Amen to that. After going to Occupy Vancouver and hearing the Marijuana Party Representative speak saying we should be having an annual income, and people saying that they shouldn't have to work to live a decent life, I can't say I support the protest in Canada anymore.
Lots of people here with uneducated opinions on how the world should work. Never mind the people trying to add a pro-marijuana stance at Occupy Vancouver, which is just so fucking wrong on every level. It's like saying "Hey, people are $50k-(insert large number here) dollars in debt in the states, so lets legalize marijuana! Yay!". Honestly, fuck those people, very disrespectful and confusing to what the movement should be achieving. Too much sheep putting up with that shit too because they get free weed out of it.
I didn't go to Occupy Vancouver because, after seeing the same people shouting for the same things at a variety of different protests, I figured it would be a waste of time. I think that's probably an artifact of Vancouver's political climate, however, and not a reflection of the Occupy movement as a whole. The economy in Vancouver never realyl took a hit (except for a couple lean years in construction), property is just as expensive as ever, and most people are doing reasonably well. That just leaves the perpetual malcontents with the energy and desire to go protest.
I don't think the same is true of other cities and protests.
I totally agree that Vancouver is not a reflection of the occupy movement as a whole, and that's the part that angers me the most. We could be helping out the people in our neighbouring country by showing our support of what they are doing, but instead we are prancing around saying how terribly oppressed we are, and how we live in a facist nation.
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Amen to that. After going to Occupy Vancouver and hearing the Marijuana Party Representative speak saying we should be having an annual income, and people saying that they shouldn't have to work to live a decent life, I can't say I support the protest in Canada anymore.
Lots of people here with uneducated opinions on how the world should work. Never mind the people trying to add a pro-marijuana stance at Occupy Vancouver, which is just so fucking wrong on every level. It's like saying "Hey, people are $50k-(insert large number here) dollars in debt in the states, so lets legalize marijuana! Yay!". Honestly, fuck those people, very disrespectful and confusing to what the movement should be achieving. Too much sheep putting up with that shit too because they get free weed out of it.
I didn't go to Occupy Vancouver because, after seeing the same people shouting for the same things at a variety of different protests, I figured it would be a waste of time. I think that's probably an artifact of Vancouver's political climate, however, and not a reflection of the Occupy movement as a whole. The economy in Vancouver never realyl took a hit (except for a couple lean years in construction), property is just as expensive as ever, and most people are doing reasonably well. That just leaves the perpetual malcontents with the energy and desire to go protest.
I don't think the same is true of other cities and protests.
I totally agree that Vancouver is not a reflection of the occupy movement as a whole, and that's the part that angers me the most. We could be helping out the people in our neighbouring country by showing our support of what they are doing, but instead we are prancing around saying how terribly oppressed we are, and how we live in a facist nation.