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MystiqueMushroom

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Re: Million mask march against corporate greed and government [Re: hidenseek1]
#19090748 - 11/05/13 03:34 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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hidenseek1 said: if they had one near me i would have trolled it
go with some friends wearing stephen harper mask with signs like
trust your government but question them
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anarchy is for teens
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vote!!!!
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your fathers fought for this country
Yes but it would be more effective to NOT fuck with them and just question them so they can figure out what is TRULY going on and what they should stand for.
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Re: Million mask march against corporate greed and government [Re: DeadHearts] 3
#19090809 - 11/05/13 03:50 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Corporate greed puts money in people's retirement accounts, savings and investments. Greed is good. It insures the profit motive reflex works at all times and at all levels of the market.
You want North Korea style controls? Go there. Greed works fine in America. Protest something else.
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Re: Million mask march against corporate greed and government [Re: mpd]
#19090847 - 11/05/13 03:58 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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mpd said: Corporate greed puts money in people's retirement accounts, savings and investments. Greed is good. It insures the profit motive reflex works at all times and at all levels of the market.
You want North Korea style controls? Go there. Greed works fine in America. Protest something else.
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Re: Million mask march against corporate greed and government [Re: mpd] 2
#19090898 - 11/05/13 04:04 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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mpd said: Corporate greed puts money in people's retirement accounts, savings and investments. Greed is good. It insures the profit motive reflex works at all times and at all levels of the market.
You want North Korea style controls? Go there. Greed works fine in America. Protest something else.
is the world this black and white to you? Greed can be a positive motivator, but greed is something that must be tempered. It doesn't require "North Korea" style controls. It needs controls like laws that punish people for dumping hazardous waste into streams to save money. It means telling fertilizer companies they can't store enough ammonium nitrate to nearly destroy an entire town in one location.
Corporate greed also takes money from retirement accounts when corporate officers pay no real price for completely destroying a corporation through fraud and mismanagement motivated by a quick profit. Think Enron. Think Worldcom. Think Lehman brothers.
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Re: Million mask march against corporate greed and government [Re: koods]
#19090980 - 11/05/13 04:23 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Remember, remember! The fifth of November, The Gunpowder treason and plot; I know of no reason Why the Gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot!
I am not at all into the anon thing but the story behind today is pretty sweet. It's said that guy fawkes was the most honest man to set foot in parliament lol. Sounds like the brits always shared our frustration.
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Re: Million mask march against corporate greed and government [Re: Apothos]
#19091209 - 11/05/13 05:11 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Sometimes you gotta go out and lose your voice to show your goverment you're not completely lost in their healthcare bullshit
there's plenty of other things going on that need addressing besides civil unions and never ending healthcare debt lol
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Re: Million mask march against corporate greed and government [Re: B_BOY]
#19091329 - 11/05/13 05:32 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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B_BOY said: you need to get out and vote AGAINST those that you do not agree with.
Voting does not make a difference, it is just done to give us the illusion that we still have a choice of what happens in this country when in fact we do not.
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Re: Million mask march against corporate greed and government [Re: mpd] 1
#19091414 - 11/05/13 05:49 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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mpd said: Corporate greed puts money in people's retirement accounts, savings and investments. Greed is good. It insures the profit motive reflex works at all times and at all levels of the market.
You want North Korea style controls? Go there. Greed works fine in America. Protest something else.
What is it you are going on about? What does North Korea have to do with corporate greed in America and other parts of the world? That was a pretty weak argument sir.
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Re: Million mask march against corporate greed and government [Re: DeadHearts]
#19091446 - 11/05/13 05:56 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Look up the Trans National Atlantic Treaty
They're trying to unify regulations but in the same avenue make countries laws a violation of it. Only a small committee will decide what is more important.
Mandatory minimums
billionaires still paying min wage
etc.
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Re: Million mask march against corporate greed and government [Re: Dudits]
#19091451 - 11/05/13 05:57 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Dudits said:
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B_BOY said: you need to get out and vote AGAINST those that you do not agree with.
Voting does not make a difference, it is just done to give us the illusion that we still have a choice of what happens in this country when in fact we do not.
This is what it has come down to, unfortunately. Bi-partisanship has failed and is a thinly veiled disguise, it's torn our country down the middle over social issues that detract from the larger issues. For change we need collective cooperation from our citizens, and the current system is designed to go against that in pretty much every way. It's inefficient and there is no accountability to speak of and if the government is not answering to the people - then they are answering to nothing good(big corporation, for one).
A third party has to be voted in, IMO. If a party recieves 5% of the popular vote then they are entitled to federal funding. In this past election, Gary Johnson(libertarian party) got 1%, change could be made in the next election and 5% is an easily obtainable goal. That's a start, right?
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Re: Million mask march against corporate greed and government [Re: TrentBoyett]
#19091460 - 11/05/13 05:59 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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mjmihalov said:
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laugh all you want, when's the last time you did something that truly matters?
I went to work today
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Re: Million mask march against corporate greed and government [Re: pirate-blues]
#19091465 - 11/05/13 05:59 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Change?
I remember some guy wanted change at a convention and he was scooped up at the air port and driven in circles for hours 
another time they passed a agriculture bill and there was a line in there saying how GMO seeds couldn't be regulated, put in by anonymous
they don't even read those bills
they don't have the time or memory apperently
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Re: Million mask march against corporate greed and government [Re: pirate-blues]
#19091467 - 11/05/13 06:00 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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this thing will probably amount to about as much as the 99% marchers or wahtever it was called:
it'll be 80 people, 75% of whom are 17-30, the other 25% being 55+, marching and yelling in the middle of the road.
Sure, go ahead. it's less disruptive to DC then when AKA comes to town.
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Re: Million mask march against corporate greed and government [Re: memes] 1
#19091492 - 11/05/13 06:06 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Marching is good for morale n stuff. it makes people feel like they're doing something, which is okay.
Until they bring out them police horses and eviction notices. I saw Occupy Philly get taken the fuck down in a matter of hours by those guys on my way home from work. I honestly can't say I was shocked or upset, as it was just one big circle jerk, it accomplished little to nothing. It could've turned into a great global movement, a unified change of in the way people think(and just making them CARE) is far more powerful than standing around DC and yelling angry things.
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Re: Million mask march against corporate greed and government [Re: mpd]
#19091501 - 11/05/13 06:07 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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mpd said: Corporate greed puts money in people's retirement accounts, savings and investments. Greed is good. It insures the profit motive reflex works at all times and at all levels of the market.
You want North Korea style controls? Go there. Greed works fine in America. Protest something else.
Yep. Who is greedier? The person who wants to keep the fruits of his labors or the piece of shit asshole who contributes nothing of value but demands the be taken care of for life?
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Re: Million mask march against corporate greed and government [Re: zappaisgod]
#19091520 - 11/05/13 06:11 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I thought this was appropriate
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Re: Million mask march against corporate greed and government [Re: MystiqueMushroom]
#19091533 - 11/05/13 06:13 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Million mask march against corporate greed and government [Re: zappaisgod]
#19091538 - 11/05/13 06:14 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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laugh all you want, when's the last time you did something that truly matters?
I went to work today
That wasn't towards you, but I doubt you really did anything that mattered too much at work today, maybe it matter to you and people that depend on you, but not to the world as a whole.
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mpd said: Corporate greed puts money in people's retirement accounts, savings and investments. Greed is good. It insures the profit motive reflex works at all times and at all levels of the market.
You want North Korea style controls? Go there. Greed works fine in America. Protest something else.
Yep. Who is greedier? The person who wants to keep the fruits of his labors or the piece of shit asshole who contributes nothing of value but demands the be taken care of for life?
That is worded very biasedly(gr?).
I don't have a problem with making money, but at least pay your workers a decent wage.
I also don't like people on welfare who keep having kids to get more checks either.
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#19091542 - 11/05/13 06:15 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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zappaisgod said:
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mpd said: Corporate greed puts money in people's retirement accounts, savings and investments. Greed is good. It insures the profit motive reflex works at all times and at all levels of the market.
You want North Korea style controls? Go there. Greed works fine in America. Protest something else.
Yep. Who is greedier? The person who wants to keep the fruits of his labors or the piece of shit asshole who contributes nothing of value but demands the be taken care of for life?
Again with the black and white! The person who wants to keep ALL the fruits of his labor and contribute nothing to the society which made his success possible is just as dispicable as the person who contributes nothing of value and mooches. Neither of these people exist in pure form.
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Re: Million mask march against corporate greed and government [Re: koods] 3
#19091566 - 11/05/13 06:19 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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The problem with capitalism and lack of regulation is that it inevitably fucks over at least some percentage of the work force.
All you have to do is look at the conditions of people working in factories/railroads/any blue collar position in America up until the early 20th century, as well as the lack of standard in what they produced, particularly in the food industry. It was total fucking hell, you could get a job easily and there was room for growth, sure, but the conditions and hours would very likely take some serious years off your life.
It's gotten better here thanks to simple bills passed by teddy roosevelt and later built upon, but shit has just moved overseas and sooo many people suffer in awful working conditions at the hands of American corporations. IDK, man, I am all for the free market and in an ideal world I would totally be an anarcho-capitalist(unfortunately that's just naive to think it would work off paper), but I read some Upton Sinclair novels a little while back(and to be fair he's blatantly peddling socialism, but the books led to the reform of working conditions and standards in the meatpacking industry)...Quote:
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zappaisgod said:
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mpd said: Corporate greed puts money in people's retirement accounts, savings and investments. Greed is good. It insures the profit motive reflex works at all times and at all levels of the market.
You want North Korea style controls? Go there. Greed works fine in America. Protest something else.
Yep. Who is greedier? The person who wants to keep the fruits of his labors or the piece of shit asshole who contributes nothing of value but demands the be taken care of for life?
Again with the black and white! The person who wants to keep ALL the fruits of his labor and contribute nothing to the society which made his success possible is just as dispicable as the person who contributes nothing of value and mooches. Neither of these people exist in pure form.
This x1000.
Neither works for the majority, in the end, either.
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