Photos via Torontoist
Every year or so, some summit happens called the G20. I don’t even know what really happens there, who goes, or what global leaders are trying to solve/talk about. Mainly just exists as some sort of opportunity for a city to ‘waste tons of money on security’ and for tons of rebellious spirits who h8 society to ‘protest’ against society/the government/the world/the Illuminati / miscellaneous constraints of the human spirit via ‘bullshit’.
It seems like a ‘protest’ doesn’t even really mean anything any more. Like many ‘real life’ events, it has sort of degenerated into the kind of event that is mainly created to ‘create sweet web media’, whether it is a youtube vid, a .jpg, or even a dramatic gif.
Feel like these protesters in Toronto are just ‘internet meme generating ass holes’ who don’t ‘give a damn’ about the world, and only really care about making people on the internet LOL. Honestly feel like in our meme society, the lolcat might be the only universal currency.
I guess the riot cops provide a great ‘backdrop’ to create a surrealist meme. Feel like it is ‘human nature’ to want to see people getting beat up by cops [via the Rodney King theory], then reflect on the power of the government.
Bros who ‘didnt graduate from high school’ can unite with ‘unemployed bros who graduated with a worthless degree from an expensive university’ under the same goal: “H8 society for misleading me/leaving me trapped.’
Just wish I could protest ‘with song’. Brought my guitar to the protest hoping to throw down some Jack Johnson-esque vibes, but the cops totally killed our chill waves.
Is it authentic to wear a Bob Marley ‘One Love’ t-shirt to a protest?
Might start a meme blog called lesbians who look like little boys getting their asses beat by riot police . tumblr . com
Maybe I’ll just take my flip cam and ‘vlog’ live from the middle of the violent areas, putting a buzzband soundtrack to make my video seem ‘more bad ass/bloggable.’
Worried abt Foot Locker. Thought it was our right as members of the Western World to own the ‘sweetest pair of sneakers’ possible [via the Post Michael Jordan world]
Glad the GAP stayed safe. Might go get some on sale t-shirts and socks later
Sad that Am Appy didn’t play it safe, and ended up with human feces in their store. [link]
Do u think she h8s cell phone stores because of how much they charge for data plans? Maybe she wouldn’t be so violent if she knew that Droid Does Apps.
Wonder if there is a Home Depot / Lowe’s nearby where u can pick up plywood / weapons / hammers / etc.
Maybe an Outdoor shop is a better place to get a pick axe
‘Totes gonna make this my facebook profile default pic.’
This bro seems to be getting ‘mad air’, Shaun White style. Wonder if he got those boxers at The Gap / Old Navy.
Wonder if they are really ‘anarchists’ or just people who want to ‘fuck shit up.’ Really hope 1 of these g20 things comes to my city soon. Want to go to my local mall and ‘break some windows.
Do yall believe in anarchy or capitalism?
are these real anarchists, or just bros who eat McDonalds like every1 else?
Keut cutoff + bandana combo
I wonder which 1 has a longer-lasting psychological impact on u: getting arrested [via handcuffs] OR getting arrested [via plastic cord binding ur hands together]. (you probably aren’t a legitimate threat 2 society if u can be restrained by a plastic cord.)
Local Business Owners should probably h8 society.
‘I proposed 2 my wife at the G20 protest. Our pic symbolizes love in the face of a mad world.’
////CONTINUE READING///
Must be fun to be a riot cop, because you have the opportunity to ‘beat the shit out of any type of person u h8.’ This bro seems to h8 women.
This cop bro seems to h8 younger bros who have their whole lives ahead of them.
Really want to ‘get aggressive’ and smash some skulls
Wish these protester bros cared more about the Earth / recycling.
Wonder if she is being arrested for a ‘fashion crime’ [via leggings / camel toe]
Real blood, or Halloween prop from ur local grocery store?
Worried that these beautiful breasts would get blood on them / beaten by angry riot coppers.
Do u think people are really ‘protesting’ or do they just want the chance to ‘fuck shit up’?
