# Occupy Wall Street is back, kindasorta **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 30, 2016, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/occupy-wall-street-is-back-kindasorta/756087 "2016-05-30T14:08:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/occupy-wall-street-is-back-kindasorta/756087/41 "2016-05-31T01:53:01Z")
> [@Stringbean](#): > > When did economically-ignorant Progressive fairy tales ever go away? Actually their program is backed by rock-hard research. The carried interest loophole is exactly that - a loophole. There’s no reason why a subset of financiers should have lower tax rates than, say, CEOs of technology firms. The [Tobin tax](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin_tax) was designed by a Nobel Laurette economist and has [widespread though certainly not unanimous backing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_to_the_Tobin_Tax). Postal banks are enjoyed in many OECD countries - to characterize this as a fairy tale is just pure ignorance. Sorry, but the unicorns and sparkleponies are all on the Republican side now. No magic wall is going to keep out all 'dem furrners and Mexico isn’t going to pay for it. Our new friend **Giraffes Can’t Dance** provides a pretty good presentation of the modern conservative mentality: he sincerely believes that if he asserts something, it must be true: they can’t wrap their minds around the substantiation concept. ---
**Author:** ![UDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecae2f/32.png) [@UDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UDS)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/occupy-wall-street-is-back-kindasorta/756087/42 "2016-05-31T02:11:29Z")
> [@Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](#): > > We have this wonderful invention called the computer. It would take merely a few minutes to research. The problem with you leftists is that you hate work. Given that you are not prepared to do your own work, you can hardly expect to be taken seriously when you criticize other people for not doing your work for you. These are _your_ claims, Giraffe. If you want us to believe them, you need to offer us _some_ shred of a reason for doing so. Think about it logically; if we have no reason to believe your claims, why would we believe them? Denouncing us as “leftists” when we point this out just gives the impression that you don’t know what the word “leftist” means, which is probably not the impression that you’re trying to create. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffes_Can_t_Dance)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/occupy-wall-street-is-back-kindasorta/756087/43 "2016-05-31T02:25:49Z")
The only thing a leftist hates more than facts, is America: [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/iris-somberg/2011/10/14/36-million-soros-aids-groups-support-promote-occupy-wall-street](http://newsbusters.org/blogs/iris-somberg/2011/10/14/36-million-soros-aids-groups-support-promote-occupy-wall-street) > **[ANOTHER SOROS TIE TO OCCUPY WALL STREET](https://www.wnd.com/2011/12/355477/)** > > A George Soros-funded economist taught a course to the Occupy Wall Street protesters purportedly to help the activists better understand what caused the global financial crisis. Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz also recently addressed... > **[WINNING369 - Situs Slot Winrate Tertinggi Gampang Menang Terbaru](https://www.intellihub.com/desktop/home)** > > WINNING369 Situs Slot Winrate Tertinggi Gampang Menang Terbaru melayani Daftar Game Slot Paling Gacor Pagcor & Nexus Engine Deposit Pulsa Telkomsel 10 ribu. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffes_Can_t_Dance)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/occupy-wall-street-is-back-kindasorta/756087/44 "2016-05-31T02:28:50Z")
You lazy bums have to do a little work for yourselves, so I’ll let you look up the accounts of sexual-assaults that were so prevalent in occupy camps, that women were forced to find safe places in their own secure tents. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/occupy-wall-street-is-back-kindasorta/756087/45 "2016-05-31T02:49:31Z")
> [@Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](#): > > The only thing a leftist hates more than facts, is America: > > [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/iris-somberg/2011/10/14/36-million-soros-aids-groups-support-promote-occupy-wall-street](http://newsbusters.org/blogs/iris-somberg/2011/10/14/36-million-soros-aids-groups-support-promote-occupy-wall-street) > > [ANOTHER SOROS TIE TO OCCUPY WALL STREET \* WorldNetDaily \* by Aaron Klein](http://mobile.wnd.com/2011/12/355477/) > > [https://www.intellihub.com/blacklivesmatter-ferguson-activists-were-paid-with-soros-money-to-protest/](https://www.intellihub.com/blacklivesmatter-ferguson-activists-were-paid-with-soros-money-to-protest/) Just conspiracy filled sites and not much evidence,\*\* now those are lazy efforts\*\*. in any case it is clear that you do not read cites, the Reuters one only showed that Soros is not directly involved, but one can say that there is support from the groups he funds but it is really silly to put all the money an organization has as coming from Soros alone. BTW I already reported that much to the chagrin of many conservatives there are is a lot of rich people that do recognize that what it is really unamerican is to try to act like if movements should be pure and die just because they are not funded, what I see here is just a variation of the Serengeti strategy, demonize a few people that is involved in making a fairer society so as to deny that there is **a lot more than just one** that is aware that the American experiment will fail when opportunity is denied to many of their citizens. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/occupy-wall-street-is-back-kindasorta/756087/46 "2016-05-31T02:59:27Z")
