Occupy founder calls on Obama to appoint Eric Schmidt 'CEO of America'

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The petition is here:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/transfer-all-feder...

Current number of votes: 2.

Justine Tunney is not the founder of the Occupy movement.

There is no "Occupy founder", and in fact the movement went to extraordinary lengths not to have any leaders or anyone in any position of authority to "speak for" it, which proved to limit its ability to succeed.

This is an example of the hasty generalization fallacy: falsely declaring a single individual/event to be representative of an entire movement/all events.

Yes, some wonder if Tunney, and the others controlling occupywallst.org, are some kind of performance art/joke. They run a "Boutique Activist Consultancy" which "serves a hand-picked international clientele of people’s parties, political celebrities, and emergent social movements." (http://occupywallst.org/about/)

On @OccupyWallSt, one of the tweets when she started using that platform is "I think Weev is one of the most brilliant people of our generation." Yes, Weev: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#Trolling)

Graeber claimed, "oh she was involved in the early comms team. Quickly stopped going to big meetings as she disliked democracy, esp consensus" (https://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status/438688288313212928)

Wouldn't surprise me. She talks in circles with ideologies. Her political philosophy is....spaghetti code.

A story about a petition with 2 signatures (2!) created by someone who's main qualification doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Slow news day huh?

There's nothing wrong with a little bit of comedy every now and then to lighten things up.

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