“Keeping The Class War Classy”: 45 Posts And Memes From “The Other 98%” Facebook Page With A Whopping 6.7M Followers
The Other 98% is almost all of us. This is the idea behind the activist organization that uses their internet presence to fight for things like increasing minimum wage and opposing favorable tax treatment for large corporations. Originally founded by left-of-center activists John Sellers and Andrew Boyd in 2010, it was a direct response to the conservative Tea Party movement.
Today, the organization targets complex and intertwined issues like economic justice, reproductive justice, climate justice, big pharma, democracy, and racial justice. So no wonder they've gained a cult following. Serving as a massive online storytelling machine, The Other 98% has a whopping 6.7M followers on their Facebook page.
According to The Other 98%, they are now “winning the meme warfare with some of the internet’s most viral original political content.” And this is one hell of a war to win, having in mind the countless amount of content that gets regurgitated online not just every single day, but per millisecond. “Keeping the Class War classy!” shouts their slogan, and those memes, they are priceless.
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The Other 98% uses meme warfare and savvy boots-on-the-ground actions to challenge the corporations and billionaires that have hijacked our democracy, claims the description on their website. “We fight like hell for an America that works for the other 98% of us.”
According to The Other 98%, whoever wins the battle of the story wins the war. So the organization specializes in fighting this battle of the story through meme warfare with some of the internet’s most viral original political content. “Our massive online storytelling machine aims to disentangle complex policy, connect dots between issues like climate justice and reparations, and provide a home for like-minded — and not so like-minded — people to take ownership of these memes, and fight for them accordingly,” they claim.
Those @s$holes asked for it! If they had been real men they would have assisted the ladies.
Their content reaches 7-15 million people every day, making them the most important voice of social, economic, reproductive, racial and other forms of justice out there in the US. “We know that storytelling can change the world, because we've seen it happen again and again,” they claim positively.
Andrew Boyd is the author, activist and in his words “prankster of social change” also known as the co-founder of The other 98% and the man behind the “Billionaires For Bush” campaign. Together with Dave Oswald Mitchell, he edited “Beautiful Trouble. A Toolbox For Revolution,” which serves as a kind of instruction manual for creative activism.
In this interview, Boyd shared his thoughts on his vision of creativity meeting activism: “I am speaking of these sort of moments, whether it is a TAZ or an extraordinary epiphany moment, a carnival moment; whether it is in the streets of Seattle or in Occupy Wall Street, with its utopian longings. Or maybe it can be some of these lovely Critical Mass transitory moments. Bringing utopia into history, to make that happen – even if it´s just for a moment and on a localized place and experiencing it – affects you on a very visceral level.”
*GASP* Someone with an insane and unimaginable amount of money, forced to give a incrementally small percent of their vast fortune away just like people in poverty, with barley enough to eat?! The HORROR! /s
Moreover, Boyd argues that it affects us at the level of our nervous systems, of our whole beings and bodies and souls, “as opposed to just an intellectual argument.” He explained that “if you experience direct democracy, or an intimate community, or just an otherwise impoverished urban space suddenly made beautiful, it alters everything.”
The Other 98% follows this concept of taking a comical approach towards complex subjects, using the voice of the internet, and memes in particular, to spread the message.
Being a woman in a man's world s*cked 500 years ago, it s*cks today
With complications such as C-section, or a premature baby, or other issues, it could easily be that much in the U.S., especially on the east or west coasts where everything costs more. Our healthcare system is no longer about actual health, it's all about profit.
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I had to pay 1000 euro out of my own pocket for the birth of my daughter, and that was only because I opted for a more luxury single room (including rooming-in for my husband). Oh and of that 1000 euro some was refunded by the extra hospital insurance I got (for which I pay around 120 euro a year). This is Belgium people. BTW I got perfect care and three-course meals during my stay.
Woooowwwww... But hey, affordable healthcare is a commie trap right kids?
Right! DOWN WITH HEALTHCARE! DOWN WITH HEALTHCARE! /s
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Completely free in Australia as we don’t have companies being financial parasites on our people. We don’t have the worlds best medical system though we don’t bankrupt people for medical care either.
I think our medical system is one of the best, especially since it’s completely free. I had two babies in public hospital, private rooms with meals etc, $0 cost to me. Oh parking- we paid to park in the hospital carpark. That’s it.