Feel like the G20 protests are just going to become places where failed artists ‘try too hard’ to make photo memes. Wonder if they are graduate art students who have ‘one last chance’ to get press for their art project.
Is the g20 protest a place where global leaders hear the voices of the commonman, or is it just a place where people take pictures of people destroying public/private property?
Does n e 1 know what the G20 protests are about?
Is there really anything ‘that wrong’ with the world?
Do the g20 summits fix our global problems?
Do cities ‘waste more money’ hosting the Olympics or hosting g20 summits?
Do yall ‘believe in anything’ or do u jut want to chill on the internet?
Do these protesters ‘know what the eff they are doing’?
Is Toronto a solid place to raise ur family?
Are yall more chill with anarchy or capitalism? Do u know if Steve Jobs would still make Macbooks in an anarchist society?
Are all of these protesters authentic, or just trying to make internet memes?
Are IRL events no longer pure because they are ‘trying too hard to produce sharable internet content’?
Whose side are yalls on?
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65 Comments
First or hella close anyway
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//////////Reply by Poopin' AZN
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
@Barak James,
I pooped on that amappy store
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the g20s should go on tour.
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everything is ok bros
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well crls, last year’s g20 post was better but you couldn’t have topped the ‘gotta take some kewl pix for my flickr account. might live tweet about how ‘bad ass’ this ’shit’ is.’ that was so incredibly SPOT ON.
anyway. police should have a license to kill on those annoying riot bro’s/baguettes. world is better off without them, those people only cost money and don’t generate anything to be able to solve some problems…always complaining how crap everything is while the best think they do is ‘being a vegan’…
At least the g20 people try to solve some problems…. burning down a police car doesn’t solve anything… it only makes taxes go up…
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//////////Reply by letters2god
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 1:28 pm
@MEMEs, demonstrating a pretty strong grasp of the core concepts here
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//////////Reply by "Bro'd Influence On Young People"
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 3:00 pm
@MEMEs, And peple should stop dressin like hippies if they wanna get stuff done. no one wants to lissen to hippies talk.
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//////////Reply by MEMEs
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
@”Bro’d Influence On Young People”, i just wanna shoot em personally…
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//////////Reply by Samson
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 12:11 am
@”Bro’d Influence On Young People”,
Yes, paying attention to people who dress like corporate execs has done us so much good as they’ve started all these wars and run our economies into a ditch.
And its always very important to judge a person by their clothes. You certainly don’t want to care about what they say. Just laugh at their clothes. That’s what’s really important in this world.
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//////////Reply by MEMEs
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 10:56 am
@Samson, well at least they are doin their best to create a better world…[via capitalism is better as anarchy] your kind makes a better world by eating salad, smoking weed and laughing about people that need to dress proper to make a good impression
//////////Reply by Bill Jones
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 11:05 am
@Samson,
Lets see, what have the corporate suits done for us ….
They’ve crashed the economy into the worst downturn since the Great Depression with their speculation and fraud and greed.
They cost millions of people their jobs. Then they turn around and deny any aid to the unemployed with their Herbert Hoover economics.
They attack unions and any attempt for workers to try to organize for a better life
When they aren’t taking our jobs by crashing the economy, they were sending them overseas to China. In return they ship back poisonous toys such that when we try to get our starving children to stop crying by giving them a toy, we are realy poisoning our own children.
Someone eating salad and smoking weed is doing no harm to me at all. While these capitalists in their thousand dollar suits are destroying our lives.
So, naturally everyone laughs at the hippy kids instead. Yeah, that makes sense.
//////////Reply by Burial Pink
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 1:15 pm
@Samson, the argument that hippies are worthwhile because they aren’t avaricious corporate executives is fallacious [via false dichotomy]
//////////Reply by BlahBlah
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 2:40 pm
@Samson,
Ass. You realize you just judged people who wear suits and then implied (via sarcasm) that we shouldn’t judge hippie dumb fucks by their clothes.
