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by sarahnadav 3661 days ago
Also- just FYI, John Oliver was paying off expired medical debt which was actually very useless and one of the most annoying media exploits of the defaulted debt industry I have ever seen. He didn't actually help anyone.

Plus he was copying Occupy Wallstreet that paid of 35 mil of actual medical debt for people and forgave it without giving them any credit.

#justsayin
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touristtam 3661 days ago
oh you mean this? http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/06/john-oliver-m...

Just ping JO through twitter to ask for an acknowledgement on his next show?

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sarahnadav 3660 days ago
Funny you say that. I thought it was weird that he didn't mention it because I've been in the industry for years.

But apparently, he left them out on purpose so as not to be associated with Occupiers (according to them) http://blog.debtcollective.org/whos-afraid-of-occupy-hbos-jo...

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smt88 3660 days ago
> he left them out on purpose so as not to be associated with Occupiers

That was probably a good idea. Some people (including some liberals) would close their ears as soon as they heard about any association with Occupy.

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sarahnadav 3660 days ago
If I were him, I would have put it in at the end, but I would have included what they did even if he didn't say he worked WITH them.

What they did was very important- and as an economist I would say that they deserve to be included in the history of dealing with this massive debt problem

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