Will the economy piss people off enough for them to riot?

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  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    eventually....
    if we all aren't already locked up in Fema camps
    did I say that out loud???
  • he still stands
    he still stands Posts: 2,835
    Jeanwah wrote:
    citizen54 wrote:
    No.
    As long as the football game and American Idol are on..... no worries.
    Aint that the truth. As long as people have their TVs, nothing will ever change.

    random, but speaking of TV versus action:

    "If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
    - John Lennon

    .... just reiterating how we've lost our sense of what's important.
    Everything not forbidden is compulsory and eveything not compulsory is forbidden. You are free... free to do what the government says you can do.
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,361
    he still stands wrote:
    Jeanwah wrote:
    citizen54 wrote:
    No.
    As long as the football game and American Idol are on..... no worries.
    Aint that the truth. As long as people have their TVs, nothing will ever change.

    random, but speaking of TV versus action:

    "If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
    - John Lennon

    .... just reiterating how we've lost our sense of what's important.
    LOL, that quote used to be my siggy!

    Take people's TVs away...now that would incite a riot!
  • OffHeGoes29
    OffHeGoes29 Posts: 1,240
    soulsinging wrote:
    OffHeGoes29 wrote:
    Most protesters are college aged kids thats barely make it to the voting booth to vote for the President, and just do it because its the in thing to do. Most barely have any concept of what they are protesting about, and usually aren't looked at with any kind of respect by the rest of the voting population that works and has actual life experience.

    i'm so tired of this bullshit statement. i hold the same beliefs now i held when i was in high school, college, working world, grad school, and now career. if you are so fucking convinced that any opinion held by someone aged 18-22 is completely invalid and worthless becos they don't have "actual life experience", why let them vote at all? i know people in their 50s who've never had a real life experience, you don't try to say they don't deserve to be heard. :roll:

    Protesting attracts the wrong kind of attention, and no one actually respects it. Get educated on the issues and go vote, thats the strongest statment one can make, and thats what politicians pay attention to.
    BRING BACK THE WHALE
  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    edited November 2009
    what, people are gonna riot because they have to settle for holding onto their current overpriced iGadget another year instead of buying this year's newest model? please.

    things are bad for many in America, but not most. most are just inconvenienced slightly, including me. we're spoiled.
    Post edited by LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun on
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    OffHeGoes29 wrote:
    soulsinging wrote:
    OffHeGoes29 wrote:
    Most protesters are college aged kids thats barely make it to the voting booth to vote for the President, and just do it because its the in thing to do. Most barely have any concept of what they are protesting about, and usually aren't looked at with any kind of respect by the rest of the voting population that works and has actual life experience.

    i'm so tired of this bullshit statement. i hold the same beliefs now i held when i was in high school, college, working world, grad school, and now career. if you are so fucking convinced that any opinion held by someone aged 18-22 is completely invalid and worthless becos they don't have "actual life experience", why let them vote at all? i know people in their 50s who've never had a real life experience, you don't try to say they don't deserve to be heard. :roll:

    Protesting attracts the wrong kind of attention, and no one actually respects it. Get educated on the issues and go vote, thats the strongest statment one can make, and thats what politicians pay attention to.

    i looked very hard... but where did i talk about protesting in my post? this is kind of a recurring problem you and i seem to have. you keep nailing me on all these points i never made. it's incredibly effective. now if only you could translate those skills to actually addressing something i DID say... then you'd truly be a formidable debate opponent!
  • nuffingman
    nuffingman Posts: 3,014
    OffHeGoes29 wrote:
    Protesting attracts the wrong kind of attention, and no one actually respects it. Get educated on the issues and go vote, thats the strongest statment one can make, and thats what politicians pay attention to.
    You seem to have great faith in politicians. If they were genuinely public servants I'd go along with what you say. Too many are only in it to feather their own nests and the public know it. They support policies that will get them a vote and then fail to deliver.

    In the UK we have a huge proportion of our MPs about to be forced to pay back unwarranted expenses claims. These include claiming mortgage interest on 2nd homes where the mortgage has already been paid off, maintenance of bird houses at their magnificent homes etc, etc, etc. We have yet to see a single MP arrested and charged with fraud. They are interviewed and come out with the most ridiculous excuses. If you or I tried this we'd be laughed at in court and then locked away.

    Many of these crooks have said they won't stand again but we then hear if they don't resign but stay until the next election they'll receive huge payouts. All this thieving comes from the publics taxes. I won't trust one of these fuckers ever again.

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