Funny, people will complacently sit stopped at a bridge while one rich guy motors his multi-million dollar yacht through the cut, but when 1,000 poor & middle-class people stop traffic on that same bridge to protest a broken economic system that rewards those same rich people for fucking things over for the rest of us, and suddenly it’s “what a bunch of inconsiderate dicks”.
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Chris Comte, responding to the irate responses to a protest on Seattle’s University Bridge yesterday afternoon. [Slog] (via sciencevsromance) It’s been a long time, but I’m pretty sure opening the bridge for a boat doesn’t stop traffic for an hour. But let’s not stop undermining good arguments with faulty logic! |
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