Any farmer knows that pulling weeds is just another part of a mostly thankless job, so can you blame Occupy Oakland for losing its patience when conservatives started popping up everywhere in its Twitter timeline? Who, though, could resist pointing out the irony of the people of #OccupyTheFarm asking for donations of fresh greens? Twitter stalwart Sooper Mexican and friends certainly couldn’t.
#occupythefarm #otf needs support for dinner! Donations of food such as salad or fresh greens & hot food will keep farmers strong!
— Oakland Uprising (@oaklanduprising) May 18, 2013
lazy hippies!! RT @OccupyOakland: #occupythefarm #otf needs support for dinner! Donations of food such as salad or fresh greens & hot food
— ¡El Sooopèrr! ن c137 (@SooperMexican) May 18, 2013
Farming Protip: You're supposed to feed us. MT @OccupyOakland: #occupythefarm needs dinner! Donations of food such as salad or fresh greens
— jon gabriel (@exjon) May 18, 2013
https://twitter.com/DefendWallSt/status/335874341004795905
https://twitter.com/OrwellForce/status/335875217995997184
I don't understand the point of Occupy the Farm.
— American Journalists Publish Chinese Propaganda (@JohnEkdahl) May 18, 2013
They don’t either. RT @JohnEkdahl: I don't understand the point of Occupy the Farm.
— RBe (@RBPundit) May 18, 2013
The Huffington Post has all you need to know about Occupy the Farm, but in short, the University of California is looking to sell the site of its former International Center for Biological Control to a private developer. Occupy, though, began a “campaign of direct action farming and guerilla food distribution” last year to preserve Gill Tract as an urban farm. HuffPo reports that occupiers “cleared the farm’s weeds by hand and planted over two acres of vegetables,” but photos from today’s occupation don’t really show it.
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real farmers actually work, not stand around in the shade, stupid hippies. RT @buddrums: #occupythefarm pic.twitter.com/XXxM73GcoY
— ¡El Sooopèrr! ن c137 (@SooperMexican) May 18, 2013
Good job Tom Hanks, where's Wilson?! RT @redwoodfog: 100% organic dwelling at #OccupyTheFarm http://t.co/oTamxi1W4h
— ¡El Sooopèrr! ن c137 (@SooperMexican) May 18, 2013
@SooperMexican @redwoodfog Wilson is under the hat, he needs shade too.
— Leeta (@LeetaSweet) May 18, 2013
@SooperMexican @redwoodfog would have fired my kids if they had built anything like this when they were building stuff in woods; ages 5 & 9
— Chuck Brewer (@ChuckBrewer1) May 18, 2013
There’s the shelter, but where’s the food? The first crop was reportedly twinklefingers.
#occupythefarm members are doing #twinklefingers to show support for crossing the police line; 25 OTF, 7-8 counter protestors
— Berkeleyside (@berkeleyside) May 18, 2013
The revolutionary banjo has arrived #occupythefarm
— Berkeleyside (@berkeleyside) May 18, 2013
The banjo player says he's here for moral support; "music got its start in the fields, it belongs there" #occupythefarm
— Berkeleyside (@berkeleyside) May 18, 2013
https://twitter.com/DefendWallSt/status/335891743956426752
Migrant workers are driving by #OccupyTheFarm and laughing their asses off at the dumb gringos.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) May 18, 2013
If only we were all as productive and idealistic as #occupythefarm…we'd be starving to death and eating each other. #tcot #tlot
— Lee V (@AllDayLeeV) May 18, 2013
Come on down, plenty of shade and weed. Bring Cheetos and #occupythefarm
— James Humphreys ?? (@BPratto) May 18, 2013
https://twitter.com/OneTonTurtle/status/335901095316574208
As kid, I helped work on my Grandparents farm. They'd have give the #OccupyTheFarm crowd 5 minutes. Then they'd've put cows in that pasture.
— MyIdiotDog (@MyIdiotDawg) May 18, 2013
If #OccupyTheFarm's beef is with state-owned land… there is an assload of cheap farmland available for purchase across the nation.
— MyIdiotDog (@MyIdiotDawg) May 18, 2013
@occupyfarm real farmers grow food, not beg for donations, smoke weed, and sleep in sleeping bags. Lazy hippies. #OccupyTheFarm
— Tim "Shackelford" Bishop (@TheTimBishop) May 18, 2013
#OccupyTheFarm How about #occupyajob?
— JeffC (@JeffChrz) May 18, 2013
More like "Occupy the Animal Farm" #communism
— Razor (@hale_razor) May 18, 2013
https://twitter.com/DefendWallSt/status/335874855843004416
Laugh all you like, conservatives (Sooper Mexican’s coverage will help facilitate that), but know that your ridicule stems from fear — fear that capitalism is eating itself. Now bring those salads and some hot food.
https://twitter.com/alyssa011968/status/335897715475103745
https://twitter.com/alyssa011968/status/335904204822544386
https://twitter.com/alyssa011968/status/335903722838302720
@alyssa011968 – OMG, that pig pic makes my fists clenched like … grrrrrr! Looks just like a Storm Trooper in Iraq 🙁
— Donut Be Evil (@NJND_OO) May 18, 2013
@alyssa011968 Is *punching* a cop considered "talking" to them? heehee 🙂 #OccupyTheFarm #OO #FTP
— Donut Be Evil (@NJND_OO) May 18, 2013
https://twitter.com/alyssa011968/status/335905831256195072
Look, some food grew!
https://twitter.com/alyssa011968/status/335911645610131456
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