2012-09-17 YT.com - Police State Mastercard Bitcoin Parody

[grondilu]

Honestly, does shouting in the street with a megaphone really is part of freedom of speech??

[BkkCoins]

Hey, here in Thailand using a megaphone in the street is common every day, everywhere. I'm not saying for protest but for selling your wares, promoting your candidate or Thai boxing event or movie. They drive cars around with megaphones a blarin' and it drives me crazy but I don't have a right to complain as it's not my culture.

Of course it's freedom of speech. It's just annoying as hell.

Repetition and chanting has a purpose. It strives to get attention in the media. That's extremely important for any issue as otherwise it is lost in the flux of everyday life. People don't chant in protests to tell you something over and over, they do it to make you look and get your attention. And often for creating a feeling of solidarity amongst the protesters who are sometimes under attack for speaking out.

[wachtwoord]

Get my attention by haviong actual content please.

People that need to chant, shout and repeat are labled "fucking idiots" by me and I never listen what they have to say. If everyone does this, we'll get rid of them, soon come the day.

[jojo69]

You know Watchwoord, I was going to trot out the teabonics slides and throw down, but instead I am going to see if we can back away from the vitriol and actually have a discussion.  There are forces that would prefer that people remain divided.  It is incumbent on each of us to resist this and find common ground where we can.  Actually, I think a lot of folks are arriving at a synthesis of what were once mutually exclusive views.  Sites like ZeroHedge, projects like the Rap News, there are a lot of examples these days.

More and more occupy types are figuring out about the Federal Reserve and the evils of debt based money.  More and more tea party types are vocalizing that actually a kleptocratc oligarchy is no way to run a country.

Your objections to traditional protest, at least as you have articulated them here, seem to be largely aesthetic, and actually I share your distaste, but I also understand that people don't really know what else to do.  Access to broadcast and print media is tightly gatekept, and internet media is so fractured that it is difficult to reach people there.  I hear your demand for "actual content" and I agree.  At the same time, a person should not have to be an artist or a gifted orator to have a voice in their governance.

My fear is that you are dismissing an entire population of possible, in fact increasingly likely, allies on aesthetic grounds alone.  Both sides have certainly been guilty of this sort of divisive disdain.  I think it would be very helpful to move beyond that and communicate about what we agree on.

[420]

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