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I feel for your experience, but Occupy Wall Street famously had no clear set of demands - that was why no significant policy changes came from it. It was a valid protest, but with no stated legislative goals that could be enacted by politicians.
No, that's what billionaire owned media told people too ignorant to realize they weren't on our side by 2011...
https://occupywallst.nyc/demands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street#Goals
Just because you're still ignorant of their goals 15 years later, doesn't mean their goals didn't exist.
Just that you've never even taken the two minutes to check...
That's crossing the line into willfull ignorance
You don't have to look far that same Wikipedia article to see an entire large section on the exact criticism I raised, coupled with a large body of evidence behind it?
Check your own ignorance.
Occupy had goals but they had like 50 of them and they were poorly coordinated in protests, slogans, and to the media - which is why they had very limited success enacting meaningful change.
So...
First they didn't have any goals...
Now they have too many...
I'm sorry Goldilocks, I can no longer think of a way you'd be saying any of this in good faith.
Dunno dude. From your own link:
Bullshit, come on. 15 an hour was everywhere. That's a pretty simple demand, and how did you miss it? Seriously
I think it's just that we had too many demands according to the Epstein class