I like the gumption but Occupy Wallstreet did absolutely not a god damn thing except designate "Peaceful Protestors" as a "Domestic Terrorist Agency" for the DHS.
It won't achieve anything except getting them to double down.
Now if they were organizing to do a strike on the next presidential election and campaign donations, that might do something.
Occupy got taken over but idiots. The original wave were on message... then all the feminists and anarchists others co-opted it and started doing their 'non hierarchy' hippie nonsense and it all went to shit. People who are all about performative nonsense and have no actionable political discourse and whinging on about nonsensical ideas and feelings.
The sad thing about the left is that idiots gob onto any decent leftist movement and make it all about them, and the people who originated it don't have the balls to tell them to fuck off.
In the case of the protests, demanding disinvestment from Israeali companies or somesuch, is a totally reasonable and actionable goal. But sadly all the yahoos are nutcases are gobbing onto to these protests and bringing in their crazy nonsense and the students who started them dont' have the balls to tell them to fuck off.
New Lemmy Post: MIT, Emerson College, Tufts students start pro-Palestinian camps inspired by Columbia University protests (https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.world/post/14621720)
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