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[–] context@hexbear.net 75 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Innovative social activist, co-creator of Occupy Wall Street, currently exploring the synergies between cryptocurrencies, AI, and global change.

In 2021, I expanded from focusing on activism to pursue my decade-long fascination with cryptocurrencies.

wow, i guess he really discovered the revolutionary potential of davos!

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Libertarians and Anonymous types were a big part of the 2008 occupy, everyone likes to forget

[–] IzyaKatzmann@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

well, i'm not everyone then

spoileri never knew that

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was there, and there were a lot of Ron Paul dudes. It was interesting, and for a little bit it looked like we might actually be able to form a coherent working class movement that cut across that divide.

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

You can't really forget the

At the time.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 71 points 2 years ago (2 children)

To be clear, he was the creator of the hash tag rather than the actual material protest, and at no point (as far as I know) actually visited Zucotti Park.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

That was very important context.

che-laugh che-laugh che-laugh

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

Elon Musk activism

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 62 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was against the ruling class, until i was invited to join them

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago

more like just dance for them and let them take pictures with you one evening

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 51 points 2 years ago

They had the opportunity to do something revolutionary, and didn't. pflp-octoplushie

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Micah

I told you he was no good, Dutch!

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh shit yer spoilering me (I never finished the tutorial)

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nah thats something you'll figure out almost immediately after meeting micah

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah I got to the ghost farm part and the Micah character already was set up as shady

[–] wombat@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Was Occupy Wall Street the most successful op of the 21st century? Took all the anger from people losing their homes, jobs and the global economy being crashed, and channeled it into a bunch of stuff like this.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don’t think it was an op. I think it was genuine. It was ultimately violently suppressed after all.

TrueAnon 324 deals with this explicitly. What was missing from occupy was leadership, specifically, a vanguard with a plan. If it were to happen again today I am not sure the outcome would be any different.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/90386568?utm_campaign=postshare_fan

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

Yep. If I bring up that occupy 2.0 in 2024 would be functionally identical to 1.0 in 2008 you get a bunch of street protester types saying “no it’s much different now we learned lessons”.

doubt

Unless you have formed a Marxist vanguard you haven’t “learned lessons” enough

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You can tell it wasn’t an op because rich people legit threw champagne on the protesters like it was the French Revolution or some shit. You know, like how they actually want to behave. Yeah lots of libs, but I’m sure it radicalized many.

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If it was we opped ourselves by having giant leaderless meetings that went nowhere and insisting on “horizontal structure” everywhere

[–] oktherebuddy@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

nah this is literally just some guy affixing labels to himself

[–] casskaydee@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Porque no los dos?

[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago

Unless the answer is adventurism, this guy deserves the wall

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

Now I’m headed to Davos. Why? adventure-time

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

i assume it's just an effusive description of a very nice hors d'ouevres platter he sampled

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

Wear a vest

[–] Nationalgoatism@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

I hope that he ~~detonates his vest~~ has a good time

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I sometimes wonder how many posters here would turn into libs or reactionaries if they suddenly inherited a few rental properties.

Not all of us, I'd hope, but probably not none of us either.

[–] princeofsin@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can speak for myself but the idea someone would turn into a leech because they have a home to stay is more of a self-report. I have my friends live with me for free as I know they are working class and need help. Even if they didn't I would be there for them because thats what friends do.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

I don't mean this thought as a criticism, more as a call for self reflection and introspection. Everyone likes to think that they'd do the correct moral thing in those circumstances, but sometimes that's a bit like saying "I would simply choose not to be corrupted by the One Ring."

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

I'll probably inherit something from my parents (not a whole lot, but probably enough that I could live in moderate comfort by leeching off of people) but I'm not planning on becoming a landleech. I hope I'll be able to sustain myself into retirement without becoming a landleech but there's a pretty good chance I won't and honestly I'm not sure what I'm going to do then, I probably won't want to die in poverty just so I can tell people "well at least I'm not a landlord".

I'd give it all up for free in a heartbeat if I had a guarantee I'd have a dignified old age but we just aren't there yet as a society.

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is what Soc Dems all sound like to me. Every. Single. One.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

This is as good as succdems can sound like. Lots of them are even worse.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

Should have left him in the jail in Strawberry

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

When I hear CHUDs rant about how the ruling class is actually woke, it sends shivers down my spine for a very different reason.

The capitalists do not register us as an actual challenge, not even an annoyance.

[–] NoLeftLeftWhereILive@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Is he going to regulate it better?

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

If I got an invite to Davos I'd alternate my time between telling strangers it's named after The Onion Knight and bullying this crypto nerd.

[–] theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Micah did crypto grifting, shifted to chatGPT grifting, and now goes by Micah Bornfree

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Micah Bornfree

pain

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Micah White

Micah Bornfree

Hmm,

I mean,

hmmm

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

The fuck does "co-founded" mean in reference to a spontaneous mass movement? Did he send one of the first Tweets or something? 🙄