Poll
Question:
Have you ever participated in a demonstration ?
Option 1: Yes, I helped organize one / many
Option 2: Yes, I marched / demonstrated
Option 3: No
Part of a sophisticated sociological analysis of languish. How many here bothered to show up at political rallies, demonstrations, protests, etc.
Include picketting during a strike. Include Gay Pride in Gay-unfriendly areas. Exclude national holidays / drinking excuses (i.e.: Cinco de Mayo, St. Patrick's Day, etc.).
Technically speaking, sorta-- in College Republicans I attended a few events.
But I voted "no". Attending public rallies, demonstrations, etc. isn't in my DNA. Anyway, it's one thing that American conservatives aren't very good at (yet).
I have but it was mainly just to experience what it would be like than any sense of fanatical activisim.
Now if there was a Demo in favor of Arabic Linguists on the other hand...
Yup.
Quote from: derspiess on May 19, 2009, 10:49:18 AM
Anyway, it's one thing that American conservatives aren't very good at (yet).
I don't think any cause is really helped by these. They tend to give the most idiotic branches of a movement a chance to get lots of exposure.
Yes, I have participated in several demonstrations. But they are not really my cup of tea, the nuances and shades of grey in which I see the world are not really compatible with the demo mindset.
yes. helped organise, etc.
it's just one tactic. sometimes people think a protest is the campaign, but it's just one piece.
Yes, I attended an anti-WTO demonstration in Detroit; though only because I was hoping to see a riot. I was disappointed. :(
I got a sign and went to an anti-Kwame Kilpatrick rally with about two dozen other malcontents. I learned that all community organizers are fashion plates; not just Barack.
I was in the sympathy crowd at a picket of the Oakland Community College. The labor leaders threatened a hunger strike if their demands weren't met. It looked like they could have gone on one for a month before anyone would have cared.
The last two don't really count as demonstrations in the strict sense; since no one brought a giant puppet.
No. Never has, never will.
Back before the Flood I was a zealous militant, student politics as well as regular politics. Once we even unfurled a banner to protest something or other in the National Assembly. Since this was not so many years after the Lortie affair, we got arrested :P
G.
Quote from: Monoriu on May 19, 2009, 10:56:42 AM
No. Never has, never will.
Even a demo demanding higher salaries for civil servants?
Yes, although since gay pride in gay friendly areas doesn't count, then I doubt a protest in San Francisco counts (I handed out protest flyers). :lol:
Quote from: Valmy on May 19, 2009, 10:58:57 AM
Quote from: Monoriu on May 19, 2009, 10:56:42 AM
No. Never has, never will.
Even a demo demanding higher salaries for civil servants?
Especially in my official capacity. I'll be fired faster than you can blink.
Quote from: Monoriu on May 19, 2009, 11:04:22 AM
Quote from: Valmy on May 19, 2009, 10:58:57 AM
Quote from: Monoriu on May 19, 2009, 10:56:42 AM
No. Never has, never will.
Even a demo demanding higher salaries for civil servants?
Especially in my official capacity. I'll be fired faster than you can blink.
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No. In fact, when our whole school protested against the 1991 Iraq War I (and two others) refused to go (being 14 at the time). My teacher was less than thrilled.
Quote from: Syt on May 19, 2009, 11:08:23 AM
No. In fact, when our whole school protested against the 1991 Iraq War I (and two others) refused to go (being 14 at the time). My teacher was less than thrilled.
He didn't like the fact there were three warmongering fascists in his class?
Quote from: Syt on May 19, 2009, 11:08:23 AM
No. In fact, when our whole school protested against the 1991 Iraq War I (and two others) refused to go (being 14 at the time). My teacher was less than thrilled.
Good lad.
Quote from: Valmy on May 19, 2009, 11:12:14 AM
Quote from: Syt on May 19, 2009, 11:08:23 AM
No. In fact, when our whole school protested against the 1991 Iraq War I (and two others) refused to go (being 14 at the time). My teacher was less than thrilled.
He didn't like the fact there were three warmongering fascists in his class?
She was a pinko feminazi (after an unhappy marriage). She lived together with another divorced female teacher of our school on a former farm where atravelling circus would come to spend the winter. But she didn't at all like to comment on her driving a Porsche 944.
Quote from: Oexmelin on May 19, 2009, 10:44:10 AM
Part of a sophisticated sociological analysis of languish. How many here bothered to show up at political rallies, demonstrations, protests, etc.
Include picketting during a strike. Include Gay Pride in Gay-unfriendly areas. Exclude national holidays / drinking excuses (i.e.: Cinco de Mayo, St. Patrick's Day, etc.).
