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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-26-11 11:02 AM
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41. No, just viral activism that victimizes the people that are purportedly the object of support.
Why not demonstrate a little real brass, and do that shit at Tiffany's?

It's easy to go into WALMART and fuck with minimum wage slaves, who will have to clean up the results of a "Let's make a mess to be self-important assholes" protest. It's a lot harder to actually impact the One Percenters who are laughing at a little street theater, and then telling their wage-slave workers to clean up the mess, while docking each one of them thirty seconds of time off--so it's a wash for them, financially.

It's also way easier to denigrate people who point out this obvious set of circumstances, than to see a "fail" (as the children say) for what it is.

The verbal protest was just fine; amusing, on point and engaging--the "fucking with shit to make the wage slaves have to clean it up"--not so much. So "pardon ME" if you don't get that, if you don't see how actions impact ordinary people-- it's your problem if you think that shitting on the lowest-level worker makes a sustaining point. Enough of that shit and the wage slaves will start siding with their "overlords."
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