Small Business Owners Fight Back Against Occupy Wall Street - Polidicks

i don't get why you guys are freaking out the title is fine

Looks like it's official the 23% have attacked the 76%.

[QUOTE=Tudd;33241626]Looks like it's official the 23% have attacked the 76%.[/QUOTE] The remaining 1% slept through this whole damn thing?

Here's a better idea: Occupy Glaber. :v:

[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;33241839]Here's a better idea: Occupy Glaber. :v:[/QUOTE] I'm really trying to figure out why everyone hates him (her?). I have yet to come up with a good reason.

[QUOTE=dialogical;33241850]I'm really trying to figure out why everyone hates him (her?). I have yet to come up with a good reason.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.facepunch.com/search.php?searchid=1619945[/url] About 200 good reasons

[QUOTE=Echo 199;33241911][url]http://www.facepunch.com/search.php?searchid=1619945[/url] About 200 good reasons[/QUOTE] "I hate him because his opinions are different than mine!" [editline]12th November 2011[/editline] also link doesn't work.

[QUOTE=dialogical;33241781]The remaining 1% slept through this whole damn thing?[/QUOTE] Well, it's not like the occupiers actually occupied where they lived.

[QUOTE=OvB;33241952]"I hate him because his opinions are different than mine!" [editline]12th November 2011[/editline] also link doesn't work.[/QUOTE] Hmm dunno about the link, but that was more of a joke post anyway.

[QUOTE=OvB;33241952]"I hate him because his opinions are different than mine!"[/QUOTE] Nah, not really. He tends to post clearly manipulated articles and quite literally seems to come out with the same patronizing talking points I'd hear over at Fox & Friends. I mean come on, that "these protesters are violent, clearly they've overstayed their welcome" shlock is just preposterous.

[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;33241839]Here's a better idea: Occupy Glaber. :v:[/QUOTE] I would like to occupy Glaber nonsexually.

This is almost as stupid as those people who take pictures of themselves with terrible monologues written on notebooks about how the Occupiers are lazy (see: the 53% people). At least these people are actually trying. Also waaah how dare people use their right to peaceably assemble waaaah

[QUOTE=The Castro;33242067]I would like to occupy Glaber nonsexually.[/QUOTE] Is it legal to occupy glaber in your house, as a pet, like a dog?

[QUOTE=Megafanx13;33242004]Nah, not really. He tends to post clearly manipulated articles and quite literally seems to come out with the same patronizing talking points I'd hear over at Fox & Friends. I mean come on, that "these protesters are violent, clearly they've overstayed their welcome" shlock is just preposterous.[/QUOTE] Dude, I don't know about anyone else, but you and Zeke have both posted editorials and used them as unbiased sources. Fox is no worse than Olberman (spelling, I know) era MSNBC.

Honestly to me, the Occupy Protests are an example of how to get absolutely no respect from people when attempting to protest. Sleeping in tents and pooping in buckets won't make the government change anything.

I always hated how people exaggerate and take maybe the few bad apples in the protest and go "OH LOOK AT ALL THESE IRATE COLLEGE KIDS WANTING TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT." Sadly, this seems to become an increasingly popular viewpoint.

[QUOTE=Megafanx13;33242004]Nah, not really. He tends to post clearly manipulated articles and quite literally seems to come out with the same patronizing talking points I'd hear over at Fox & Friends. I mean come on, that "these protesters are violent, clearly they've overstayed their welcome" shlock is just preposterous.[/QUOTE] That's not a reason to hate somebody. I haven't really seen him get hostile towards those he disagrees with, perhaps I just don't pay attention. Listen, I have to hear Fox News sprout it's shit all day because my conservative mother watches it all the time. I find it funny how everyone immediately blows away a whole story if the source is Fox News. (people even blow away news stories from local Fox stations which hardly have any affiliation with Fox News) It's by no means fair and balanced, it's outright biased, but you can still read what they have to say, then fire out counter arguments. The moment you refuse to read something from the opposition is the moment you close your mind to your own bias. Instead we get remarks like: "Posting in a Glaber thread" [editline]12th November 2011[/editline] I'm not trying to defend fox by any means, If anything I'm defending Glabers right to his own opinion, no matter how dumb and backwards they may seem to people.

