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[haruhiko]

President Barack Obama, as quoted in the Toledo Blade in September of 2009 when discussing planned anti-capitalism/anti-neoliberalism/anti-globalism protests ahead of that years G20 summit

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[notgarystu]

"Stop having protests about global capitalism and focus more on voting for me in 2012 you guys. :((("

[haruhiko]

"I mean GAWD U GUISE, capitalism is like this big abstract THING, it's not like u silly bears are experiencing 'concrete, immediate' impacts in your lives from capitalism or anything."

[haruhiko]

Lol seriously though when I posted this in _P and other fora last year during the G20 protests @ Toronto people were like, "But he's right, what's the use in protesting capitalism, that's not going to bring people into a movement, it's about ~THE ISSUES~ which clearly have nothing to do with the economic system we're operating under~"

...and now I'm seeing all the #OccupyWallStreet stuff and I'm like, "Uhhhh... :B"

[haruhiko]

Also quotes like these clearly show what ~community organizer~ Obama thinks about #OWS and protest movements in general: like most mainstream "liberals," he has little respect for them, despite the fact that he was moar than happy to ride a small anti-war distinction between him and Clinton to win the prog. base and the primaries and eventually the general lolection.