G20 Photos: Where the Right and the Left Meet (And Also Don't)
Yes, I am totally obsessed with the G20! I mean, how amazing, on all sorts of levels. And what I love about the protests in this country is that there are fun places where the right and the left meet. Although: the anarchists make the birthers and the truthers look like wusses, honestly, because when was the last time a birther had to breathe teargas? (Just picturing Orly Taitz getting riot-copped is making my whole morning, honestly.) But both sides are strongly anti-bailout, and anti-big government. Also, both sides love their favorite TV shows. But both sides share even more.
On this, we can all agree. Who's not mad? This could have been taken at any town hall in August.
This is, I think, a conceptual statement from the left that is the equivalent of "Drill, baby, drill."
Well, yikes! Pretty much exactly what John Bolton thought about the UN, though, to be honest.
I do not know what would possess anyone to demonstrate on behalf of the metric system. I think the right-Libertarians are divided on this issue—some think it is bad, and the Europeanification of America by NATO. But I think Ayn Rand would approve.
Annnd then there is some divergence!
This, also, is not something we saw at the town halls. Um, well, you are going to get really clubbed.
Furry Necrophilia. My boundaries have finally been crossed.
That 'forest' sandwich board is very slimming.
Seriously though: metric system now.
If we adopt the metric system, do we have to write $1.50 as $1,50? Because I don't like that.
Also, we should keep fahrenheit at all costs.
That Tree Guy reminds me of that book "Celsius 232.7777777777778"
As long as it makes my penis sound more impressive, I'm all about it.
The "Mad as Hell" girl is passive agressive.
Minnesotan.
ha!
I really hate Alan Moore sometimes.
"picturing Orly Taitz getting riot-copped"
boi-yoi-yoing!
Hello, Vicar!
Congratulations nincompoops. You just authenticated the tea partiers.
Authenticated is an odd word to use for this. Is this a reference to astro-turfing? Surely both sets of protesters are authentic aren't they? It's not like they're surrogates for some other secretive power, or maybe they are? Do tell.
It's in Glenn Beck's favorite book!
You mean The Very Hungry Caterpillar?
Hmmm. I see. Yes, probably poor word use. What I mean is that both of these sides will now be spoken of as "the right's" and "the left's" protests without any real effort to distinguish the nuances or point out how wrong any of them are etc etc. There is a word for this but I am not so good educated.
The case against Free speech. I'd see this as a demonstration of just how bad the economy got here in the states, Just look how many of these jackasses are not at work, sure a rather large percentage are unemployable but…
This is all really over the top for a rollout of a new kind of Gatorade.
/really bad and done already I'm sure
I don't have a huge amount of tolerance for the message Black Bloc et al are putting out there. That said the guy getting hustled into the car is a little wrong. A photo can be found here:
http://nevertellmetheodds.org/t.php?id=94459&r=244
Near the bottom. License plate number on the car is GSM-8363. Notably not from any government or police agency.
Ok, that's it. Back to capitalism!
I think the Anarchist holding the 'no hope in capitalism' sign is wearing a belt from Hot Topic.
So he should make his own clothes?
He should make his own eco-friendly clothes.
If he were truly an anarchist, he would not wear clothes.
or he would dress a horse. I'm not sure.
He's right about Firefly though.
I wonder how many of these protesters are collecting unemployment?
Well, these protestors are all just ADORABLE, aren't they?
The tea baggers and the birthers are scary, knuckle-dragging moron racists and I always wonder if an assassin is lurking in their midst. Seriously. My friends in that end of the political spectrum are all heavily armed and think Red Dawn could happen. srsly.
But these guys? They just seem like Brandeis undergrads who took a little too much Adavan. Sweet and harmless (except for a little property damage).
Isn't that the real reason why the tea baggers don't get tear-gassed? The cops know that they would get into a firefight with Bubba and Joe-Bob.
Accredited??
This was to Abe Sauer.
Q: Whatchya protestin'?
A: Whatchya got?
this is what happens to people who don't get laid enough. either that or they become awl commenters.