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The 99 % or 1%?

Are you in the 1% or 99%

  • 1%

    Votes: 8 17.4%
  • 99%

    Votes: 38 82.6%

  • Total voters
    46
It's amazing to me how people refuse to even research these people leading this movement. It doesn't matter how many people call themselves socialists or communists, it matters how many "regular" people they have real influence over. This movement was began and is being run by socialists and communists. To deny that, is to deny reality.

I'm not even clear on why you think that would matter... What exactly are you afraid of. Lay it out for me. Right now, support for communism in the US is at 0.01% or so. In order to take over the country, they need to get that to 51%. Lay out for me how you see that happening.

Or is this one of those things were you like think it is catchy like a disease or something? Or brainwashing something?
 
I very rarely watch Fox News.

Me neither. CNN is pretty good on hard news. Disasters and stuff.

ABC radio is crap and basically a mouthpiece for the White House.
 
You delude yourself if you think you won't be thrown into the one percent as long as you have more than someone else.

The great thing about defining things like the "1%" are easy to define without being subjective. This isn't a cable news channel, you don't need to make up definitions for something like that.
 
Last poll I saw, they had a 54% approval rating nationwide with 23% still undecided. Only 23% disapproving.

Topline Results of Oct. 9-10, 2011, TIME Poll | Swampland | TIME.com

That makes them the most approved of political entity in the country. Higher approval than Romney or Obama or the Democratic Party or the Republican Party or the Tea Party or Congress or Liberals or Conservatives. Some of those they are two, three or even five times more popular than.
Other polls I have seen, have given them lower ratings, for instance this one
IBOPE | Zogby IBOPE Zogby Poll: Public Favor Split for Occupy Wall St. Movement, 60% Say Demonstrators Lack Clear Goals
Republicans seem to be unfaverouble, and democrats are quite faverouble, giving a rating of 45 against 49.

However, that is how many who are faverouble. You don't have to agree with the movement to disagree with their opinions. The opinions of the members in the protests are extremly to the left, and if more people knew their approval rating will drop.
 
I'm part of the 100%. We're all in this together.

The crooks need to leave the damn group and the poor need to be fed. So stop with this 100% B.S.
 
I'm not even clear on why you think that would matter... What exactly are you afraid of. Lay it out for me. Right now, support for communism in the US is at 0.01% or so. In order to take over the country, they need to get that to 51%. Lay out for me how you see that happening.

Or is this one of those things were you like think it is catchy like a disease or something? Or brainwashing something?

Let's just agree to let them have one between the eyes every time we see one.
 
Few displays of political dementia are more disturbing and pathetic than the sight of a person losing a foothold yet vociferously defending the right of the uber wealthy to enrich themselves at the expense of the 99%.

Is someone with a career college certificate who paints fingernals being wronged by someone with a post graduate degree in the medical profession "enriching themselves?"

Most likely the healthcare professional is dismayed to watch the eleite upper 1% manipulate markets and pollutocracy greed while the nail salon gal is watching Fox and sinks into a demented perspective voraciously defending the uber elite who funnel massive $ to manipulate the uneducated viewer.
 
The crooks need to leave the damn group and the poor need to be fed. So stop with this 100% B.S.

The crooks are infiltrating OWS and stealing from the poor.

Crooks are everywhere.
 
Most likely the healthcare professional is dismayed to watch the eleite upper 1% manipulate markets and pollutocracy greed while the nail salon gal is watching Fox and sinks into a demented perspective voraciously defending the uber elite who funnel massive $ to manipulate the uneducated viewer.

BS. I have friends who are succesful MDs who are easly thrown in that heap by these assholes.
 
May I ask where you do get your news?

The internet.

In respect to this news story...I watch videos of the people involved. I listen to their own words. I research who is behind the newspaper, the organizations, the money. These are things supporters of this movement on this site are willfully ignoring as if they don't matter. The people who are organizing, providing "news" and opinion for the entire movement have no influence? Really?
 
Nobody is leading this movement. It's a grassroots group run on consenseous. Purely democratic.

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Wrong. You apparently have done no research behind it.
 
The internet.

In respect to this news story...I watch videos of the people involved. I listen to their own words. I research who is behind the newspaper, the organizations, the money. These are things supporters of this movement on this site are willfully ignoring as if they don't matter. The people who are organizing, providing "news" and opinion for the entire movement have no influence? Really?

Roger that. Foxnews doesn't need to tell me what to think of a LAUSD teacher on video whose every other word is "Jew this" and "Jew that."
 
I'm not even clear on why you think that would matter... What exactly are you afraid of. Lay it out for me. Right now, support for communism in the US is at 0.01% or so. In order to take over the country, they need to get that to 51%. Lay out for me how you see that happening.

Or is this one of those things were you like think it is catchy like a disease or something? Or brainwashing something?

Useful idiots are easily swayed. It doesn't matter who is organizing and leading this? You can't honestly think that.
 
I presume you are referring to the OWS and feel I am in the 99%. I don't wnat anything free, just stop giving my country to the corporations and fat cats. Screw the status quo.

The green companies, too? Be honest!
 
I've seen them standing kiddie corner from Disneyland and I flip them off.
 
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I didnt say equality...I said help...and I stand by that

Anyone that needs help from the government probably isn't going to amount to anything, anyway.
 
Republicans seem to be unfaverouble, and democrats are quite faverouble, giving a rating of 45 against 49.

Hey, that site says:

Is your overall opinion of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations favorable or unfavorable?

Favorable
45%

Favorable
49%

Not sure
6%

So 45% favorable + 49% favorable... That's 94% favorable! ;)

Regardless of whether it is 54% or 45% or 49%, those numbers are still all higher than any other major political entity. The tea party, for example, is currently at 27%. Obama is at 43%. Romney is at 36%. Congress is at 12%...
 
I've actually been down there several times, unlike you.

Have you researched who is behind the newspaper? Who organized the protests to begin with? What the professors there are teaching our kids? If not, then you know very little about this movement. It's not just regular folks mad at Wall Street. It's a global movement that's been coming for a long time. And it wasn't organized by capitalist-lovers.
 
Useful idiots are easily swayed. It doesn't matter who is organizing and leading this? You can't honestly think that.

Obama is the thug-in-chief of this movement. He'll tell you so.

The Godfather of Black Liberation Theology, aka, communism.
 
Useful idiots are easily swayed. It doesn't matter who is organizing and leading this? You can't honestly think that.

We are selling our means of production to a communist country and indebted to them to the tune of trillions of dollars. We are pretty much owned by a communist country at this point.
 
Ooh, and Van Jones.
 
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