“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.”
These dumbos seem to forget everything is easily discovered these days.
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.
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!
Load More Replies...Point is, even if that were true, it never should have come to that. No one should never have to do that.
No, that's not the point of Ingraham's relentless lies. Do not defend an as*hole or you also become one.
Load More Replies...Conservatives always think the rest of us are dumb, and don’t know about fact checking.
And they're 30% right. Doesn't seem like much until you realize that 30% votes.
Load More Replies...That Laura's not worth her mother's stretch marks ...rest in peace Mrs. Ingraham
"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
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.
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?".
When science discovers a new parasite they need to name it something like "Laurus Ingrahamus" or similar.
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.
Don't know how she looks herself in the mirror or her kids in the eyes. There is no low she will not go.
Is she forgetting in that time you could get a cartload of food for $20
when i was a kid you could put everything you could possibly stuff into a shopping cart. $12 was a lot for a full cart back then.
Load More Replies......to pay for OUR college. Who's OUR? Siblings? "They" should have helped "their" mom.
Laura let her mom keep working as a waitress at 73? To pay HER debts? Ungrateful brat!
According to The Other 98%, whoever wins the battle of the story wins the war. So the organization specializes in fighting this battle of the story through meme warfare with some of the internet’s most viral original political content. “Our massive online storytelling machine aims to disentangle complex policy, connect dots between issues like climate justice and reparations, and provide a home for like-minded — and not so like-minded — people to take ownership of these memes, and fight for them accordingly,” they claim.
Those @s$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
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.
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
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