And I just noticed, Newsbusters and Intellihub in particular are using the Washington “moonie” Times as a source. As if they needed to be discredited more. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/occupy-wall-street-is-back-kindasorta/756087/47 "2016-05-31T03:07:25Z")
> [@Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](#): > > You lazy bums have to do a little work for yourselves, so I’ll let you look up the accounts of sexual-assaults that were so prevalent in occupy camps, that women were forced to find safe places in their own secure tents. You’ve had a big first day. Must be tired. Sit, relax, take off your shoes and socks. Plenty more in the drawer, right? ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/occupy-wall-street-is-back-kindasorta/756087/48 "2016-05-31T03:34:10Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > That’s not how it works in this forum. You make the assertion, **you** bring the cite. Why don’t you apply that standard to everybody, instead of just people you with? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/occupy-wall-street-is-back-kindasorta/756087/49 "2016-05-31T03:49:14Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Why don’t you apply that standard to everybody, instead of just people you with? Lets remember that he was replying to the poster that told us that “Leftists hate things like facts, science and math.” As seen already cites were provided that showed the opposite and were deftly avoided by the poster. Of course seeing the sources he is using only demonstrated that he is not capable of identifying bad sources of information, with misleading information that it is only geared to divide people, and the intention of the people misinforming others is to “help some powerful people to get rid of meddlesome priests” as a king said once. [http://www.politico.com/story/2010/10/why-does-the-right-hate-soros-044343](http://www.politico.com/story/2010/10/why-does-the-right-hate-soros-044343) > [@](#): > > Why does the right hate Soros? > > Several months ago, the California Highway Patrol diverted a wacko fan of right-wing websites and Glenn Beck’s Fox News show from opening fire on our offices. After a 15-minute shootout, he was taken into custody and is now awaiting trial. > > Among the many lies and misrepresentations repeated by the sites and shows that the gunman, Byron Williams, watched and listened to was the bizarre idea that George Soros “owns” the Tides organizations — through which he is allegedly pursuing a nefarious agenda to destroy America. > > As a public charity, Tides is not owned by Soros, nor was it started by him. Soros is the founder and chairman of the Open Society Institute. It is just one of hundreds of funders that partner with Tides in programs to promote economic justice, democratic processes and human rights. > > The Open Society funds are only a small percentage of Tides’ total contributions — far less than 5 percent of our $112 million total in 2009. > > Amid the cacophony of screed, I didn’t focus on these lies about Soros. It has been bad enough to try to wrap my mind around how Beck and others were repeatedly labeling us “communists” and “socialists” and “anti-American” — on a channel that describes itself as “fair.” > > Tides may be progressive, but we are enthusiastically American. Were it not for the capitalist system, not a dollar would flow through Tides. Families, foundations, corporations and collaborative groups use our services to make charitable contributions to nonprofit organizations that they recommend for grants. > [@](#): > > His interest in contributing to politics can’t quite explain it either. There are hundreds of Americans who give in similar or greater amounts to candidates and one or another of the parties. Warren Buffett and the “Google boys” fly in private planes. Bill Gates has created a bigger philanthropy. Vinod Khosla is both an immigrant and, like Soros, an enormously successful capitalist. Oprah Winfrey has built a media empire and is openly supportive of President Barack Obama. So, what is it about Soros? > > I don’t know. It might be that he speaks with a pronounced Hungarian accent. Perhaps it’s because he’s proven himself smarter than most lions of Wall Street. For example, he foresaw the housing bubble and, unlike almost everyone else in the financial industry who denigrated his concerns, positioned his investments correctly in anticipation of the debacle. > > Or maybe it’s because he is passionate about human rights and the plight of immigrants. His Open Society Foundations, for example, focus on the Roma people — marginalized immigrants throughout central Europe, and they have a long commitment to the people of Burma, where a military regime has attacked human rights for many years. > [@](#): > > But I’m scared for Soros. He is lambasted by the likes of Beck more than anyone. As the would-be “assassin” recently indicated, Beck says he doesn’t advocate violence — but Williams is probably not the only unbalanced soul out there who wants to “start the revolution” with an act of violence. > > All of us, including Beck, need to take more responsibility for how we speak of others. Especially about those with whom we disagree. > > Otherwise, when bad things happen, we share the responsibility. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/occupy-wall-street-is-back-kindasorta/756087/50 "2016-05-31T04:20:14Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Why don’t you apply that standard to everybody, instead of just people you with? Obviously, I meant “people with whom you agree.” ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/occupy-wall-street-is-back-kindasorta/756087/51 "2016-05-31T04:27:44Z")
