De-Occupy

[Cuddlefish]

Guys, help me flesh this out.

Never mind the Occupy movement. It's time to put our money where our mouths are. So many people are bitching about "the 1%" but then turn around and go shopping at wall-mart, or allow themselves to continue to get ripped off by the likes of BoA, and the such.

You want to take action? You want to make a change? Well, you need to start with yourself. Unlike all corporate sponsors on facebook, for one, and let your friends know that, if they don't do the same, you will un-friend them. Stop spending your money irresponsibly, and encourage others to do the same. Make some sacrifices, and let your friends know that you are not suffering one bit by no longer shopping at places like wal-mart. Educate yourself about which corporations are connected to each other, and if one is connected to something you may happen to like, give it up, and send them an E-mail explaining why.

What we need is meaningful action. A perceived mob scene is easily turned against you. Your freedoms of speech and assembly become the missiles they create. Individual actions are the only way. Do your part, and not only practice what you preach, but preach what you have practiced. Let your friends know that you will not be associated with an intellectually lethargic society. Let them know that there are credit unions and small businesses that offer better products and services than the Totalitarian retailers and banks. STAND BY YOUR CONVICTIONS, and FOLLOW THROUGH, and sometimes, you have to walk away from people you care about, so they can see for themselves what the problem is. Harass your reps and congress-people. They only do what gets them votes, so withhold your votes until they change their tunes.

To the extreme, leave the district. If all else fails, leave the country. There is no need to play a game where the rules are so clearly stacked in favor of the ones who are already "winning." If you were playing a game with me called "Cuddlefish Wins Every Time" you would take your toys and go home, no? You can't win, but if you don't play, you can't loose either. Time to treat these Tyrants the same way. De-Occupy, and let them know that you're no longer playing.

De-Occupy America.

[Doktor Howl]

I like this idea, except for leaving the country.

I mean, it's just starting to get funny.

AND WHO THE FUCK LIKES CORPORATE SPONSORS ON FACEBOOK?

[Juana]

Idiots, evidently.

[Cuddlefish]

I like this idea, except for leaving the country.

I mean, it's just starting to get funny.

AND WHO THE FUCK LIKES CORPORATE SPONSORS ON FACEBOOK?

I hear you. Just was throwing that out to illustrate the point that none of us actually has to put up with this shit (at least to a degree). It was intended to be an exaggeration.

This wasn't meant to be THE mission statement, just a jumble of thoughts to get the idea from my head into something a little more concrete. I has hoping that, by posting it, we could all work together-ish to make it a more defined, or at least better defined concept.

[Richter]

Does this mean i hav the "un-like" Sriacha?

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I really like this rant but I don't understand the rationale for leaving a district or the country—these multinational corporations' tentacles are, well, multinational.

I'm not sure opting out is enough. I think their ill-gotten gains need to be seized, their organizations dismantled, and severe punitive actions taken against the perpetrators.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

I really like this rant but I don't understand the rationale for leaving a district or the country—these multinational corporations' tentacles are, well, multinational.

I'm not sure opting out is enough. I think their ill-gotten gains need to be seized, their organizations dismantled, and severe punitive actions taken against the perpetrators.

This.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I really like this rant but I don't understand the rationale for leaving a district or the country—these multinational corporations' tentacles are, well, multinational.

I'm not sure opting out is enough. I think their ill-gotten gains need to be seized, their organizations dismantled, and severe punitive actions taken against the perpetrators.

This.

Thirded.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

One of the things I found myself saying a lot around Occupy was that the way things are going now, torches and pitchforks are on the way. I really don't want that, and that's why the Occupy thing was(is?) so important. We have a chance, a very slim chance, to fix this shit before it goes the same way it has every time in recorded history. A bunch of douchenozzles get an edge, rig the rules in their favor, and then everyone else gets fucked until they literally cannot take it any more and murder everyone at the top. Every. Last. One. Preventing this should be the priority of everyone, not just the angry and the poor. No one wants the guillotines to come out again. No one wants to be murdered. No one wants to live in the aftermath. No one wants their sons and daughters to be caught up in the conflict.

Just walking away hasn't been an option for a long time. We either fix the problems or the problems will fix themselves in that "well, the house is burned down now, so I guess that broken water heater doesn't matter" sense.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

One of the things I found myself saying a lot around Occupy was that the way things are going now, torches and pitchforks are on the way. I really don't want that, and that's why the Occupy thing was(is?) so important. We have a chance, a very slim chance, to fix this shit before it goes the same way it has every time in recorded history. A bunch of douchenozzles get an edge, rig the rules in their favor, and then everyone else gets fucked until they literally cannot take it any more and murder everyone at the top. Every. Last. One. Preventing this should be the priority of everyone, not just the angry and the poor. No one wants the guillotines to come out again. No one wants to be murdered. No one wants to live in the aftermath. No one wants their sons and daughters to be caught up in the conflict.

Just walking away hasn't been an option for a long time. We either fix the problems or the problems will fix themselves in that "well, the house is burned down now, so I guess that broken water heater doesn't matter" sense.

Ever since the Dark Ages, we keep managing to make things better a little at a time.

My concern is really mainly that we don't manage to put ourselves into another Dark Age.

[East Coast Hustle]

No one wants the guillotines to come out again.

Speak for yourself.