The Yes Men Fix the World

I wonder if there is a group called "The Countercultural Whiners". When far-left organizations use questionable practices to promote their ideology, the Countercultural Whiners could strike back with the same. For example, someone could go on as one of the "Yes Men" and announce that they were donating their homes to help the Bhopal victims. At Greenpeace rallies, someone could launch a huge poster saying, "PLEASE DON'T MAKE NATURAL GAS MORE EXPENSIVE FOR POOR PEOPLE TRYING TO HEAT THEIR HOMES."

I'm all for environmental justice; there's a way to make it happen and there's a way to just make people angry. Kenneth Feinberg's Oil Spill trust is a way to accomplish environmental justice- go to a corporation- say they're facing tens of billions in liabilities, and agree to consolidate it into a trust that avoids jackpot justice and lots of legal overhead.

Impersonating people and shaming them isn't really constructive or helpful- whether it's done to oil companies or to environmental organizations. It just gives the people in the middle an excuse not to care.

Throwing stones at the glass house doesn't take much balls or skill. It's easy to be a populist attention whore. All gripe and no bite. Revolutions are great when they bring improvement, however, when people who claim to be holier than thou adopt the rebel without a cause doctrine, they just shine the light on their own liberal idiotism.

There's a million things wrong with the corporate system, but it is still by far the best thing going. If someone can actually improve on what's out there then let them piss gasoline on the establishment and light a friggin' match.

Otherwise, all this sorta stuff smacks of Joey Goebbels. Some are better, some are worse. But in the grand scheme of things, these guys and that fat commie whose name need not be mentioned, are just a different type of opportunist...part of the same organism they are supposedly attacking

Sounds funny downloading it right now

It was entertaining, but I wouldn't go so far as saying it was effective. I'm sure the $2B in market cap recovered quite quickly.

The problem with information overload these days is that if something significant and newsworthy happens, it's forgotten the next day as media jumps onto the next hot topic. It's just too easy to forget things these days.