Erat

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Yeah, nah. See I have a job and hobbies and things to occupy my mind. I work hard, i buy cool ****, i use cool ****, i make good friends and enjoy my life with them. The gubment, no matter how hard they tried will never get me in the streets to "protest".



I'm thoroughly convinced these people have no jobs, no hobbies, provide nothing to society are are just the worst. They also think they are making a difference, which is comical to me because i think they make their argument worse.

Godless Commie

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And one day you lose your job, or your hobbies are banned, or your kid's school closes down, or hospitals in your community get de-funded, or public employees are purged, or basic commodities are taxed to the hilt, or certain individuals start getting wealthier beyond imagination because of their connections to powers to be, or some other thing because the "gubment" feels like it...

What do you do then?

What do you do when your cool friends get arrested for no reason?

What happens when you can not find work because you may have said / done the "wrong thing" 20 years ago?

Erat

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I also know that all i have are my unalienable rights. Everything else i MUST work for.
Protesting in the streets is not work.

Joe Perez

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It is if you're getting paid to do it.

Dann0

thirdgen

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thirdgen

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sixshooter

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Are we talking about what would happen if Erdogan or Bernie Sanders got elected?

triple88a

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Joe Perez

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Mid 2012, during the Obama / Romney electoral race.

Here's a random picture of a cow which I drew in the dirt on the side of a Minivan:




Here's a picture of Dish 13, in its fully depressed position:





Here's an ad for what I assume is a socialist helicopter tour:





Here's a picture of the failure of capitalism:





Here's a picture of the success of capitalism:





Here's a picture of government protecting us from capitalism:





And, finally, a bunny on a train:





I think that's enough random images of my life from the past week.



EDIT: one more:

codrus

Quick, get dish 13 some Prozac!

--Ian

Gee Emm

... or a double dose of Viagra

olderguy

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I would leave Turkey and get to another country while I could.

Braineack

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Braineack

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this sounds like every other song that's come out in last year or so. i.e., trash.

y8s

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Good thing Elon hawking those solar panels and ****. They barely smoke at all when they're working right.

Your inalienable rights are only enumerated by a piece of paper. Someone has to enforce that. In the words of every far-right commenter on the internet: "WAKE UP AMERICA!!!"

Seriously though, where my freedom from religious imposition?

I'd like to see the budget numbers on that. How much does it pay? $10 a protest per person? Plus getting the graphics department to come up with all those catchy slogans and drawing all the art on signs... sounds lucrative!



Can't forget my picture!



https://www.gofundme.com/fund-to-bri...ump-to-america

Joe Perez

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Rather than posting specific links and being accused of bias, just google "paid protester" and browse the results.

I've seen estimates ranging from $8.50 an hour to $5k a month. In particular, grant-making organizations founded and funded by George Soros seem to be especially active in hiring protesters.

Braineack

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Someone is making a LOT of money on this Party City balloon.

y8s

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I guess my google is the liberal version. Nothing on the first page or two suggests this is real in any significant volume. So I tried duckduckgo because that's Joe-approved. Same problem.

So then I used my personal experience. I have lived in and outside of DC for almost 13 years and attended plenty of mass gatherings for support or against various people and causes. So have many of my friends and acquaintances. Not one of us has been paid a dime or heard of anyone that has been paid. Sure there are groups handing out signs for people that have already decided to show up purely to voice their opinion (not for money).

So while I can't personally verify that paid protesters and dark matter and god do not exist, I can verify that there are lots of normal people with jobs who attend protests. Just go to one and see for yourself. They're not professional protesters, they're regular people with backpacks full of **** for their kids and too much sunscreen and whatever. Remember these protests are on weekends or people just don't work one day to go. Because they have strongly held beliefs.

Regardless of the existence of paid protesters, private groups and individuals regularly fund all sorts of political action. For example, it's very easy to look up how much the NRA spends on swaying people politically. Seems a weird and perhaps ineffective way to effect legislation change by paying someone to yell from a crowd for a couple hours.

grab em by the soros-funded *****

hat

aidandj

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Why waste money paying protesters when you can just buy votes?