Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

I don't often strongly disagree with Lever journalists, but I have to take issue with presenting Occupy Wall St as a counterpart of the Tea Party;

https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_9069_93a6dc63-3e91-4c9a-9e9b-0b7ee45674cc&uf=https%3A%2F%2Fpublicfeeds.net%2Ff%2F9069%2Ffeed-rss.xml

The two couldn't have been more different.

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#podcasts #TheLever#TaxRevolt#TeaParty#OWS#Occupy
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

OWS was the US arm of a global revolt. A convergence of multiple activist networks (including AdBusters, Anonymous. See David Graeber's The Democracy Project;

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-the-democracy-project

The Tea Party was a series of stunts coordinated by reputation launderers in GoP-aligned consultancies, and blown up by partisan media (notably Fox TV and neoconservative talk radio);

https://theauthoritarians.org/comment-on-the-tea-party-movement/

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