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[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

... That was a University police officer on UC Davis campus in California and literally had zero to do with Democrats' direction, lmao. Wtf you smoking this early?

And don't care — One side is objectively orders-of-magnitude worse. Progress or damage-control, it makes little difference to me.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Them protesting against the direction of Obama bailing out the big banks?

Seems kinda relevant.

One side is objectively worse but you don't have to spread the fairy tale that Democrats are going to ever fix anything. They are just slightly less worse.

There's also NYPD cops pepperspraying the protestors if you like that one more but the picture doesn't look as funny:

New York City settles Occupy Wall Street pepper spray lawsuit for $50,001

Protester Kelly Schomburg filed suit after NYPD officer Anthony Bologna pepper-sprayed a group of protesters in 2011, when Schomburg was 18 years old

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I'm certain the lives of these people would've totally improved if the banks and economy completely collapsed, right? As with most things, the direction and anger of these Occupy protests — which I was a part of — had a long list of grievances including "banks got bailed out, we got sold out." But universally all these problems are squarely of Republican origin; and their solutions are almost all squarely obstructed by Republicans.

After all these years, do people forget that Democrats and Obama only had a filibuster-proof control of Congress for literally only months early in his first term? These protests came after the disastrous 2010 midterm election when many of these Occupy Wall Street protesters stayed home and let the Tea Party (pre-MAGA if you're unfamiliar) take control of Congress with the Freedom Caucus and other bullshit. So that sure did wonders for all the bankers, didn't it?

I'll say they're considerably-less worse. Obama sympathized with Occupy Wall street. I wonder what Trump would've done... Send in FBI vans like he did in Portland?

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