In the future everyone will have two minutes of hate

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I reject the "Anonymous" campaign against Scientology, and its widespread acceptance

Comments

[jpeace]

I have no dog in this fight, but I do want to see what pure internet culture is capable of. This (stupid) happening was started by the frothiest vanity cultures on the Western internet and they actually managed to put feet on streets. I think it's a barometer of how many true believers 4chan (or whoever the fuck) can muster. Depressingly, I think it's also the face of future campus/youth activism.

TEXT MEETUP TO KENTST4T3 LOL

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BRB SHOT OW

[jpeace]

[judgefudge]

This really should not have made me laugh as hard as it did.

[nebris]

It would have been interesting to see how Kent State would have turned out if the demonstrators had this kind of gear.

~M~

[jpeace]

They'd still be dead.

[nebris]

With the tactical advantage of PC's and cell phones, that would no longer be a forgone conclusion.

~M~

[substitute]

I think that's more a strategic advantage. The tactical advantage always goes to the rifleman rather than the martyr with the cool cellphone.

You go first. I'll bask in your victory for you!

[nebris]

The tactical advantage would be the ability to use communication to avoid the riflemen in the first place.

~M~

[maps_or_guitars]

Regrettably, the ability to evade riflemen successfully does not result in heart-and-mind changing demonstrations. Nobody remembers the people at Kent State that split, and nobody remembers the people who heard the tanks coming a Tienanmen and got the hell out of the way.

[nebris]

Hardly anybody remembers the Kent State shootings at all and the folks who sent the tanks into Tienanmen are hosting the Olympics this summer. I'll take evading the riflemen and living to fight another day.

~M~

[maps_or_guitars]

Fair enough, but that seems to be calling for something a bit more than a demonstration.