulated capitalism will eventually run it's course.

We know it, they know it. Shit is getting real. They sat a bonfire at an Oakland port. Soon, there will be bombings.

With our troops coming home and all, we'll have dozens of Timothy McVeigh's on our hands..

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Permalink Reply by Murder Junkie on November 3, 2011 at 6:46pm

theres one here in Tucson im thinking about throwing beer bottles at them

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Permalink Reply by GB on May 27, 2012 at 2:48pm

I think its great that people are aware of how fucked up capitalism generally is, and its good that they`re finally criticizing liberal democracy rather than just "capitalists", but I think the whole occupy movement didn`t really have their goals sorted out, and if people don`t have real demands nothing will change, or worse "intellectuals" are gonna step in and tell us what we want(which is exactly what happened).