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Mr. Bromide

Is it ironic that protestors usually only end up disrupting the lives of the poor going to work -- the very people they want to help?

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Posted - January 19, 2017
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  • 5808
    Ironic
      January 19, 2017 6:12 PM MST
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  • They're not doing that to help the poor, they're doing that in order to prop up the political party that says they'll help the poor. Then after they get their cut, the poor get the scraps. Just like always.
      January 19, 2017 6:32 PM MST
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  • 18
    Far too often protests end up to be about anything but the subject of the protest. 
    Destruction and mayhem does the exact opposite for the cause.

    There is always someone in the crowd that defeats the purpose .. because they have their own agenda.
      January 19, 2017 6:43 PM MST
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  • 5614
    Aye, indeed but then again the poor are disrupted more so than others by the occasional rain. It is their plight. It sucks to be poor. This post was edited by O-uknow at January 20, 2017 7:02 AM MST
      January 19, 2017 8:08 PM MST
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  • I don't think it's typical of protesters that they want to help anybody. It's more likely that they're trying to add some excitement to colourless lives. I've seen the same thing happen with trades unionists who enjoy striking because it lifts them out of the humdrum.
      January 19, 2017 8:14 PM MST
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  • 1615
    The ones protesting Trump have no idea what they are protesting about, he hasn't done anything to protest about. I guess ignorance is bliss they haven't a clue.
      January 19, 2017 10:02 PM MST
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  • 5614
    They are protesting what he has said and promised. How is that ignorant?
      January 20, 2017 5:29 AM MST
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  • 1615
    They are a bunch of phonies, someone is probably paying them to go, if they cause damage they should be jailed .
      January 20, 2017 1:22 PM MST
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  • 5614
    They should be jailed of course, but only when they break laws. This is Western civilization and here we adhere to rule of just law.
      January 20, 2017 9:20 PM MST
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  • 1615
    That's what I said.
      January 20, 2017 9:24 PM MST
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  • 2327
    Yep! You can blame Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro for hacking their minds with their subliminal subconscious persuasion. 
      January 19, 2017 10:29 PM MST
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  • 5614
    Not so much hacking as linking. You don't have to persuade those who already share your views. This post was edited by O-uknow at January 20, 2017 9:14 PM MST
      January 20, 2017 5:32 AM MST
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  • 17592
    I think you are wrong about who they want to help, in most cases.
      January 19, 2017 11:51 PM MST
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  • I'm reminded of a protest by bicyclist in my city some years ago.  They laid down in the intersection of a heavily used road.  Ignorant coprophages.
      January 20, 2017 7:09 PM MST
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  • 3907
    Hello Mr.

    Nahhhh..  Riots work!

    Take Ferguson, Mo, for example..  It used to be, that when a cop killed an unarmed black man there, the district attorney, who COULD levy charges himself, instead sent these cases to the grand jury where he could quash them..      Then, when he faced the press, he could shrug his shoulders and say, the people have spoken. 

    But, then the people RIOTED... 

    SINCE those RIOTS, the district attorney, very quietly announced that they won't DO that anymore..  Now, you can SAY that change was coming anyway.  Or you can say the RIOTS did it.

    excon     This post was edited by excon at January 20, 2017 7:38 PM MST
      January 20, 2017 7:34 PM MST
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