I've been at rallies.
Quote from: Siege on May 19, 2009, 11:21:02 AM
Quote from: Oexmelin on May 19, 2009, 10:44:10 AM
Part of a sophisticated sociological analysis of languish. How many here bothered to show up at political rallies, demonstrations, protests, etc.
Include picketting during a strike. Include Gay Pride in Gay-unfriendly areas. Exclude national holidays / drinking excuses (i.e.: Cinco de Mayo, St. Patrick's Day, etc.).
I've been at rallies.
... shooting protestors?
Quote from: Syt on May 19, 2009, 11:22:19 AM
Quote from: Siege on May 19, 2009, 11:21:02 AM
Quote from: Oexmelin on May 19, 2009, 10:44:10 AM
Part of a sophisticated sociological analysis of languish. How many here bothered to show up at political rallies, demonstrations, protests, etc.
Include picketting during a strike. Include Gay Pride in Gay-unfriendly areas. Exclude national holidays / drinking excuses (i.e.: Cinco de Mayo, St. Patrick's Day, etc.).
I've been at rallies.
... shooting protestors?
They were throwing rocks!
Never voluntarily.
Attending the anti-racist rallies was compulsory in high school, and until I decided that I would face the consequences of non-attendance, I stood in a few of them.
Yes, quite a few.
A few, in college. There was this cute girl...
In 7th or 8th grade we once essentially got the afternoon off to go to a rally. The rally was retarded and I knew it.
Never entirely voluntarily or in adult life.
Quote from: Slargos on May 19, 2009, 11:36:13 AM
Attending the anti-racist rallies was compulsory in high school
School required demonstrations? What sort of lame crap is that?
You are supposed to demonstrate to fight the man, yet here is a perverse world where you DON'T demonstrate in order to fight the man.
And strikes? I don't go on strike. I quit.
No. But saw leftist in college protesting countless times. Sometimes would throw their fliers at them. Was especially fun with the group that was pretending to be jailed Palestinians.
Of course not. Protests are for subhumans.
Yes, I had an helmet, a shield and a baton :Embarrass:
Not in my adult life.
It might come as a surprise to some to learn that I have indeed both organized and participated in demonstrations but not in the last 20 years or so.
Quote from: Slargos on May 19, 2009, 11:36:13 AM
Never voluntarily.
Attending the anti-racist rallies was compulsory in high school, and until I decided that I would face the consequences of non-attendance, I stood in a few of them.
Compulsory demonstration attendance? What sort of Orwellian crap was that? :lol:
I might be channelling Neil, but any sensible person would want to be the person being protested against, rather than the protester.
Quote from: Viking on May 19, 2009, 01:27:57 PM
I might be channelling Neil, but any sensible person would want to be the person being protested against, rather than the protester.
Agreed.
No, never.
Because I am one of those the demonstrations usually are organized against :bowler: :hide: :whistle:
L.
Quote from: Siege on May 19, 2009, 01:29:43 PM
Quote from: Viking on May 19, 2009, 01:27:57 PM
I might be channelling Neil, but any sensible person would want to be the person being protested against, rather than the protester.
Agreed.
Unless you show up to meet girls... :contract:
I also find the mandatory middle school demonstrations very peculiar.
You guys should have formed a students union to protect your right not to demonstrate.
Quote from: Viking on May 19, 2009, 01:33:18 PM
Quote from: Siege on May 19, 2009, 01:29:43 PM
Quote from: Viking on May 19, 2009, 01:27:57 PM
I might be channelling Neil, but any sensible person would want to be the person being protested against, rather than the protester.
Agreed.
Unless you show up to meet girls... :contract:
Do you really want to meet the kind of girls that go to demostrations?
Quote from: Viking on May 19, 2009, 01:27:57 PM
I might be channelling Neil, but any sensible person would want to be the person being protested against, rather than the protester.
Despite his fly bitches, mountain of pilfered loot and pimped out Escalade; I'd rather be one of the malcontents protesting Kwame Kilpatrick.
Quote from: Siege on May 19, 2009, 01:35:07 PM
Do you really want to meet the kind of girls that go to demostrations?
The kinds of girls that go to these things must have changed in the last 20 years. If they havent then I guess its that you dont like sex.
Quote from: Siege on May 19, 2009, 01:35:07 PM
Quote from: Viking on May 19, 2009, 01:33:18 PM
Quote from: Siege on May 19, 2009, 01:29:43 PM
Quote from: Viking on May 19, 2009, 01:27:57 PM
I might be channelling Neil, but any sensible person would want to be the person being protested against, rather than the protester.
