Dear media, a global uprising took place last night...where were you?

[Jimmy Grimble]

Surprised this hasn't made its way onto here yet. Asking for an NSC binfest this one.


http://www.scriptonitedaily.com/201...uprising-took-place-last-nightwhere-were-you/

 

[RexCathedra]

Protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks hit the streets of in Indonesia, North America, Asia, Europe and South America, calling time on our current political and economic system.

What did they replace it with? I got the usual USD out of the usual cashpoint today lunchtime.

 

[supaseagull]

Anonymous

 

[drew]

As flawed as our current system is, exactly what do they want to replace it with? Direct democracy? Lets all vote on every single issue. Of course that requires everyone to be educated about those issued. Resourced based economy! Why not? Lets' get fracking. Oh, can't do that because to many people protesting about that.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

That twatty "comedian" Russell somebody, the one that looks like a bearded lady and sounds like a schoolboy was there to lend an air of creditability.

 

[pork pie]

Who gives a shit what these scum did? Pity the old bill did not wade-in to them.

 

[easynow]

 

[yxee]

Translation:

Dear rest of humankind, we were wearing masks in our hundreds last night, why don't you care about us?


I suppose it's easier to spin it as a conspiracy theory than face the fact that the average taxpayer would rather watch an amateur baking show.

 

[Billy the Fish]

As flawed as our current system is, exactly what do they want to replace it with? Direct democracy? Lets all vote on every single issue. Of course that requires everyone to be educated about those issued. Resourced based economy! Why not? Lets' get fracking. Oh, can't do that because to many people protesting about that.

Resource based economy has to be the way to go.

I honestly don't think it's possible to do it though, we're too locked into the current system. The only way out of this is to wipe out most of the population and start again. That is inevitable at some point, but it won't be in our lifetime. 100 years, 1000 years, 10,000 years, who knows

 

[mistahclarke]

didn't hear about it until now. But just as importantly that meant I didn't hear about it before it happened either.

Surely if they want lots of people there, they would have publicised more?

Not that I would have gone.

 

[Monkey Man]

I could probably buy into this if it wasn't for Russell Brand being its chief cheerleader.

 

[brightonrock]

Surely the point is not that they do or do not have a point, or do or do not have a tangible proposal for how things should be done, or whether they're bandwagon-jumping idiots or revolutionary geniuses. The point is, it was a global, mass-scale protest, in multiple cities, featuring hundreds of thousands or even millions of people. What they're protesting about is almost irrelevant, it's newsworthy that it happened in the first place, which is why it's weird that it was barely mentioned. Not to mention ironic, considering part of what they're protesting about is the collusion between media and governments.

 

[drew]

Resource based economy has to be the way to go.

I honestly don't think it's possible to do it though, we're too locked into the current system. The only way out of this is to wipe out most of the population and start again. That is inevitable at some point, but it won't be in our lifetime. 100 years, 1000 years, 10,000 years, who knows

So, whose going decide who is sacrificed?

Democracy isn't the problem, but it isn't the solution to the problem either. The problem is capitalism and if democracy can't solve it, then the solution is revolution.

Corporations and the rich elite have too much power and they are abusing it, to the detriment to all of us and our planet. World democracies need to take this power away and strive for social and financial equality, which they aren't currently doing.

And this revolution is going to replace the existing (flawed) system with what?

 

[Algernon]

I hear you Brothers.

 

[MICK PATCHAM]

 

[MICK PATCHAM]

yes!

 

[beorhthelm]

Democracy isn't the problem, but it isn't the solution to the problem either. The problem is capitalism and if democracy can't solve it, then the solution is revolution.

Corporations and the rich elite have too much power and they are abusing it, to the detriment to all of us and our planet. World democracies need to take this power away and strive for social and financial equality, which they aren't currently doing.

first off you knock capitalism as "the problem" sitting there using the fruits of that capitialism - the power, the computer, the network etc. secondly, if you took capitalism away, the world democracies would soon ask for it back as they they've done before. cf. China 1978 - date. we are the democracies and it is we that demand things that capitialism gives us. we dont want to just go to work, go home, have a pint at the weekend and thats our lot. we want all the things and spent lots of time on doing stuff, some want more or less of those than others, or willing to do more to attain them. when you resolve that, then we might be able to have equality.

 

[Paddy B]

Do we really need people trying to put Catholic monarchies in place around the world?

THIS !! Fawkes being used as a revolutionary icon is laughable. The gunpowder plotters were only interested in their own selfish aims.