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Forum Post: Trolls and Detractors: what is your message?

Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 16, 2011, 4:08 p.m. EST by buphiloman (840)
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I have to confess that you all have me terribly confused. According to the Trolls and detractors I have read on this site (many times in the course of a single thread) ALL of the following statements are TRUE:

1) OWS is a leaderless, message-less, and irrelevant "movement" with no popular support.

2) George Soros is the leader of OWS.

3) Van Jones is the leader of OWS.

4) OWS is clearly "socialist" (which implies a message that you understand)

5) OWS are terrorists.

6) OWS are dirty uneducated hippy potsmokers.

7) OWS are whiny college-grads

8) OWS are plotting to take everyone's money in a military coup (an activity not common amongst potsmokers.

I could go on and on (and on)...seriously guys, either STFU, orget on the same page at least.

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[-] 1 points by pigeonlady (284) from Brooklyn, NY 13 years ago

Yup. Biker's a cop. With ED.

[-] 1 points by Biker (-5) 13 years ago

Our message was very simple shaped in tent form. But you guys stole our tent and left our movement like went in the wind.

[-] 1 points by pigeonlady (284) from Brooklyn, NY 13 years ago

Greetings. Obviously the point of a detractor is just that - to detract. To detract from the movement, its message, its spirit. To detract from the issues at hand and the efforts put forth to achieve them. There is an element of police tactic here and there, such as demoralizing and demeaning remarks, and other attempts at provocation, such as falsifying claims of personal threat and immature challenges which prove the nature of that person to be dishonest and violent. Persons who are posting some of these negatives who are in banking and such markets where their abuse of trust has resulted in producing the crises at hand are probably doing a lot of posting because of their fears of discovery and censure. They may feel it therapeutic. They may think they are clever. I find it sad,

[-] 1 points by buphiloman (840) 13 years ago

i find it sad too pigeonlady. It is hard to imagine how anyone could be so deluded as refuse to see that they are no better off than their lowliest neighbor, and that how they care for the down and out, is the true measure of who they are.

[-] 1 points by TimMcGraw (50) 13 years ago

I'm not sure why Soros would be a leader of a movement that wants to eat him, unless he's narcissistic.

[-] 0 points by LaraLittletree (-850) from Scarsdale, NY 13 years ago

I think they are trying to express their disagreement with our methods.

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[-] 0 points by progmarx (66) 13 years ago

The onus of proof and details of what is actually going on with OWS is not upon the so called "Trolls and detractors" but on the gullible and weak minded individuals who throw their lives away on such a tragic waste.

[-] 1 points by buphiloman (840) 13 years ago

Yes, your trolling is a "tragic waste".

[-] 1 points by rayl (1007) 13 years ago

trying to reinstate the original meaning and spirit of the constitution of the united states is not a tragic waste!

[-] 1 points by JesseHeffran (3903) 13 years ago

i commend you. well get it hell lose.

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