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In reply to the discussion: WOW! Incredible: Unbelievable picture from the Berkeley protests last night.... [View all]B Calm
(28,762 posts)74. I thought he was protesting a democratic mayor.
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WOW! Incredible: Unbelievable picture from the Berkeley protests last night.... [View all]
Playinghardball
Dec 2014
OP
Or a weekly professional sports game (seeing as how we're pulling in irrelevancies...).
LanternWaste
Dec 2014
#11
No doubt, just wanting to get home is rather more a priority than social justice
LanternWaste
Dec 2014
#12
In other words, "Don't completely piss off thousands who might otherwise be on your side"
A HERETIC I AM
Dec 2014
#23
Ditto, a stupid thing to do! It hurts the cause as well as anyone trying to get to a hospital!
Dustlawyer
Dec 2014
#50
And yet people manage to get to hospitals despite daily traffic jams in America's cities
pinboy3niner
Dec 2014
#53
Really, I am sure that your argument is acceptable to someone needing the hospital right then!
Dustlawyer
Dec 2014
#57
Seems to me that a good way to bring awareness to a bunch of apathetic, undereducated morons
dixiegrrrrl
Dec 2014
#69
Huh. Rarely has a single post of mine generated such a large sub-thread.
A HERETIC I AM
Dec 2014
#61
I agree: deliberately stopping traffic as the end-all-be-all of the protest is an
petronius
Dec 2014
#63
Comments about keeping the freeways open for emergencies are well taken, however
JDPriestly
Dec 2014
#16
Do you think black folk being murdered might upset them as well? And you do realize it happens
jtuck004
Dec 2014
#32
As this may in part be directed at the comments I have made in this thread.....
A HERETIC I AM
Dec 2014
#51
If I felt you deserved artistry, I would not have hesitated in the slightest
A HERETIC I AM
Dec 2014
#67