[quote]Aragorn wrote:
[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
The cops obviously have their hands tied or those streets would have been swept clean in a day or two tops. Swept clean and painted red with blood. Look at the video clips; cops standing in defensive formations while protestors those molotov cocktails at them, pelt them with cobble stones, and one guys whips the cops with a chain while the cops just stand there.
“Ha ha, the cops have orders to not fight back! Look how tough I am now!”
There’s also a video of a bystander in a car who has to fight off a group of brave protestors because he doesn’t agree with them. So I guess they’re protesting for “FREEDOM!” as long as you agree with what we say. This is obviously more complicated politcally than brave freedom fighters versus oppressive authority.
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Well, to be fair I’m sure if the OP or any of us others actually wanted to talk about the political complexities or the bad/good moral high ground this probably would have been posted in Politics forum…where like 3 people would read it.
This is way more fun than having a serious discussion.
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I agree, I enjoyed looking through those pics immensely. I don’t know shit about the political situation over there except what I read on the internet, and I consider everything on the internet suspect. Most of the people at those demonstrations are probably decent people with legitimate political grievances.