//////////Reply by Bizzness
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
@Samson, This Bro has subscribed to Adbusters for 8 plus years yall. He’s ‘legit’. Leave him be.
//////////Reply by "Bro'd Influence On Young People"
//////////Posted June 30th, 2010 at 10:00 am
@Samson, No that’s not what I meant. I meant that if th hippies want to get listened to seriously, the corporate/executive types in charge are goin to pay more attention to some clean cut guy in a suit (even if he has the same ideas as a hippy) than some guy with dreadlocks and a t shirt with a reefer on it.
It’s just presentation. Hippies have a name for looking at things in an overly simplistic, or even misinformed, way. The stereotypical vuitton-wearing, conservative capitalist will look much more kindly on someone who looks even vaguely like them than a hippy.
//////////Reply by some bro
//////////Posted June 30th, 2010 at 11:06 am
@Samson,
radical bastard, stop taking shit out of context. [via being a dumbass]
//////////Reply by Ian
//////////Posted July 4th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
@Samson, capitalizm is the worst system ever invented. how about a resource based economy? ever notice how the monetary system has fucked our entire world over and created unnecissary wars?!
//////////Reply by Samson
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 12:09 am
@MEMEs,
Hmm, so ridiculing people who want a better world is a regular event here? I
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//////////Reply by HipsterFriend
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 12:25 am
@Samson, werd. welcome to the hipster runoffs. who cares about a better world when you’re better than the world?
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//////////Reply by George
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 12:29 am
@Samson,
Ridicule for the ridiculous, I say. These people don’t want to change the world. They just want to fuck shit up. They are self-indulgent assholes.
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//////////Reply by MEMEs
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 10:58 am
@George, i agree. people that want a better world ‘protest’ by giving better solutions for general problems [via green energy (for example)]
lol’d @ the 13th pic
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so many mad alts
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poor AmAppy. was hoping it would be the one 2 survive
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//////////Reply by So polite
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
@Panda Bro, Those Canadians are so polite. They didn’t even steal anything from the stores! How quaint!
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lol @ ‘everything is o.k.’ bro. h8 when people try 2 get all ‘conceptual’ during a protest
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//////////Reply by Bizzness
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
@chillwavvin, I love how there always has to be the bro he goes up and stares the police in the face. fuckkk… imagine if you were that bro?
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riot bro’s? get real. These people are protesting the fact that leading economic powers across the globe come and meet in secrecy, with no press of what it is they are deciding on or agreeing to. They could be shaping policy, ect… with no input of the people. Stupid fucking “im not a hipster” hipsters should start caring more about whats actually going on in the world around them, outside of the latest bands and fashion trends.
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//////////Reply by righteous
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
@alilbirdie,
cool story, you fucking faggot
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//////////Reply by BrohanSebastianBach
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
@alilbirdie, broah, plz ride the chillwaves. dont b so angry. <3 yall
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//////////Reply by teh
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
@BrohanSebastianBach, righteous
Thanks for allowing us to plan our latest scheme in peace. Due to the complacency of you, and millions like you, we are able to make more money and further widen the gap between the rich and the poor. In return for your selfless loyalty we will reward you with nothing, you will get absolutely nothing.
Signed, “The Man”
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//////////Reply by Altso Frightened
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
@teh + alilbirdie,
feel like i know yall. h8 cappytalism so bad.
i blame the u of chicago school of conmee and the think tanks they’re in lock step with. fuck a washington consensus.
hope tomboy can save the world
//////////Reply by \\\\\\\\\\
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 2:42 pm
@teh, stfu and get back to mowing the lawn or you dont get any allowance this week
Signed, “your father”
//////////Reply by tommy
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 4:36 pm
@teh, The GAP doesn’t look like it’s widening
it was all boarded up and shit
//////////Reply by Poopin' AZN
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
@BrohanSebastianBach,
i pooped on this comment
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//////////Reply by terrance
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 3:14 pm
@alilbirdie, if by caring more about the world you mean ‘fucking shit up’ than count me out bro. seems pretty unchill to vibe hard with anarchy bros while sitting in a sweet dorm room
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//////////Reply by alilbirdie
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
@terrance, ever hear of an agent provacatuer?? no? didnt? well go do your homework and get back.
