Posts by Mandy S
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to Dylan Horrocks,
Yeah, I agree. I think Russell that the youtube analytics things is rather a clumsy tool...you could make the case, hypothetically, that tea-partiers may be older, and less tech savy, so they will link to the same youtube video over and over again. Whereas OWS are probably younger and more tech savvy, instead of passively viewing the same youtube vid, they may be more likely to remix it, upload their own version etc etc. There are more versions of the Jesse what-his-face one, so you don't know which one to watch to up-vote it. Keith Olberman is still beating your Ayn-acolyte though...
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to Russell Brown,
Hmmm.... I would have serious doubts as to the validity of the number of youtube hits as a measure. If that is the case everyone should go and upvote Jesse LaGreca, of whom Jon Stewart said "motherf*$ker brought game" as he throughly shoots-down Fox news reporter looking for someone inarticulate and "radical" to say something outrageous.
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I dunno, I find it a bit weird and confused to go looking for the outsiders and extremists in a mass grouping and try to extrapolate some meaning from what they say. Of course extremists like any number of Randians are going to be attracted to the chaos.
Overall most of the messages, from the majority of people I have seen, seem to saying the same thing, corporations should be taxed more effectively and banks should be regulated better.
Having said that though, did you see the 2 joint appearances by none other than Ralph Nader and Ron Paul?
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So has this injustice changed your views on the Urewera 18 case Russell?
Can you see now the ridiculous lengths the police will go to avoid being in the wrong? -
This is just heart-breaking.
It just shows how shallow our "civil" facade is when we can't protect our most vulnerable. The baying mob is just around the corner.