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I stayed in hospital for 10 days.. I had epidural anesthesia, my son had light therapy for jaundice for days.. I was in a double room with another mother but we had private bathroom and all comforts ! It was a public hospital, in Italy.. what I've paid? Zero...
Quality of free medical care in Italy is remarkable. I include the GP system. We still get home visits if necessary.
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How much does a vasectomy cost? Or are we not allowed to legislate against the penis?! Rather than cause all this conflict about forced pregnancies, why not nip the problem in the BALLS, where it begins?!
It's whatever the copay you're insurance is or 1000$ out of pocket. You can pay on a sliding scale or make payments. If you pay cash that day you can get up to 250$ off
Load More Replies... And the US has the highest infant mortality rate in the developed world. Never has "you get what you pay for" been less true.
The southern states are actually quite a lot worse than many developing nations too. People are afraid to get help in case it bankrupts them.
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In UK I was watching one of our '24hrs in A&E' programmes and realised that one of these patients would have died if he lived in the US because the family would not have been able to afford healthcare. I think the US have the worst healthcare in the world as it's all about profit, criminal and they have the nerve to criticise other countries for their human rights \_("~)_/
I agree and it sucks because MANY of us Americans want universal healthcare.
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We American women need to pull a Lysistrata. If a man is anti-abortion, thinks birth control should be banned, and refuses to support universal health care, don't f**k him.
But what about the women who are all for this legislation that makes abortion illegal and are proposing to ban birth control?
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A Canadian who gave birth in Hawaii ended up staying 30 days in hospital. Bill...1 million !
The fact you have to pay to give birth in America, ESPECIALLY when they are trying to criminalize abortion, is insane.
I agree! That's why many of us are very, very angry right now. Well, one of the reasons. I mean, you could take your pick at this point.
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Sod the insurance,a safe as possible free birth should be the least a country can provide for humans
not here in the states..they rob us when trying to get healthily..starting from paying for insurance and healthcare down to insane costs to dying and funeral costs
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The UK has many faults and our NHS is struggling, but this is just insane. We complain if we have to pay parking fees at the hospital.
It's $0 in Hungary in public healthcare. If you ask for special service (eg. single room or the like) it can be $50-100 a day. And it is a crime for a doctor to ask for gratitude money or for a patient to give money to a doctor in public health care. Labor costs in an average private clinic (no insurance, discount, etc.): $3000 - $5500, controls before/after labor included. You, US people, are crazy supporting your healthcare.
sorry if my question seems stupid, but... is it popular among women to fly to a different country to deliver? for such a bill you can literally go to any country in the world, and it will be cheaper there (even if you stay in a 5* hotel). In most European countries you will pay less than $10,000 for delivery.
Only The wealthy. Not the majority that can't even afford a week vacation or we lose our jobs. My mom in 1972 went to Canada to have an abortion bc it was too long if a wait in New York at the time, the only state at the time that had legal safe abortions. She had to miss work for 4 days and got fired. My parents had to scrape money up just to travel on the ferry. Many Americans live below the poverty line. It will be so difficult for most women to travel out of state to get an abortion let alone another country to give birth.
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It's cheaper to fly to Europe, live here for 2 months and give birth for free.
Imagine not having the money to pay for a child and also not having the option of an abortion. Why would anyone try to force a woman into crippling debt?
It’s called padding the bill: nurse looking in at monitors and makes note ($150); assisting patient with a glass of water ($50); and patient using one tissue from a box ($75).
Oh, and don't forget the $40.00 charge if the patient cries!
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Soon US will ask for immigrants to come and work there and no one will come.
I have a question for any Americans. If you are forced to carry a child that you give up for adoption, are you still responsible to pay the hospital bill?
What I love about the US medical system is that my doctor, who spent 20 plus years getting a string of letters behind her name is told how to treat my chronic condition, by someone with an MBA. And before I get the anger, nothing against an MBA, but does the study behind that degree include how to practice medicine, prescribe various medications, and perform surgery? Nope! It's all about saving the insurance companies money to increase their profits because doctors were prescribing these drugs and treatments that actually worked and not cheaper generic brands that may have ingredients included that the patient might have a negative reaction to or stopgap treatments that did nothing but make it look like something was being done for the patient, since they were actually cheaper than the months of physical therapy that the doctor initially prescribed.
The bill could have been attributed to complications during or after birth, which required a hospital stay for either mom or baby.
