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[-] context@hexbear.net 84 points 9 months ago

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!

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 28 points 9 months ago

Libertarians and Anonymous types were a big part of the 2008 occupy, everyone likes to forget

[-] IzyaKatzmann@hexbear.net 17 points 9 months ago

well, i'm not everyone then

spoiler

i never knew that

[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 21 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago

You can't really forget the

At the time.

[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 79 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 39 points 9 months ago

LMAO

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago

That was very important context.

che-laugh

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago

Elon Musk activism

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 69 points 9 months ago

I was against the ruling class, until i was invited to join them

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 42 points 9 months ago

more like just dance for them and let them take pictures with you one evening

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 54 points 9 months ago

They had the opportunity to do something revolutionary, and didn't. pflp-octoplushie

[-] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 33 points 9 months ago

rust-darkness

[-] voight@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago

yes-hahaha-yes-l

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 32 points 9 months ago

Micah

I told you he was no good, Dutch!

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

Oh shit yer spoilering me (I never finished the tutorial)

[-] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

Nah thats something you'll figure out almost immediately after meeting micah

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah I got to the ghost farm part and the Micah character already was set up as shady

[-] wombat@hexbear.net 31 points 9 months ago

social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 30 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 30 points 9 months ago

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.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/90386568?utm_campaign=postshare_fan

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 24 points 9 months ago

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”.

doubt

Unless you have formed a Marxist vanguard you haven’t “learned lessons” enough

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

[-] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If it was we opped ourselves by having giant leaderless meetings that went nowhere and insisting on “horizontal structure” everywhere

[-] oktherebuddy@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

nah this is literally just some guy affixing labels to himself

[-] casskaydee@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

Porque no los dos?

[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 28 points 9 months ago

Unless the answer is adventurism, this guy deserves the wall

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 25 points 9 months ago

Now I’m headed to Davos. Why? adventure-time

[-] Nationalgoatism@hexbear.net 21 points 9 months ago

I hope that he ~~detonates his vest~~ has a good time

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 20 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] princeofsin@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

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."

[-] space_comrade@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

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.