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Occupy Underground

Chan790

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3. Maybe.

Reply to xchrom (Reply #2)

Mon Apr 2, 2012, 06:33 PM

Apr 2012

It just seems a little too slick, a little too much like an attempt to make money from their connection to Occupy. I've been wary from the beginning that eventually someone was going to try to monetize and market Occupy. I have concerns about anything that could move the movement from free-form and organic to planned and hierarchical. Movements of the people don't fall to violence and force, they fall to mainstreaming and co-option.

Maybe my sensor's set a bit too high.

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Huffington Post for the Occupy Crowd? [View all] xchrom Apr 2012 OP

There is much here to dislike and mistrust. Chan790 Apr 2012 #1

i don't know what to make of it yet. xchrom Apr 2012 #2

Maybe. Chan790 Apr 2012 #3

These are hard questions. xchrom Apr 2012 #4