Former Podemos member mocks Podemos supporters with Sol camp hashtag
A post on X ridicules Podemos' ideas on renting using the hashtag of the Sol camp, the 2011 15M protest camp in Madrid.
English · Original discussion in Spanish · Published
A person identified as a former Podemos member is spreading a song in a lecture-style tone that mocks what their former party stands for on renting. The post carries the hashtag of the Sol camp.
## The joke comes with the Sol hashtag
A former Podemos member — as identified in the post itself — shares a recording in which they laugh at their former party's prescriptions on renting. The tone is that of a teacher: they call listeners "kids" and promise "a little bit of basic economics." The text is accompanied by the hashtag **#acampadasol**, the same one used by the **Puerta del Sol** camp in May **2011**.
## Why that hashtag carries weight
That camp was the **15M** movement's encampment, the movement that in **2011** put housing and evictions at the centre of public debate. The founders of **Podemos**, registered as a party in **2014**, later emerged from that orbit. That someone shaped there now uses that symbol to mock the group's ideas on renting is, at the very least, curious.
## What the post does not say
There is no proposal or figure of its own in the message. It is a political parody, not an economic analysis: it should not be read as a diagnosis of the rental market or as data about it.
## The joke comes with the Sol hashtag
A former Podemos member — as identified in the post itself — shares a recording in which they laugh at their former party's prescriptions on renting. The tone is that of a teacher: they call listeners "kids" and promise "a little bit of basic economics." The text is accompanied by the hashtag **#acampadasol**, the same one used by the **Puerta del Sol** camp in May **2011**.
## Why that hashtag carries weight
That camp was the **15M** movement's encampment, the movement that in **2011** put housing and evictions at the centre of public debate. The founders of **Podemos**, registered as a party in **2014**, later emerged from that orbit. That someone shaped there now uses that symbol to mock the group's ideas on renting is, at the very least, curious.
## What the post does not say
There is no proposal or figure of its own in the message. It is a political parody, not an economic analysis: it should not be read as a diagnosis of the rental market or as data about it.
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