Highlights, lowlights, links, and what some might call light trolling – albeit tinged with genuine amazement that iPhone-totting hipsters would pose as anti-corporate revolutionaries – from the Mere Rhetoric Twitter stream:
NYC is lucky. Winter will solve #occupywallstreet soon. #OccupyLA can camp indefinitely, living on wheatgrass shots made from City Hall lawn
100+ moms all over Valley very worried | RT @BreakingNews: 100+ #OccupyLA protesters camp out on steps of LA City Hall http://t.co/gfzdNIH6
Someone should do breakdown of percent of #occupywallstreet tweets from Mac laptops, iPhones, or iPads. Call it “consumer profile” research
Someone forgot to tell Mac-loving #occupywallstreet summer campers that Apple is the most vertically integrated corporation on Earth
Apologies to RIM Corp. In noting #occupywallstreet activists are Apple Corp addled hipsters, I neglected large amount of Blackberry tweeting
Boston Globe asked “academics and longtime activists” about #occupywallstreet. Like asking union bosses if they like unions http://t.co/bpPr1VhO
“They sleep on air mattresses, use Mac laptops and play drums. Go to bathroom at local McDonald’s” http://t.co/bpPr1VhO
#occupywallstreet activists write manifesto complaining that corps “have sold our privacy as a commodity,” post it to Twitter and Facebook
Movement built around a TWITTER HASHTAG has manifesto blasting “selling privacy as commodity.” How precious is THAT?
Misguided activists? The hell you say | RT @freakonomics: Dear Occupy Wall Street: You Sure You’re in the Right Place? http://ow.ly/6JIYW
Does anyone know what color I’m supposed to change my avatar so that I can overthrow capitalism along with #occupywallstreet comrades?
It’s the seriousness and gravitas and sense of purpose of #occupywallstreet that’s particularly impressive http://t.co/JknMTigN [Photo]
Always been wary of romantic faux-revolutionary leftwing populism. But watching #occupywallstreet overthrow capitalism is making me rethink.
Can #occupywallstreet people tell me more about how short selling should be banned? It seems like such an insightful point!
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* David Shankbone ["Day 2, September 18, of the protest Occupy Wall Street, a protest against corporatism and the influence of money in government that aims to occupy New York's financial district for several months, and supported by Anonymous and AdBusters. The protest started on Saturday, September 17." / Wiki Commons]
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