Awesome Protest Signs

[SCarpelan]

From http://mic.com/articles/107988/the-hero-of-the-charlie-hebdo-shooting-we-re-overlooking

[Ultimate Paragon]

[Askold]

You know, occasionally I can't figure out the gender of some random person I see based on their appearance, but it is not a big deal, more like "huh? I can't tell if that person is a dude or chick, oh well no matter." I also remember noticing two women and wondering if they were a couple or just close friends. Mainly because if I was told to imagine the most stereotypical "butch lesbian" one of them would have been the exact image... Again, not that it really makes a difference, just some idle musings while I was on the bus going to my job and still only half awake.

[guizonde]

technically not a sign, but this really happened on french tv as a protest to fox news' bullshit. and yes, it lasted a week, forcing fox to apologize. and yes, it was hilarious (this is only one skit out of 5)

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[ironbite]

Oh wow.

Ironbite-that's hilarious.

[mellenORL]

Stewart and Colbert are impressed.

[Barbarella]

That was awesome! *ROFL* VIVA LE FRANCE!

[Askold]

Now that Kokoomus

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To make it really short: the right-wing mainstream party in Finnish politics. Associated with colour blue.

suffered setbacks and lost voters they have loudly complained that they should still be allowed in the government rather than being left out to the opposition because "Every time that a red-ochre goverment

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Red-ochre being a reference to the SDP (Social democratic party, the left-wing mainstream party in Finnish politics associated with the colour red.) and Keskusta (The Center party, the center mainstream party in Finnish politics. Associated with the colour green and Earth.) forming the goverment together. (There would also be smaller parties involved but the nickname always only refers to the biggest two forming the govement.)

has been formed it has been a disaster to Finnish economy."

And here, from the image included we can see just how horrible the Red-ochre goverments have been. The graph shows the growth/fall of Gross domestic product in Finland. And the biggest disasters have happened when the Kokoomus (Reminder that they are the BUSINESS PARTY favoured traditionally by the bourgeois.) has been in the goverment... They better hope that the voters are too dumb to actually check the facts. (And they would have to do it themselves since the media would not bother to do so.)

[mellenORL]

It might sound conspiracy-like, but it seems to me that conservative parties like to make their policies to temporarily quash GDP, depress stock prices and prime rates, cause layoffs from industries in the transition phase to greater automation, so that the one percenters can scoop up stocks and troubled businesses at deep discount prices. It only seems obvious when things go a bit overboard or they just fuck up, as happened when long term tax policies and lack of financial law enforcement occurred, leading to the crash of '08-'10.

[RavynousHunter]

It might sound conspiracy-like, but it seems to me that conservative parties like to make their policies to temporarily quash GDP, depress stock prices and prime rates, cause layoffs from industries in the transition phase to greater automation, so that the one percenters can scoop up stocks and troubled businesses at deep discount prices. It only seems obvious when things go a bit overboard or they just fuck up, as happened when long term tax policies and lack of financial law enforcement occurred, leading to the crash of '08-'10.

The sad thing is, I wouldn't be surprised if that were actually the case.

[SCarpelan]

Now that Kokoomus...

I'll just throw this here. The current prime minister and the Kokoomus party leader is Alexander Stubb; the economy blog Raha ja talous found some interesting quotes from him.

During this term we have had to cut expenses and raise taxes significantly. This tightening of the finance policies has also weakened the economical growth.

Finland has now tried stimulation for years. Since 2009 we have doubled our national debt from ca. 20 billion euros to ca. 100 billion euros. Despite that we are hanging around zero growth for the seventh consecutive year.

I wonder if the situation in Greece and the rising pressure towards actual stimulation economics has anything to do with his... eh... shall we say new perspective. Fuck that party.

[Ultimate Paragon]

[Sigmaleph]

I get their point, but I think for a lot of people the answer is "yes" to both cases. Rape jokes aimed at men are not limited to prisoners.

[Ultimate Paragon]

I get their point, but I think for a lot of people the answer is "yes" to both cases. Rape jokes aimed at men are not limited to prisoners.

Indeed, but in my experience, I've found that prison rape jokes are considerably more common than man rape jokes, even among those supposedly more enlightened.

[Barbarella]

I get their point, but I think for a lot of people the answer is "yes" to both cases. Rape jokes aimed at men are not limited to prisoners.

Indeed, but in my experience, I've found that prison rape jokes are considerably more common than man rape jokes, even among those supposedly more enlightened.

I guess social enlightenment's a gradual thing. Even New-Left Flowerchild types in the 60s-70s, who protested against stale outdated values, unjust war, human cruelty & government corruption could be sexist against women. Old habits die hard.