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Sienna86 Donating Member (505 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-21-11 12:05 PM
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The best explanation of OWS
Critics of Occupy Wall Street say the demonstrators don’t understand what they’re protesting against.

Critics of Occupy Wall Street, just because you don’t understand what they’re protesting against doesn’t mean that they don’t know what they’re protesting against.

This isn’t a protest against rich people. It’s a protest against people who get rich by making sure other people get poor and stay poor.

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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-21-11 12:08 PM
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1. Excellent point: just because you don't perceive XYZ, doesn't mean that XYZ does not exist.
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-21-11 12:09 PM
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2. And alternatively, just because someone claims to see a pink elephant
doesn't mean there really is one.

Watch out for the spinmeisters.
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-21-11 12:53 PM
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4. Rational empiricism & the courage to address semantics and semiotics honestly are what we need
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lbrtbell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-21-11 01:37 PM
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6. Oh, they get the point.
They're just trying to delegitimize OWS by pretending OWS has no point.
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-21-11 02:19 PM
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7. Yes! That's deliberate obfuscation.
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Democrats_win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-21-11 12:20 PM
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3. There's a saying about quality: people can't define it, but they know it when they see it.
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The Outlier Donating Member (2 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-21-11 01:18 PM
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5. OWS explanation
What is the demand? Nothing short of DEMOCRACY.
What is the action? Building a society that values each human being through an exemplar community that puts a premium on DEMOCRACY.
What is the Problem? The crony capitalism of Wall Street is corrupting the democracy of the United States of America.
The demand is reasonable. The complaint is valid, and the methodology is peaceful.
Let it grow! outlierideas.com
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