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Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear **Discuss**

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  1. 10-30-2010 01:18 PM #1
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  2. 10-30-2010 03:24 PM #2
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  3. 10-30-2010 10:22 PM #3
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    Interesting take:

    THE RALLY TO RESTORE VANITY: GENERATION X CELEBRATES ITS HOMERIC STRUGGLE AGAINST LAMENESS - By Mark Ames - The eXiled

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  4. 10-31-2010 08:46 AM #4
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    himself fucker.
    "I can’t control what people think this was. I can only tell you my intentions. This was not a rally to ridicule people of faith, or people of activism, or to look down our noses at the Heartland, or passionate argument, or to suggest that times are not difficult and that we have nothing to fear– they are, and we do. But we live now in hard times, not end times."

    Good quote and good line at the end.

    But that's to say it was really the only quote from the whole rally that I cared for. It wasn't the action on stage that mattered for me, just that a call for everyone to calm down and recognize your enemies as not really extreme but sensible human beings who also believe they have a good answer to the problems that face us all had almost 150k people show up in that spirit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Warpe View Post
    Interesting take:

    THE RALLY TO RESTORE VANITY: GENERATION X CELEBRATES ITS HOMERIC STRUGGLE AGAINST LAMENESS - By Mark Ames - The eXiled
    You could write this about conservatives. But instead of the prevailing attitude being: "we're not stupid because we don't take ourselves seriously." rather you'd say, "we're not stupid because we bow to common sense and time tested ideals."

    Really, a mean and clever piece that doesn't realize it's talking about us all.

    I read a third of it before stopping as I'm losing my sense of the author.
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  6. 10-31-2010 03:10 PM #6
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    I found the article good even though it did kinda touch me in the tender spots since in some ways I was once the South Park Republican and now a Daily Show Democrat. Overall, I really have no clue what to think about the whole thing. People with brains are pretty much split, so far

    Part of me finds the rally awesome, Jon and Steve are stepping their games in the best way they can, and that naysayers are missing the forest for the trees by blaming superficialities. OTOH, part of me thinks that non-militant strategies are doomed to failure and due to playing softball we're aiding and abetting our own generations' collective shift to the right and authoritarianism just as the previous few generations have unwittingly done so.
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  7. 10-31-2010 04:12 PM #7
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    The 100 Best Signs At The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear: Pics, Videos, Links, News
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  8. 11-01-2010 01:46 PM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
    The 100 Best Signs At The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear: Pics, Videos, Links, News
    good post, im only half way through and its been pretty epic

    the remember 1-31-07 with the mooninite is prob my fav.

    that or the "if your beliefs fit on one sign, think harder"
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  9. 11-01-2010 02:06 PM #9
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    MSM is missing the point, for the most part...which is understandable, given that Stewart indicts them as being part of the problem.

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  10. 11-01-2010 05:52 PM #10
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    YouTube - Rally to Restore Sanity - Interviews with Participants
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