Looking in the LR is only going to find wet noodles. These guys ain't doing nuthin'. Anybody with a backbone has been chased away by now.

Peace and Love. Peace and Love.

---

-----------------------------------------------------------------
Team Off Constantly

Anybody with a backbone has been chased away by now.

You and I have a different understanding of backbone and wet noodles . . .

---

"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

So how many rallies or social functions have you attended in the last year. I haven't been to any, therefore I have no backbone. I'm not sure what I meant by a wet noodle......

Peace and Love

---

-----------------------------------------------------------------
Team Off Constantly

AFAIK, the Women's March was intended to be a victory dance after Hillary's election and turned into something else.

I feel like kind of a "fuddy-duddy" myself, in that a high-school friend let me know in advance via FB about the march in Washington D.C. What I didn't know at the time was that simultaneous marches were going on here in Las Vegas. Not that I necessarily would have attended, but I found out too late to even decide.

---

DFL > DNF > DNS

How?

Have a woman organize it....

You're welcome.

---

clm
Nashville, TN
https://twitter.com/ironclm | http://ironclm.typepad.com

"Have a woman organize it...."

i suspect there's a lot of truth in that.

---

Dan Empfield
aka Slowman

Linkedin is a fairly dead end channel imo. Never cutting edge enough, for a while a decent place to look for or advertise for a job, but eventually passed by glassdoor or even craigslist. Once msft acquired it, it got even worse.

---

Next races on the schedule: none at the moment

Well hallucinogens, or at least "magic" mushrooms which are basically a lighter version of LSD, have shown some promise with helping people deal with the emotional challenges of end of life type situations. So you should get on that.

Also mushrooms and LSD typically have just the opposite effect of being habit forming, people generally lose interest after they've done them some rather than feeding into more use.

there are different schools of thought about this. one is that, yes, social media and communications tech have made this kinds of mobilizations possible and revolutionized how we do this stuff. people tweeting during the arab spring, for instance, or obama raising tonnes of money online through microdonations.

on the other hand, some say it's nothing new and it's not even as good as it used to be: in the 1960's protest marches had way higher numbers and were run without any tech at all. hell, woodstock still beats coachella any day of the week.

i think you'll find malcolm gladwell has moaned about 'slacktivism' and the idea that mobile tech makes it easy to get passively involved in a cause (ie., by tweeting about it, or doing an ice-bucket challenge, or something) but that it doesn't translate well enough to actual, boots-on-ground action.

-mike

---

____________________________________
https://lshtm.academia.edu/MikeCallaghan

http://howtobeswiss.blogspot.ch/

no expert, and late to the thread as usual, but saw what happened..
Started with a Facebook post on 11/9, mushroomed from there. I found out about it on Twitter either that day or the next day. Told my wife I was going to march, she said 'but it's for women ?'

No-one was paid to organize it, and it wasn't political. It's just when you threaten people and have a long history of violent abuse, then get elected president, it gets their attention. Since we still had freedom of speech and assembly on Jan 21, it was possible to organize a march. We took the train downtown to the Denver march, it was full of women - trains full of women ! two nice old ladies of 84 and 85 in our compartment told us they had to march sixty years ago for women's rights, and they don't plan to stop as long as the attacks don't stop. Back then women could not have credit cards, and married women could not open bank accounts in their own names.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Women's_March

They let me march, even though I'm an old white guy.



I grew up in a country without freedom of speech or assembly, and I know how it happens. Protests now might be able to stop things before it gets to fighting in the streets.

Also read Zeynep Tufekci for perspective, the smartest writer I know on these subjects.

https://www.nytimes.com/...sts-size-matter.html

You nailed it. Slowman might as well ask his question to the mall walkers.

That makes sense when you add-in a big ol' dose of "Hell hath no fury like a women scorned..."

You have your Make America Great Again Triathlon and your Stop Trump Triathlon. : )

You are definitely the strangest individual on ST.

Maybe you need a try a bit of Heroin? Meth? Pick your poison. I hope you don't have any kids.

https://www.allaboutcounseling.com/...y-and-mdma-overdose/

Oh, and shall we discuss the number of rapes that occur while people are on ecstasy? Yes alcohol is a problem in this country however, if you are so unaware of the affects of hallucinogens and/or long term use of pot, LSD, heroin, meth, etc. I feel for you and I feel for anyone you are giving advise to.

I'll take your crappy article and raise you this one...


https://www.vice.com/...o-mdma-the-right-way

---

===============
Proud member of the MSF (Maple Syrup Mafia)