The Treehouse salutes the tens of thousands (maybe dozens) of individuals who ‘occupied’ Wall Street hoping to be the starting point for the new anti-capitalist revolution. (Misfit Politics has the video.)
Thanks to Zombietime, we have the full epic fail of this occasion memorialized for future mankind. I put these below the fold for a GOOD reason! (More here…) "Excuse me, anybody seen 1969 around here? I think I took a wrong turn at Woodstock." But I've always wondered this: How hypocritical is it to wear a plastic toy, designed and licensed by the Warner Brothers corporation, and manufactured in a polluting slave-labor Chinese factory, to advertise a mainstream Hollywood film, starring overpaid actors, the profits from which will go to corporate shareholders, and yet you think that by doing this you're somehow anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian? This L.A. protester had my absolute favorite sign of the day: "Democracy Not Plutocracy -- you fuckers." Great way to win hearts and minds! ..and this milquetoast suburbanite faux-jihadist with his feeble "power to the people" fist. Sad, really. Everybody's favorite: Whacked out Liberal Chick Are these hippie New Yorkers praying to Mecca? No. They're just taking a break from smashing capitalism to engage in a bit of public yoga. Although that doesn't make them devout Hindus, either; just cringe-inducing exhibitionists. Back in New York: "Your Day$ of Plenty are numbered (#ed)." Is that a warning of some kind, or just an informed economic forecast?
