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Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before... by Dalewyn on Sunday August 20, 2023 @11:41AM (#37200196)
I am serious when I call them disasters:

* Occupy Wall Street was ultimately nothing more than dividing the country, enraging the poor and middle class against the rich with some vague and never explained anger narrative. This one particularly hits me since I, being the young fool I was, got taken for a ride back then. What a waste of my (and the country's) time and energy that was.

* MeToo only made man<->woman relations more difficult and tedious for no significant benefit. The crimes alleged are obviously absolutely unacceptable, but the way the movement was carried out made women in general a liability to interact with.

* Arab Spring drove the Middle East and Northern Africa into further turmoil. In particular leading to a civil war in Syria that still rages to this day, and pushing back any chances for a democracy in Egypt by at least several generations.

If this is truly the best that can be mustered, then good riddance.

Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before... by johannes1234321 on Sunday August 20, 2023 @11:53AM (#37200308)
> * MeToo only made man<->woman relations more difficult and tedious for no significant benefit.

Back in the days it was easy as a man to mistreat women. Made men's life easy ...

Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before... by zuminator on Sunday August 20, 2023 @12:03PM (#37200404)
> but the way the movement was carried out made women in general a liability to interact with.

That statement only begins to make sense from the POV that the default human being is a man and that whatever benefits women received from the heightened scrutiny of sexual offenses in the workplace aren't even worthy of enumeration.

Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before... by bloopernova on Sunday August 20, 2023 @12:55PM (#37200893)
As a thought experiment, how do you think the women you know would react to your characterization of the #metoo movement? Would you feel comfortable showing them your comment?
Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before... by kmeisthax on Sunday August 20, 2023 @01:46PM (#37201338)
Back during OWS the main point of outrage was large banks using government money to subsidize their bad bets. Nobody liked this, not even the people giving the banks that government money. But we did it anyway, and the resulting moral hazards of over a decade of 0% interest rates and no antitrust enforcement gave us something even more insane than capitalism: techno-feudalism[0].

I question your read of MeToo's effects, mostly because it does not jive with my experience. What line of work are you in where women are a liability to work with?

Twitter causing the Arab Spring was largely marketing to westerners and not truth. The Arab Spring happened because the price of food spiked, not because Twitter was magically easier to access than the hundreds of other forms of communication people had access to.

[0] As coined by Cory Doctorow. Some other left-wingers call it "late-stage capitalism".