• OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Everything that has happened since Occupy Wall Street is a reaction to the fact that we were this close to eating them.

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      2 hours ago

      Sadly, I seem to remember Occupy being pretty ineffective. Did I miss something?

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        2 hours ago

        It was very ineffective, but i also believe this was partly because this was where they (the government and the rich) perfected efforts to undermine protests.

        Specifically targeting anyone that even appears to be emerging as a leader, infiltrating movements in order to sow chaos by conflicting goals and messaging, heavily leaning on the media, false flag elements, etc.

        Not that these tactics were new, but I don’t know if we’ll ever have another MLK. They’ll never allow anyone to become that kind of leader again.