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PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:
This year, I'm amused by these antics. We have groups all over NA protesting corporate greed and here we have people assulting each other in a bid to give those greedy corporations their money.
Did you see any Occupy people involved in this madness, as you implied earlier? This is why just preaching voluntary simplicity won't cut it.
Both are part of the 99%. Perhaps the OWS movement needs to get the rank and file in line.
Jesus, Andy, even you can see the paradox of the OWS and the 99% held up side by side with the black Friday mob of the 99% looking to fulfill their own greed - even violently.
More likely, though I suspect you've dodge and weave here.
Everybody is part of the 99% except the 1 percent, who to you can't seem to do anything wrong in your eyes. Except Michael Moore and Warren Buffet and Bill Gates of course, who are hypocrites. PA9 raved on about the consumption habits of the OWS crowd, and I pointed out to him that the idea came from Adbusters and that the average Occupy person isn't down at Walmart pepper spraying people to get the best deal, consumes far less than the average 99%.
What does this even mean:
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Jesus, Andy, even you can see the paradox of the OWS and the 99% held up side by side with the black Friday mob of the 99% looking to fulfill their own greed - even violently.
Are you talking about the same 99% in both cases? Just how many groups of 99% do you think there are? By definition there can only be one. So how do you hold up the OWS 99% against the black Friday 99%? Math not your strong suit?
Pretty well everybody has greed in them, few of us are saints. As far as consumerism goes, the Occupy people and the ideology behind it as about as non-greedy as it gets without being Ghandi.
Just promoting anti-consumer ideology isn't going to get very far in reducing inequality. We need regulations that channel that greed. We already have them, just need to do a better job with them.