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That is insane!!! I have had 3 kids and from when I walked out of the hospital, I owe NOTHING. Uk based
I'm just grateful my wife who had to have our son by category 1 emergency c section lives in England. Then on top of that because he was 2months prem he had to stay in nicu for couple months. I would hate to think how much it would have cost
I don’t know how you do it In Australia Child birth is free as is the health centre you take your baby to for check ups and their vaccines and the Dr visits We have a functioning public health care system, where everyone gets cared for Sure it could be better, but it’s a damn sight better than what ya’ll got
Healthy people are more productive people. We do pay for some things, but Medicare is a single payer insurance scheme so it's bigger than the "health companies". The fundamental difference is that health care is for exactly that. Making sick people better.
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I agree. Also, why force women to bear the brunt of the cost of pregnancy? Little to no insurance to pay for it, and.... and... no repercussions for the man in the entire thing! Where was he in all this? The woman or young girl can't get pregnant alone! Need that sperm to do that! What about child support? DNA can prove paternity, now, but where are the laws stating that the male responsible must lay his part. Job or no job. Whatever. If he can have sex, then he should help pay for this baby the states are making you carry. At the least.
1.2 mill for a birth? Was she born covered in gold? Wtf? That’s crazy
In Ireland and most European countries, childbirth is FREE. How on earth can Americans afford a family??
I have had three children and not one of their births costs anywhere near that amount. The birth. If the child was born too early or had medical issues, that could be where the 1.2m cost set in. Weird they would charge a doctor that much. Other doctors I know get free medical care as part of their benefit package. Unless she isnt that kind of doctor...
I've said it before I'll say it again.... abortion is NOT f*****g birth control. If you can't afford to have a child close your damn legs. Use BC, wear a condom....whatever. And lastly Adoption is also a viable option. Now don't get me wrong if something is 100% medically necessary that's one thing. But stop crying about birthing a child "you didn't want" when you made the grown decision to have sex. It's that simple.
Y'all are off a lot cheaper hopping on a plane and going to a hospital in any other country. Get Swiss mountain air as a bonus.
If pregnant go to Europe, pay you costs and come home debt free (or nearly)
Now it makes sense why legalized abortions are being fought against. Babies are a goldmine. Oo
In Japan, childbirth is not covered by insurance. In fact, it's one of only a handful of procedures not covered. However, my hometown covered 100% of the cost. If there had been complications, insurance would have covered it. In Japan there are caps on how much a person can be expected to pay for a procedure, per month and per year in order to avoid medical debt. 20% of 1.2 million is still 240,000 dollars. That's ridiculous!
Is this true or is this lady exaggerating? I genuinely would like to know as all the bad stuff I hear about the US medical system is in places like BP. Thanks in advance.
Unfortunately this really does happen here in the US. Not just with births. My dad scraped his leg to the bone and instead of paying hundreds of dollars he didn’t have to get stitches, he called his newly divorced wife to sew him up. Lovely, isn’t it?
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How did it cost 1.2 million when your a Doctor who gets help with treatment.
I didn't have to pay anything to birth my son (here in the U.S.) I qualified for Medicaid, and it was all free.
It was not free. The taxpayers paid for it. Which I am grateful for. I am happy that my taxes are paying for this small social net, but it is not enough. Many people who pay those taxes do not qualify for Medicaid and also cannot afford their own healthcare, and fall between the cracks. I would gladly pay more taxes if it meant that everyone had access to healthcare, without worrying about losing their home in the process.
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Um…. I just looked it up it’s more like $20,000 so idk where this lady got 1.2 million from.
$3500 per day for hospital stay, $3500 per day for NICU stay. If you and your child are in the hospital for 1 week that's $49,000. If the baby is premature and needs to be in the NICU for 1 month, that alone is $122,500. For two months? $245,000. That is JUST the stay. Doesn't account for any other surgeries, diagnostics, or anything else. It literally happened to a nurse that worked at the hospital she gave birth at. https://money.com/cost-of-giving-birth-preemie-health-insurance/
Load More Replies... How? My twins birth and 2 month hospital stay was right over half a million. Only had like $1,000 out of pocket including pre-natal care, birth, NICU stay, and an ambulance for me in labor and then one for them to be transported to a higher level hospital. And I'm in the US.
