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Protesting the Inauguration of Donald Trump
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I know I'm out of step with the general opinion, but I think methods of protests need to evolve with time.
Imagine if a million Americans just didn't buy anything this month to protest Trump. (besides basics and food).
Get a cute non-threatening spokesperson out there to say they just don't feel safe and are hoarding their money until they see what happens to their rights and healthcare, etc. Keep it light, but be firm. "You know, if they take our healthcare we're going to have a lot less money to spend..." Get a grandma out there saying "my grandson's gay and I think I better save my money in case I need to protect him". Get some folks saying "we need to save incase mean old Paul Ryan steals our social security"
Hit people in the pocketbook.
Imagine if a million Americans just didn't buy anything this month to protest Trump. (besides basics and food).
Get a cute non-threatening spokesperson out there to say they just don't feel safe and are hoarding their money until they see what happens to their rights and healthcare, etc. Keep it light, but be firm. "You know, if they take our healthcare we're going to have a lot less money to spend..." Get a grandma out there saying "my grandson's gay and I think I better save my money in case I need to protect him". Get some folks saying "we need to save incase mean old Paul Ryan steals our social security"
Hit people in the pocketbook.
Yes, great plan, especially with how easily supressed information will be now that net neutrality is all but dead for you guys. Let's sit still and write essays, people. Protesting doesn't work, you heard it here first.
I did. You should read a history book. It'll help you gel together why you may wear that uniform and why the people who wore it before you took pride in it. To be so woefully ignorant of our own history and actually prideful about it is disgraceful, especially for someone in the military.
Tal Shiar Agent
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It's from Jefferson.
tearsintherain
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A coward is one who attacks the weak and defenseless. A coward hides in a mob mentality. A coward believes their own desires are more important than the greater good. A coward acts with emotion and does not have a plan.
Trump has been president for 3 hours and enacted nothing. Its perfectly fine to protest him however you want, but once you step into violence, especially against innocent targets, you are no longer a brave protester but just a coward who has decided that the rules of society no longer apply to you, and you reap the brutal results of leaving society.
Really want to protest the American people for voting for Trump? Organize with others and withdraw from the economy. March and demand your elected representatives work for you, otherwise you will not do anything for them. If every democrat tomorrow decided not to go to work or buy/pay for anything then the country would change overnight. That requires sacrifice and facing the unknown, so nobody will do that of course. The easiest, dumbest act of a child is to throw stuff at things and hope someone notices you.
Is this the part where you run back to Gaming GAF after a drive-by?
What's with the intellectually superior shit?
if somebody voted for trump they aren't intellectually superior to me, because imo in order to be worth anything to this world you have to have empathy
trump voters have no empathy, thus they are lesser. easy math for me!
maybe they were on his word of the day calendar?
Sick of people whining about the "whining of protestors". At the end of the day, this orange, underwear shitstain is on Twitter whining about what some celebrity or some comedy skit said about him. People have the audacity to call protesters 'whiners' when their new president is one of the biggest fucking crybabies that ever ascended office. Yeah, keep doing mental backflips and fall flat on your face every time.
afternoon delight
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Consumer spending is 2/3rds of the economy, it'd be wonderful but might start convincing the world we don't want to buy things all the time like little perfect consumers and then they'll raise the prices and disrupt trade agreements and start questioning is America really number one and maybe we don't want them to ask that because the answer isn't very nice.
Because democrats like to state that only uneducated people vote republican. These people trashing shit look plenty uneducated to me.
Crossing Eden
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What do you consider the boston tea party to be? A protest or a riot? Because you've basically established that you don't know jack shit about 2nd grade history and/or consider our founding founders to be criminals or a combination of both.
GeordieMark
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Yeah, course you did. Pathetic posting mate. There is no reason to even imply anyone should be hurt, no matter who they voted for.
Funny that, everyone who voted Trump or Brexit has been painted as a racist\facist\nazi by the left.
