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Vic Vinegar

(80 posts)
6. The biggest issue is
Fri Aug 23, 2013, 03:34 PM
Aug 2013

that young people are drawn into mass movements that are almost entirely cultural based or based on petty issues instead of a firm, structured mass movement that aims for the most reasonable direction of action.

For instance, Occupys problem in many places is that most of it was focused on occupying an area or shouting names at businessmen where the only place Occupy actually accomplished anything was when they came together and did things like trying to help disaster victims but even that wasn't enough because of the lack of leadership.

People like Noam Chomsky who don't believe in any sort of strong platform have been destroying young minds. We need MLKs not anarchists.

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The biggest issue is Vic Vinegar Aug 2013 #6
Thanks for your opinion, and your oddly pro-political/partisan OP. Occupy is not partisan. Fire Walk With Me Aug 2013 #7
Swing and a miss... Earth_First Oct 2013 #11
yup, this is so fucked up and tragic. gopiscrap Aug 2013 #8
Bread and Circuses. Classic distraction. Countdown_3_2_1 Sep 2013 #9
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dreamers are fighting back right now! jonjensen Nov 2013 #12
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