{"id":27598,"date":"2011-11-21T19:30:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T23:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27598"},"modified":"2012-02-03T01:57:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T05:57:18","slug":"occupy-black-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27598","title":{"rendered":"Occupy Black Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, I’m tired of the OWS posts, too, but every time I turn around they piss me off. Country Singer sends a link to Ace of Spades<\/a> who mentions that their next tactic is “Occupy Black Friday<\/a>” wherein they stop retail sales at publicly traded companies so they can “Hit the 1% where it hurts – in the wallet.” <\/p>\n

Yeah, that’ll work. Think the 1% can’t weather one bad sales season, think they’ll all go bankrupt because of one day’s sales? Besides, the 99% are already “camping out” at the retailers<\/a> so they can spend their money.<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah, ever hear of internet sales? How are you planning to interrupt those without breaking some terrorism laws?<\/p>\n

And who is really going to be hurt? If sales are down, it’s the employees who’ll lose their jobs, starting with the newest and the lowest paid. So who is the inspiration for this occupy movement? This gathering the young Americans? Back to Ace:<\/p>\n

Lasn is sixty-nine years old and lives with his wife on a five-acre farm outside Vancouver. He has thinning white hair and the small eyes of a bulldog. In a lilting voice, he speaks of \u201ca dark age coming for humanity\u201d and of \u201ckilling capitalism,\u201d alternating gusts of passion with gentle laughter. He has learned not to let premonitions of apocalypse spoil his good mood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So this movement was blueprinted by a sixty-nine year old Canadian. Feel foolish yet? <\/p>\n

Well, all of this talk about revolution and killing capitalism makes me feel good about moving out here to West Virginia where the local entrepreneurs are being rounded up by police in droves; here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yeah, I’m tired of the OWS posts, too, but every time I turn around they piss … Occupy Black Friday<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-hate-hippies","category-occupy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}