[pbateman]

We are the ones who serve them coffee, deliver them food, suck their cocks, watch their kids, and mop their floors

...

To this end, we now make our first clear demand of Google. We demand that Google give three billion dollars to an anarchist organization of our choosing.

On the one hand I feel sorry for Kevin having to deal with these crackpots, on the other hand these crackpots are so bad at PR it's hilarious.

[leothekim]

Funny, those words are roughly cribbed from a line in "Dirty Pretty Things":

The doctor: How come I've never seen you people before? Okwe: Because we are the people you do not see. We are the ones who drive your cabs. We clean your rooms. And suck your cocks.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0301199/quotes?qt=qt0159994

Whoever is writing these notes needs to come up with something original if they're going to accuse someone of being a parasite.

[arjn]

Yeah! ... I saw that movie only a week ago and remember that bit. Audrey Tatou and Chiwetel Ejiofor, I recommend it.

[Edit] Its about illegal immigrants in London, their troubles, exploitation and attempts at a better life. It's currently available on netflix.

[bilalq]

Yeah, I totally lost it at that last line. Still, I don't understand how people with grievances think it's ok to vilify and hurt others. The solution to one's suffering shouldn't be found by spreading the pain.

Seeing hateful messages about you spread out to your neighbors must feel like an emotional knife to the heart no matter how famous or successful you are.

[eridius]

The worst part is they're vilifying people who have no other crime other than being successful. These are people that may very well actually agree with the goals of the protestors (e.g. according to the article Kevin Rose does agree that the rent problem and others need to be solved). Or they would, if the protestors would actually try to talk to these people instead of attacking them.

[stretchwithme]

They often seem blind, deaf and dumb to facts. Which is probably more the reason for the predicament of some than someone else being successful.

On the whole, life is made better when people achieve things. They shouldn't be treated shabbily.

[l0stb0y]

Someone's been reading/watching too much Fight Club. That's close to verbatim of what Project Mayhem would spew on the elite, along with the smiley face. None of which seems threatening to me at all.

[baddox]

If only they would apply anarchism to the government's housing construction restrictions in SF. I think they would find that, without any tribute from Google, the capitalism they so hate would quickly lead to vast improvements to the housing market.

[ajkjk]

Of course, why would they, 'ordinary' (bear with me) people not caught up in the world of PR and media and product promotion, have any talent at PR?

I think they're allowed to be mad regardless of their media savvy.

[sentenza]

That last line is quite curious, though. As far as I know, only a very small fraction of modern day anarchists is self-describing as anarchists. Most of the others consider the term unfashionable and derogatory.

Here in Europe the self-describing Anarchists are the Punks and the Black Block and they tend to drive people away from a cause by co-opting it.

[dobbsbob]

Black Bloc is a tactic, not a group. The anarchists here have all turned into Maoists who venerate the Naxalite rebellion in India. Chairman Mao figures prominently in the old anarchist space I used to go to back when it was also a hacker space. Peasant armed revolt is ridiculous in a first world country, I stopped going also it's full of state spies to watch for anti pipeline protest planning another good reason to avoid the space.

[troels]

To be mad, yes. To make demands under threats, no.

[ajkjk]

They have precious little other way to make demands.

You don't have to take them seriously. You can condemn them for making threats, sure, if you disagree with that tactic. It's /writing them off/ that I hate - like they don't deserve a voice because you (=the top level commenter) think they haven't tried hard enough in life.

[autodidakto]

Their employers are parasites? I don't think they know what that word means.

[stretchwithme]

I think they mean that without their employers, they would get what their work is worth.

Of course, that's easy enough to prove. But these sort are usually afraid to try and prove it. They want everything arranged for them and someone else to bear all the risk.