Judging from my experience in the march yesterday, network access can be very location-specific, since from one block to the next I would lose connex.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Monday, 22 September 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link
police response does seem like a litmus test for deBlasio
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 September 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
@ChristRobbins · 18mHipster Cop to protester: "You can walk out of here...Because at some point the white shirts are gonna plug this place" #FloodWallStreet
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 September 2014 16:42 (ten years ago) link
oh well
@sarahljaffe 1mCrowd now singing "We're not gonna take it anymore" #twistedsister #floodwallstreet
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 September 2014 17:09 (ten years ago) link
apparently several arrests, but
@ChristRobbins · 12mTalk is that #FloodWallStreet will hang out until the closing bell, or until _____. Atmosphere in the barricades is fluid & festive
If this goes til 4pm, I see several cable bookings for Adolf Giuliani about de Blasio "losing control of the city."
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 September 2014 17:58 (ten years ago) link
@zoeschlanger · 29sNYPD just sealed off Wall St. Doesn't look like #FloodWallStreet is getting down here.
@zoeschlanger · 1hHearing that after the NYSE bell rings at 4, people are going to 47th and 1st ave for a sit-in at/near the U.N.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 September 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link
@ChristRobbins · 3mWe have pepper spray, now people are sitting down
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 September 2014 20:01 (ten years ago) link
glad he made it down anyway
https://twitter.com/jordanmammo/status/514192634932658176/photo/1
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link
8:30 p.m.: Police have reportedly arrested approximately 100 people in two large NYPD buses, including the aforementioned polar bear, the superheroes and four people using wheelchairs.
http://gawker.com/nypd-pepper-sprays-flood-wall-street-protesters-1637831529
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 01:16 (nine years ago) link
Keith DevlinI wonder how it would have ended if it had been a black bear? #JustSaying
Brian Wolven Ya gotta admit, it truly was a Kodiak moment.
― nickn, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 01:23 (nine years ago) link
Downtown Josh Brown @ReformedBroker · 3hHow determined is the Fed to keep asset prices elevated? They're literally arresting bears on Wall Street.
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 02:53 (nine years ago) link
I can't help but think that Occupy helped pave the way for Bernie Sanders.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 16:02 (eight years ago) link
In addition to whatever rhetorical/political groundwork laying OWS may have done, there's actually a significant portion of OWS alums on staff & managing volunteers for his campaign too.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 02:07 (eight years ago) link
his major campaign themes are def ripped directly from the OWS agenda.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 02:11 (eight years ago) link
(it's so weird how people on this thread were discussing, many years ago, whether OWS had "failed" or not. history is long, and stuff has a way of taking a while to ramify.)
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 02:12 (eight years ago) link
was just reading this in the NYC lefty monthly tabloid
https://indypendent.org/2016/02/02/what-happens-bernie-sanders-movement-if-he-loses
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 02:16 (eight years ago) link
well
http://i.imgur.com/bdf9SLG.png
this time i'm getting paid at least
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 26 February 2016 01:41 (eight years ago) link
is a hoos locked up yet?
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 April 2016 22:43 (eight years ago) link
Still driving the STEEN.
― nickn, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 00:16 (eight years ago) link
hunnerts arrested
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/11/473874785/hundreds-protest-gerrymandering-campaign-finance-laws-on-capitols-steps
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 01:30 (eight years ago) link
this was fun
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 9 May 2016 01:56 (eight years ago) link
and granted i've been backstroking in the kool-aid for a while now, but i think i've bought into our long term strategy that we can actually get the reform agenda we want passed in 5 years
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 9 May 2016 01:57 (eight years ago) link
Riding by the park in DC where all the camps were yesterday - I've done it a hundred times, if not more - and the cabbie asked "when was it they had all those people camping out here?" and realized yup, five years ago, not that long after my daughter was born. And right about the same time Qaddafi died, too.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 10 June 2016 03:17 (eight years ago) link
wall street occupied, osama and Qaddafi died, tombots little baby cried, WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Saturday, 11 June 2016 03:01 (eight years ago) link
5 indeed.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 03:31 (eight years ago) link
Freddie deBoer:
I’m regularly accused of believing things that I’ve never said and don’t believe. That’s largely a facet of the fact that, on the internet today, arguing with people is really a matter of misrepresenting what they’re saying and then attacking the misrepresentation. One of the most constant of these is that I say “both parties are the same.” I’ve never said that. Ever. In my life. But over time, the claims of friends who do say that have been vindicated over and over again.
By that I mean something very simple: my communist friends who really do say that the two parties are the same make predictions about politics. My Democrat friends do the same. Looking back at the times when the two groups have clashed, the commies have been right literally 100% of the time....
If you’re a young person looking to actually make change in the world, I’m not quite sure what to tell you. I think you need to build something entirely new. Because Lucy will never let you kick that football. I am not ready to write off partisan politics entirely. I still don’t say both parties are the same. I think that a socialist movement should use a concert of tactics — in the labor movement, in street-level protests, in grassroots organizing, and in partisan politics — to try and effect change. But I know by now to expect less than nothing from the Democrats, and they never, ever let me down. Young radicals, you should utilize the Democratic party if you find it useful in the short term, but you have to understand: the Democrats hate you, and they will always hate you. There is no tangible evidence whatsoever to suggest that’s going to change.
http://fredrikdeboer.com/2016/02/29/democrats-always-prove-the-commies-right/
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 15:10 (eight years ago) link
*One of the most constant of these is that I say “both parties are the same.” I’ve never said that. Ever. In my life. But over time, the claims of friends who do say that have been vindicated over and over again.*
Lol
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 15:19 (eight years ago) link
Kinda just started skimming after "Freddie deBoer"
― Sean, let me be clear (silby), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 15:20 (eight years ago) link
"Her campaign has also worked tirelessly to drive a wedge between the traditional constituencies of the left, engaging in vicious smear tactics against Sanders and his supporters, playing feminism against the campaign for economic justice and treating any concern for class as ipso facto racist and sexist.."
Fuck this guy
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 15:24 (eight years ago) link
He's talking about you.
― schwantz, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 15:24 (eight years ago) link
^^^^^^^^
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 15:25 (eight years ago) link
i kind of agree w/ freddie there, but most of all b/c hillary clinton is a politician and that's what most politicians do, they drive wedges to win. clinton has been nastier than some, less nasty than others.
the idea that this should translate to my not voting for HC -- as deboer has argued elsewhere -- doesn't follow.
literally 100%. he's done a study!
I am not ready to write off partisan politics entirely
sez, portentously, a guy who blogs and does nothing else. (wait, he teaches rhetoric.)
good ol freddie.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 15:40 (eight years ago) link
what do freddie's worthless pontifications on politics have to do w occupy wall st?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 15:41 (eight years ago) link
actually, this--
treating any concern for class as ipso facto racist and sexist
is ridiculously hyperbolic
what's with freddie and the "any" "all" "100%"
the guy doesn't know how to modulate
makes for lousy arguments
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 15:43 (eight years ago) link
posts
beats me, mordy