Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Grinning_Colossus]

Goddamn allies

[Valmy]

Yeah how dare people get publicity for their struggle

[Admiral Yi]

Yeah how dare people get publicity for their struggle

I think it's directed at all the hippie blancos showing up to fight the man.

[Grinning_Colossus]

The more hippie blancos who show up--no matter what their angle--the better, though. Big crowds attract cameras. Plus, while 'Government Oppresses Indians' is a dog-bites-man story, a police APC running over a bunch of upper-middle-class should-be-in-college kids is something else.

[Ed Anger]

I wish my cousin got water cannoned up there.

[Valmy]

Yeah how dare people get publicity for their struggle

I think it's directed at all the hippie blancos showing up to fight the man.

I get it but generally you don't start turning on the other revolutionaries quite yet

[CountDeMoney]

The more hippie blancos who show up--no matter what their angle--the better, though. Big crowds attract cameras. Plus, while 'Government Oppresses Indians' is a dog-bites-man story, a police APC running over a bunch of upper-middle-class should-be-in-college kids is something else.

True.  Nobody gives a shit about a dead Indian.  Now, a dead coed from Swarthmore...that matters.

[Berkut]

But the dead coed doesn't care about Indians either.

The Native Americans are being used by the enviro-radicals. They don't care about native American lands, they just want to stop the pipeline, no matter where it runs.

[CountDeMoney]

But the dead coed doesn't care about Indians either.

The Native Americans are being used by the enviro-radicals. They don't care about native American lands, they just want to stop the pipeline, no matter where it runs.

You sound like an Eli Roth movie.

I'm sure if came down to cynical help and no help at all, the Native Americans appreciate the extra help.  It's not like they have a that much of a win record when it comes to home games. 

[Valmy]

But the dead coed doesn't care about Indians either.

The Native Americans are being used by the enviro-radicals. They don't care about native American lands, they just want to stop the pipeline, no matter where it runs.

I am perfectly fine with being used to achieve aims I am already fighting for. I presume any normal sane person would be.

But lots of leftists love the Native Americans for their own sake. Talk about a harmless group to champion.

[Ed Anger]

I noticed the crackdown stopped when the bad weather hit. All the cops were in the nearest Tim Horton's.

[CountDeMoney]

I noticed the crackdown stopped when the bad weather hit. All the cops were in the nearest Tim Horton's.

There is a Venn relationship between weather conditions, overtime and "Oh, this is bullshit."

[Berkut]

But the dead coed doesn't care about Indians either.

The Native Americans are being used by the enviro-radicals. They don't care about native American lands, they just want to stop the pipeline, no matter where it runs.

I am perfectly fine with being used to achieve aims I am already fighting for. I presume any normal sane person would be.

But lots of leftists love the Native Americans for their own sake. Talk about a harmless group to champion.

I don't doubt it, but I am simply pointing out that its not like this is about Native American lands at all for most of these people.

They are a convenient tool. If the pipeline ran somewhere else, they would find some other reason to oppose it, or some other Indians to claim it is stepping on them.

I am skeptical of the entire thing, to be honest. The claims of the Native Americans seem pretty thin. They want to protect their water? Huh? There is zero evidence that the pipeline has some kind of risk to water supplies - there are several OTHER pipelines that already run under the Missouri River for example.

I do think the company did the typical corporate token respect for the laws around consultation, and tried to just slide this through without really talking to the people involved, and greasing the political wheels. So I don't actually have much sympathy for them anyway.

But I find the bulk of the  opposition to it to be basically dishonest. Their real position is just luddite - no oil! Don't build any pipeline, that way the oil won't get pumped because OIL IS BAD! It's silly. A pipeline is much safer than the alternatives.

[Ed Anger]

I noticed the crackdown stopped when the bad weather hit. All the cops were in the nearest Tim Horton's.

There is a Venn relationship between weather conditions, overtime and "Oh, this is bullshit."

The 27 Highway patrolmen Kasich sent went OH SHIT and never left their motel rooms.

[Eddie Teach]

Talk about a harmless group to champion.

You haven't seen enough westerns.