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Why I Despise the Modern "Protest" Movement

Started by RPGPundit, July 05, 2011, 01:28:56 AM

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jibbajibba

#15
July 05, 2011, 11:40:07 AM
Quote from: Insufficient Metal;466750I agree with the motivation behind the protest, but I think their execution reeks of entitlement. Witness the girl who got stopped by the cops, started shrieking "don't touch me!" and then concocted a hysterical lie about it to try to drum up drama.

Well in the UK they would have beaten her to death with truncheons although subsequently in a full blown coroner's report the police responsible would have been found guilty of excessive force and suspended
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July 05, 2011, 12:44:23 PM
Quote from: jibbajibba;466753Well in the UK they would have beaten her to death with truncheons although subsequently in a full blown coroner's report the police responsible would have been found guilty of excessive force and suspended

Or they would have pulled cerebral palsy victims out of wheelchairs.
Or hit and kill innocent bystanders from behind.
Or kettle children for 8 hours without even access to a toilet.
Or charged children on horseback.
Or lied to people doing nothing more than standing in a shop then subsequently break their promise and arrest them, strip searching 15yo kids.
Or do Murdoch's bidding while murdered children have their phones hacked by scumbag ghoul journalists.
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danbuter

#17
July 05, 2011, 12:56:54 PM
Damn. I thought the US police was bad. The UK is a tiny country and it lets all this crap happen?
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#18
July 05, 2011, 12:59:52 PM
Quote from: Ghost Whistler;466764Or do Murdoch's bidding while murdered children have their phones hacked by scumbag ghoul journalists.

Wait, are you claiming that Sky News and Fox Broadcasting is responsible for cases of police brutality in the UK?
"Meh."

two_fishes

#19
July 05, 2011, 01:21:08 PM
Tempest, meet teapot.

Ghost Whistler

#20
July 05, 2011, 01:33:46 PM
Quote from: danbuter;466765Damn. I thought the US police was bad. The UK is a tiny country and it lets all this crap happen?
The UK has become a giant shithole unfortunately, heading the way of the US. It's all a giant race to the bottom and if people don't protest we'll get there much sooner.
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#21
July 05, 2011, 01:34:16 PM
Quote from: jeff37923;466768Wait, are you claiming that Sky News and Fox Broadcasting is responsible for cases of police brutality in the UK?

Nope. Though nothing about the Murdoch empire would surprise me.
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#22
July 05, 2011, 01:35:08 PM
Quote from: two_fishes;466769Tempest, meet teapot.
meaning?
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two_fishes

#23
July 05, 2011, 01:40:10 PM
Quote from: Ghost Whistler;466774meaning?

In response to the OP I mean. Some kids at NYU stage a ridiculous protest, Pundit gets a rant in.

jeff37923

#24
July 05, 2011, 01:59:37 PM
Quote from: Ghost Whistler;466772It's all a giant race to the bottom and if people don't protest we'll get there much sooner.

What would you protest?

How would you protest it?
"Meh."

Ian Warner

#25
July 05, 2011, 02:36:31 PM
Quote from: jeff37923;466768Wait, are you claiming that Sky News and Fox Broadcasting is responsible for cases of police brutality in the UK?

No but they do hack the phones of missing persons and delete messages that could indicate they are now murder victims.

Algedly.
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jeff37923

#26
July 05, 2011, 02:39:05 PM
Quote from: Ian Warner;466788No but they do hack the phones of missing persons and delete messages that could indicate they are now murder victims.

Algedly.

Sky News and Fox Broadcasting does this?
"Meh."

Ghost Whistler

#27
July 05, 2011, 03:23:25 PM
Quote from: jeff37923;466781What would you protest?

How would you protest it?

I want an end to capitalism and specifically our current unelected undemocratic crew of spineless money grubbing savages.

What I would do is what I do do: what I can.

I don't profess to have all the answers (though there are very simple solutions to the current myth of financial turmoil, most starting with the letter T and ending in ax dodging). But I don't need to in order to know that things have to change before we all end up in the workhouse.
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#28
July 05, 2011, 03:25:17 PM
Quote from: jeff37923;466789Sky News and Fox Broadcasting does this?

Specifically? Who knows as of yet. Though they are hardly bastions of good and impartial journalism. Sky certainly is the most ridiculous news organ full of Murdochian mouthpieces.

But the news of the world is owned by News International headed by the former editor of the latter and is itself owned by Murdoch, the pope of cunts.
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#29
July 05, 2011, 05:26:13 PM
That sounds like some completely stupid reasons to organize a protest to me.

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Building a great .htaccess block file out of it, and eventually they'll run out of websites to post comments from. About half come from the US... The rest China, Brazil, Bosnia, Spain, Hungary, Africa. Some of the spammers even have the balls to post "Sorry, I need to eat", in their messages along with their spam ads.

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