
I was still in the military when the Occupy movement was going on and I never really heard a whole lot about it except through the odd video and random forum post, but this. These hard core anarchists who's entire lives are dedicated to actually fighting a struggle and living by their beliefs were told they had no part in this fight because they were mostly just white men and part of the problem. You want to know why occupy got violent? Why black bloc stepped in? Because they were pushed by these people. I bled for that shit wreck, day in and day out and had to see it destroyed and our allies alienated. All they cared about was paperwork, spirit fingers, and moral superiority.įuck them. They were never the ones in cuffs, they were never the ones tear gassed or maced. They would suffer the oppression they craved so much through us by proxy. When it fucking came down to it, they didn't care about ows. They somehow became the leaders simply because they started controlling how people were allowed to communicate. Any second police would show their face, they'd be gone. Instead, as soon as sundown came and the last meeting was held, they would bolt back to their high rent apartments.

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