• @[email protected]
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    4010 months ago

    The media had their role in it too by setting a ‘tone’ for the whole thing by treating it like a joke from the start and being sure to always interview the kookiest of people whenever they’d visit one of the encampments. Alternatively, conservative outlets like Fox would paint the protestors like a bunch of entitled freeloaders who just wanted to cause problems.

    • Vegaprime
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      1010 months ago

      That clip of the wall street tycoons drinking champagne and laughing at the protesters.

      • @[email protected]
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        710 months ago

        They weren’t Wall Street tycoons. They were just people attending a wedding.

        Why does this misinformation keep spreading?

        • @msage
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          410 months ago

          Because, even though that specific photo wasn’t about rich people laughing at the protests, you damn well know they all did just that. We just don’t have pictures.

          • @[email protected]
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            510 months ago

            I get the symbolism. But calling something that it isn’t is just flat out disingenuous.

    • @[email protected]
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      010 months ago

      And then the Democrat Party co-opted it and destroyed the value but making Occupy a meme factory that says things like trump sucks ass! Biden gives the best handies! LIKE AND SHARE IF YOU AGREE!!!"