wheremind

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by wheremind 8y ago
It only works if everyone does it, or if you're really well prepared and have irrefutable evidence of something. If you're the only one (or even part of a small group) calling them out you just get buried. You're basically a
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by wheremind 8y ago
This is the basic problem of all social organisations, not just 'subcultures', whatever they are. Any marginally successful group attracts sociopaths. The more power available to someone installing themselves at the centre of an e
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by wheremind 8y ago
Do you know a source that collects together evidence for this and presents it in a way that's relatively easy to read through?
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by wheremind 8y ago
But those things were happening before the occupy stuff. I'm not saying there was never any problem with racism or anything, or that it's been invented just to create a diversion. I'm saying that the movements that existed be
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by wheremind 8y ago
Yeah, I agree about the street protests themselves were pretty dysfunctional, that wasn't really what I was talking about. The protests were really only the tip of the iceberg at the time. There seemed to be a much wider focus on the g
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by wheremind 8y ago
I know, I'm wondering whether anyone's looked into it in the context of the occupy wall street movement. The popular consciousness was so strongly diverted at the point it began to threaten elite interests that it's at least
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by wheremind 8y ago
Yes, it seems like classic divide and conquer strategy but I have no evidence for it. the idea has been kind of obsessing me a bit recently, I'd love to see someone that has actually looked into it and tried to compile a bit of data.
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by wheremind 8y ago
It seems like this came to a head around the time of the occupy wall street protests (is it 10 years ago now?). The public consciousness became aware of the way our political/financial systems were in a kind of symbiotic conspiracy to