re: #257 Killgore Trout

A good article on the OWS debt buying thing: Occupy Wall Street’s Rolling Jubilee: Your questions answered

Does the plan work? Yes
Will it change anything? No, it’s symbolic
Is OWS still a bunch of douchebags? Yes

Oh, I see. It turns out that the people in Redhook that I helped out by delivering meals to I didn’t actually help, because I didn’t deliver to all of them. It was just symbolic.

One of the best outcomes of the Rolling Jubilee is still the good old-fashioned charity of it. If the project takes off, and the group’s moles buy the right loans, thousands of families will get a break, while Occupy spreads its message.

Like the group’s efforts to coordinate relief for victims of Hurricane Sandy, the project is part of a smarter, even softer, approach to anti-capitalist revolution. As far as a movement goes, it beats drum circles.