[bfung]

Dunno about the website or corp, but the occupy wall st movement was/is true. Happened right after 2008 stock market crash and people camped out on Wall Street in protest of bailing out the banks.

[irishcoffee]

One can make the argument that trump was elected because of OWS knock-on effects...

[johnvanommen]

> One can make the argument that trump was elected because of OWS knock-on effects...

Absolutely.

And guys like Tim Poole got famous off Occupy, then parlayed that fame into building an audience for themselves.

The libertarians at OWS never went away, they just found new causes.

I was at the HUMONGOUS rally that Obama held in Portland in 2008.

The epicenter of OWS was based a few blocks away, years later, and reflected the optimism of 2008 hardening into frustration over Wall Street excess.

[tolerance]

I’m listening—...

[GorbachevyChase]

I would make the correction that the protest movement was not left wing. I think he’s trying to take credit for his favorite team. TARP was opposed by 80% of Americans. It passed legislation anyway. I think there’s a good lesson to be learned in how performative and inconsequential the electoral process is.

[barbazoo]

Carried over to Europe too, I remember the camps and protests in many cities' financial districts.