Occupying Black Friday
Charles Allen ·
November 24, 2011 at 1:34am
I can't see this ending well....
Demonstrators Plan to Occupy Retailers on Black Friday
Some demonstrators are planning to occupy retailers on Black Friday to protest "the business that are in the pockets of Wall Street."
While it is commendable that the OWS crowd is trying to think outside the box, I am not sure they have thought this through. Do you really want to stand between the front doors of a Walmart and the crowd waiting outside in anticipation. Do they think that their anti-capitalist message will resound with those eagerly waiting in line to consume the benefits of a capitalistic society?
Come the stroke of midnight when the doors open, I think I would rather be standing between a mama bear and her cub.....
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Aug '10
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I'm confused. Christmas shoppers are the 1 per cent?!
Apr '11
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No it is those evil corporations that employ all those 1%ers (you know the Walmart greeter and the tool guy at Sears) and MAKE US spend our money.
Dec '10
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My local walmart is kicking things off at 10PM tomorrow night. The occupiers there might have nothing to block but empty shelves if they show up Friday. Hey, maybe they can get hired to re-stock!
Jun '10
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Headline: "NATIONWIDE OUTBREAK OF TRAMPLINGS AT WALMART"
Subheadline: "Investigators Puzzled: All Victims are Scrawny, Smelly, Twenty-Year Olds Wearing Che Guevara T-Shirts"
Feb '11
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Misthiocracy -- It is only confusing if one is a rational person and thinks there must be some reasoning behind it. If one understands that there is no reason, then it becomes easier. I would guess that the motivation here could be the desire to be part of a riot, just like the ones they've seen on their TVs?
Jun '10
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Charles Allen:
Come the stroke of midnight when the doors open, I think I would rather be standing between a mama bear and her cub..... ·
Great line. Never foil a hysterical shopper...
Jun '10
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I don't get this whole "Black Friday" thing. The good Lord created Christmas Eve day to do Christmas shopping. It's worked well for me.
Aug '10
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Frugal Canuckistanis do all our shopping on Boxing Day.
Aug '10
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Evidently the Tahrir Square Best Buy is surrounded by anxious shoppers waiting for the early bird discounts. More tents in strip malls than in Occupy Whatev Zones . Might be some kind of counterinsurgency market response.
Apr '11
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OWS is the gift that keeps on giving.
Oct '10
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Put the OWS folk up against the shoppers at a Filenes Basement event. Scary.
May '10
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Some clever person is already working on a video mashup of the OWS crying guy, the human megaphones, the teargas, and Kohl's remix of Rebecca Black's Friday.
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This is, I guess, their attempt to win friends and influence acquaintances. More power to them, say I.
Apr '11
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It's a good story, but this is still my favorite 99% story of today. Occupier supporters and occupiers telling a narrative that focuses on them being smelly, depraved, diseased, drug addicts, defecating in the streets and leaving dirty drug needles with AIDS lying around.
There's not a political argument in the world that will resonate as viscerally with people as that. Dominates the front page of the biggest London paper.
Edited on November 24, 2011 at 3:11amAug '10
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Sorry wilber, filenes is bankrupt too.
Mar '11
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Now we're getting to the crux of the biscuit (the apostrophe?). The OWS movement was started by Adbusters, as anti-capitalist an organization (surprise) as there ever was. They've been railing against holiday shopping for many years now. Let the hilarity ensue.
Edited on November 24, 2011 at 4:15amNov '11
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Nice thing is:
If they do this on private property, then they can be arrested for trespassing.
The more obnoxious OWS gets in their quest for media attention, the more people they'll turn off.
Oct '10
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OK, I wanted to give these OWS knuckleheads some credit. The weather turns wintery and they suddenly discover that occupying a heated retail store makes more sense than occupying an outdoor park. I mean, you can be an idiot without being stupid about it. Call it evolutionary progress. But the article is decidedly vague about what “occupy” means. And then it says that Amazon is on the hit list. How exactly does one “occupy” Amazon.com? I guess what we are really talking about is a boycott. The OWS crowd has graduated from abject confusion about ‘why’ it’s doing, to abject confusion about ‘what’ it’s doing.
Aug '10
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When they were "occupying" Wall Street, they were at least targeting, in some nebulous sense, the institutions they were angry at. But after occupying various government plazas, university quads, public parks, etc., it is obvious that they've developed the sense that their righteous indignation entitles them to make a nuisance of themselves anywhere and against anyone, just so that people will have to pay attention to them.
Freedom of speech used to mean not being prevented from speaking to those who wished to listen. Now it apparently means the right to speak to those who have no interest in what you have to say, and would rather you S.T.F.U.
Nov '10
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They're probably talking about some sort of hacking or denial of service attack.