There's more than just the birth ffs! There are complications that keep a child and mother in a hospital long after a birth that add up. It's still all one bill
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Progress is making the race easier for others to help them catch up......not adding more hurdles and expect them to crawl through barb wires like you were FORCED to.
Boss: "Hey, I need you to come in today... there are some important meetings that are gonna be hosted." Me: "Going outside will literally boil your innards and melt your skin, I don't think a meeting is worth that." Boss: "DO YOU WANT THAT HOLIDAY BONUS?! DO YOU KNOW HOW REPLACABLE YOU ARE?!" Me: " *Sigh* alright."
Is a stimulus because they somehow spend that money on a offshore bank account that makes money for them and no one else? (:
I have existed under different economic systems. It's not capitalism or communism or socialism that is problem. It's greed. Every system will fail under this obscene greed displayed by our leaders ( both political and corporate). They hold up capitalism as bait to distract you from the real problem. That they are getting rich off our hard work. Stop fighting each other and start holding our leaders accountable for failing us.
I live in India. I work for an American giant. My earning puts me in top 5% of my country. And I still can't afford a 2BHK in my city. Part of the blame also needs to be put on real estate market and factors driving it up.
This is f###ing CRIMINAL!!! If he's paid back $175,000, that's more than TWICE the original loan - and he still owes even more. This is usury, plain and simple. The greedy scum that make loans like this need to be rounded up, stripped of all their ill-gotten wealth, publicly humiliated, and locked up the rest of their worthless lives in a privately-owned prison with rotten food and underpaid guards who have attitudes.
The fact that the minimum wage has not increased in 12 years is damnable. But try to raise it, and a chorus of right-wing knot-heads holler garbage about destroying jobs, $25 hamburgers, and robotized fast-food restaurants.
I quit my government job to take a job as a public school teacher. I'm a good budgeter and to pay for my apartment solo means that my savings is not so slowly deprecating as my salary (to teach children) doesn't cover my expenses to live without roommates
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I just don’t understand the “I had to suffer, so you should to” mentality. Or the “I had to pay these student loans, so you should to” gripes. How about you take that line of thinking/ anger and turn it towards the system that has created the problem in the first place? Get mad at the people who are profiting from these loans. Get mad at the corporations that pay c**p wages, not each other. Ahh yes, the brainwashing from media and our “representatives” in the senate/congress will never let that happen.
The wealthy promulgate this attitude. If we're all bitching about one another, we're not paying attention to the wealthy robbing us blind.
Load More Replies... The "great" USA has a lot more than 99 problems. Many of them stem from corporate greed. The ultra-rich and big corporations have a stranglehold on Congress, and own the hearts and souls of dozens of pundits working for TV and newspapers. Hell, they own a lot of news sources, which parrot their B.S. Conservative editorialists and cartoonists defecate their propaganda to try to bamboozle the public into believing the delusion that we call the "Great American Dream." Here is a must-watch video about private equity, the vilest of the vile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaSn0iqzVv4
And once again it seems like the majority of the memes refer to US problems. It isn't all sunny elsewhere, but especially the lacking union and massive medical/- student loan things look like a foreign concept here in Germany
Very true and it just opens us up to a lot of anti-america sentiment. I know we're not a perfect country but our laws are not necessarily our people. We do have a lot of people trying to change things around here but it's hard when the rich can afford their own lobbyists.
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US healthcare should be fixed asap., no way should anyone go bankrupt over a sick child or anyone sick. Thankfully I live in Canada and enjoy free healthcare for life. Also our min. wage in Ont. is about 15 going to 16 soon but should be 20-25 an hour. Costs are out of control and wages need to keep up.
People: You don't have savings??😳😳😬 Me: No. Unfortunately I choose to have a place to live and food with my money...instead of saving it and starving.
*bp pyramid scheme bot voice* I make 7.25 an hour and have no chance to even rent an apartment! Gas prices have rocketed, but I don't worry since I know that the billionaires and millionaires will help me! Life has no point anymore!
I think about this thing a lot: https://www.reddit.com/r/COMPLETEANARCHY/comments/jauuvo/korean_dragons_are_comrades/ the Yeongno is a korean legend (I am so sorry if I’m getting this wrong) that eats rich people. If it eats 100 of them, the yeongno can go to heaven 😊
Yeah entitled to a living wage, healthcare, a home and food and clean water? That's what being entitled means to you These things are human rights that every other first world country has even the capitalist/socialist countries. The only people that benefit from democratic socialism in the US are the wealthy while they brainwash the masses of it's evils have been born into their wealth. They did not earn it. It was generational. You are not a soon to be millionaire dude. That's not how it works in this day and age. No one works up or works hard into being a millionaire, it is handed to you by your relatives. 691 billionaires in the US all of them come from generational wealth. Not one worked hard for it. They own all the wealth all of it.
