Oh look....the Occupy crowd have something to say again.

blow69 · 31-05-2012 10:36AM

Domo230 wrote: »

Thinly veiled pro treaty thread.

Thinly veiled generic Boards statement.

Doc wrote: »

So a group of 10 people had an issue and now you know about their protest and what they are protesting about but you think that they achieved nothing by blocking the entrance to a building?

How would you have brought an issue like theirs to the attention of the general public in a better way?

Just because myself and many others now know about this protest doesn't mean they have achieved anything.

Any nationwide sit-in is always reported in the media. Labeling themselves as the Occupy crowd isn't exactly doing them any favors either.

What exactly were these people expecting to happen/achieve the day before the treaty?

donalg1 · 31-05-2012 10:49AM

Gotta love these people, protesting against the state by sitting outside buildings moaning, all the while heading off every tuesday morning to sign on and get more free money from the state to enable them to do nothing all week. Right lads sure.

chin_grin · 31-05-2012 10:51AM

bluewolf wrote: »

occupy jobs

We can't, he's dead.

awec · 31-05-2012 10:59AM

Varied wrote: »

Any kind of protest is frowned upon in this country.

WTF has happened to all of us.

You're surprised that people are getting fed up with jobless fcukwits making a nuisance of themselves when the rest of us have to get up every day to go to work so that these arsewipes can get their dole money?

Really?

They scrounge off the state, how dare they try and lump themselves in with the actual taxpayers who are being fcuked over! Chancers.

kowloon · 31-05-2012 11:00AM

Is there some sort of vote about something on? What's it about?

Jester252 · 31-05-2012 11:11AM

Surprised that they haven't been kicked out of the building yet

humanji · 31-05-2012 11:16AM

Ah seriously people, it's not a protest, it's a publicity stunt. Just like Sinn Fein's high court challenge. If they thought they'd had a point, they'd have brought it up a lot sooner. But by bringing it up just before the vote, it'll be fresher in peoples minds.

That's what these clowns are doing now. They had plenty of time to object properly and instead of doing that, they try for a spectacle. It's aimed at those who aren't sure how to vote, in the hopes that it might make them believe that it's all a conspiracy against them.

The only thing that surprises me is that FG/Lab haven't tried something similar, but being gobsh*tes they'd only muck it up.

DubArk · 31-05-2012 11:21AM

There was a time in this country when we had a labour movement but that was taken over by the same greedy element that took over everything else including our bloody Stability.

Maybe the” Occupy Crowd” are going about it the wrong way but I applaud anyone who is prepared to demonstrate. Writing the same old “Daily Mail” Headlines that they are a bunch of smelly, jobless, hippies who are to bloody lazy to go out and get a job LIKE, is the ultimate lazy argument!

BigFatGiant · 31-05-2012 11:22AM

I remember when they used to just occupy trees in Glen of the Downs. Now they are in proper buildings. How quickly they have evolved.

Logical Fallacy · 31-05-2012 11:45AM

awec wrote: »

You're surprised that people are getting fed up with jobless fcukwits making a nuisance of themselves when the rest of us have to get up every day to go to work so that these arsewipes can get their dole money?

Really?

They scrounge off the state, how dare they try and lump themselves in with the actual taxpayers who are being fcuked over! Chancers.

Hmmmm....far more people on the dole were working even a couple of years ago than were not. As such, the economic downturn has cost them far more than it has cost you. I think they have more to protest about with regard to their situation that you do I have to say.

awec · 31-05-2012 11:49AM

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

Hmmmm....far more people on the dole were working even a couple of years ago than were not. As such, the economic downturn has cost them far more than it has cost you. I think they have more to protest about with regard to their situation that you do I have to say.

Perhaps if they put as much effort in to getting themselves a job and contributing to society as they did to moaning, whinging and camping in the street they'd be better off?

There's a massive irony in these people who live off the taxpayer, protesting about the taxpayer being fcuked over. I feel fcuked over that my taxes are funding their little parties! :mad:

Logical Fallacy · 31-05-2012 11:52AM

awec wrote: »

Perhaps if they put as much effort in to getting themselves a job and contributing to society as they did to moaning, whinging and camping in the street they'd be better off?

No doubt.

All we have to do is have a massive upswing in the current rate of job creation and I reckon everyone would be happy.

I have to say, your "try harder" attitude is as wishy-washy and self serving as their protesting.

Fighting Irish · 31-05-2012 12:15PM

blow69 wrote: »

Approximately ten people from the Occupy Dame Street crowd have begun a protest in the offices of the Referendum Comission.

They are basically saying that there are anomalies in the referendum literature and that it is full of false statements in order to achieve a 'Yes' vote.

Story here: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0530/breaking37.html

Do these people think that by occupying buildings whenever they want to get their point across is an effective way to achieve this.

Once again, very lazy activism.

Blocking entrance to the building. F**k off like. Who do you think you are? Go back to your parents basement.

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They should just post about this stuff on internet message boards

Fighting Irish · 31-05-2012 12:16PM

blow69 wrote: »

By blocking an entrance to a building? What does this achieve? Nothing.

Go occupy a job or an activity!

Attention from the media

celticcrash · 31-05-2012 12:20PM

Yea get a government initiative job in Tescos, go on learn how to pack shelves for yourselves. What Tescos are a high profit company? The 50euro wont cover my lunch and bus fares? Tescos wants higher profits so shut up and get a job scrubbing their floors.

blow69 · 31-05-2012 05:00PM

Fighting Irish wrote: »

Attention from the media

...which leads to?

People switching positions on polling day?

The protesters informing people on the Treaty and offering an unbiased opinion?

Nope and nope.

Let's just sit here and assume people know what we are about.

Lazy.

Napper Hawkins · 31-05-2012 05:31PM

All of the bleating from both sides is depressingly futile though, isn't it?

No matter what happens, we Irish will always revert back to our tried and tested method of "go to work, keep your head down, don't rock the boat and shut up, know your place paddy, we know what's good for you".

And on and on until the sun eventually kills us all.

Oh look....the Occupy crowd have something to say again.

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