I can't upvote this crap.

Whoa, they have multiple demands? OMG, its almost as if there are multiple problems?!

Imagine, just imagine the tea party backed by corporations being more successful than the throngs of underemployed people asking for redistributive justice and jobs. Whoda thunk.

Milton Friedman is laughing in his gilded grave.

Wow, fuck you CNN

F*ck the lamestream media!

the protesters do not exist
(jedi hand wave)

ron paul does not exist
(jedi hand wave)

The protest has already been going on for eleven days and they finally caught up with it.

CNN Lady: So you spent money on an expensive computer which a major corporation profits from, isn't that contrary to you message?

Protester: No. This the tool I use to get my message out because I can't trust asshats like you to convey my message accurately.

Thanks for mocking the disenfranchised, nearly extinct TV journalism. She probably mentioned the Apple laptop because they're a sponsor.

Wow, the newscaster equates hypocritically protesting Wall Street by owning a Macbook... Also, I love the fact that this movement has largely been ignored but since it's not going away the media is starting to try to gloom & disinfo them out of existence.

And people complain about Russia Today. CNN is a fucking joke.

Why is CNN doing a hitpiece on a grassroots protest?

>> ^Lowen:

Why is CNN doing a hitpiece on a grassroots protest?


$$$

Well... what is the message? How would the protesters change the system moving forward?

The guy had a decent point. Protests with a specific goal are more likely to achieve it.

hahahaha yea you protesters should be more like the Tea Party!! totally grassroots legit uncorporate wise shaman!

Wow was that fox or cnn guess it dont matter.

If you want to see Fox news use a similar script against the protest, watch:

>> ^bmacs27:

he guy had a decent point. Protests with a specific goal are more likely to achieve it.


Take bread that you buy in the grocery store. Prices have gone up at least 25%. Fuel and fertilizer are probably most of that increase, but the rest of the increase is just pure Wall St. profit.

@marinara Food is one of the most purely competitive markets that exist. Wall street isn't profiting off of that increase. Price fluctuations in food almost perfectly reflect supply and demand. Kraft's profits, for instance, are around 7%. They pay a yield of 3 percent or so on the dividend, but the price per share is flat over the past decade.

With Apple on the other hand, you have a much stronger case they are gouging customers, seeing as they have a profit margin over 25%. It's exactly that profitability that has made them the most valuable company in the world by market capitalisation. Their price per share, for comparison, has increased 5000%. They also use suppliers with highly questionable labor practices.

That's the kind of hypocrisy that undermines the effective communication of a message via protest. That's why it would be better to protest something like the Republican stonewalling of Elizabeth Warren's appointment.

She acted like someone using a Mac was some ironic "gotcha" moment? What are they supposed to use to communicate? Smoke signals? And I bet they wear clothes that originated from some large textile company. Or ate some food from a huge Agricorp for lunch. Or grabbed a cab burning evil Exxon gas. Are those Nikes on your feet?!

>> ^Fletch:

She acted like someone using a Mac was some ironic "gotcha" moment? What are they supposed to use to communicate? Smoke signals? And I bet they wear clothes that originated from some large textile company. Or ate some food from a huge Agricorp for lunch. Or grabbed a cab burning evil Exxon gas. Are those Nikes on your feet?!


Right. That's sort of the point. Want to stick it to corporations? Don't do those things.

If instead you'd rather just benefit from all the fruits of corporations, but don't want the corporations, well, what does that say?

>> ^bmacs27:

>> ^Fletch:
She acted like someone using a Mac was some ironic "gotcha" moment? What are they supposed to use to communicate? Smoke signals? And I bet they wear clothes that originated from some large textile company. Or ate some food from a huge Agricorp for lunch. Or grabbed a cab burning evil Exxon gas. Are those Nikes on your feet?!

Right. That's sort of the point. Want to stick it to corporations? Don't do those things.
If instead you'd rather just benefit from all the fruits of corporations, but don't want the corporations, well, what does that say?

Who said anything about not wanting corporations? I think the desire is for them to quit sending jobs oversees, be less evil, that kind of thing. Change their ways, pay their fair share in taxes, etc. Anyway, corporations are people now. So says 5 of our esteemed SCJs, so it must be true. Sticking it to corporations would be the same as sticking it to people. And I'm a people person, so that's no good.

I'm all for boycotts and applying economic pressure to corps for bad behavior, but this was a single person in the middle of a very uncoordinated demonstration being challenged by some nitwit reporter who thought she had some juicy angle on the whole thing, all because said person was using a Mac to check her email. Give me a fucking (oops!) break.

So, you tell ME "what does that say?" You pulled your premise ("If instead you'd rather just benefit from all the fruits of corporations, but don't want the corporations") out of your own ass and applied it to me, as if you have any clue what I'm about. I bet it sounded logical, and maybe even clever in your head when it... formed... in there somehow. But, now, as I read it over and over and over, I'm having difficulty understanding what sort of mental miasma, ideological dissonance, or logical labefactation could actually allow you to think of the question, type the question, and then send the question into the ether, all without realizing what a STOOPID FUCKING QUESTION it is!

So... YOU tell ME what the fuck it says!

TTFN!

@Fletch "quit sending jobs oversees, be less evil, that kind of thing. Change their ways, pay their fair share in taxes, etc."

Do you see how that's all squishy gibberish? Be less evil how? Change their ways how?

Is it that Apple should stop using abusive labor practices? Is it that Exxon should stop drilling for so much Oil?