Hồ Chí Minh
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- Joined
- Jul 11, 2021
A trans woman named Justine Tunney aka Jart has been busy shitting up the project and stiring up drama.
This person actually has a Wikipedia page, mostly because they were involved with Occupy Wall Street back in the day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justine_Tunney
What caught my attention: "Tunney petitioned the US government on We the People to hold a referendum asking for support to retire all government employees with full pensions, transfer administrative authority to the technology industry, and appoint the executive chairman of Google Eric Schmidt as CEO of America".
And yes, that was a serious proposal as near as I can figure out; covered in The Guardian, Telegraph, etc.
Also butthurt that "democracy never works" because things didn't go their way: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-engineer-who-organized-occupy-movement-2014-4
At the second General Assembly meeting on August 9, 2011, she says she was "kicked out of Occupy." Others who were present at the meeting say that there was a disagreement over which Occupy site would become the "official" site of the General Assembly, and Tunney lost — though she was never kicked out of anything, because the movement's structure wasn't that formal.
From that meeting on though, Tunney says she worked "in the shadows." As those who worked with her tell it, she mostly limited her direct interaction with Occupy from that point on to the team she organized to create content for the website. Looking back on her experiences with the New York General Assembly, Tunney simply states that "democracy never works."
Whatever happened between Tunney and the General Assembly, her relationship with those involved still hasn't recovered. As The Daily Beast's Nina Strochlic pointed out in February, the New York General Assembly's Charles Lenchner recently called Tunney's recent enthusiasm on Twitter "the public meltdown of a dedicated OWS activist named Justine Tunney.
From "down with the big corporations running everything, the 99% should control things!" to "democracy never works, we should appoint Google as our benevolent fascist overlords". Seems very consistent.