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[–]topiary2 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

What do you think killed it? That was also around the time they decided to unleash the woke agenda for that very purpose.

[–]xoenix 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

My take is that the general public got tired of the movement; privileged communists LARPing on the streets always gets tiresome, just as it did with CHAZ and BLM. The people actually suffering - middle & lower class in the south - suffered silently and fell into drug addiction. But ultimately I assume it was Obama. Who were the activists going to criticize? The young, charismatic, progressive black president? The big corporations dressed themselves up in pride flags and DEI and used them as a shield.

[–]Mr9to5[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh yeah, I was college age and wherever I went, there was “Occupy Something,” with ever declining quality. I come from pretty humble roots and read the Redneck Manifesto as a teenager and pretty much knew the score from Day One. Working class youth grow into marginalized working class adults, except for a minority by very hard work, while “student activists” are generally from a sheltered class and become tenured professors. Still, through Nationalism, I considered myself somewhat open to socialism and wanted to keep an open mind. But one does not feel so nice after a while, when you’re commuting hours each day to a mostly commuter school and you can’t do something administrative because the building is closed because a bunch of entitled, dirty wannabe hippie douchebags want to whine to the center Democrat administration that they can’t make their history degrees free. I’m sure that experience was happening all over America.