The whole point of a protest is inconvenience, this is a good thing. If the shop owners near the protest are getting fed up, it'll just put more pressure on the government to do something. The protesters have a right to be there, so they can't (legally) remove them forcefully, so that only leaves two options: Listen to millions of people around the country who have spent over a month on the street trying to get you to understand the problem they have, or keep ignoring them and hoping they go away. What really pisses me off is that the politicians who could and should support the movement, like Obama for instance, are staying pretty neutral and hoping that the winter will force them off the streets so they don't have to pick sides and split their voters down the middle.

[QUOTE=Dr Magnusson;33242226]The whole point of a protest is inconvenience, this is a good thing. If the shop owners near the protest are getting fed up, it'll just put more pressure on the government to do something. The protesters have a right to be there, so they can't (legally) remove them forcefully, so that only leaves two options:[/QUOTE] They have a right to be there as long as they aren't infringing other people's rights, which they obviously are.

[QUOTE=dialogical;33241850]I'm really trying to figure out why everyone hates him (her?). I have yet to come up with a good reason.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Glaber;27281925]Let me ask you this, How do you identify one in order to give them rights? Women, Blacks, and ethnicites are more easily identifiable. [b]Arguing that Gays should be able to marry is like arguing that an adult should be able to marry a child, a man should be able to marry as many women as he wants (and vice versa), and that people who love animals should be able to marry animals,[/b] All because of Love. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Bigotry" - rilez))[/highlight][/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=butters757;33242302]Bigoted quote[/QUOTE] Perhaps I'm wrong then.

I now know that you can be banned for bigotry.

It sucks that small businesses have to suffer in regard to a protest protesting about large businesses. I know they have no choice in regard to location, but the few people who are vandalising and just making business difficult in general for these small businesses should stop what they are doing. It's almost like people pitching tents outside of a McDonalds and harming business while protesting against KFC.

[QUOTE=Antdawg;33242358]It sucks that small businesses have to suffer in regard to a protest protesting about large businesses. I know they have no choice in regard to location, but the few people who are vandalising and just making business difficult in general for these small businesses should stop what they are doing. It's almost like people pitching tents outside of a McDonalds and harming business while protesting against KFC.[/QUOTE] Destroying small business is counterproductive for the whole argument. Chances are the owners are a part of the 99%, possibly balls deep in debt, trying to make a living just as hard as everyone else. Leave them alone.

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[QUOTE=Glaber;33240704]And when even small businesses are being threatened by this movement[/QUOTE] You mean the one small business cited in the article, which [URL="http://www.essexworldcafe.com/"]primarily does corporate catering?[/URL] How about you find me an article on this that mentions more than one "small business", including one with no conflicts of interest regarding who they get the majority of their business from? Then you'll have a point. Until then, you've got nothing. Hell, why don't you ask Fox for those other "local eateries" (lol) they apparently didn't feel worth mentioning by name? I'd love to find out who they talked to to compose this well-researched and thoroughly thought-out piece; surely that information would be detailed and capable of dispelling any notions that this is a sham article, along with restoring some of your lacking cred.

[QUOTE=Antdawg;33242384]Where am I implying I'd like to see small businesses destroyed?[/QUOTE] I was adding onto what you were saying. Didn't mean to make it sound like I was saying you were implying that.

[QUOTE=OvB;33242393]I was adding onto what you were saying. Didn't mean to make it sound like I was saying you were implying that.[/QUOTE] Whoops

[QUOTE=Protocol7;33242158]I always hated how people exaggerate and take maybe the few bad apples in the protest and go "OH LOOK AT ALL THESE IRATE COLLEGE KIDS WANTING TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT." Sadly, this seems to become an increasingly popular viewpoint.[/QUOTE] I hate it when people point out fringe elements of the teaparty and go "LOOK AT ALL THESE REDNECKS CLINGING TO THEIR GUNS AND RELIGION." Not that that point is relevant, per se, but this whole stereotyping thing cuts both ways.

[QUOTE=dialogical;33242434]I hate it when people point out fringe elements of the teaparty and go "LOOK AT ALL THESE REDNECKS CLINGING TO THEIR GUNS AND RELIGION." Not that that point is relevant, per se, but this whole stereotyping thing cuts both ways.[/QUOTE] Fringe elements? Aren't Palin and Michelle Bachman considered fairly prominent?