“This is brilliant,” said author Naomi Klein in response to new United Auto Workers ad. “It’s also the message we need to be sending non-stop.”

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    5 months ago

    It’s why it’s never talked about in corporate media. It’s why the power brokers were terrified by occupy Wall Street but not by BLM 10 years later. There were poor white Republicans who were into Occupy seriously. Then the left broke into a purity race and instead of aligning around economics. I’m never sure who is more stupid, the right for taking easy answers to complex problems and eating loads of horrific shit up, or the left who is too fucking stupid to take the massive advantages they have in economics to unite a critical mass and take power back in a meaningful way.

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      5 months ago

      not by BLM 10 years later

      They weren’t terrified by BLM because it was coopted by libs the same way Occupy was, but much faster.

      Once they saw protesters kneeling with the same cops that would be kettling them in a few hours and “abolish the police” get drown out by “well they need more funding for training”, everyone knew BLM was cooked.