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Post by Art Vandelay on Oct 14, 2010 23:42:11 GMT -5
Is there anyway to protest anything without coming across as a parade of clowns? If you can protest in a manner that doesn't involve holding up signs and yelling, sure.
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Post by worlder on Oct 14, 2010 23:52:23 GMT -5
Is there anyway to protest anything without coming across as a parade of clowns? If you can protest in a manner that doesn't involve holding up signs and yelling, sure. How about a skit? Dress up as the enemy and have the actors act in the desired strawman manner.
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Post by Rat Of Steel on Oct 14, 2010 23:58:40 GMT -5
If you can protest in a manner that doesn't involve holding up signs and yelling, sure. How about a skit? Dress up as the enemy and have the actors act in the desired strawman manner. As I just mentioned a while ago, Electronic Arts already took that approach with their game Dante's Inferno.
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Post by Julian on Oct 15, 2010 2:12:42 GMT -5
Is there anyway to protest anything without coming across as a parade of clowns? Yuh, don't invite clowns, or be a douche or professional bigot / religious asshat. Bring your dignity, not your dogma. (which would be a nice sign to photobomb the Phelp's or similar) Gandhi Vietnam Civil rights... - won't show people sewing their lips shut, hunger strikes, or Buddhist monks setting themselves on fire...
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Post by Bezron on Oct 15, 2010 8:52:02 GMT -5
Moved from Awesome Protest signs thread 'cause I did not realize at first who that was holding the sign: I'll bite, who is it? is is a Phelps?
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Post by Julian on Oct 15, 2010 9:05:21 GMT -5
What else looks like a Lich?
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Post by banjaxed on Oct 15, 2010 9:14:11 GMT -5
Moved from Awesome Protest signs thread 'cause I did not realize at first who that was holding the sign: I'll bite, who is it? is is a Phelps? It is one of them. Although the sign leaves a big question. If god hates mediocre eccentric pop stars, how do they become so popular?
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Post by Julian on Oct 15, 2010 9:31:32 GMT -5
It is one of them. Although the sign leaves a big question. If god hates mediocre eccentric pop stars, how do they become so popular? God is nothing if not ironic... He also wasn't "all powerful" until people were cowering in the hills of Judea because he couldn't beat iron chariots, and they eeked out a miserable existence inventing Psalms about how great and powerful he was. Before then he was a God who's name was "JEALOUS". He flew into petty fits of rage. He caused arbitrary punishments in bizarre ways to unrelated groups. You had to keep the Jewish ritual decalogue for 25,000 years or he would smite you with the botch and a whole stack of other things (Deuteronomy 28). But yeah, popular talentless, mediocre performer taking credit for stuff not her due --- she's stealing his stick a bit. Poor sod needs to keep concentrating on killing American soldiers in Iraq in the vain hopes that someone will hear his protests about sodomites in America, but yet again everyone thinks the prophets are completely fucking insane (can't imagine why) and he can only rage away where he sits in darkness.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Oct 18, 2010 6:13:54 GMT -5
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Post by mechtaur on Oct 18, 2010 8:10:18 GMT -5
Dawww... It thinks it knows economics.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Oct 18, 2010 8:51:24 GMT -5
I'm putting this in dumb protest signs because if you look, it's held at a Domestic Violence Awareness Month rally of some kind.
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Post by Julian on Oct 18, 2010 9:23:45 GMT -5
Dawww... It thinks it knows economics. Did she just suggest changing the green (which everything else leverages off, by increasing it by a factor of 5 or so?) In one year? That'll take care of the hyperinflation. And she probably wants to lock Obama and any prominant democrats up, so that takes care of electoral rigging (more than before), and I'm sure she's all for giving out guns to her supporters, so all she needs to do now is encourage American Indians and people descended from slaves to rise up and take back the farmlands from imperialist whitey, and she's turned the U.S. into Zimbabwe in 6 months... Damn, that's good going! Robert Mugabe, endorses this message!
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Post by Armand Tanzarian on Oct 18, 2010 9:49:14 GMT -5
This implies they wanna bring back the Bretton Woods system actually, which pegged the US dollar to the gold ounce. It also failed spectacularly in the 70s. This however is a fairly commonplace libertarian/objectivist talking point, so I'm assuming the signholder meant that.
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Post by scotsgit on Oct 18, 2010 11:02:30 GMT -5
Dawww... It thinks it knows economics. Another graduate of the Juan Peron school of economics.
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Post by Julian on Oct 18, 2010 11:54:00 GMT -5
This implies they wanna bring back the Bretton Woods system actually, which pegged the US dollar to the gold ounce. It also failed spectacularly in the 70s. This however is a fairly commonplace libertarian/objectivist talking point, so I'm assuming the signholder meant that. How do you work that out? The gold standard itself failed on many occasions as a fiscal policy, and Breton Woods post WWII, added extra layers of complexity, extra mechanisms, international money markets and dually pegged the US currency as an alternative. The key point of the gold standard, or anything pegged to gold means you can't print extra money without the gold to back it up, so hence it's NOT a licence to print as much as you want without it losing value, and anyone pretending otherwise is being particularly disingenuous (not surprising for libertarians I suppose). [Edit: Not to mention value is sodding relative anyway, and unless you're going to physically regulate everyday prices, you're going to suffer from inflation, and libertarians aren't keen on regulating anything - even their bowel movements.]
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