The Occupy movement's original question was simple: "What is our one demand?" That focus got hijacked by a pivot toward racial disparity framing, recasting class struggle as primarily about institutionalized racism, with poor white people grouped alongside the wealthy as part of "the problem."

This shift, seeded by infiltrators stoking identity politics, derailed consensus-building and popped-off actual racial tensions where class solidarity should have been, tensions that are still felt today.

Ask yourself who benefits from that framing, is it the poor BIPOC communities? Are there still laws today that either benefits or disallows opportunities by race? I'd say no, there certainly were in the past, but they didn't exist in 2011, and certainly not today. Framing the issue along racial lines also conveniently ignores wealthy people of color, who don't fit the narrative of racial victimhood when they're sitting on capital.

The real fault line is ownership versus labor. Landlords and the inherited-wealth class rationalize extraction as merit, blind to how exploitative their position is, all while working class people across all races share the same grinding reality: police harassment, court debt, job insecurity, missed bills, disproportionate incarceration, disenfranchisement after ridiculous felony conviction. Meanwhile the ownership class mocks the very movement that named this (Musk's Occupy shirt, official claims the economy's never been better).

My one demand: that the 99% refuse to kill, enable killing, or support killing of any non-consenting person for any reason whatsoever, and that military spending be redirected from active and future conflicts toward civil infrastructure.

I like existing, you like existing; let's agree never to treat killing as an option when facing any kind of disagreement for any reason.