ALL TWENTY OF THEM
lolz. Seriously, this is I guess what’s really left of the rogue Occupy Atlanta movement. This is close to where I work, and when I got an email from building management that there was a planned Occupy Atlanta protest at 2 p.m. today, I could wait to “have to get a refill” at Starbucks then.
So much for the mighty movement that was supposedly supposed to change the face of modern society and commerce or something like that.
And out of these twenty people, I’m fairly positive that seven of these people are homeless recruits. It’s not uncommon practice in this city for protesters to recruit homeless folks, promise them twenty bucks to stand amongst them or pass out flyer or something like that. One passerby straight up asked one of the suspected homeless guys if they understood what the protest was about, only to be met with a blank stare, before one of the hipster douches of the group intervened.
It really is kind of a fascinating dynamic, as small of a faction as they are now. You have homeless guys, hipsters with wayfarers and/or Jew-fros, elderly hippie activists, and a few token attractive girls who are designated pieces of ass to reel in dudes to come and talk and receive literature about their anti-societal rhetoric.
But my favorite is this guy, in another photo I took:
I’m thinking he’s one of the recruits or something, because he’s holding up his end of the sign in one hand, but in the other hand is clearly texting or taking a picture, but the thing is that he’s not actually paying any attention to the so-called protesting he’s there to do.
