whereas your computer is made from rocks and wood and you're going to marry the gay who garried the may who

Chairsforcheap has a point, all of our technology is made from various amounts of warlord rape minerals. All of our dicks are covered in the blood of Congolese women and we are all the United Nations looking away or joining in.

Every stinking one of us.

*clicks Submit*

Oh, I never said I wasn't riding the backs of poor chinamen while facebooking.

But using high-end, top of the line, expensive as all hell consumer products in a protest against corporate greed is just...

I don't know Hipster McIpad, but is he there to accomplish something something, or just there for a hippie cool-kid party?

That's an interesting question. I suppose it depends on whether or not you feel he has a right to have high end technology, or if low end technology only is fit for the disenfranchised. By calling Mac nerds top of the line elitists, aren't we calling non-Mac nerds bottom of the line nobody's? Where does the insult end and the insulted begin?

I like to think I don't use a Mac BECAUSE I am a technology elitist.

Maybe if he had his ipad converted to a solid gold case with a 100 karat diamon apple logo, and had it connected to the lighter in his 1.7 million dollar super car, you might have a point.


Otherwise you're that Fox news asshole that thinks the poor have it too good because they have an xbox and microwave.

I guess I'm going to have to be that asshole, because I suspect that guy has never seen a poor day in his life.

but you know if he IS going to bring an expensive toy, he could at least share it, seeing as so many chinese workers slaved over it, driving such numbers to suicide they had to install anti-suicide netting around the goddamn building.

What do the poor deserve Solro, if they deserve more than cellphones, microwaves, xboxs ect?

You have an amazing concept of rich. Fashion toy + no future = rich?

Once again, the simple-minded reduce it to "they want to destroy capitalism, yet they use the fruits of capitalism."

That kind of idiocy assumes that a group devoted to making sure people get a fair trial want to burn down the prisons forever.

What is desired is a return to more fairness in the system of taxation and investment regulation. For over 40 years, taxes for the rich have been in decline while real wages for the middle and lower classes have stagnated. Also, the promised explosion of better-paying and more plentiful jobs if the "job creators" had their taxes decreased hasn't happened. Over in investments, income is renamed "capital gains" and taxed at a lower rate than working-class income (again, under the false trickle-down "job creator" mantra). Money from the investment class is then used to keep regulators off of investment "products," which worked SO well with derivatives. Those sank the economy, and they're STILL largely unregulated, thanks to Wall Street's intervention. Even a return to the taxation of the Reagan (remember conservatives? Your god?) era would be a welcome relief compared to the system we have now that encourages jobs to be sent overseas (note: It used to be that the tax code gave deductions for investing locally making those more "expensive" workers less so in the long run, but that apparently wasn't good enough for the 1% who seem to have about as much contempt for their fellow Americans as they do the Chinese).

The majority don't mind people being rich or getting rich, so long as it's not at the expense of just about everyone else.

Sorry Cena & Co. It's not as simple as you'd like it to be, and never will be, no matter how many sound bites Fox and Rush feed to you.

OWS really needs to develop a unified message regarding which OS platform they use. I don't even know whether or not they like Clippy.

Kleenex gets my stars.

Yes! Why is this show not as hard hitting as Democracy Now? Why is major cable network Comedy Central on the same wavelength as most other mainstream media?

Why is this popular comedian not doing better journalism?!

Like all good comedy, there's a grain of truth. I know at least locally we've learned to respect each other despite differences as time has gone on, though. Ironically, the police assaults were a real unifying experience.

Wow, talk about some confirmation bias.

I know it's not the message the segment was going with, but I think it's notable that many people showed up who can get by even if nothing changes.

"America, where you can work hard, get a degree, and just get by while those who have will get more, thanks to your tax dollars and their money/influence keeping their taxes low and regulators from stopping them from making wild, stupid bets on the future of our economy."

It just doesn't have much of a ring to it, pastor.

A political discussion! I feel like a Kennedy.