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I'm lowkey awed that an organization claiming the name still exists.

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[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 86 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Whenever there’s a name given to a broad but unorganized and highly subjective left wing movement, any formal organization that claims to be the official org of the movement will inevitably turn out to be a grift.

[–] YoungSheldonAdelson@hexbear.net 20 points 4 days ago

The Black Lives Matter org included in their list of demands that Trump be banned from twitter. Hilariously lib compared to the Black Panthers 50 years earlier demanding an autonomous country for black people.

[–] BioWarfarePosadist@hexbear.net 53 points 4 days ago

Tim Pool got his start with Occupy.

As the poet Billie Joel Armstrong put it "Another protestor crossed the line, to find the money's on the other side."

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 46 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't know if she still controls it, but the "@OccupyWallSt" twitter account was registered by Justine Tunney.

Here is a story about her from 2014:

One of the co-founders of the Occupy Wall Street movement has called on Barack Obama to resign as president, and “appoint Eric Schmidt CEO of America”.

Justine Tunney, a self-styled “champagne tranarchist”, is now a software engineer at Google, but remains involved with Occupy Wall Street, through the occupywallst.org website, which she created.

In the petition, which currently has two signatures (a far cry from the 195,000 who follow the Occupy Wall Street twitter account Tunney started in 2011), she calls on Obama to arrange a national referendum to:

  1. Retire all government employees with full pensions.
  2. Transfer administrative authority to the tech industry.
  3. Appoint Eric Schmidt CEO of America.

You can read some of her tweets from the same time period here: https://web.archive.org/web/20140826051629/http://valleywag.gawker.com/why-does-google-employ-a-pro-slavery-lunatic-1612868507

She is more recently well known from various novel technical hacks, such as llamafile which Mozilla is now collaborating with her on for their client-side slop generator.

[–] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've been following her for a while now due to her technical skills. I haven't seen her do anything at all for IRL politics since then, so it seems like this was a past phase that she hasn't commented on. She makes the claim "created the twitter handle" rather than something more substantial like "runs the account".

I hope she isn't still a weird person but it's hard to know with these ex-Googlers.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

Her lack of recantation leads me to assume the worst, that she is still an NRx edgelord but now is just self-aware enough not to shitpost on main. Also, her technical skills are certainly impressive but I don't actually want to see ad-hoc binary distribution of software re-normalized. The world doesn't really need esoteric "actually portable executables", it needs trustworthy supply chains for reproducibly-built binaries.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 44 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We live in the biff tannen universe

[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 34 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He was literally modeled after Trump.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 23 points 4 days ago (4 children)

That makes a lot of sense, I didn't realize our big wet boy was already so prominent in the late 80s

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 32 points 4 days ago (1 children)

People have been shitting on Trump for as long as he's been around. Ocean's 13 had their villain modeled after Trump, too. Everyone in NYC has known he's an asshole who pays for nothing, always conducting a grift, and hangs out with people like Epstein. He's had multiple presidential campaigns before 2016.

The rest of the world didn't pay attention to him until he won the republican primary. But he's been a known scumbag for a long time among Hollywood and New York elites.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

I've never watched The Apprentice, but I hate it for bringing this asshole back into the public consciousness. Nobody really cared about him in the 2000s until that show presented him as some business genius.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

He's been a prominent piece of shit my entire life and I'm (optimistically) middle aged.

Here's The Coup shitting on him in the early 90's.

https://youtu.be/z6Homo_amHQ

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

One of my favorites from that LP

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] anaesidemus@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago

He was in Home Alone 2!

[–] TheRealChrisR@hexbear.net 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Gremlins 2 is a satire where the Gremlins take over “Clamp” Tower. Its a little bit Ted Turner too, but Trump is the main target.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I haven't seen that one! Will have to add it to the list

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago

Gremlins 2 is amazing cause it was made out of pure spite and it shows

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago

That's how I knew about Trump as a kid, I didn't know who he was other than some rich guy who Daniel Clamp was a parody of.

[–] erik@hexbear.net 41 points 4 days ago (1 children)

David Graeber going to rise from the dead over this.

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 23 points 4 days ago

this is actually just part of his long term plan to become a source of sustainable energy after his passing

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 31 points 4 days ago

I should effortpost this (you know, like all my other broken promises) but the success of the current :adventure-time: with luigi-dance has the same roots as Occupy and Anonymous. Memes driving collective action goes back to 4chan's /b/ board that pioneered the horizontal, decentralized, multi-city protests with Operation Chantology. Occupy and the Arab Spring were both hyped by Anonymous at the time as well, when they were flying high with (Lulz|Anti)Sec and DDOSing everything.

It also explains why these movements tend to fizzle out. Memes are fun when everybody is on board, but the meme eventually goes stale and replaced with the next. Rightwing success is less about competence than their ability (and infrastructure) to "force a meme" while others must rely on organic virality. The above "Occupy Mars" is a perfect example of a forced meme and the infrastructure that supports it because nobody else talks about it except Milhouse Musk.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 36 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The krakkker brainpan is not fitted to grasp complex concepts as class conciousness, they can only try to imitate it sporadically,

[–] StalinistApologist@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago

All Planets Matter

[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago

graeber screaming from beyond