81 Replies to “Never before was it so easy to spot individuals damaged by drugs”

  1. They’re like lisping children. They’re going to be the Army of “Revolution”? I don’t think so.

  2. So what happens when the speaker farts, does the street blow up?
    The cultish repeating is getting old, and my 4 year old daughter was laughing at them watching the videos.

  3. I live in Portland, Oregon. 5th generation Oregonian. We have many of these creatures here. Many. They also play a game in the parks (they have leagues) with a big, soft, red ball similar to one that I vaguely remember from grammar school in the early 60s.
    Quite honestly I think these people are the future. I mean they are the present. Listen to them articulate their thoughts and beliefs. They are nothing. Nothing. They’ve elected our city officials so you can readily imagine what life is like in this city.
    They’re passionate and after they vote to destroy opportunity here they finish their Portland experience and the move back to their mom’s place in the Bay Area or Pittsburgh or …

  4. These sad, angry and bitter dropouts are products of a corrupt, socialist university system that despite graduating them with honours, has failed them completely. They are utterly lost and have no idea how to support themselves. This is the lost generation living in Mom and Dad’s basement.

  5. The ability to repeat a sentence means that they score 1 point on the Mini Mental State Examination. OTOH, they could be afflicted with some condition which causes echolalia. What’s really scary is if there aren’t any drugs involved and this is the way their brains really work. Too bad for them that the town crier occupation is now extinct.

  7. What frightens me is how clear an example of doublethink a la 1984 this is. It’s called “consensus decision-making”; does anyone honestly believe that there exist any two people in this group committed to genuinely different ideas, such that honest-to-goodness consensus is achieved that hasn’t already been predetermined by the group’s self-selection? This isn’t communication; it’s a farcical show of anti-communication intended to intimidate and drown out any glimmer of doubt that could lead to opposition.

  8. I’m not even high on the pot, and I can’t begin to remember all of those arcane and needlessly picayune hand gestures.
    But I do have a little “hand gesture” of my own for these idiots … Right … Here.
    In my system there’s only the one hand gesture. Much easier to learn.

  9. The nazi salute was a nice touch. (sarcasm alert)… The basement generation. This is the hand signal for, “What’s for dinner Mom!?!

  10. “Sorry, missed the last sign, when do the
    capitalists give everything to us again?”
    Suppose all that imported crack and smack
    has to constipate someone someplace before
    it goes “organic”.
    .

  12. Rememeber consensus decision making is based on the feeling of the room. It isnt a formal vote and it most certainly does not account for unpopular but potentially correct minority views.
    It is a legitimate form of decision making used by executive teams etc to prevent veto’s. It is meant to elicit views from all. But at the end of the day an individual or small group judges consensus since there is nothing formal, no analysis etc.
    Your only way to tryuly stop “consensus” is to leave the community. Given its social nature this is always a difficult ting, and is the power of consensus.
    Its benefits, it can be fast, doesnt get bogged down in process and can be a powerful way to ensure alignment within the team.
    The cons, subject to abuse by the “chairperson” or decider of what the consensus is, can abuse minority opinion, can lead to groupthink (see alignment point above)
    As for the repeating, which is a little different than call and response; it servers a purpose of no bullhorn….thats the practical element of it, hard to argue that point. The other effects, creates “community” and illusion of participation, it can be a deceptive way to buy in to what the speaker/leader is saying.
    But think about the structure of it for its purpose. If its to replace the bullhorn then you have the speaker at the centre, but the only people who can hear them clearly are the next ring out, who hear repeat and amplify the leaders comments….the outer ring doesnt repeat it listens but what the outer ring hears are the power of multiple voices saying the same thing.
    Going to human nature, there is implied social pressure in this.
    Tere is a practical purpose to this, but hats off to them, brilliant cult building design. Talk about manufacturing consent!

  13. John Thomas, this IS the army of revolution, and you are looking at the first line of people willing to be sacrificed for someone else’s good. Without their bloody bodies in the street, how does the revolution ever really get rolling?
    Just no one has informed them yet. We still are telling them they are an important part of the process, just not which part of the process. Hope they don’t figure it out too soon.

  14. Sooo, according to the ‘pundits’ in the MSM, this is the lefts equivalent to the Tea Party???

  16. “That’s not the proper use of the ‘direct response’.”
    ROFL. I could demonstrate direct response for these guys but would probably end up in jail for doing so.

  17. Why did the hand signal for “show your support” remind me of the Team America movie?

  22. “The cultish repeating is getting old, and my 4 year old daughter was laughing at them watching the videos.”
    You know, you make a good point there, Knacker.
    Could it be that the OWS demonstrations are simply becoming boring?

