Innovative social activist, co-creator of Occupy Wall Street, currently exploring the synergies between cryptocurrencies, AI, and global change.
In 2021, I expanded from focusing on activism to pursue my decade-long fascination with cryptocurrencies.
wow, i guess he really discovered the revolutionary potential of davos!
Libertarians and Anonymous types were a big part of the 2008 occupy, everyone likes to forget
I was there, and there were a lot of Ron Paul dudes. It was interesting, and for a little bit it looked like we might actually be able to form a coherent working class movement that cut across that divide.
To be clear, he was the creator of the hash tag rather than the actual material protest, and at no point (as far as I know) actually visited Zucotti Park.
I was against the ruling class, until i was invited to join them
more like just dance for them and let them take pictures with you one evening
They had the opportunity to do something revolutionary, and didn't.
Nah thats something you'll figure out almost immediately after meeting micah
Yeah I got to the ghost farm part and the Micah character already was set up as shady
Was Occupy Wall Street the most successful op of the 21st century? Took all the anger from people losing their homes, jobs and the global economy being crashed, and channeled it into a bunch of stuff like this.
I don’t think it was an op. I think it was genuine. It was ultimately violently suppressed after all.
TrueAnon 324 deals with this explicitly. What was missing from occupy was leadership, specifically, a vanguard with a plan. If it were to happen again today I am not sure the outcome would be any different.
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Yep. If I bring up that occupy 2.0 in 2024 would be functionally identical to 1.0 in 2008 you get a bunch of street protester types saying “no it’s much different now we learned lessons”.
Unless you have formed a Marxist vanguard you haven’t “learned lessons” enough
Historically proven by over century of succdems making the exact same mistakes and ignoring all the previous succdems making the same mistakes. It's almost like they are some kind of judas goats leading baby leftists to imperialist slaughter.
You can tell it wasn’t an op because rich people legit threw champagne on the protesters like it was the French Revolution or some shit. You know, like how they actually want to behave. Yeah lots of libs, but I’m sure it radicalized many.
If it was we opped ourselves by having giant leaderless meetings that went nowhere and insisting on “horizontal structure” everywhere
Unless the answer is adventurism, this guy deserves the wall
i assume it's just an effusive description of a very nice hors d'ouevres platter he sampled
I sometimes wonder how many posters here would turn into libs or reactionaries if they suddenly inherited a few rental properties.
Not all of us, I'd hope, but probably not none of us either.
I can speak for myself but the idea someone would turn into a leech because they have a home to stay is more of a self-report. I have my friends live with me for free as I know they are working class and need help. Even if they didn't I would be there for them because thats what friends do.
I don't mean this thought as a criticism, more as a call for self reflection and introspection. Everyone likes to think that they'd do the correct moral thing in those circumstances, but sometimes that's a bit like saying "I would simply choose not to be corrupted by the One Ring."
I'll probably inherit something from my parents (not a whole lot, but probably enough that I could live in moderate comfort by leeching off of people) but I'm not planning on becoming a landleech. I hope I'll be able to sustain myself into retirement without becoming a landleech but there's a pretty good chance I won't and honestly I'm not sure what I'm going to do then, I probably won't want to die in poverty just so I can tell people "well at least I'm not a landlord".
I'd give it all up for free in a heartbeat if I had a guarantee I'd have a dignified old age but we just aren't there yet as a society.
This is what Soc Dems all sound like to me. Every. Single. One.
This is as good as succdems can sound like. Lots of them are even worse.
