idiggory, King of Bards wrote:
It was gaining media attention before the protests, those just helped rocket it forward.
I don't know about "gaining", but this did help "rocket it forward". Which is the point. It's not like this is a new way of doing things.
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Are there more now? Yes. But these stories are VERY misleading regarding the nature of the protests as a whole. It's largely very peaceful and lowkey--more about people sitting around in the park than rioting through the streets.
Sure. Those are the naive/ignorant kids being used as the peaceful face of the protests, while the agitators move around the edges, **** off the cops, and create events like this to "raise awareness" of their cause (whatever the hell it is). This is by design btw, and all the claims of peaceful protests, while I'm sure they are honestly intended, really just highlight how incredibly naive most of those who participate in these sorts of things are.
They are lambs being put in harms way for other people's causes. Hell. I'd bet good money that half the people there don't have a clue why they are there, much less any consistent reason for being there. It's like they heard there was a protest going on, thought it would be fun and would make them feel like they were "doing something", and showed up. Stupid stupid stupid.
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And you are also assuming that media coverage is all they want, which is very much not the case.
I'm sure the ignorant kids believe this. The more experienced older people really running the show darn well do though. They are
using the ignorant young students. I'm just not sure how much more clearly I can say this. Youthful ignorance abounds, which is why I don't put much weight in any of this.
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They obviously want their message out there, but they absolutely don't want to be seen as rioters.
Uh huh. Connect the rest of the dots now. How do you garner media attention, while not looking like rioters? Wouldn't the result end out looking basically exactly like what we've seen in those videos? Use the ol' noggin.
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There's been a very strong presence among the protesters to discourage any kind of violence, both online and on the streets. Anonymous has actually been policing social media to keep messages attempting to incite violence from going around.
Of course. You can't play the "we were peaceful protesters just standing on the sidewalk when the police pepper sprayed us" card unless you first go to great lengths to show how you're telling all the participants to be peaceful. You're coming off as naive as the kids who show up for this. You get that while they're thinking they're changing the world by sleeping in a park and "roughing it" for the cause and taking great pains to be peaceful, the agitators just show up to make trouble in the hopes that the front of peaceful protesters will get caught up in the backlash.
That's how the game is played. Those agitators know the score. The idiot kids do not. Like Mongo, they are just pawns in the game of life/politics.