How many protesters does it take to change a light bulb?

[ShoobyDB]

None, protesting never changed anything. Its the easy way to say you care and condemn those who don't. The fact of the matter is that bitching about something not good enough is simply for ones own entertainment. If you want change, make change. If all you seek is credibility just lie about it. Otherwise get out there and join/start some sort of organisation. Unfortunantly for me, this post automatically makes me a hypocrite. Also, in my defense, anybody who responds is one too.

The people who tell bums to get a job are the same people who would never hire a homeless person. 

[hunter s.durden]

Fuck Maine.

[Triple Zero]

if you feel like you need to defend yourself for being a hypocrite, you're doing it wrong.

[Idem]

protesting never changed anything.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

I protest the sentiment of the OP in strong terms.

[wade]

None, protesting never changed anything. 

so what you're saying is, people should strike instead of gathering together while screaming slogans.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

no! action is too dangerous, and inaction is too ineffective. why not just settle down and accept your fate?

[Cramulus]

So I went to a really liberal artsy kind of school, packed with far-left ideologies. They had this really moronic protest agains the iraq war in the social science building. Which is stupid, because it's not like the people in the SS building are causing the war or anything. Most of the teachers spoke out against it.

So the protest took the form of everyone wearing makeup to look like they were beat up and bloody, then lying on the floor right inside the front door. They filled the whole lobby / front hall of the building, making it impossible to get in without stepping on people.

So on the day of the protest, I had an exam in this room right on the other side of the protest. Our professor was standing in the door, hopping mad at this moronic protest. She could see that our whole class was waiting by the front door, unable to get to the exam.

So finally this one kid took matters into his own hands. He shouted "FUCK THIS SHIT," got on his bike, and biked right over all the protesters. Others mocked the protestors, pointing out that they are doing a shitty job of playing dead while whining at the guy for biking over them. Other students followed, trampling human beings underfoot so as not to be late to class.

After we got inside, the teacher shut the door, and some asshole with a megaphone started chanting anti-war slogans. The teacher, who was fairly hippie herself, was appauled. Fuck, we were trying to take a test! She bit her lip, called the cops, and had a bunch of people arrested. The protestors, as they were being dragged away, were chanting about how their right to free speech was being violated. I have never wanted to shit on a protest more than that moment


OH WAIT ONE MORE

Second stupidest fucking protest ever.

The on-campus Gay-Lesbian-Bi-Transgender-Union was having a fundraiser. they got all these bands to play, including some campus favorites. Outside of the show, they had some large bull-dyke bouncers who were "Not admitting any straight white males." This was "so they can see what it feels like to be oppressed."

They wouldn't let me in and I said, "How can you tell that I'm white?"

not budging, I followed,

"how can you tell that I'm straight?"

not budging.

I went back to my dorm and wrote an article for the school paper about it.

I mean seriously! Those two protests made me HATE their cause. Such fucking trash.





ahh I got all angry again just thinking about it.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Which is stupid, because it's not like the people in the SS building are causing the war or anything.

Quoted out of context for teh ironies

[Triple Zero]

wow, that's a bunch of stupid and fail

[hunter s.durden]

Did anyone see the Daily Show with the Code Pink freaks protesting a Marine recruiting station at Berkley?

"If the US had no military, there'd be no wars," say one pink laden moron.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Protests! Making the impotent feel important since the dawn of the New Age

[AFK]

Fuck Maine.

What'd we do know?

[Jasper]

The problem with protesters is that, even though they get in the streets and say No, they quit soon enough and go back to accepting things as they are.

[hunter s.durden]

Look at your avatar!

If I could give your state back to Canada I would.
Then I would fuse West Virgina and Virginia.
North and South Carolina.
North and South Dakota.
New Mexico, meet Old Mexico.
Fuck Idaho.
Texas becomes it's own country.
Massachusetts is gone. No snappy little plan, just get out.

Leaving us with 42OMGTHATSTHEMEANINGOFTHEUNIVERSEAHHHHHHHAWESOME .