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In reply to the discussion: WOW!!! Just Wow!!! I dont believe some of the posters here!! [View all]NBachers
(19,444 posts)"I've got materials to drop off, and my semi is sitting here idling in stopped traffic"
"I've got kids at home, and they're waiting for dinner, or bedtime, or school"
"I've got classes, and I'm going to miss a test today"
"I've got just enough gas to get home and I'm going to run out if I can't get moving""
"I've got a job interview that I'm going to miss"
"I've got groceries, and the frozen stuff's melting"
"I've got a doctor's appointment, and I'm going to miss it and pay for it anyway"
"I'm going to have a baby, and I've got to get to the hospital"
"I had a long, difficult day working for an abusive, fucked-up boss, and I just want to get home"
"I'm on the way to work for an abusive, fucked-up boss, and this is going to get me fired"
"I've got a court date, and my bail's going to be revoked"
"I came up over the hill and there was traffic stopped on the freeway and I was injured in an accident"
"I was stopped in traffic, and someone just ran into me."
"We've got to get this injured person to the hospital or they'll die"
"I'm a bus driver with a bus full of working-class people and I can't get through. More people are waiting at stops down the line"
"I need to get home and take my medication"
"My beater car will stop running if I can't keep it moving; I can't afford a better one"
"My enraged husband came home and started beating me"
"All this idling traffic is wasting gas and polluting the air"
"What kind of fucked-up shit are those shitheads pulling now?"
"I'm trying to get to the demonstration, and those demonstrators are blocking my way"
And on and on and on through every single person's private battle through a difficult life in the real fucking world.
Every single DU'er has been in several of these situations.
Multiply it by thousands and thousands. How many of these people are going to be brutalized into agreeing with the protesters?
Courtesy of NBachers, the third-way right-wing Clintonista killer-cop-loving obfuscating basement keyboard commando. Call me a troll and revoke my Leftist card.