coldsnap Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 WOW hahahaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 WOW I fucking love pittsburgh. so awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zak138 Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 WOW I fucking love pittsburgh. so awesome This pic is blocked at work and I'm jonesing for some updates! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 the pirates sold 15,000 tickets for the daytime game today. out of 15,000 tickets, only 2,300 showed up. 2,300 PEOPLE!!!!! wow, hahahahaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbypuckett Posted September 25, 2009 Author Share Posted September 25, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 these protests are so pointless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgoodcore Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 No protest is pointless senor cynical. Be the change you want to see in the World. And those who shop at groceries buying food not in season, not organic, or not locally grown are as complicit, if not more, than groceries themselves. Groceries stock what people want. If people demand local and organic or at least local, or move to co-ops that have local and organic groceries aren't going to change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtz Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 So what exactly are these protestors protesting anyway? And why am I not seeing Anti-Flag in any of these photos or videos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonskanks Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 So what exactly are these protestors protesting anyway?And why am I not seeing Anti-Flag in any of these photos or videos best comment yet. haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 No protest is pointless senor cynical. Be the change you want to see in the World. yeah, okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goraiders Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 there are a ton of students protesting the UC (university of california)'s decision to give the teachers furlough days on NON teaching days instead of teaching days because its worse for education... it makes me so annoyed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew13 Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 And those who shop at groceries buying food not in season, not organic, or not locally grown are as complicit, if not more, than groceries themselves. Groceries stock what people want. If people demand local and organic or at least local, or move to co-ops that have local and organic groceries aren't going to change. organic food is total bullshit, a waste of money for an inferior product. Bullshit did an episode on the subject this season and it was pretty informative. also, speaking of groceries and crops, quite interesting article a few weeks back in the Sunday PPG: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09256/997397-109.stm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 fucking protestors smashed the windows of Pamela's Diner. what the hell! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 smashing the state... wearing levi's and adidas shoes. UP TEH PUNX. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbypuckett Posted September 25, 2009 Author Share Posted September 25, 2009 I hate these people. They're smashing up mom and pop shops. They broke all of the windows at one of my company's banks. A brand new branch at that. What a waste of money these protesters are causing. No one even wants to listen to them now. Check out this blog post I read, they're saying they destroyed property out of defense: "There was property damage today, but it was either defensive or immediately quashed by the protesters themselves. A sound and gas attack by police resulted in the overturning of some dumpsters - a futile symbolic act of self-defense not the justification for repression that ... Read Morethe mainstream media has reported. Rocks in BMW and Boston Chicken stores were the frustrated outcome of a crowd whose right to assemble had been forcefully revoked. A small band of protesters went further, by smashing ATMs, but they were quickly persuaded against continuing by march organizers themselves" http://socialistwebzine.blogspot.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 hahahahahahahaha i've been re-postng all your pictures kirb, must inform the people on the roboto board about the yinzer signs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbypuckett Posted September 25, 2009 Author Share Posted September 25, 2009 http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/full/32021724.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0ZRYP5X5F6FSMBCCSE82&Expires=1253890868&Signature=jARHzjh%2BnZL1T4tZg0RTKlRdc7A%3D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xlovecolouredx Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 i didn't fallow this too close but will check what happend on weekly newspaper and will express what i think about this.