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THe discourse is mainly limited to the crazy antics of the protesters. They have proven profoundly incapable of delivering any coherent message.



That is just wrong. The whole world now knows the 1% term now.


Is that the bar? Doesn't every popular Internet meme cross that bar too?


Sure; that was good. But so what? Now what? What does this mean for anybody? What does it mean to continue to doodle around in public parks?

The message now is, we're having a grand old time getting ourselves in the news, by distracting the police and annoying the public.


We're having a grand old time getting arrested and harassed in cold winter nights?


And to what extent that's the case, the seeds of another Lenin or Robespierre, to slaughter the "1%" wholesale for the perceived greater good, have been planted.

Scapegoating the rich, or "bankers", or some ethnic group that's associated with the above, is a tactic we've seen before, and never leads to anything good.




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