> [@Stringbean](#): > > When did economically-ignorant Progressive fairy tales ever go away? Privatizing reward while socializing risk is a problem that more than the progressives ought to care about. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffes_Can_t_Dance)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/occupy-wall-street-is-back-kindasorta/756087/52 "2016-05-31T04:56:36Z")
> **[Ferguson Rent-A-Mobs Exposed | Frontpage Mag](https://www.frontpagemag.com/ferguson-rent-mobs-exposed-matthew-vadum/)** > > Money from George Soros and others fuels the racist, anti-cop violence. > **[BREAKING: #Ferguson Protest Leaders Paid $5,000 a Month to Disrupt &...](https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/05/breaking-ferguson-protest-leaders-paid-5000-a-month-to-disrupt-riot/)** > > The Ferguson #BlackLivesMatter protesters are spilling the beans on the so-called “grassroots” movement. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/occupy-wall-street-is-back-kindasorta/756087/53 "2016-05-31T05:10:38Z")
> [@Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](#): > > [Ferguson Rent-A-Mobs Exposed | Frontpage Mag](http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/257130/ferguson-rent-mobs-exposed-matthew-vadum) > > [BREAKING: #Ferguson Protest Leaders Paid $5,000 a Month to Disrupt & Instigate Violence | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft](http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/05/breaking-ferguson-protest-leaders-paid-5000-a-month-to-disrupt-riot/) I gave up right away after they mentioned ACORN. suffice to say the ones that declared that organization to be evil did lie to you: > **[James O'Keefe Pays $100,000 To ACORN Employee He Smeared-Conservative Media...](https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/03/08/james-okeefe-pays-100000-to-acorn-employee-he-smeared-conservative-media-yawns/#3881fe93a786)** > > James O'Keefe - Caricature (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey) Remember James O’Keefe? That would be the same James O’Keefe who brought down community organizing and voter registration organization ACORN in his march to becoming a conservative icon for his... And the other source also relies on the Washington Moonie Times. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/occupy-wall-street-is-back-kindasorta/756087/54 "2016-05-31T05:18:08Z")
Even Snopes agrees with I told you before, not all the money is coming from Soros, and he is not funding those protests. > **[Did George Soros Fund Ferguson Protests and Black Lives Matter?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/riot-act/)** > > Rumor claims billionaire George Soros donated $33 million to fund rioting Ferguson protest groups. > [@](#): > > It is false that George Soros gave money to various groups for the express purpose of promoting Ferguson-related protests and riots. > > … > > But taking that information and converting it into the assertion Soros himself funded Ferguson-related protests and riots is problematic for a number of reasons. Although George Soros is the founder and chairman of OSF, he quite obviously does not personally oversee and approve every single grant made by the OSF network to the multitude of > organizations and programs that the network helps to fund. As well, the $33 million figure includes just about every organization with any connection to Ferguson-related activism that received monies from the OSF network, even if their involvement was tangential (such as publishing, writing, or promoting hashtags about the issue). And that such groups may have received part of their funding from the OSF network doesn’t mean those funds were given for the specific purpose of organizing Ferguson-related protests, or with the knowledge or intent they would be used thusly. > > As Kenneth Zimmerman, director of OSF’s U.S. Programs observed, some of the groups involved have been receiving OSF funding since long before the Ferguson shooting was a political issue, and the OSF itself did not promote or direct Ferguson-related protests: > Mr. Zimmerman said OSF has been giving to these types of groups since its inception in the early ‘90s, and that, although groups involved in the protests have been recipients of Mr. Soros’ grants, they were in no way directed to protest at the behest of Open Society. > > “The incidents, whether in Staten Island, Cleveland or Ferguson, were spontaneous protests — we don’t have the ability to control or dictate what others say or choose to say,” Mr. Zimmerman said. “But these circumstances focused people’s attention — and it became increasingly evident to the social justice groups involved that what a particular incident like Ferguson represents is a lack of accountability and a lack of democratic participation.” ---
**Author:** ![Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffes_Can_t_Dance)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/occupy-wall-street-is-back-kindasorta/756087/55 "2016-05-31T14:04:24Z")
A couple of quick points, because this has gotten comical rather quickly: • So you can use your leftist sources to refute? That’s fair game? This is the kind of partisan thinking that has turned many Americans off to politics. It also highlights the dishonesty being expressed by media outlets on both sides. I mean, have you viewed Brietbart’s drooling over Trump? • I’ll apologize for how aggressively I pushed my point. Such efforts were not my intent from the onset of this discussion. I’ve simply grown tired of all the partisan nonsense. Stark denial of George Soros’ puppetry as it relates to leftist “movements” is purely partisan. Leftists love to highlight the financial endeavors of the Koch brothers, why refuting their own wealthy financier. • I saw that Donald Trump was mentioned a few times. If I was guilty of aggressively pushing my point, you were guilt of trying to slander me by associating me with such an ignoramus. I am an independent, almost libertarian, who is secular is his beliefs. I am as disgusted by leftists, as I am the religious right. I despise Donald Trump, as much as I despise Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. • The political discourse in this counry is beyond embarrassing. I apologize if my tone was insulting. Il work on that. ---
