Everyime I think back to Occupy Wall Street all I can think about is how it was destroyed. I have trouble coming to any kind of conclusion except Glow-ops. They amplified the loonies (gender fags / random black people) and silenced anyone rational.
It was more complicated than that. Police redirected homeless people to OWS camps and complied with demands they stay out of the protests, which worked against the interests of the organizers because there was no one to stop crimes from happening. A lot of people got raped, mugged, and robbed in Zucotti Park. The police just shrugged and said "sucks to suck." Someone overdosed? Oh well, call the paramedics yourselves, you won't let us in.
Another factor was the sheer number of opportunistic communists and academics who shut out any political progress because that meant the true leaders would steal their thunder
and the soapboxes for them to stand on would go away. I don't doubt that a number of these opportunists later went on the federal dole but I haven't seen any evidence to suggest that there were any feds who got in and took control. I suspect the FBI sent informants in, but those informants quickly realized that the movement was not a threat to public safety and not even a threat to the powers that be because there was so much infighting to begin with.
Lastly, the majority of "protestors" went because it was a party. There were drugs, alcohol, drug circles, and so on. Most of the "protestors" were party-goers and you can't organize a goddamn thing when everyone's drunk out of their minds and blasted on drugs. This also ties into the police funneling homeless to the area: that's a classic red squad tactic for breaking up these kinds of demonstrations. Homeless people are, for the most part, unmanageable and ungovernable. You can easily disrupt demonstrations by forcing them to deal with unstable homeless people. If the movement is all about helping the poor and downtrodden, they sacrifice all their political capital by kicking out homeless people. It's a win-win: you get the homeless out of productive areas and disrupt communists. You don't have to send in paid agitators.
Yeah. Ngl I hate how our entire country's stability depends on one man. This is nightmare fuel for the Founders. Not because of any of Trump's policies, but rather the fact that enough people are so devoted to him that if some retard managed to kill him it'd end our country. It's not healthy.
It's not even that it all rests on Trump, it's that a lot more people were sick of the status quo than I think a lot of NPCs realize. The situation was far more volatile under the surface.
There is a conspiracy theory that the financial institutions intentionally infected protesters with this intersectional coalition knowing that it would cause the movement to tear itself apart from the inside. Whether or not you believe that, it is funny to think about.
I think it was the other way around. Corporations glomped onto the intersectional shit to get the flak off of them and sell products.
What do you think would’ve happened honestly? Not that I don’t agree that it would’ve been horrible but how bad and how quick do you things would’ve hit the fan?
Civil war. No one would trust the "official story" that the Trump shooter worked alone, no one would buy the shibboleths about peace from Democrats who spent the previous 8 years sperging about insurrections, and liberals in general would not be able to hide their gloating.
