• CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    The media had their role in it too by setting a ‘tone’ for the whole thing by treating it like a joke from the start and being sure to always interview the kookiest of people whenever they’d visit one of the encampments. Alternatively, conservative outlets like Fox would paint the protestors like a bunch of entitled freeloaders who just wanted to cause problems.

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      1 year ago

      That clip of the wall street tycoons drinking champagne and laughing at the protesters.

    • IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      And then the Democrat Party co-opted it and destroyed the value but making Occupy a meme factory that says things like trump sucks ass! Biden gives the best handies! LIKE AND SHARE IF YOU AGREE!!!"