Agreed.
Unless you show up to meet girls... :contract:
Do you really want to meet the kind of girls that go to demostrations?
Yes, merely agreeing with them gets you half way into their panties unless somebody else is already there.
I haven't been to a Gay Pride in Poland yet, but going this year. However, I marched in a feminist march this year (for pro-choice, sex education in schools etc.) with heavy presence by skinheads and neonazis opposing us, and even got caught on TV, so the answer is yes. :)
Quote from: Martinus on May 19, 2009, 01:53:59 PM
I marched in a feminist march this year (for pro-choice, sex education in schools etc.) with heavy presence by skinheads and neonazis opposing us.
Did you shit your pants?
Quote from: Siege on May 19, 2009, 02:00:54 PM
Quote from: Martinus on May 19, 2009, 01:53:59 PM
I marched in a feminist march this year (for pro-choice, sex education in schools etc.) with heavy presence by skinheads and neonazis opposing us.
Did you shit your pants?
Not really. In fact some of them were kinda hot.
Quote from: Viking on May 19, 2009, 01:27:57 PM
I might be channelling Neil, but any sensible person would want to be the person being protested against, rather than the protester.
:huh:
A sensible person should not protest because they hope one day to be someone against whom people protest? Even Neil in full rhetorical flight doesnt say things as ridiculous as that.
Quote from: Martinus on May 19, 2009, 02:06:02 PM
Quote from: Siege on May 19, 2009, 02:00:54 PM
Quote from: Martinus on May 19, 2009, 01:53:59 PM
I marched in a feminist march this year (for pro-choice, sex education in schools etc.) with heavy presence by skinheads and neonazis opposing us.
Did you shit your pants?
Not really. In fact some of them were kinda hot.
Did you puke?
I almost did. Remember several years back when there was a big hullaballu over illegal immigrants paying taxes?
My next door neighbor heard there was a bus headed to Washington leaving from Detroit to protest. She wanted to make signs that read "Pay our tax or get your ass back" referencing the illegal Mexicans in our area. I was thankful I decided not to go when I heard on the news that night that the bus ride was intended for the illegals to make their voices hear.
That was a close call.
Yes I have.
Quote from: Malthus on May 19, 2009, 01:27:36 PM
Quote from: Slargos on May 19, 2009, 11:36:13 AM
Never voluntarily.
Attending the anti-racist rallies was compulsory in high school, and until I decided that I would face the consequences of non-attendance, I stood in a few of them.
Compulsory demonstration attendance? What sort of Orwellian crap was that? :lol:
I keep telling you guys, but no one listens.
That country is rotten to the core.
About 20 years ago, one of the mudpeople (somali, I think; I forget) murdered his ex and her friend in my hometown.
Instead of acting like any sensible father would and hang the nigger in the nearest tree, her father started an "anti-racist" movement in order to "further understanding".
This started years of suffering on the behalf of everyone who doesn't want to repay murder with hugs and cookies.
The annual gathering of blithering idiots on the town square was so pitiful that they decided to start forcing all students in the city to participate in order to flesh the crowd out.
Thus awoke my deep hatred of all things african.
No offense, Garbo. You're technically American after all. :p
Quote from: Slargos on May 19, 2009, 05:24:42 PM
No offense, Garbo. You're technically American after all. :p
Actually, the one drop rule ensures that he remains an African through and through.
Quote from: Neil on May 19, 2009, 07:03:27 PM
Actually, the one drop rule ensures that he remains an African through and through.
Africa has taken over America! :w00t:
I've demostrated many things. For instance I'm demonstrated how to fix a flat tire or open a type of file on Windows.
Day I flew into Milan there was a big Commie demonstration, with a big Fascist counter-demonstration. Wandering around, listening to bad Euro-rock made me realize that Italians are teh evil.
Only rally/march/demonstration that qualifies would've been the March for Gay Rights in 1993 in Washington DC.
Bet you fuckers never saw that one coming.
Well single in late 30's and has multiple cats, so yeah kinda saw it coming.
:P
Quote from: katmai on May 19, 2009, 08:41:33 PM
Well single in late 30's and has multiple cats, so yeah kinda saw it coming.
:P
:lol: :P Fuck you. I was invited. Punch was served!
Quote from: katmai on May 19, 2009, 08:41:33 PM
Well single in late 30's and has multiple cats, so yeah kinda saw it coming.
:P
:face: Owned!