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgoodcore Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 And those who shop at groceries buying food not in season, not organic, or not locally grown are as complicit, if not more, than groceries themselves. Groceries stock what people want. If people demand local and organic or at least local, or move to co-ops that have local and organic groceries aren't going to change. organic food is total bullshit, a waste of money for an inferior product. Bullshit did an episode on the subject this season and it was pretty informative. also, speaking of groceries and crops, quite interesting article a few weeks back in the Sunday PPG: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09256/997397-109.stm I never said anything about health. My argument lay totally in the environmental impact. Less pesticides are a good thing. And calling the product inferior is just totally ridiculous. Organic produce is at the least equally as good as pesticide drenched produce. I know, I eat organic as often as possible. Do you have? Have you? Or do you just regurgitate everything random shows tell you? No protest is pointless senor cynical. Be the change you want to see in the World. yeah, okay. You may like hockey and seem like a good dude but that's just total apathetic crap. I mean fuck, lets just all sit around, cynical wanting things to be different and doing nothing about it. Protesters who break shit are just meatheads who have violent desires and are looking for an outlet. They do not encompass the whole of who people who protest are. But that's fine, just don't complain or mention anything being bad at all since you clearly don't give two shits or at the very least won't do anything about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nefariousfig Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 I hate these people. They're smashing up mom and pop shops. They broke all of the windows at one of my company's banks. A brand new branch at that. What a waste of money these protesters are causing. No one even wants to listen to them now. I think it's important to keep sight of the fact that there is no reason for a few overzealous protesters to discredit the thousands of others there who are peacefully expressing their anger with the current system. And as the blog you link to points out, it's often the protesters themselves who dissaude others from the more extreme measures and prevent things from escalating too much. And while I don't necessarily approve of it, I can understand the frustration of meeting police resistance for simply trying to peacefully assemble/protest (because god forbid you didn't stick to the designated 'protest zones') and feeling that, in the heat of the moment, a rock through a corporate shop is a good idea. Who hasn't done stupid shit when they were frustrated? I'm not going to deny that some protesters likely went with the specific intention of causing damage regardless of what happened, but it's a pretty small minority. And is minor property damage really something to get that annoyed and indignant over? Also, the "waste of money that these protesters are causing" that you mention is actually good for the economy. It's part of the whole perverse economic system that's being protested (and there's indeed a certain irony there) - damage and destruction are good for the GDP (our measure of 'progress') because the GDP counts work that results from repairing harm. So the resulting clean up and repairs following property damage results in increased economic activity and thus boosts the GDP. I really don't get why people here are so cynical towards protests. Even if you don't like some of the methods, at least try to get a more rounded picture of what's going on instead of focusing on the few bad apples. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 You may like hockey and seem like a good dude but that's just total apathetic crap. I mean fuck, lets just all sit around, cynical wanting things to be different and doing nothing about it. Protesters who break shit are just meatheads who have violent desires and are looking for an outlet. They do not encompass the whole of who people who protest are. But that's fine, just don't complain or mention anything being bad at all since you clearly don't give two shits or at the very least won't do anything about it. the protests that are pointless are the ones the "anarchists" are doing. I should have clarified that in my post above. i'm all for peaceful protests, hell, I work for peace activists from northern ireland. I have zero tolerance and no sympathy for protestors who get pissed off and become violent because of their inability to understand the reason the police push them back from the phipps conservatory. And you know what? the peaceful protests that I would support if I knew anything about them are getting zero coverage from the media because of the "anarchist" protests and destruction. so the whole point of protesting outside the convention center (to be put in the spotlight of the international media) is completely void for the peaceful groups because of the assholes who are running around smashing windows of banks and local businesses are taking the cameras and news time away from them. I live in Pittsburgh, I stayed home yesterday and watched the local coverage and they didn't even go near the peaceful groups, they stuck around with the "anarchists" all day, giving them the spotlight for a message that more than half of them probably don't even know of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbypuckett Posted September 25, 2009 Author Share Posted September 25, 2009 I've got nothing wrong w/ protests. But these people who damaged property ruined EVERYTHING. I understand some of this stuff, but your average person aka, just about everyone you talk to thinks they're nothing but stinky hippies. No one knows what these people are even protesting about. If it would have been all peaceful maybe their reasons would have been covered, instead we hear about the damage and what not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xjustinxschwierx Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 yeah this is the reason I stopped going to protests... because it always devolves into chaos due to the retarded "anarchist" kids who usually have their parents lawyer on speed dial in the event of legal action. People don't get it whether it's this or KKK rallies or whatever...if it devolves into violence then the new reports it as "civilized economics meeting/KKK parade/whatever interrupted by violent protesters". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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