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2011-10-16 Europe

Occupy [Your City Goes Here] spreads to Rome

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Posted by Fred 2011-10-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 no previous generation was sufficiently dumbed down for this to happen. the idiocy being spouted by these protesters and those who support them is mind boggling.

there has been a serious lack of selection on the species of late. seems that the stupid gene is exploding

Posted by abu do you love 2011-10-16 03:25|| 2011-10-16 03:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Protesters set fire to a government building, torched and carBQ'd cars and smashed bank windows in Rome on Saturday in the worst violence of worldwide demonstrations against corporate greed and government cutbacks.

Mostly "gov't cutbacks." Pattern developing in 5,4,3,2......

Posted by Sofa-Soldier 2011-10-16 03:34|| 2011-10-16 03:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Civilized Europeans.

Posted by gr(o)mgoru 2011-10-16 07:08|| 2011-10-16 07:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Gr(o)m, I agree with your nicely tidy statement, and Abu sparks my thought.

I do not mean to speak for, or puts words into the statements of either, just a personal mull and please disagree.

Now, only speaking for USA pop media, I have a theory that the biggest threat to the mass media storyline is the potential uncivilized behavior of, let me be only descriptive here, the white male.

That is, watching TV and movies etc, one would come to the conclusion that the white male is an effiminate go-along, and resorts to violent behavior if mentally ill or caught at a bar full of vampires. If I tilt my foil hat just right, I would call it, politely, the wussification project, removing a sense of competition while emploring passification audio/visual as a peer pressure on how to behave, and I believe that it is in its third generation. I theorize that in a third generation of behavior is where we find if it is a gold or fool's gold.

To the point, low on time, I believe it actually fosters low level agitation projects to be more effective than it really is, that not the fear of actual violence but the backtrack of a narrative prevents the rule of law.

Quite honestly, the TEA Party movement is a classic example of pacifist protest, this being an excuse to go out and break shit, be part of the movement maaaan! Problem is that eventually the do everything right and get screwed people are going to tire of no protection by those selling the idea of protection, then the govs will have real problems, and the whole European Unity Project may just fall apart, or perhaps more accurately, revert. I hope not, Europe is neat and quite unique.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-10-16 13:52|| 2011-10-16 13:52|| Front Page Top

#5 The welfare state (and parewnts that spoil their children) neotenises the next generation, who have lost the connection between fulfilling their needs and work.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-10-16 15:01|| 2011-10-16 15:01|| Front Page Top

#6 no previous generation was sufficiently dumbed down for this to happen The Roman mobs back in the days of Imperium Romanum were rather similar IIRC. Eventually Roman taxpayers gave up on the imperial thingy & went over to the barbarians.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-10-16 15:05|| 2011-10-16 15:05|| Front Page Top

#7 DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > "OCCUPY" ANTI-CAPITALISM PROTESTS SPREAD AROUND THE WORLD, THOUSANDS MARCH IN ROME, SIDNEY, + MADRID [+ London] AS "OCCUPY WALL STREET" PROTESTS GO GLOBAL.

and

* CHINA DAILY FORUM > "OCCUPY" PARADEPLATZ [Zurich, Switzerland = popular locale]: EUROPE IS SPRINGING "OCCUPY WALL STREET" COPYCATS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-10-16 21:11|| 2011-10-16 21:11|| Front Page Top

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