Occupy 2.5: Laughter at the Edge of Collapse

By Jericho Slade, WPS.News, Ad-Hoc Historian
📅 Scheduled: September 4, 2025
🔗 https://occupy25.com

In a time when truth feels like contraband and irony dies a thousand deaths a day, a strange signal keeps pulsing through the digital fog: Occupy 2.5. It’s part circus, part siren. A mix of gallows humor, historical fury, and the kind of insight only earned by people who’ve lost sleep and hope, more than once.

Born in the long shadow of Occupy Wall Street, Occupy 2.5 isn’t a reboot—it’s a reckoning. It carries the DNA of protest, but spliced with satire sharp enough to scar. The name alone dares you to misunderstand it. That’s the point. It’s messy, it’s noisy, and it doesn’t hold your hand. Because at this stage of decline, no one should need help finding the fire.

Dr. Cliff Potts—the voice, architect, and historical instigator behind the platform—has spent decades chronicling America’s slow slide toward corporate theocracy and democratic decay. His earlier works, including SpiritFlight (Potts, 2023) and Conspirators, Confederates, and Christians (Potts, 2014), warned of exactly the power structures we now see openly thriving. Nobody listened.

That failure to listen gave birth to Occupy 2.5.

Now, Potts uses satire the way a surgeon uses a scalpel. Posts skewer the stupidity of the “idiot class” running the nation. Horror-laced stories reflect the real grotesquery of late-stage capitalism. And everything—everything—is meant to call out how bad it’s gotten, while forcing readers to laugh just enough to stay awake.

As Potts himself puts it, “We aren’t trying to go viral. We’re trying to go vital.”

That distinction matters. Going viral means playing to the algorithm. Going vital means telling the truth even if it means exile. Even if the audience isn’t ready. Even if the censors are watching. It means looking collapse in the eye and cracking a joke—not to distract, but to connect.

Occupy 2.5’s platform is clear: Expose corruption. Mock the enablers. Chronicle the absurd. And most of all—refuse to shut up.

It’s also a library of warnings. With archival posts dating back years, it documents the warnings nobody wanted and the predictions everyone is now living through. The page has become a battlefield report from the front lines of America’s democratic decay.

So what is Occupy 2.5?

It’s the bastard child of Mad Magazine and The Onion raised by radicals. It’s news in clown paint and combat boots. It’s the whisper in your feed saying: “This is all real. And it’s all ridiculous. Don’t look away.”

Visit: https://occupy25.com
Because truth needs teeth. And sometimes, it needs punchlines too.

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📚 APA Citations:

Potts, C. (2014). Conspirators, Confederates, and Christians: Occupy Wall Street Edition. Lulu Publishing.
Potts, C. (2023). SpiritFlight. Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPB3KDFS