May Day protest

[userA]

I remember hearing such palaver when people were protesting segregation and the Viet Nam war. So, are you certain that each of those protesters was motivated by nothing more than a desire for attention? Are you certain that not one of them was motivated by their perception of undue concentration of wealth and power into fewer and fewer hands?

the ones from eugene probably were motivated by their perception of undue concentration of wealth and power into fewer and fewer hands.
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[Hugh Conway]

Yeah, because smashing windows, taking dumps on cop cars, lighting random things on fire, and acting the fool in general is how you REALLY achieve true change.

Those silly colonists in America, why won't they just work through the proper legal channels! Why are they destroying tea, lighting things on fire, and generally making rucus?

[MontuckyFried]

Those silly colonists in America, why won't they just work through the proper legal channels! Why are they destroying tea, lighting things on fire, and generally making rucus?

The revolutionists had a much higher percentage of support from the populace. They weren't just a few retards without any real plan like the May Day protesters.

[Tippster]

"THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE" - like what, a post apocalyptic hell-scape of broken windows and scattered trash cans?

[GeezerSteve]

Yeah, because an unruly mob dumping tea into Boston Harbor in protest of taxation without representation is how you REALLY achieve true change.

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[iceman]

They weren't just a few retards without any real plan like the May Day protesters.

Yeah they needed a better plan for the anarchy.

[Hugh Conway]

"THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE" - like what, a post apocalyptic hell-scape of broken windows and scattered trash cans?

Pretty much, until they put in a mixed-use condo-development.

[MontuckyFried]

Yeah they needed a better plan for the anarchy.

Which is something I never understood. I've been to plenty of events and seen people screaming "Anarchy" while wearing Che Guevara t-shirts and proclaiming communism. Don't those morans realize that Anarchy is the complete polar opposite of Communism? May Day is directly associated with socialism. Anarchy is as far away from socialism as possible. So why does May Day bring all the so-called anarchists out to play?

[MontuckyFried]

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You can't even compare the Boston Tea Party to these Maytards. The revolutionists pretty much had a unified message. As opposed to the May Day protests around the country, which is pretty much the Occupy crowd, and has no clear message. One group is protesting for immigration rights, another crowd is protesting for socialism, another says the economy, and so on and so forth. Even WITHIN each protest, they are so fragmented, it's impossible to tell WTF they're really getting at as a group.

[Hugh Conway]

The revolutionists pretty much had a unified message.

Bwah. That's funny.

[Skistack]

Which is something I never understood. I've been to plenty of events and seen people screaming "Anarchy" while wearing Che Guevara t-shirts and proclaiming communism. Don't those morans realize that Anarchy is the complete polar opposite of Communism? May Day is directly associated with socialism. Anarchy is as far away from socialism as possible. So why does May Day bring all the so-called anarchists out to play?

Because they're idiots?

[GeezerSteve]

Don't those morans realize that Anarchy is the complete polar opposite of Communism?

That is a manifestly silly statement. That an apple is not an orange doesn't mean that an apple is the polar opposite of an orange.

May Day is directly associated with socialism.

Well, actually, May Day started as a pagan celebration more than 2,000 years ago. Are talking about International Workers Day, which falls on May 1, and was established in response to the Haymarket Affair?

[MontuckyFried]

Bwah. That's funny.

That's why I said "pretty much." Not 100%, but FAR, FAR more than the May Day protesters, where there are so many individual groups protesting entirely different things, you can't tell what they heck they're driving at.

[PNWbrit]

heck

Is he allowed to say heck around here?

[GeezerSteve]

I can't tell what they heck they're driving at.

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[Dromond]

I remember hearing such palaver when people were protesting segregation and the Viet Nam war. So, are you certain that each of those protesters was motivated by nothing more than a desire for attention? Are you certain that not one of them was motivated by their perception of undue concentration of wealth and power into fewer and fewer hands?

Of course not. Generally speaking, I share the concerns of many May Day protesters, and I think that a minority of assholes distract the public from those real problems by committing violent acts.

[Tippster]

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OK, enlighten me. What the heck ARE they driving at?

[Art Shirk]

No fooling...
One time we were in this coffee house on Cap hill, this guy runs across the street, and in the door, gets a coffee and a pastry and sits down with his paper.
About 60 seconds later, two bike cops walk in, one asks the other what he wants and gets in line to order, the other sits down with the J-walker d00d and writes him a ticket.

I "jaywalked" this morning in the U Village after dropping off the kid and was admonished by a passing cop. In the Village. Crossing a parking lot "road."

[PNWbrit]

I "jaywalked" this morning in the U Village after dropping off the kid and was admonished by a passing cop. In the Village. Crossing a parking lot "road."

I hope you yelled ANARCHY!!! back at him!

[MontuckyFried]

They're really doing a good job fighting the system, huh?

[Hugh Conway]

Thank you for demonstrating the system is inescapable.

[GeezerSteve]

^ ^ ^ good one

OK, enlighten me. What the heck ARE they driving at?

Who is "they?" The May Day tradition since 1889 has involved demonstrations by the powerless working class against the elite and powerful property class. Although I, like everyone else, am unable to ascertain the subjective motivations of each of the protesters, it's a fair guess that many, probably most, and very possible the vast majority, of them intended to demonstrate against the concentration of power and wealth into an elite class of multi-national corporations and the handful of families that control those entities. God help us if that sort of civil disobedience goes away because it is a necessary part of democracy.

[systemoverblow'd]

...it's a fair guess that many, probably most, and very possible the vast majority, of them intended to demonstrate against the concentration of power and wealth into an elite class of multi-national corporations and the handful of families that control those entities. Because if they didn't, they wouldn't be allowed back into their special social circles of people that constantly need something to fight. Specially with no plan on what to do.

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[MontuckyFried]

Thank you for demonstrating the system is inescapable.

I dunno. Maybe not entirely, but seems the Amish and other somewhat self-contained colonies do a FAR better job than these hypocritical retards. Why couldn't they make their own clothes? They don't HAVE to buy stuff from Nike and the Gap. Yeah! Fight the system!

[GeezerSteve]

Why couldn't they make their own clothes?

How do you know they didn't shoplift all that stuff? Any self-respecting anarchists steals his stuff. Surprised you didn't know that.