**Author:** ![Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pearl_Clutching_Provocateur)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/occupy-wall-street-is-back-kindasorta/756087/56 "2016-05-31T14:28:10Z")
Occupy Wall Street failed because the Democrat Party is Wall Street. Clinton has made millions making speeches to Wall Street. Her son-in-law is being funded by Goldman Sachs’ CEO Blankfein. Former New Jersey Governor Democrat Jon Corzine was the CEO of Goldman Sachs. Rahm Emanuel made millions on Wall Street. Elizabeth Warren refuses to audit the Federal Reserve. The list is endless. Democrats are playing good cop, bad cop and pocketing billions. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/occupy-wall-street-is-back-kindasorta/756087/57 "2016-05-31T14:50:55Z")
> [@Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](#): > > A couple of quick points, because this has gotten comical rather quickly: > > • So you can use your leftist sources to refute? That’s fair game? This is the kind of partisan thinking that has turned many Americans off to politics. It also highlights the dishonesty being expressed by media outlets on both sides. I mean, have you viewed Brietbart’s drooling over Trump? [Yes](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/breitbart-s-michelle-fields-ben-shapiro-resign-over-trump-incident-n537711). BTW many conservatives like RedState, the National Review and many other conservatives are not willing to reach for [bullshit politics](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/03/peggy-noonan-mike-murphy_n_123647.html). (That is a reference to joined to the hip Sarah Palin, even there behind the scenes the smart Republicans knew the crap they needed to polish in 2008) > [@Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](#): > > • I’ll apologize for how aggressively I pushed my point. Such efforts were not my intent from the onset of this discussion. I’ve simply grown tired of all the partisan nonsense. Stark denial of George Soros’ puppetry as it relates to leftist “movements” is purely partisan. Leftists love to highlight the financial endeavors of the Koch brothers, why refuting their own wealthy financier. You should be aware that I do not shy away from that support, the point however stands that what you are doing here is to condone the total suppression of the speech of people like him. Even if he is not involved in what he is accused of. > [@Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](#): > > • I saw that Donald Trump was mentioned a few times. If I was guilty of aggressively pushing my point, you were guilt of trying to slander me by associating me with such an ignoramus. Sorry, but that is the front person of the conservative party as we speak, we should deal with it. > [@Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](#): > > I am an independent, almost libertarian, who is secular is his beliefs. I am as disgusted by leftists, as I am the religious right. I despise Donald Trump, as much as I despise Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Well, the reality is that just by using science (an issue you specifically mentioned) the choice is clear, it is not the Donald. > [@Giraffes\_Can\_t\_Dance](#): > > • The political discourse in this counry is beyond embarrassing. I apologize if my tone was insulting. Il work on that. No sweat, just be aware of the basic rule, attack the points not the poster. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/occupy-wall-street-is-back-kindasorta/756087/58 "2016-05-31T15:04:27Z")
An opinion piece from today in The Guardian: [You’re witnessing the death of neoliberalism – from within](http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/31/witnessing-death-neoliberalism-imf-economists): > [@](#): > > Even so, this is a remarkable breach of the neoliberal consensus by the IMF. Inequality and the uselessness of much modern finance: such topics have become regular chew toys for economists and politicians, who prefer to treat them as aberrations from the norm. At last a major institution is going after not only the symptoms but the cause – and it is naming that cause as political. No wonder the study’s lead author says that this research wouldn’t even have been published by the fund five years ago. > [@](#): > > And the longer the slump goes on, the more the public tumbles to the fact that not only has growth been feebler, but ordinary workers have enjoyed much less of its benefits. Last year the rich countries’ thinktank, the OECD, made a remarkable concession. It acknowledged that the share of UK economic growth enjoyed by workers is now at its lowest since the second world war. Even more remarkably, it said the same or worse applied to workers across the capitalist west. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/occupy-wall-street-is-back-kindasorta/756087/59 "2016-05-31T15:05:15Z")
Those darn leftists with their partisanship! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/occupy-wall-street-is-back-kindasorta/756087/60 "2016-05-31T15:55:51Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > If this latest attempt at relevance is in any way associated with OWS, nothing will come of it anyway. Those guys couldn’t organize a closet, let alone a political movement. This organization is a bit more serious than a street demonstration. It has members of Congress in it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/occupy-wall-street-is-back-kindasorta/756087.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/occupy-wall-street-is-back-kindasorta/756087.md?page=4)