DOWN WITH TYRANNY
Show your support for the nearest Occupy movement around you!!!
Reviews for "A Message from the 99%"
Rock on, brotha
Was hoping this wasn't meant to be satirical.
Nice
Simple, direct, and to the point. Well done.
Btw Catone: the 99% refers to the bottom 99% of incomes- as in, everyone in the U.S. who earns less than 350k a year. Which means you too, by the way. And judging by your weak grasp of English and lunatic right-wing-fringe diatribe, you're probably pretty close to the bottom of the 99%. Which, to put in perspective, means this: the top 1% earns more in right around an hour than you will in a year, doing a job that- three years ago- damn near caused a Great Depression. And you're so gullible you actually OPPOSE anything that would keep them from fucking up the global economy and getting recockulously rich doing it.
"The idea that corporations donating money to political campaigns somehow denotes "free speech", and any effort to limit how much money they can give to a politician is restricting free speech, is bullshit" is the entire point of the vid. Companies handing money to politicians is bribery, plain and simple, and the U.S. is the only country that legalizes it. At least everywhere else they TRY to hide it or have the good sense to be ashamed if word gets out.
marchohare responds:
Thanks! Considering that it's on the front page at #6 for Sunday's submissions, I think Catone's opinion can be dismissed -- particularly considering how awesome the submissions were yesterday. "Villainy - The Tape," "Jack's Halloween Treats" and "Mystery Meats" are just... wow. They deserved the top three spots. In hindsight, I probably shouldn't have submitted this the day before Halloween, but... oh, well.
Hey we totally passed a law against politicians getting involved in financial districts just recently. Totally worth a point to the black politician on here, don't ya think? Of course, the republicans took it a notch down with allowing unlimited contributions. Anywho.. It is an interesting government/capitalism scenario. You see.. if the rich aren't making money in the U.S. .. they can take their money, products, jobs, etc... to another country and just say screw you 99% "of America". Which is probably about maybe 5% of the world. This is part of the struggle. We want our rich. Without them our nation can easily bankrupt. Our unemployment would be through the roof. We'd no longer have the funds needed to support all the poor and sick. It would be disastrous. America has great freedoms. America is a nice place to live. So, we have some things to keep them around, but it is still a tricky situation. If walmart, mcdonalds, microsoft, apple, starbucks, .. if these rich companies just said screw it and disappeared all of a sudden.. general motors has a huge lay off and we never hear the end of it.. that's only one of the former fortune 500.. imagine if 10 20 or even a couple hundred disappeared on us.. we'd be so screwed. Imagine if we removed all the crooked politics.. and they fought back by firing 20% of their employees. Which is completely within their right to do. It would be the kind of think that would get politicians thrown out of office for. Antagonizing big business to the point of big business antagonizing the 99% back would have us just as upset with politicians as them making crooked deals. Somethings just have to be kept in a nasty balance on the pile of manure that we call politics.
Great Animation, clear message but short
The animation was excellent and you made your statement right to the point!
However, it seems to a bit short and lacking. Maybe if adding more to your flash about the actual protesters at the "Occupy Wall Street/Occupy X" would give a stronger message and make it longer.
Very nice work thou!
marchohare responds:
Thanks! Actually, this is the second version of this animation, although I've never posted it to Newgrounds before. The original was twice as long: one minute. Honestly, I talked an extra thirty seconds without adding much to the message. It was mostly just angry, and it seemed to me that I was droning on and on without purpose.