  23. And again, we see that this isn’t really about Wall Street, although it was a convenient excuse to demonstrate against everything not communist, or ‘free’.
    I notice this morning the new Apple 4S just went on sale.
    The lineups were bigger for waiting for the Apple store to open, than for most of these jag fests.
    Same generation too.
    Let’s face it, all these yobs at the Whinefest are the real 1%, the idiot fringe of our society

  24. Honestly I don’t know or understand fully why, but watching that video I kept envisioning a mushroom cloud billowing up into the sky and still can’t get the imagery out of my head.

  25. Over at Hot Air everyone’s mad at Bloomberg for backing down on removing the NYC mob from the park to clean it. I don’t see why they can’t just hose down the place while the protesters are still there. Most of them have now gone for days without a bath, so it’d solve 2 problems at once.
    Anyway, instead of creating a scene that will only play into the mob’s hands, why not just let them stay there and get even filthier? They’ll give up eventually of their own accord, for one reason or another. (Remember how much snow NYC got last winter?)

  26. I don’t see the signs of drug use. Robert’s rules of order are used by our own parliament and used at a lot of business meetings. All these people are doing is introducing hand signals. Probably because the street is a noisy place to conduct a business meeting.

  27. Arron D @ 6:49 is right. These people are just the useful idiots for those behind the scenes that want to replicate the French and Russian revolutions.

  28. Ellie in T.O >
    “I don’t see why they can’t just hose down the place while the protesters are still there”
    That is a really good idea! Actually solves 3 problems –
    The protesters would also love it because it would be reminiscent of the civil rights movement in the south 60’s. These dependant group types seem to like nostalgia. Also add a few dozen vicious, snapping police dogs to the production and they would feel authentically like one with the brothers, everybody wins.

  29. Reminds me of an old Steve Martin bit:
    Now let’s repeat the non-conformists’ oath:
    I promise to be different! (audience repeats)
    I promise to be unique! (audience repeats)
    I promise not to repeat things other people say! (audience repeats)
    Good!

  30. Don’t these parks have regularly scheduled sprinkler systems that come at night?
    All it takes is one guy to restore that switch.
    Add soap, problem solved.
    Flea Party, indeed.

  32. Celebrate diversity, (celebrate diversity) by braying like mindless sheep,(by braying like mindless sheep)…

  37. The most effective hand signal I know of is the one where your hand is holding a Colt .45 ACP (or a facsimile thereof) …. everyone knows and respects that hand signal.
    No doubt that signal will eventually come to dominate at future ‘National Pan Handler Days’. We will tire of the pan handlers as they tire of peaceful protest.

  38. This is not a meeting conducted under Roberts Rules of Order. This is the Delphi Technique with hand signals.

  39. I’m still convinced that this whole “occupy” “movement” is the best thing to ever happen to America. What we need is all the moonbats to come out and show themselves for what they are. People need to see what Obama and his zombie followers are all about. So yeah I say to all the “occupiers” keep doing your chanting and all the rest of it because it only strengthens our cause.

  40. I don’t see the signs of drug use. Robert’s rules of order are used by our own parliament
    Isn’t that sufficient evidence of drug use?

  41. ” If you are happy and you show it, clap your hands…”
    Don’t knock it, these idiots learned this stuff from kindergarten.

  43. I think this is a good time to remember a quote from Lady Margaret Thatcher:
    “Consensus is the absence of leadership. To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies. So it’s something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.”

  44. And let’s not forget that “Robert” and his rules are a result of socialist/commie early Brit thinking,before dhimmintude came in.

  45. All these people are doing is introducing hand signals. Probably because the street is a noisy place to conduct a business meeting.
    ~Craig
    If there were, for example, 3 groups of these chuckleheads in close proximity to each other and each group was parroting back whatever the speaker was saying it would be pandemonium.
    The noise itself is coming from these people.
    Drumming, singing, groups parroting back the verbal diarrhea of the designated speaker etc.
    I think they are trying to introduce this because it’s the only way the communists, who have a coherent agenda/message, can bring unity to this rabble.
    It cuts down on all incoherent directionless input the dazed out-patients have to inject.
    Behold! The Army of the Dumbed.
    If you don’t quake in fear, laughter will have to do.

  46. It’s hard to tell if they are the Peoples’ Front of Judea. Or the Judean Peoples’ Front? Or the Judean Popular Peoples’ Front?
    But what I really want to know is what’s the hand signal for ‘I really hate the Romans’?

  48. Wow….!
    who would have thought the downward spiral of modern western civilization would look soo much like a Monty Python skit! gotta love the last part of the video where it regresses into a hippy-fied argument about the proper implementation of the rules of order.
    how come these lefties never realize the exact socialist/commie society they strive for will only result in a chinese/soviet style communistic-totalianarianism that would just throw there useless butts in a gulag workcamp for acting exactly in this manor.
    it pains me to think that many of the young men my 93 year old grandfather served beside in world war 2 died to give these morons the RIGHT to act this way….
    orch

  50. You put your right hand in,
    You put your right hand out,
    You put your right hand in,
    And you shake it all about,
    You do the hokey pokey
    and you turn yourself around
    That what it’s all about.

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