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When you rather agree with a cause but find most protesters you come accross to be kinda odious clic

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by ehwhat

ever feel like exploding inwards?

ehwhat | 20 Mar '08, 15:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Yeah totally

I wish I didn't find "environmentalists" so irksome.


yes

and it's not like the message isn't important.

But just...brargh i dunno.


zackly

it's like "yeah I agree but stop embarassing me/yourselves and get some decent clothes. Idiots."


Like

Father's For Justice? Admirable sentiments but I can see why your wives deny you access to your kids.


that kinda thing

and also just the whole "BLIAR!" thing from a while ago

I mean - SUCH a lame play on words

Anyone who used that went down sharply in my estimation.


oh i get stuff mixed up

and not any group in particular.

Just the twatty self-satisfied school of protest

with gash plays on words and stuff

NUMBER ONE TERRORIST


I remember seeing an anti war march go past uni

around Alydwch around the time of the Iraq war kicking off. There were loads of people with posters of Lenin, Mao, Stalin and Castro - way to go guys! Pick some bigger mass murderers than the ones you're protesting against


wow

fail


fucking hell


Hmm I dunno

I think you'll find our beloved western leaders are responsible for just as much as these guys.


Nah

not quite in the same league I'd argue


Chairman Mao is the biggest mass murder of the twentieth Century

Anyone who attempts to claim George Bush or any Western Leader is a worse mass murderer/human rights abuser than Mao or Stalin either

a) knows nothing about Mao or Stalin

b) is so ingrained into anti-Americanism or left-wing thought they've lost any sense of perspective

or

c) has a really bizarre definition of humans rights.


Yeah this really irritates me.

Sometimes I have Russians on my tour who get pissy about me slagging off the Soviet Union under Stalin. I feel like saying to them "Do you really think I get Germans telling me I'm being too harsh on Hitler & the Nazis? No. Well why do you have a problem with me criticising a man and a regime who arguably killed more people than Hitler did?"


no argument about it, he did kill more than Hitler

though usually kept it to killing his own people, so that was all right then.


yeah

On a related note, I think it was doctornovocalcords of this parish who once complained that "it's impossible to have a social conscience in this country without being forced to listen to bongos"


SkweeeEEEM! THIS!!^^^

that - what you / he said.


Militant animal rights folk.....

They bug me! Fair do's testing on animals isn't ideal and for cosmetic things like perfume and shampoo it seems disgraceful and pointless but when it comes to medicine and the likes then they I don't have a problem with that.


Yes

its the entire animal rights scene is full of cunts.


Also in my experience

its one of those things you have to dedicate your life to or people acuse you of not doing enough


I love how there's a "scene"

Mistreatment of animals: pretty cool thing to build a scene around


Thats what my

fundamentalist paganism scene is all about.


UKIP/BNP

I have a certain amount of sympathy for some of their causes, but they're mostly horrible people.

This is moreso the case with the BNP than UKIP.


NRA/Gun rights lobby

I support your cause, but, it may be an idea if you stop letting buck toothed hicks appear in front of the camera to spout off about an international zionist conspiracy/lizard men/communist infiltration of the UN etc etc etc

Oh and you probably don't really need an AR-15 to defend your trailer.


there are these *absolute* twats,

a bunch of mildly-employed hipsters in like the West Town/Bucktown area, who monthly or so all get together and ride their bikes (lots of then specially-modified bikes done especially for the douche rally) around in circles on Milwaukee Avenue and connecting busy streets, like hundreds of them, keeping traffic from moving at all. They do it to "protest cars". And what do they accomplish with it? They block up traffic, keeping said cars out and idling for half hours extra at a time, creating extra pollution. Clever.

None of them have actually given the cause any thought, they're just engaging in conspicuous cause-support.


or they've given it some pot-thought maybe

But no real thought or care.


that's EXACTLY the kind

of thing. Yeah getting people out of cars and on bikes would be a great thing, and I cycle to work myself a few times a week. But these people are sooooo obnoxious they make actually make me want to purchase a massive SUV or a maybe a chieftain tank or something. Which isn't good.