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Confirmation that most activists are just plain morons

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/ameri...o.ap/index.html

I really love these imbecilic ninnies. They don't even realize that the goal of the current DOHA talks in Cancun is to reduce agricultural farm subsidies among wealthy nations. I kind of wish that there was an alternate viewing universe where the wto was abolished. The looks on the faces of some of these people would be priceless when the ensuing trade wars crippled every country ... especially the developing ones.

Re: Confirmation that most activists are just plain morons

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Originally posted by occrider http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/ameri...o.ap/index.html I really love these imbecilic ninnies. They don't even realize that the goal of the current DOHA talks in Cancun is to reduce agricultural farm subsidies among wealthy nations. I kind of wish that there was an alternate viewing universe where the wto was abolished. The looks on the faces of some of these people would be priceless when the ensuing trade wars crippled every country ... especially the developing ones.

The hippies probably wanted a reason have a vacation in a beautiful resort where they can prance around naked and chant along to their favorite marching song. no wonder it's in cancun. i dont blame them either, i went there in spring break and the place rox0r.

"Drugs are bad because if you do drugs you're a hippie and hippies suck." - Cartman



"Hippies, hippies...they want to save the world but all they do is smoke pot and play frisbee!" - Cartman



"I hate hippies, when they're always talkin' 'bout protecting us and they're drivin' 'round on these cars that get poor gas mileage and wear those stupid braces! I hate 'em! I wanna kick 'em in the nuts!" - Eric Cartman



Prosecutor: Mr. Cartman, do you know a boy by the name of "Token?"
Cartman: Uh, yes?
Prosecutor: Who is Token?
Cartman: He's a black kid that goes to my school?
Prosecutor: Black! [gets animated] Did you say black?! You called him black?!
Cartman: He is black.
Prosecutor: O! He said it again! [the audience gasps] He is African-American, and so you decided to pick him out!
Cartman: I did?
Prosecutor: The rage built and built inside your head until it became too much because you hate African-Americans!!
Cartman: No! I hate hippies!

years and years ago in cancun I FIRST got into trance...

the memories...

Too lazy to click the link, but I think I've seen this before. Is this the group of protestors that lay naked on the beach?

Coldplay is part of those talks in cancun (link) (link)

Ok they want to save the worlds starving children and the rainforest but when we say.

"ok lets all get together so that we can even it all out and come to the same level inorder to help everyone"

They flip out and say, omfg i cant work at the shoe factory anymore cuz there packin up for china and i had too many kids that i cant support now.

Blah and they dun wana wear clothes either, then were guna have to pay for there skin cancer treatment with our taxes.

While I, on one level, applaud "activists" for the strength of their beliefs. I at the same time am rather amused and apalled at the same time at their idiocy. I see them all talking about how "globalization is bad" then they go on to say in this case (as occrider points out) that "protectionism is bad". Which way is it they want things?

I also remember watching a few news clips during the Seattle meetings where people dressed in expensive NorthFace and similar parkas were marching, destroying property, and denouncing the practices that allow them to wear that fancy parka.

I just don't feel that all of these giant protests at every meeting of global scope are doing anything to help their cause. I also wonder how these people can afford to go to all these protests and eat and such. I guess now that the Grateful Dead aren;t touring anymore and the guy from Phish is in hot water with the whole child molesting thing they have to follow something around.

Of course maybe I should go protest in Cancun...I am sure I can get me some action with all those nekkid chicks around

Then again, maybe not

MrS

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Originally posted by MrSquirrel While I, on one level, applaud "activists" for the strength of their beliefs. I at the same time am rather amused and apalled at the same time at their idiocy. I see them all talking about how "globalization is bad" then they go on to say in this case (as occrider points out) that "protectionism is bad". Which way is it they want things? I also remember watching a few news clips during the Seattle meetings where people dressed in expensive NorthFace and similar parkas were marching, destroying property, and denouncing the practices that allow them to wear that fancy parka. MrS

I agree with first sentence.

Sometimes it is hard for a cause to stay as one and/or tryin to have everyone in that cause, on the same page. Thats why in some instances the being "off track" with each other, can make a great cause seem alittle shady. There are always people leaching a cause for there own sick pleasure or something (hippies, drugs, getting naked, violence/anarcy, building giant forts in trees, chaining there self to something or dangleing from high places). The last three I think could be cool but they don't get anything done.

I was there in seattle when they had the wto protests. There were alot of people there that wern't protesting at all. They were there just to get things riled up. Alot of the people you are talking about with wearing the north face and destroying propertiy are not part of the cause period. A "gangsta apparel" lookin kid next to me on the street threw a brick at a shop and broke the window. A flood of simular people fled into the store to shop lift it. Soon after police shot me and others with rubber bullets. Those people breaking in were not part of the cause. They made the protest look really bad.

I remember back to the G8 meeting here in Alberta. I was fascinated by the idiots showing up to protest the oil and gas industry in Alberta. There was people from all over North America there all I had to say to them is �How did you get here, did you fucking walk?� If they are so against the oil industry and pollution then they should get rid of their old ass hippie vans. Since they have poor gas mileage and they are so old that they probably produce more greenhouse gas than 5 newer cars.

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At a beach resort best known for turquoise surf and drunken U.S. college students, trade ministers huddled in conference rooms of five-star hotels in preparation for the meeting, which begins Wednesday.

i wonder if this had to contribute to their reasons?

Well, you see, Globalization has made US cultured expand everywhere in the world, its Mckdonalds and franchises, conglomerates and such. I think that, I dont really know but, from talks we had on one of my classes is that the rich countries will get richer and the poorer countries will just get poorer ( have in mind that globalization gives big companies access to poorer countries, heaving an incredible amount of profits, this countries have no regulation nor minimun pay wages, so is the dream come true for many companies ) .. either way, I think thats what people mean, as if instead of heaving international companies profiting from them instead of profiting the nation, this people want more of their OWN companies, and good pay for the products that outside companies are getting instead through private industry, so thats the reason why ( GENERALLY farmers were protesting ) are mad.. but yes, Globalization has many good points and benefits, as it expands technology and ideas, but its downside for the poor countries really.

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