June 23, 2008
Godwin's Rule Squashes Effectiveness at Berkeley Anti-War Protest
Photo by zombietime
Saturday's woefully ineffective war protest in Berkeley looked like all sorts of fun! There were ladies sporting furry pink outfits, large signs with lots of small text making incomprehensible messages of protest, flag-waving bikers, Melanie Morgan speaking, privileged UCB students shouting, upside down American flags, baked goods, and much more.
Sadly, though, the anti-war contingent blew it in the final round when they busted out the Nazi salute as U.S. National Anthem played. Tsk, tsk, That bobble cost them since, as most of you now, whenever you use Nazi analogies in any debate, you lose. Better luck next time, kids.
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lol. berkeley is so passe.
First the tree-sitters are "trustafarians" and now anti-war protesters in Berkeley are "privileged UCB students"? Cal doesn't have the demographics of a Brown or even a Stanford. Thankfully.
Little do they realize that they're actually using the Roman salute. Hail Caesar!
protestors are dumb.
Code Pink has become the God Hates Fags of the Left.
totally. their ineffectiveness depresses me. and their use of dead bodies of soldiers (U.S. and otherwise) as an excuse for a zany party is unforgivable.
tee-hee.
The Roman salute is actually more offensive to me than the Nazi salute. Don't get me started about the amount of tribute my ancestors had to tithe back to Rome. It still burns. And the raping and killing by the Hadrian's mighty legions and all that.
Oh and anyone who thinks UCB students aren't priviledged is priviledged so therefore can't see their own priveledges for what they really are. Or something.
ALL university students are privileged. I had a higher quality of life as an undergrad than I do now. I was totally mollycoddled. I've been out of college more than a decade and I still miss it. I want to go back and never leave!
Privileged in the sense that your everyday nazi-saluting antiwar dickhead thinks they are oppressed, only in the sense that their lattes occasionally arrive five degrees below temperature.
drinking tepid soy lattes is a cross no one should have to bear.
With the great breadth of cafes in the Republic of Berkeley, we never need to tolerate tepid soy lattes.
We just have to tolerate idiotic, ongoing protests such as those engineered by the Save the Oaks and Code Pink contingent. But rather than having that earn us your enmity, I think it should elicit some sympathy. You get to mock this shit, but we have to live with it.
Most people associated with campus consider the treesitters and Code Pinkos to be annoying carnivals that A) indirectly force us to subsidize the stationing of 24-hour security to guard a bunch of fucking trees and B) perpetuate outdated and inaccurate stereotypes of what Berkeley students/residents are like.
If you hung out in Berkeley, you'd probably be surprised at how most Berkeleyans are aspirants to the yuppie lifestyle just like you are. We, too, have to deal with completely intolerable lines at most any place that serves a good weekend brunch.
I'm sorry Chester, but lines are for the prolls. To me, a line merely serves to solidify my social standing as I am escorted past it and onwards to my table. Lines are for the types of people who have to buy their own furniture.
Oh, and trees are c**ts, BTW.
1. It's "proles".
2. I got excited when it seemed like you were going to talk about jet-set cocaine usage. But you're just talking about queues.
Real aristocrats cut in line while snorting a line from a mirror with a gilded frame being held by their butler.