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Jimmie Higgins
20th November 2011, 12:36
I learned a new internet term recently: "concern troll". This kind of troll is opposed to you but pretends that their opposition comes out of wanting to help you. Sounds like all the advice the occupy movement has been getting from establishment liberals to me:

SocialistWorker.org: The strange logic of Jean Quan (http://socialistworker.org/2011/11/17/strange-logic-of-jean-quan)



"We know that we may have to remove the encampments again," she states. "This is an international movement, this is their tactic, and we want the movement to move on, literally to something different than encampments."

Why thank you for the support:rolleyes:

And then this bizzare logic from the local liberal weekly, the East Bay Express:

In that sense, last Tuesday's raid and protests may have been the best thing that could have happened to the movement — which is ironic, not least of all because, according to sources within city hall, the original raid on Occupy Oakland was motivated in part by Quan's concern that deteriorating conditions at the site might delegitimize the movement at large. In trying to protect Occupy, Quan gave it its first, biggest, and highest-profile challenge from above, which in turn imbued the movement with more power than it had before. The whole world really is watching now.So attacking the camp was part of a ploy to strengthen it!? They destroyed our village in order to save it, eh?

agnixie
20th November 2011, 13:17
Well, she is acting stupidly enough (her slipups are an intel gold mine at times) that she could be obfuscatingly stupid. But I doubt it, especially after what the dem branch of the SEIU is trying to pull.

Comrade Gwydion
20th November 2011, 13:29
On a different note: I think police repression IS what Occuppy needs. Confrontations might build up morale a bit, but if nothing happens, winter is going to destroy Occupy quietly.

Martin Blank
20th November 2011, 20:42
The liberals (and others) want the occupations to end because then it becomes a "movement" than can be controlled by who has the biggest apparatus: the biggest sound truck, the most pre-printed signs, the loudest sound system, the most marshalls/stewards, etc. This is the lesson of November 17 in New York City.

Decolonize The Left
20th November 2011, 22:37
The language used by politicians in relation to occupy is nothing other than the same backwards rhetoric used towards every other issue of importance. The primary goal of almost all politicians is to seek re-election so it makes perfect sense that they would spout nonsensical doublespeak when confronted with issues of concern and public interest. I'm not surprised at all...

- August

Lenina Rosenweg
20th November 2011, 22:50
There's a group currently organizing an "Occupy Congress" movement mentioned in the Daily Kos.. The idea is to mic check Republicans while pushing Obama's "jobs program". An obvious attempt to co-opt the movement by appearing to jump in front of it.

The way around this is to continue and broaden Occupation of foreclosures as in Minneapolis last night.