O'Keefe and friends. This is exactly the thing they like to do. Place it on someone else's website (or Twitter feed) and then point their fingers at us saying what monsters we are.

This is a Republican hit job, count on it.

applegrove

(118,682 posts)

6. Something they can show the GOP base and say 'see liberals are the evil

Reply to DFW (Reply #4)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:26 AM

Jun 2018

one's.

DFW

(54,405 posts)

7. Exactly. The evil Libbruls.

Reply to applegrove (Reply #6)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:29 AM

Jun 2018

They do this all the time. Occupy needs to remove this ASAP. I'm sure the Republican troublemaker who put it up there has long covered his track by now.

"As always, should you or any of your team be caught, the RNC will disavow any knowledge of your actions. Good luck, Jim!"

Thekaspervote

(32,774 posts)

16. Exactly... they are about to hang themselves with their own rope...PLEASE just stay back and let it

Reply to applegrove (Reply #6)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:59 AM

Jun 2018

Happen

dalton99a

(81,515 posts)

9. Yep.

Reply to DFW (Reply #4)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:30 AM

Jun 2018

laserhaas

(7,805 posts)

11. They had to hack the account

Reply to DFW (Reply #4)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:31 AM

Jun 2018

It is a posting by OccupyWallStreetNYC

DFW

(54,405 posts)

14. That's what I mean

Reply to laserhaas (Reply #11)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:33 AM

Jun 2018

This was not an amateur prank.

mythology

(9,527 posts)

26. The most obvious conclusion is that it was done by the account holder(s)

Reply to DFW (Reply #14)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 07:29 AM

Jun 2018

laserhaas

(7,805 posts)

30. Concur

Reply to mythology (Reply #26)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 11:03 AM

Jun 2018

Ockham's razor..

They have had enough time to take it down.

Twitter should have done so; but hasn't (after a dozen complaints)

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

29. Bullshit

Reply to DFW (Reply #4)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 09:02 AM

Jun 2018

That account continues to tweet, without any claim the account was hacked. You don't fight a $500,000 lawsuit over control of a twitter account and then just let it get hacked and say nothing.

(And, yeah, there was a $500,000 lawsuit over control of that account. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/nyregion/occupy-wall-streets-twitter-account-is-focus-of-lawsuit.html )

This is precisely the same sort of fantasy psychological defense mechanism one sees in the Alex Jones cult, in which any inconvenient fact is reflexively dismissed as fake.

This is also what happens when you put your trust in anonymous strangers who come out of nowhere.

applegrove

(118,682 posts)

33. I denounced the tweet at first. Worried it was a false flag. Then i searched

Reply to jberryhill (Reply #29)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:44 PM

Jun 2018

Twitter for the original and alerted the mods on it. They left it up. I attack something awful like that on all fronts.

LeftInTX

(25,370 posts)

8. OWS are JPR types

Reply to applegrove (Reply #1)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:29 AM

Jun 2018

They don't represent Democrats

DFW

(54,405 posts)

13. They tend to be more deranged than sophisticated. n/t

Reply to LeftInTX (Reply #8)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:31 AM

Jun 2018

radical noodle

(8,003 posts)

5. I once sympathized with Occupy

Reply to laserhaas (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:25 AM

Jun 2018

but this is sick.

DFW

(54,405 posts)

10. I give about a 1% chance that Occupy had anything at all to do with this.

Reply to radical noodle (Reply #5)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:30 AM

Jun 2018

This smells of Republican dirty tricks tactics. They've been at this kind of thing since the campaign of 1968.

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)

20. Get me Roger Stone....

Reply to DFW (Reply #10)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 03:02 AM

Jun 2018

looks like someone already did. (get the pinhead.)

radical noodle

(8,003 posts)

21. It's their twitter handle

Reply to DFW (Reply #10)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 03:02 AM

Jun 2018

Link to tweet

What To Do If You Encounter An ICE Agent

radical noodle

(8,003 posts)

12. OH... wait!

Reply to laserhaas (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:31 AM

Jun 2018

From their Facebook page:

I know people are feeling disempowered and hopeless about Trump's war on immigrants, but we can do this. We have to do this. And do it with generosity, creativity, and intelligent strategy and leadership.
The Left can turn what is a manufactured humanitarian crisis into a political crisis for Trump and actually hold Democrats accountable. These are just a few ideas, feel free to add more below. And feel free to share this.

(I added the bolding)

UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)

19. False Flag. You do not know who is really behind any Facebook post.

Reply to radical noodle (Reply #12)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 03:00 AM

Jun 2018

It is placed there to fool weak people into believing that occupy Wall Street believers did this.

mythology

(9,527 posts)

27. And your evidence for that is??

Reply to UCmeNdc (Reply #19)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 07:34 AM

Jun 2018

Just because you don't want to believe something, doesn't mean it isn't true.

laserhaas

(7,805 posts)

31. Spot On!

Reply to mythology (Reply #27)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 11:04 AM

Jun 2018

msongs

(67,413 posts)

15. well thats twitter for ya nt

Reply to laserhaas (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:40 AM

Jun 2018

UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)

17. False Flag created by a Trump Supporter.

Reply to laserhaas (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 02:56 AM

Jun 2018

JI7

(89,252 posts)

18. attention whores wanting to make it about themselves

Reply to laserhaas (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 02:59 AM

Jun 2018

UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)

22. This is a prime example of Russian spies still deeply working inside of FB.

Reply to laserhaas (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 03:05 AM

Jun 2018

Russians are still helping Donald Trump through FB and Twitter impersonation posts.

blogslut

(38,002 posts)

23. The ratio on that tweet shows people don't like it

Reply to laserhaas (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 03:14 AM

Jun 2018

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-ratio

The Ratio refers to an unofficial Twitter law which states that if the amount of replies to a tweet greatly outnumbers the amount of retweets and likes, then the tweet is bad.

canetoad

(17,168 posts)

24. Irony alert

Reply to laserhaas (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 05:14 AM

Jun 2018

IRONY. OK?

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)

25. Of course that's against the founding principles all occupiers agreed upon.

Reply to laserhaas (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 07:22 AM

Jun 2018

Non violence was right at the top. They didn't want rightwing infiltrators to start trouble or commit crimes.

Maybe this twitter account was never associated with OWS, or maybe some rightwing shithead got control of it.

It's not even a good gameplan or tactically reasonable action choreography. Cartoonishly out of touch with physical reality, and adds a horror movie component of gruesome violence.