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//////////Reply by \\\\\\\\\\
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
@alilbirdie, isnt that like a sexie underwear brand or something?
//////////Reply by generk witty cmmnt
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 7:42 pm
@alilbirdie,
‘drop names, not bombs.’
-carles marx
//////////Reply by all is full of buzz
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
@alilbirdie, is the ‘war on terror’ still happening or did that end? i remember some protests for that,had some memorable memes yall.wish the media would spotlight that again so protesters could ‘fix it’.feel like as long as protesters are ‘raising awareness’ the ‘man’ can’t/won’t shaft us regardless of how we vote etc.maybe there is a website for protester alts where they make fun of which causes are authentic or not?
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//////////Reply by wiltjen
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 7:10 am
@alilbirdie, no input from the people? Aren’t these elected officials?
I’m not sure how a “secret” meeting justifies trashing Queen street.
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//////////Reply by full throttle rock and roll
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
@alilbirdie, just cause these bros are meeting in secret doesn’t mean they are up to no good… look at carles, he keeps his identity a secret, but its not because he is trying to ‘fuck up the altosphere via conspiracy’; we’re just better off not knowing. and who honestly cares about ‘the input of the people’.. aren’t most of us just mindless bro consumers, just jonesin 2 vibe hard to john mayer and tug off 2 internet pr0n… what do we know about policy??.. well imma go ride a chillwave, can’t believe i almost stood up 4 something meaningful (via capitalism)
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//////////Reply by radioppr
//////////Posted June 30th, 2010 at 12:03 am
@alilbirdie, feel like this site doesn’t <3always have the most consistent tone, y'all.
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//////////Reply by radioppr
//////////Posted June 30th, 2010 at 12:17 am
to clarify
it’s too difficult to actually communicate about this without people fractioning into the ‘discourse’ (via comparative lit classes [via predominately bro-suit-DOD-recruit-school]) of the site as introduced on caroline stanley’s taste-house-ufacturer a cpl thousand blong years ago.
wondering if the uppity of page views on this site (via The Times and Time’s electro paper blog) ushers in a more prescient/ cohesive new media douchebag(ette) experience in a way that class-consciousness was not acknowledged in the social protest movements of the late 70s or what? generick witty comments. not jonesin 4 the electro wars, y’all.
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//////////Reply by altbaguette
//////////Posted July 1st, 2010 at 11:26 am
@alilbirdie, 9/10 ppl prefer img over rlity.
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lol’d at the salem music in the background
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//////////Reply by Sambone
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 2:25 pm
@marisol, I kno!
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yeah and then totally destroy some locally owned franchise businesses along with a few cop cruisers that could totes explode in some really awesome way potentially injuring everyone around them.
maybe for good measure you should just pick axe the fuck out of whatever is around you, thereby making your message totally obvious and unadulterated by retarded acts of mindless destruction. hell you might even get a swat dude to kick the shit out of you no doubt resulting in a scar you can show some girl you youve been trying to fuck for a while
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//////////Reply by chugg
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
@k, “every hippie that goes home bloody feels like a martyr back in the city”
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//////////Reply by tommy
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 4:40 pm
@k, They were prop cars (fake license plates, already damaged) set up to attract beatings + attention
if they were real and had gas in them someone would have bothered to try putting them out (no cops/firefighters did)
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//////////Reply by elektrowave
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
@k, read this.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19928
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//////////Reply by plagehaus
//////////Posted July 1st, 2010 at 12:42 am
@elektrowave, :O
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CRIEZ HOT DOG TEARS
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lol what would a dramatic gif be?
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//////////Reply by steve gheyoki
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
@don rickles, http://www.funnyjunk.com/showcomment/3093607/
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“we’re so fucked.”
