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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.”

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Sue Hazlewood
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These dumbos seem to forget everything is easily discovered these days.

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Joe Reaves
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mother had to go through this terrible thing, so damnit everyone else needs to suffer too!!!! No, a normal human response to something shitty happening to someone you love is to want to change things so no one else ever has to suffer like that. Unless you're a cold hearted b***h who doesn't care about anyone but themselves.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Exactly! Like: my grandparent has fought in WW2, millions suffered and died. People wanting to live in peace is an insult for those who fought and perished! They have it too easy these days!

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Andie Day
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dammit, why can't this be front line news. She's such a lying scumbag.

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abby smink
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Point is, even if that were true, it never should have come to that. No one should never have to do that.

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Hedgeh og
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, that's not the point of Ingraham's relentless lies. Do not defend an as*hole or you also become one.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Conservatives always think the rest of us are dumb, and don’t know about fact checking.

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Wintermute
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And they're 30% right. Doesn't seem like much until you realize that 30% votes.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That Laura's not worth her mother's stretch marks ...rest in peace Mrs. Ingraham

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Emperor Kitten
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"I survived polio as a kid. No one should have the readily available vaccine because it wouldn't be fair to me." -Someone equally stupid to this guy

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't believe her for a single second. The woman went to school during a time when it was easily affordable and had great jobs afterwards, there's no way her mother worked that long unless she wanted to or had to because her daughter with the well paying career right out of school wouldn't help her mother. And even if it were true, your response to a situation like this shouldn't be "everyone should suffer equally", it should be to try to fix it to make it better for others so they DON'T have to go through that. And even after all that, if your mother gave up so much of her life, including years she should have retired at, and you don't see a problem with that?! I'll never understand this woman, she seems to think American people are supposed to work all day, every day for decades and that's it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love how conservatives have such a narrow minded view on welfare programs and government aid. It shouldn't be "If I didn't/ can't have it, no one can" when it should be "How can we make it happen for everyone?".

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Juan Ghote
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When science discovers a new parasite they need to name it something like "Laurus Ingrahamus" or similar.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't know who the f**k DaLip is, but they're my new favorite person.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Poverty and self sustainability sometimes go hand in hand. Parents also won't always accept financial help from their children. Stories are always more complex than one side.

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Nikki Hilton
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't know how she looks herself in the mirror or her kids in the eyes. There is no low she will not go.

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Anna Lessens
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is she forgetting in that time you could get a cartload of food for $20

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WoodenLion
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

when i was a kid you could put everything you could possibly stuff into a shopping cart. $12 was a lot for a full cart back then.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

...to pay for OUR college. Who's OUR? Siblings? "They" should have helped "their" mom.

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Amelia Earhart
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Laura let her mom keep working as a waitress at 73? To pay HER debts? Ungrateful brat!

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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.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those @s$holes asked for it! If they had been real men they would have assisted the ladies.

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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.

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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.”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*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

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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.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's rude to ask someone what they earn in a social situation. That's not the same as a conversation between colleagues.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is a stimulus because they somehow spend that money on a offshore bank account that makes money for them and no one else? (:

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Legislation needs to be made that helps people out. Not enough is being done. Everyone is out to make the most money possible. Every new apartment I see going up is for rich people. Nothing for low income.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just got insurance at my job, but come to find out, it's still going to cost me $400 to get glasses. They only cover getting my eyes checked. Not the remedy. What's the point??

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's cheaper to throw a few million at the politicians than to come out of your pockets for billions in taxes.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’ll never understand this—how some of the people who work the hardest for the smallest pay can support capitalist ideals.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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