Opinion of "Occupy Wall Street"

[The Mikado]

Useless idiots.

[The Mikado]

Sure are a lot of class warfare apologists in this thread (and I mean the class warfare that's actually happening, against the working and middle-class, not the other definition, of rich people whining that some people want to raise their taxes).

Political protests accomplish little beyond dragging in flocks or starry-eyed tourists that crowd the streets, ignore traffic lights, slow the public transportation, and wander around shouting inane slogans and making a mess of everything.  I feel sorry for the people of New York.  Go the f**k home and leave people alone.  I don't care what they're about, they're disruptive annoying grandstanding that wrecks ordinary city life.

[The Mikado]

ITT: Lief supports incoherent angry rambling from "this is are country" types as legitimate political discourse, doesn't see contradiction with his earlier ridicule of Tea Party.

[The Mikado]

Being or looking like an idiot doesn't prevent someone from occasionally being right. A broken watch, and all that. Your idea is apparently that all protests don't qualify as legitimate political discourse is absurd. How about protests that just happen to be right? Are you capable of making distinctions like that?

My argument was disconnected to the actual message of protests.  Are there protests for causes I agree with?  Of course.  Does that make the protests themselves, with the stupid chants, LaRouchies and Trotskyites trying to hijack it, smelly unwashed neckbeards, and idiots waving around signs of Insert Figure X In Hitler Mustache anymore tolerable?  Not really.

[The Mikado]

Again, I fail to see why I should sympathize with a movement just because they're theoretically "on my side" (which I'm not convinced at all that these people are).