Many lulz at protestors

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 21 Oct 2007, 04:26

http://www.protestwarrior.com/signs.php?thumb=1

Saktoth · Post by **Saktoth** » 21 Oct 2007, 10:28

lol politics amirite?

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 21 Oct 2007, 10:31

It's basicly just one shots at an opposing point of view.

That's the thing I've always hated about protest signs... They don't say anything, they just advocate an opinion with no implied reasoning. Any time you take a complicated issue and sum it down to a few words you lose any power of convincing sway.

tombom · Post by **tombom** » 21 Oct 2007, 10:45

I don't get it.

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 21 Oct 2007, 10:50

I love that "Hey France, we saved you from the Nazis so you are forever indebted to us" mentality of some US Americans. Why shouldn't France go "Hey, USA, we saved your ass from the Brits so do what we tell you to!"?

That whole website is full of shit...

BigHead · Post by **BigHead** » 21 Oct 2007, 12:18

KDR_11k

+1

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 21 Oct 2007, 12:28

KDR_11k wrote:I love that "Hey France, we saved you from the Nazis so you are forever indebted to us" mentality of some US Americans. Why shouldn't France go "Hey, USA, we saved your ass from the Brits so do what we tell you to!"?

That whole website is full of shit...

QFT

Gnomre · Post by **Gnomre** » 21 Oct 2007, 12:59

KDR_11k wrote:I love that "Hey France, we saved you from the Nazis so you are forever indebted to us" mentality of some US Americans. Why shouldn't France go "Hey, USA, we saved your ass from the Brits so do what we tell you to!"?

We did that, and ended up getting our sailors stolen and our shit burned down!

Comp1337 · Post by **Comp1337** » 21 Oct 2007, 13:25

Jesus, is that site serious?

Michilus_nimbus · Post by **Michilus_nimbus** » 21 Oct 2007, 13:47

Except for slavery, fascism, nazism and communism, war has never solved anything!

Slavery hasn't been solved, that site actually seems to be begging for a fascist regime, and communism was crippled by it's own problems.

What a load of bullshit.

pintle · Post by **pintle** » 21 Oct 2007, 14:29

SwiftSpear wrote:They don't say anything, they just advocate an opinion with no implied reasoning. Any time you take a complicated issue and sum it down to a few words you lose any power of convincing sway.

I absolutely disagree with that swift, you imply that the entire action of protest is meaningless unless you can hold a seminar on the same topic in order to discuss the reasoning behind your driect action.

Generally mass mobilisations are organised by an entity or coalition of entities which will publish a statement for use by the press, explaining their motivation and aims.

In Britain at least, protests are aimed at generating visible democratic pressure; there is little point in mobilizing to go and stand in trafalgar square, being adamantly opposed to, say, the Palestine Wall, if you do not have some visible signifier of your intent.

Sloganeering and hiijacking of honest intentions is a problem, but a protest sign is not an inherently useless thing.

manored · Post by **manored** » 21 Oct 2007, 15:43

If people wrote texts on protests signs, the words would be too small to offend whoever they are protesting against... so they write few words :)

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 21 Oct 2007, 19:28

Perhaps you guys don't see the over oblivious sarcasm... I didn't like the France one, sarcasm or not, but some of the others were kinda funny, imo.

pintle · Post by **pintle** » 21 Oct 2007, 19:41

Snipawolf wrote:Perhaps you guys don't see the over oblivious sarcasm... I didn't like the France one, sarcasm or not, but some of the others were kinda funny, imo.

Read their mission statement, no sarcasm, just badly informed, crude propaganda

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 21 Oct 2007, 20:38

Looks more like a running joke to me. Either way it's bullshit just like KDR said.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 21 Oct 2007, 21:02

I guess it is all a load of BS...

I got a laugh out of a few of them, I guess they are being serious.

cong06 · Post by **cong06** » 21 Oct 2007, 21:38

Snipawolf wrote:I guess it is all a load of BS...

I got a laugh out of a few of them, I guess they are being serious.

oO wtf!

I totally thought they were being sarcastic too!

ProtestWarriro.com wrote:These leftists usually carry the loudest megaphones. And left unchallenged, their voices are heard disproportionately, demoralizing our troops, and emboldening dictators around the world - dictators who dream of the day the "Great Satan" disappears from the face of the earth.

Guess I was just giving the Benefit of the doubt...

Saktoth · Post by **Saktoth** » 21 Oct 2007, 21:57

What, how long have you been on the internet, half an hour? There are all sorts of crazy loonies, right wing or otherwise, out there.

And you better bet they are god damn serious.

cong06 · Post by **cong06** » 21 Oct 2007, 22:17

Saktoth wrote:What, how long have you been on the internet, half an hour? There are all sorts of crazy loonies, right wing or otherwise, out there.

And you better bet they are god damn serious.

good point.

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 21 Oct 2007, 22:51

This is the internet. It's the land of loonies

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Many lulz at protestors

Many lulz at protestors