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FormerRepublican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 11:46 PM
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France changes labor laws and folks riot big time. Bush turns the US...
...into a dictatorship, and people wander around like nothing happened.

What's up with that?
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Drum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 11:50 PM
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1. We're busy consuming, like proper sheep. nt
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FormerRepublican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 12:06 AM
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4. And pretty soon we'll be so poor we can't consume a thing.
Bushanomics.
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Drum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 12:12 AM
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5. Madame Lafarge, tune up your knitting needles. nt
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 11:59 PM
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2. Europe still has a free press.
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FormerRepublican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 12:05 AM
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3. They have something "free" left? They've got one up on us...
The US under Bush has something in common with the USSR under Stalin.
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Drum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 12:14 AM
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6. Amen to that, FR....
So sad but so true. Unendurable cruel when you can see it. Oblivious ones aren't pained so, those masses that say "what's the big deal over rights?"
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IsItJustMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 12:14 AM
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7. Watching it today on MSNBC. Couldn't get over the words the host was
using regarding the protestors. She was calling them THUG, TROUBLE MAKERS ,,,

The msm hates anyone who disagrees with authority. I guess we might be ablie to take a little solice in that. It may not be personal against people who protest the war here. Here the msm just ignores them, but when they do it in Paris, they cover it like hell.

MSM=CHIMP PROTECTORS, perception managment, PR, corporate hoes
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IsItJustMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 12:15 AM
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8. Give me some French Fries Damn it.
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Marie26 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 12:52 AM
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9. They really need to improve their propaganda. n/t
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mogster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 06:51 AM
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10. France is special
More internationalist/nationalist revolutionary backbone than any country, including the US (or for that matter; Norway).

This was how the 68-movement started; at Sorbonne and other French universities, then it spilled over to the rest of Europe - and the US. That time there also was a unjust war going on.

Many parallels to today's situation.
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 07:07 AM
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11. Most of Amerika has been Pacified.
Most Amerikans are apathetic. The Neo Fascist Regime has nuetered and spayed them.
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mogster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 07:35 AM
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13. Well, to be fair
This also counts for Norway and many European countries. France is special in so many ways, and you can always trust them to take a very critical stance towards change imposed by the govt.

But the US media has done a lot to pacify itself, and also the population, I agree to that.

Look at this thread, some data and pics from the riots:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x698829
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Obamarama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 09:23 AM
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15. Great comparison, mogster!
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Nomen Tuum Donating Member (396 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 07:30 AM
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12. Millions of Americans are brainwashed by religion
They don't care because they believe Jesus is going to rapture them in a week or 2.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 07:40 AM
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14. Could he make it in a week, not two? The sooner the better, in fact.
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