Load More Replies... Stop bitching about how wealthy people are taking advantage of everyone else. In my business I have met many and many wealthy people, and let me tell you, I've never met a more miserable set of people in my life. Their lives are no better than ordinary people, they just have bigger problems. If you're a miserable f-ck it doesn't matter how much money you have. I'd rather live in my little house and feel that I don't owe anybody anything, maybe have to scratch around sometimes to pay my bills, but I'm happy to work and pay my own way. Everyone who is bitching about how billionaires should be giving money to everyone would probably be as tight fisted as possible
I just don’t understand the “I had to suffer, so you should to” mentality. Or the “I had to pay these student loans, so you should to” gripes. How about you take that line of thinking/ anger and turn it towards the system that has created the problem in the first place? Get mad at the people who are profiting from these loans. Get mad at the corporations that pay c**p wages, not each other. Ahh yes, the brainwashing from media and our “representatives” in the senate/congress will never let that happen.
The wealthy promulgate this attitude. If we're all bitching about one another, we're not paying attention to the wealthy robbing us blind.
Load More Replies... The "great" USA has a lot more than 99 problems. Many of them stem from corporate greed. The ultra-rich and big corporations have a stranglehold on Congress, and own the hearts and souls of dozens of pundits working for TV and newspapers. Hell, they own a lot of news sources, which parrot their B.S. Conservative editorialists and cartoonists defecate their propaganda to try to bamboozle the public into believing the delusion that we call the "Great American Dream." Here is a must-watch video about private equity, the vilest of the vile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaSn0iqzVv4
And once again it seems like the majority of the memes refer to US problems. It isn't all sunny elsewhere, but especially the lacking union and massive medical/- student loan things look like a foreign concept here in Germany
Very true and it just opens us up to a lot of anti-america sentiment. I know we're not a perfect country but our laws are not necessarily our people. We do have a lot of people trying to change things around here but it's hard when the rich can afford their own lobbyists.
Load More Replies... US healthcare should be fixed asap., no way should anyone go bankrupt over a sick child or anyone sick. Thankfully I live in Canada and enjoy free healthcare for life. Also our min. wage in Ont. is about 15 going to 16 soon but should be 20-25 an hour. Costs are out of control and wages need to keep up.
People: You don't have savings??😳😳😬 Me: No. Unfortunately I choose to have a place to live and food with my money...instead of saving it and starving.
*bp pyramid scheme bot voice* I make 7.25 an hour and have no chance to even rent an apartment! Gas prices have rocketed, but I don't worry since I know that the billionaires and millionaires will help me! Life has no point anymore!
I think about this thing a lot: https://www.reddit.com/r/COMPLETEANARCHY/comments/jauuvo/korean_dragons_are_comrades/ the Yeongno is a korean legend (I am so sorry if I’m getting this wrong) that eats rich people. If it eats 100 of them, the yeongno can go to heaven 😊
Yeah entitled to a living wage, healthcare, a home and food and clean water? That's what being entitled means to you These things are human rights that every other first world country has even the capitalist/socialist countries. The only people that benefit from democratic socialism in the US are the wealthy while they brainwash the masses of it's evils have been born into their wealth. They did not earn it. It was generational. You are not a soon to be millionaire dude. That's not how it works in this day and age. No one works up or works hard into being a millionaire, it is handed to you by your relatives. 691 billionaires in the US all of them come from generational wealth. Not one worked hard for it. They own all the wealth all of it.
Load More Replies... Stop bitching about how wealthy people are taking advantage of everyone else. In my business I have met many and many wealthy people, and let me tell you, I've never met a more miserable set of people in my life. Their lives are no better than ordinary people, they just have bigger problems. If you're a miserable f-ck it doesn't matter how much money you have. I'd rather live in my little house and feel that I don't owe anybody anything, maybe have to scratch around sometimes to pay my bills, but I'm happy to work and pay my own way. Everyone who is bitching about how billionaires should be giving money to everyone would probably be as tight fisted as possible
