Site with over a million users and one of the biggest agitprop vehicles of the last five years and now it’s private. Lol. Lmao.
Edit: Ok, now the mods are saying making the site private is only temporary while they “deal with the cleanup from ongoing brigading.”
I was pretty involved with Occupy Wall Street and dragged a few friends there. One of them took an interview with Fox despite everyone telling him exactly what was going to happen. They edited the fuck out of it and made him sound like a complete moron. They played this clip of him saying “My mom told me to get a job, and I was like… I tried!” Made him into a complete laughing stock despite the fact that the whole movement emerged from an unemployment crisis. *
You should only talk to journalists you are willing to promote. You don’t go on Tucker Carlson to “reach an audience.” That’s politician shit. You cannot be a politician and a revolutionary unless you’re like Moses or something. If you cannot find a single journalist to talk to who’s capable of holding the line, you should start writing.
It would be much cooler if an r/AntiWork mod took an interview with Maximillian Alvarez and got 2000 views rather than going on Fox.
* For real though. There were people camping out in Manhattan who came from Detroit because it was a better option than dealing with the job market there. I got this really cute girl’s number then washed it into oblivion the next time I did my laundry. :agony-deep:
Lol remembering owning urself a decade earlier over some petty shit like that is incredibly relatable thank you
I still don’t see why these reasons account for such a massive meltdown. Like, they looked like 80% of the population looks at any given time and their answers weren’t terrible. It would have been worse if they’d gone on and spouted a bunch of incomprehensible theory or something. Yeah, they probably could have done better, but they’re a random person and subreddit moderator, not a politician. The intensity of reaction afterwards seems super weird and manufactured to me. Like, what were people expecting? That the chad meme would manifest on TV and in two and half minutes usher in the new age of the revolution? For me, the bigger issue is that people’s sense of movements (and come on, this is a subreddit, so barely even that) is so fragile that they meltdown and despair at almost nothing