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 19, 2009, 08:40:00 PM
Only rally/march/demonstration that qualifies would've been the March for Gay Rights in 1993 in Washington DC.
Bet you fuckers never saw that one coming.
Actually I'm not at all surprised. :)
You joined arms swinging with yours truly in some EUOT thread. We faced off against some Balkantards.
Quote from: Legbiter on May 19, 2009, 09:01:01 PMActually I'm not at all surprised. :)
You joined arms swinging with yours truly in some EUOT thread. We faced off against some Balkantards.
It actually took knowing obnoxiously militant fags like Martinus to make me hate gays. Funny how that works.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 19, 2009, 09:38:28 PM
Quote from: Legbiter on May 19, 2009, 09:01:01 PMActually I'm not at all surprised. :)
You joined arms swinging with yours truly in some EUOT thread. We faced off against some Balkantards.
It actually took knowing obnoxiously militant fags like Martinus to make me hate gays. Funny how that works.
Aye.
But there's always Sheilbh to act as the Anti-Martinus. :lol:
Closest I've come is working in the MDA Telethon a few times (ended up getting me one job- my boss used to work with a Goodwill Ambassador from Hawaii, while my SO's father is one of the ones in NJ).
Yes, I have. Not that often, tough... I would never dream of demonstrating every May 1st, for example. But perhaps once every five-six years there is some demonstration that deserves massive support.
Strike picketting is completely different, IMHO. It's too close to intimidation for my taste.
I used to do the May 1st red demonstrations, but I grew up.
Just last week I marched with my fiancée with the teachers unions to protest against the cutbacks in the city's school budget. That's different.
Yes. Anti-hunt stuff.
Thankfully hippy free.
At anything above a local level I find such things rather pointless and they do tend to be full of idiots, i.e. all this stop the war crap.
Also of course my ability to be involved in such is nigh on non-existant even if I had the inclination. Tends to happen in London.
Quote from: Legbiter on May 19, 2009, 10:09:30 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 19, 2009, 09:38:28 PM
Quote from: Legbiter on May 19, 2009, 09:01:01 PMActually I'm not at all surprised. :)
You joined arms swinging with yours truly in some EUOT thread. We faced off against some Balkantards.
It actually took knowing obnoxiously militant fags like Martinus to make me hate gays. Funny how that works.
Aye.
But there's always Sheilbh to act as the Anti-Martinus. :lol:
Let's not forget his Limey brother TopCat.
Quote from: Tyr on May 20, 2009, 06:56:15 AM
Yes. Anti-hunt stuff.
:mad:
I have never participated in a demonstration, though I have gone to gay rights/marriage events and parades and cheered on the folks participating. Princesca has actually participated in some, as well as (when she was in college) pro-life, pro-Phil Gramm rallies. :x Thankfully, she's changed since then.
Quote from: Tyr on May 20, 2009, 06:56:15 AM
Yes. Anti-hunt stuff.
Thankfully hippy free.
:lol:
Bullshit. The anti-hunt movement was a bunch of hippies, communists and assholes.
Quote from: Tyr on May 20, 2009, 06:56:15 AM
Yes. Anti-hunt stuff.
Thankfully hippy free.
You Brits are so goofy with your anti hunting stance. I bet it built up an appetite for some tasty kebabs after.
Yes, but the last one was in '03, IIRC.
Quote from: Neil on May 20, 2009, 07:43:52 AM
Quote from: Tyr on May 20, 2009, 06:56:15 AM
Yes. Anti-hunt stuff.
Thankfully hippy free.
:lol:
Bullshit. The anti-hunt movement was a bunch of hippies, communists and assholes.
:yeahright:
I think I was there.
Quote from: Tyr on May 20, 2009, 08:08:09 AM
Quote from: Neil on May 20, 2009, 07:43:52 AM
Quote from: Tyr on May 20, 2009, 06:56:15 AM
Yes. Anti-hunt stuff.
Thankfully hippy free.
:lol:
Bullshit. The anti-hunt movement was a bunch of hippies, communists and assholes.
:yeahright:
I think I was there.
So are you a Communist, Hippie, or an Asshole?
Quote from: Valmy on May 20, 2009, 08:11:31 AM
So are you a Communist, Hippie, or an Asshole?
:rolleyes:
Point missed by a long way.
Quote from: Tyr on May 20, 2009, 08:12:31 AM
:rolleyes:
Point missed by a long way.
Wow you anti-hunt people have no sense of humor.
Quote from: Tyr on May 20, 2009, 08:08:09 AM
Quote from: Neil on May 20, 2009, 07:43:52 AM
Quote from: Tyr on May 20, 2009, 06:56:15 AM
Yes. Anti-hunt stuff.
