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Why Occupy Wall Street Failed


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2013 Apr 28, 1:32pm   16,657 views  75 comments

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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/91a3782a-a80f-11e2-b031-00144feabdc0.html

London and cities across the Anglo-American world. Largely supported by the public, they also captured significant media attention. In retrospect, the real surprise is that all this did not happen sooner. Anger with banks and the mess they had caused had been boiling for three years. Recall, for example, the (thwarted) attempt by the US House of Representatives not normally an anti-Wall Street body to impose a 90 per cent tax rate on bonuses by bailed-out financial companies.

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75   richwicks   2024 Mar 2, 8:35pm  

MisdemeanorRebel says

Yep. Basically Mykeru's law. The moment the public saw pictures of camps dominated by Drum circles, Anarcho-Feminist Teach Ins, Hackey Sack kicking, and signs supporting the Revolutionary Committee for the Spartacus League, they lost all interest.


That's why the "news" media showed those pictures, exclusively.

If they didn't exist naturally, they would have been hired by the intelligence agencies for photo shoots of them being there. Every movement is infiltrated and our "news" system is part of that infiltration.

Don't you realize our media is just propaganda? "Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy!" "300,000 dead from coronavirus, stay home and stay safe. Get your vaccine". "Putin invaded Ukraine for no reason at all" "Assad is gassing his own people" Qaddafi is about to cause a humanitarian crisis". "Hunter Biden's laptop is Russian disinformation".

It's been this way forever. They tried to stop the anti-war movement of Vietnam by associating it with a bunch of stinking, drug addled hippies. They weren't trying to help, but sentiment against that stupid war was so large, it was embraced instead. Nobody really liked the hippies, saw them as stupid worthless kids, mostly low level criminals and scum - still the war was worse.

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