What is Occupy Wallstreet?

[Officer_Charon]

Which might lead to GB's scenario, if it gets bad enough.

Obviously, I hope and pray that our national situation is never beyond the point for dialogue to help resolve situations... but I do fear that in the not-too-distant future we're going to see some sort of large-scale armed insurrection, attempting to effect change by force of arms.

 

[Dave]

I don't know if that will be enough. Whoever gets themselves killed in this "occupation," from what I have seen, would be very likely to die on camera and in a very stupid way... further marginalizing the OWS image. Of course, if there are multiple deaths, that might be enough. Especially if it's in the double digits and all at the same incident. But one OWS dingleberry dying, to me, sounds more likely an extreme and lethal case of "DON'T TAZE ME BRO! DON'T TAZE ME!"

Well, if he dies yelling like a pussy and saying something that can be put on a t-shirt...

 

[strawman]

These guys don't affect anyone. They aren't getting public support, and even if they did they have no message. Further, if they had a coherent, well planned message, it's quite obvious that they aren't delivering it to the right person.

To effect change you have to have a demand, and you have to bother the person who can actually do something about it.

There is nothing that will come out of these protests in a direct fashion.

The protests, however, might call others to action and it's possible that a big change will happen down the road which can be traced back to the protests now.

But they have to have a message, and they have to deliver it in an effective manner to the people that can do something about it.

At best, one could say they're trying to send a muddled message to the populace, and hope that the populace does something about it. If they can keep it up for another year, it might have a small, but measurable, impact on elections. Other than that, though, it's a waste of time and energy.

 

[Chippy]

Occupy Wallstreet is composed of 25% people who care about the issue, and the rest are just there to hold up signs with Arrested Development references to post to Reddit for karma.