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Photos from today's RNC protest... (34th Street to Union Square)
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Firest0rm said:
No "no carb" diet is awesome and the "not a focus group" one too
RobotChant
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Photoshop candidate?
I hope the media shows the signs these people are holding up.
One look at half those signs and the American people will know to ignore them.
The usual stuff it looks like.
Bush is a terrorist and more dangerous than Osama yadda.....yadda....yadda...
These people are funny without even trying to be.
One look at half those signs and the American people will know to ignore them.
The usual stuff it looks like.
Bush is a terrorist and more dangerous than Osama yadda.....yadda....yadda...
These people are funny without even trying to be.
videogamer
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The guy in the middle-frontish drinking the water bottle is awesome
Pah I've never gotten to join a protest yet. Need to do that before I end undergrad.
God's Hand
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Why do people protest anyway? It does nothing. You'll forget it in a week. I guess if you have nothing better to do, it's fine.
Thank you.AstroLad said:
The hippies of the Vietnam War era, for instance, did a LOT to change how America engaged the world and its citizens. Or how the protest at the WTO made world leaders more conscious of globalization and exploitation. Marches of this kind CAN be effective.
God's Hand
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Point me to a protest in the past 10... 15 years that you remember having an affect on an administration's policies.
DJ Demon J
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These pictures are begging to be photoshopped in a console-wars thread.
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Socreges said:
That was kind of when the protests started up again.... after that there were like huge protests at like every major world meeting.
Boogie9IGN
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:lol @ Ronald McDonald and 'Tell Jesus I said hello'
God's Hand said:
I agree. What's even more pathetic is the troop of retards that would gather every Saturday on the same street corner in the town where I went to school in an attempt to somehow stop the war. What exactly do they think they're accomplishing? If anything, they're just pushing moderates Bush's way with their ferocity.
Seriously, if protesting did anything, it would've stopped the Iraq war before it started.
Minotauro said:
By that brilliant logic, the suffragettes and blacks during the civil rights movement should have never protested since they didn't get immediate results; in fact, they had to endure years of suffering before they even began to make any ground, but I guess standing up for what you believe in doesn't mean shit to many people anymore.
Meier said:
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What type of socialist prick wants to reinstate the draft? It's a horrible idea to force people to work a job that they don't want to. It'll make the military less effective, and in turn cause more casualties (which I'm sure is exactly what those same pricks want). If there are people already willing to fight for us, it's counter-productive to force the unwilling.
These protests do nothing. A protest is nothing more than a show of support when peaceful, and considering this is an election year with a close race, there are already enough polls being done out there to figure out how many people believe what.
AstroLad said:
There's a world of difference between a black man risking dog bites to let his voice be heard and a failed yuppie hippie standing on a street corner with a sign that says "Honk if you want the war to stop."
Goodcow said:
There are other avenues for social change aside from protesting. It's just that it requires the least amount of commitment. It's incredibly easy to simply go stand around with a group of like-minded people and hope that your voice is heard.
I guess I'm not saying that protesting is completely worthless. In the past, it has been successful in some cases. Nowadays, though, protests resemble a football tailgate party more than an agent of social change.
MrPing1000
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+10 faith in not all American's being stupid
Please, at least make an effort to be well informed before you reply to a topic you obviously know nothing about.hooo said:
A.) The bill was just introduce to make a political statement about how the rich create wars for their own gain, while the children of the poor are the ones that must do all of the fighting and dying.
B.) Those pricks what higher casualties? Youre insinuating that a US Congressmen has taken steps to purposefully cause the deaths of a great number of Americans? Are you insane?
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Well, for one, you're discussing it.Minotauro said:
Second, they're getting lots of media coverage.
Oh please, not the anti-france / communism mindset, again.
France is our ally. Always has been our ally. They are the ONLY country in the world we have NEVER feuded with, that has been around since the USA was made it's own country. Just because they didn't support us in the war on Iraq doesn't mean they hate us, or that they're our enemy.
and Communism is simply another way of running a country. It works VERY well in agricultural countries, such as vietnam, but it's a disaster for industrialized countries (like Soviet Russia).
France is our ally. Always has been our ally. They are the ONLY country in the world we have NEVER feuded with, that has been around since the USA was made it's own country. Just because they didn't support us in the war on Iraq doesn't mean they hate us, or that they're our enemy.
and Communism is simply another way of running a country. It works VERY well in agricultural countries, such as vietnam, but it's a disaster for industrialized countries (like Soviet Russia).
Here's a pro-Bush sign I found over at a post on MeFi. It's from someone's blog or something so I'm just going to post the link.
http://photos.tetto.org/march/?image=DSC_2052
http://photos.tetto.org/march/?image=DSC_2052
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White Man said:
What's wrong with Islam supporting Kerry?
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