Generalpsyduck
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"Won't someone think about the private property"
You're too remedial to realize it's not that simple.
You have a very narrow viewpoint then.
Pai Pai Master
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Protesting is a symbolic gesture meant to bring people together and circulate those ideas together. Yes we do not need it now that the dissemination of information and organization can easily be done online, but it's useful to gather and motivate.
The act of actually going out and protesting isn't supposed to change any laws. It's what comes after.
Back-In-Black
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TRUTH. Btw, this is my mom right now. She's basically calling us Democrats "sad losers" and acting like everyone in the country just accepted Obama when he was elected. Meanwhile Trump throws a tirade when some actors in a play express some concern with his rhetoric.
he's definitely shown that with his responses and his lack of understanding why he's been called out for a stupid comment about defeating the british.
So you are literally calling for bloodshed, based on you calling the election invalid because of conjecture that without russian interference he wouldn't have won. We're not living in barbaric times, so I fand that stance to be quite shocking.
I liked blart. It was tremendous. Funny beyond belief. Rotten tomatoes LIES. sad
Ravensmash
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"Won't someone think about the private property"
Well, public property too.
But if you feel like destroying shit will lead to progress then sure.
UberTag
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These are uneducated non-voters. No shortage of dummies out there.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Centuries old views of POC and LBGT people are absolutely barbaric.
Perhaps you're right.
Back-In-Black
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Once the entire country went to war because a bunch of Southerners didn't believe a "nigger" had the right to be free the Constitution and the will of the people be damned.
Well, you have to ask why are they rioting.
Rodney King Riots and Watts Riots were justified in my mind, that doesn't mean I think everything that happened during them is great and peachy. But in no way can I say all rioters are bad during those times.
You have a man getting elected who has said awful things about women, hispanics, and blacks. Of course violence will happen.
Kill Your Masters
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He just deleted any mention of climate change on the white house webpage and replaced with bullshit like "clean coal" and lifting restrictions.
Get of your fucking high horse.
dude get off your high horse. i know why i serve. you served, and thank you. seriously. im not here to dog on anyone and talk shit. all i did was point out these rioters are commiting pointless crimes because they can get away with it. i dont need history books to know that destroying a random starbucks is fucking pointless and wrong.
Well, the uneducated and morally bankrupt.
Username1198
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I knew you would just double down on your ignorance. predictable.
Tell that to the American Revolutionaries/Founding Fathers.
Dog Problems
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I can't help but imagine the foam as his hair. I'd love to see it edited to show his face rise up from the mug.
Yet South Korea managed to get their crazy ass president to resign thanks to their massive protests.
TheOfficeMut
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Coworker1: "What do you think of all of these protests?"
Coworker2: "I think they're ridiculous. Why?"
Coworker1: "I agree. I don't know why. Why are they so bitter? Deal with it."
Coworker2: "We have to unify. Obama says unify. Let's stop this."
Coworker1: "Yup. Unify."
Coworker2: "What do you think of Obamacare? Trump is getting rid of it. Why does Obama care? He should be happy to be out of office. He should get over it."
Coworker1: "I agree. He's out. Move on."
Spoken like two white guys from Long Island in their early 20s. They're liberal, to booth.
Sigh.
Coworker2: "I think they're ridiculous. Why?"
Coworker1: "I agree. I don't know why. Why are they so bitter? Deal with it."
Coworker2: "We have to unify. Obama says unify. Let's stop this."
Coworker1: "Yup. Unify."
Coworker2: "What do you think of Obamacare? Trump is getting rid of it. Why does Obama care? He should be happy to be out of office. He should get over it."
Coworker1: "I agree. He's out. Move on."
Spoken like two white guys from Long Island in their early 20s. They're liberal, to booth.
Sigh.
You're a disgrace to your forefathers.
Ravensmash
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Slightly different context I'd think.
Dude points out that's not what they're saying and your response is to keep twisting.
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