Thankfully hippy free.
:lol:
Bullshit. The anti-hunt movement was a bunch of hippies, communists and assholes.
:yeahright:
I think I was there.
And since you're a communist and an emo kid, that proves my point.
hmm...OK then. Since it took place in the north east I suppose it was full of communists (by N.American standards)
Better that than the hippys that are normal in such crap though.
Quote from: Tyr on May 20, 2009, 08:20:49 AM
hmm...OK then. Since it took place in the north east I suppose it was full of communists (by N.American standards)
Better that than the hippys that are normal in such crap though.
Not really. A communist is just another kind of hippy, snivelling about how the world has passed them by.
In a way, you're even worse than they are. At least the hippy does things out of some misguided belief. The reason you attack the hunts is to stick it to your betters, because of the way Thatcher ended your inefficient livelihoods in the 80s.
Quote from: Oexmelin on May 19, 2009, 10:44:10 AM
Part of a sophisticated sociological analysis of languish. How many here bothered to show up at political rallies, demonstrations, protests, etc.
Include picketting during a strike. Include Gay Pride in Gay-unfriendly areas. Exclude national holidays / drinking excuses (i.e.: Cinco de Mayo, St. Patrick's Day, etc.).
No.
Quote from: viper37 on May 20, 2009, 08:33:48 AM
No.
I thought you had gone to those big Radio X demonstrations ?
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 19, 2009, 08:40:00 PM
Only rally/march/demonstration that qualifies would've been the March for Gay Rights in 1993 in Washington DC.
Bet you fuckers never saw that one coming.
:hug:
Quote from: Oexmelin on May 20, 2009, 11:58:07 AM
Quote from: viper37 on May 20, 2009, 08:33:48 AM
No.
I thought you had gone to those big Radio X demonstrations ?
I did not attend the big march in Quebec city and Ottawa. I wrote in blogs, forums, newspaper, to my MPs, but I did not walk.
I did attend some other events, but they were not political first & firemost, so that doesn't count.
While at university (the 1st time), I was asked, pressured really, to participate in a march in Ottawa about the (then) recent cuts in Federal transfers. I managed to avoid it though.
I did participate in political meetings, but is it really qualified as a political rally? I didn't think attending a conference with Parizeau was what you had in mind.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 19, 2009, 08:40:00 PM
Only rally/march/demonstration that qualifies would've been the March for Gay Rights in 1993 in Washington DC.
Have fun being best friends with Martinus.
Quote from: Neil on May 20, 2009, 04:42:34 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 19, 2009, 08:40:00 PM
Only rally/march/demonstration that qualifies would've been the March for Gay Rights in 1993 in Washington DC.
Have fun being best friends with Martinus.
You must've missed my follow-up post. Thanks to Martinus, my days of homotolerance are long gone.
Quote from: Monoriu on May 19, 2009, 10:56:42 AM
No. Never has, never will.
Not even as a tank driver?
How can anyone be anti-hunt? I blame the gay.
Quote from: The Brain on May 20, 2009, 05:48:49 PM
How can anyone be anti-hunt? I blame the gay.
The hunters are dicks. They trounce around the country with no respect for property, knocking down fences and causing all sorts of bother.
The way they killed the foxes was very inhumane.
And in this particular demonstration there was a lot of extra support from their failure to control their dogs- they'd torn apart some kid's pet dog.
Quote from: Tyr on May 20, 2009, 07:12:07 PM
The hunters are dicks. They trounce around the country with no respect for property, knocking down fences and causing all sorts of bother.
The way they killed the foxes was very inhumane.
And in this particular demonstration there was a lot of extra support from their failure to control their dogs- they'd torn apart some kid's pet dog.
Ah. So more "Hunters" than hunters.
Quote from: The Brain on May 20, 2009, 05:48:49 PM
How can anyone be anti-hunt? I blame the gay.
Even if we disregard the animal cruelty angle, hunting should be banned for the same reason we ban public executions or virtual child pornography - because it's a gateway activity that attracts psychos and freaks and further warps their minds, not to mention lets them near guns.
Quote from: Oexmelin on May 19, 2009, 10:44:10 AM
Part of a sophisticated sociological analysis of languish. How many here bothered to show up at political rallies, demonstrations, protests, etc.
Include picketting during a strike. Include Gay Pride in Gay-unfriendly areas. Exclude national holidays / drinking excuses (i.e.: Cinco de Mayo, St. Patrick's Day, etc.).
Yes. Several. And loved it. :cool: