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by **George_Kaplan** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 9:59 am

Is it still going on? And did it change anything?

by **Rockman** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:44 am

It made people aware that there were some incredibly wealthy people in this country, but didn't really provide a lot of context. And in the end it didn't change how wall street operates, and didn't affect the policies in washington.

by **achilles** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:52 am

It also made people aware they don't like their lives being disrupted by smelly, dumb, drug using hippies. And it cost various municipalities millions of dollars that they now have to reduce services for to cover.

But yeah, it's still going on, but most people no longer care.

by **S.F. Jude Terror** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:01 am

Sadly, it made people aware that many conservatives are only pro-protest and free speech when it's something they agree with. Otherwise, it's character assasination time. For shame.

by **Log-Man** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:03 am

It lives on in candy.

by **eltopo** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:06 am

Log-Man wrote:It lives on in candy.

by **Chris** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:30 am

Like most protests, it accomplished absolutely nothing but annoy even people who might agree with their stance.

by **e_galston** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 12:25 pm

S.F. Jude Terror wrote:Sadly, it made people aware that many conservatives are only pro-protest and free speech when it's something they agree with. Otherwise, it's character assasination time. For shame.

wow.. i actually agree on something with you.. not sure if this post was sarcastic or not.. but i agree with it

by **Rockman** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 1:28 pm

S.F. Jude Terror wrote:Sadly, it made people aware that many conservatives are only pro-protest and free speech when it's something they agree with. Otherwise, it's character assasination time. For shame.

They were allowed to build a shanty town in that part for like 2 months, and then return to protesting after they cleaned it out. Protesting does not mean you pop a tent down in the middle of a public place and take up shop. That's vagrancy.

by **Cat-Scratch** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 1:44 pm

Holland Oats wrote:Like most protests, it accomplished absolutely nothing but annoy even people who might agree with their stance.

What stance? The one that was almost explained more then two months after it all started?
Or the obvious, "Give us what we want and let us do whatever we want, we hate successful people who we call conservatives"?

by **Cat-Scratch** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 1:48 pm

They tried to restart last weekend here in Toronto. They then went off a protested/made demands that the police turn over those they arrested while claiming police brutality endlessly. :roll:

by **ZombieRed** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 1:58 pm

I think the weakness in a lot of these protests is that they don't really have a concrete plan. You go to one of these things and almost everyone will say something different and they also don't have any ideas (concrete ones) how they could solve these issues themselves.

If they actually had a specific plan about what they want to change and had a concrete idea how to do it, the protests would be more effective. Also they need to go directly to parliament/congress to deal with it. It would probably be ignored by the politicians anyway but it certainly would get more support from people, and the media would have a harder time ignoring it.

by **Cat-Scratch** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 2:07 pm

ZombieRed wrote:I think the weakness in a lot of these protests is that they don't really have a concrete plan. You go to one of these things and almost everyone will say something different and they also don't have any ideas (concrete ones) how they could solve these issues themselves.

If they actually had a specific plan about what they want to change and had a concrete idea how to do it, the protests would be more effective. Also they need to go directly to parliament/congress to deal with it. It would probably be ignored by the politicians anyway but it certainly would get more support from people, and the media would have a harder time ignoring it.

A dog barking is still a dog barking, even when accompanied by more dogs. After all, one starts, they all mindlessly act with it.

by **MoneyMelon** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 2:11 pm

I think it made people realize for about 15 minutes just how drastically out of balance wealth and power is in the United States.

Then they started pooping on police cars and making drum circles :roll: