Whatever happened to Occupy?

[Gotthebeefforu]

Haven't heard much of anything from them lately.

[Deleted]

Ask google.

[Rukentuts]

It died because they had no cohesive message, no plan, and people decided to move on.

[Reg]

There are still some people hanging out down there, emphasizing hanging out.

[Mukki]

They didn't even know what they were fighting for or what was causing their problems. Personally, I think OWS was co-opted from the start. Maybe if they'd protested the Federal Reserve Bank they woulda gotten somewhere, lol. Still doubt it though.

[Deleted]

hopefuly they went and got jobs.

made a mess around here, ended up as just a bunch of hippies illegally camping on private land

[Åmbulance]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwk_Ot8orPY

This sums up why it failed.

[Whidbey]

Well imho, all the little radicals realized they had spent months sitting in all kinds of weather, making huge litter messes, and barking about "the one percent" when they had no idea WTF they were talking about. Maybe they realized no one is going to hand them money, they never earned, and that what they were preaching is socialist dogma.
Or maybe they came to the realization, no one gave a damn about their so called cause.

[Gotthebeefforu]

Well imho, all the little radicals realized they had spent months sitting in all kinds of weather, making huge litter messes, and barking about "the one percent" when they had no idea WTF they were talking about. Maybe they realized no one is going to hand them money, they never earned, and that what they were preaching is socialist dogma.
Or maybe they came to the realization, no one gave a damn about their so called cause.

lol. that made me giggle.

[Deleted]

They probably either got jobs or realised what hypocrites they were for cursing the corporate machine whilst recording their pseudo-activism on their iPad, drinking Starbucks and posting about how top awesome it was on their blog.

In short: Bunch of hipsters pissed off that they weren't around in the 70's to be angry at 'the man' so desperate to be a part of something, they decided to go with the incoherent babble of halfwits.

[Azrile]

50% were homeless people from the beginning who just went there because people were bringing lots of food.

45% were just tourists and locals who stopped by to see what all the fuss was about.

4% were DNC and paid organizers who were just there because it was their job

1% were really angry about the 1% who make a lot of money.

[Laize]

It died because they had no cohesive message, no plan, and people decided to move on.

And they lost a lot of public opinion with the whole Zucotti Park thing... and the violence in their camps. And the marches without permits.

Say what you will about the Tea Party, their shit never goes anywhere near that far south.

[Rukentuts]

And they lost a lot of public opinion with the whole Zucotti Park thing... and the violence in their camps. And the marches without permits.

Say what you will about the Tea Party, their shit never goes anywhere near that far south.

When you can ask 50 Occupy members the same question and get 50 different answers, you know you don't have a serious movement.

[Tradewind]

I think winter happened and they all went indoors, then never came out again.

[MrPaladinGuy]

It died because they had no cohesive message, no plan, and people decided to move on.

And their apple devices ran out of power.

[Rukentuts]

I think winter happened and they all went indoors, then never came out again.

Have you tried to move a bunch of stoners?

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And their apple devices ran out of power.

If that were the case they would have lasted about 30 minutes.

[Tradewind]

Have you tried to move a bunch of stoners?

Bulldozers and tear gas works.

[Kujako]

They couldn't find backers like the tea party found in the Koch brothers.

[Åmbulance]

Bulldozers and tear gas works.

Or most came from WA, and went back home when pot became legal.

[MrPaladinGuy]

If that were the case they would have lasted about 30 minutes.

I see what you did there,

But to add on to that (as if you were serious), that's the point the 'movement' digressed into more dilution/violence/starvation as more and more people appeared for whatever reason just to be part of a crowd and it got bad fast.