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still vibing hard on that first film. not sure which is better the montreal college that did the ‘tonight’s gonna be a good night’ video or the toronto bro who did the ‘i’ve nvr been 2 a protest b4 but this is effed up’ vide. VIBING OUT SO HARD to SALEM! wish alan p or ernie g would show up and blast some chillwavesynths to just chill every1 the fuck out. would send chaz b, but he is too beautiful/handsome to risk.
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//////////Reply by Miguel Barbosa
//////////Posted July 1st, 2010 at 1:43 pm
@luvucrls, SALEM IS LEGIT!
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think these bros should learn 2 ride the chillwave instead of effing evrythng up. would be ‘mad pissed’ if my AmAppy got trashed by some h8rs
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thx for posting a real article
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//////////Reply by Anonymous 2
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
@cliff, carles is only posting real articles now to welcome all the potential newcomers, [via time magazine best blog hro]
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1.) During past G20s, those who started violence were actually members of the police force
2.) The G20 summit is a very serious and devious meeting of economic powers and has already lead to increased discrimination in developing countries, an increasing gap between the rich and the poor and environmental disaster.
3.) What these protesters are protesting isn’t bullshit.
Sorry to get serious y’all, but if you aren’t taking this shit seriously then I don’t know what to tell you.
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//////////Reply by Glowing Shirt Guy
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
@Glowing Shirt Guy, (also, peaceful permits for protesting have been denied for both Pittsburgh and Toronto — i.e. they made it impossible for people to peacefully protest).
Regardless Carles had a hilarious post.
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//////////Reply by you
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 2:56 pm
@Glowing Shirt Guy, in all seriousness, i can understand and relate.
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//////////Reply by jvac
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 3:04 pm
@Glowing Shirt Guy, whats ur point? i dont think these protesters are really doing much of anything by destroying business and causing chaos, they kind of look like immature assholes. crls is dead on with this post. in 5 yrs no one will remember this.
if they want ~change~ maybe they should use their brains and get involved in international politics/ngo’s/developmental organizations. or blow up the UN, that would be a more effective use of violence.
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//////////Reply by Altso Frightened
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
@jvac, enjoying your summer vacay?
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//////////Reply by tommy
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
@jvac, If by “these protesters” you mean the ones in all the memeworthy pix, then yes
but most of the protesters there were peaceful
also it seems like it would be kind of hard for some anarchist bro to become a world leader without anyone finding out that he’s an anarchist, and then be like “heh. fooled yall” and change everything to be how it wants it to be
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//////////Reply by jvac
//////////Posted June 30th, 2010 at 10:15 am
@tommy, havent u ever seen SLC punk?
//////////Reply by gingerbeard alt
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
@Glowing Shirt Guy, srry, ur an idoit! i bought a shepard fairy obama tshirt 2 yrs ago b/c I love Barry’s neo-liberal agenda. feels lk obama is lk bush, sticking up for his corporate bros and keeping prices low 4 alt consumers.
seems lk azn teens should spend 12-14 hrs per day making ipads/iphones that we can buy with our parents money & use for 1.5 years. seems lk mexi’s can do the “real jobs” in this country that we can’t outsource 2 azns & us alts can live in our parents basements & be “creative brofessionals”. seems lk barry needs 2 protect his corporate bros/shareholder profits & help chink/wetback economies, i don’t care if the f up the environment or treat azns lk slaves.
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//////////Reply by BlahBlah
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 2:47 pm
@Glowing Shirt Guy,
1) And this year?
2) Says you (via no proof).
3) The what the fuck is it? Thats what we are trying to figure out. Is it that they are having a meeting and not letting everyone listen in. Tell you what, at my work people wear suits and sit in meetings all day, how about come and protest us and I can take the rest of the day off.
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//////////Reply by Glowing Shirt Guy
//////////Posted July 1st, 2010 at 1:01 am
@BlahBlah, 1.) Yes, this year as well. It has now been confirmed.
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guess they were outside of the free speech zone
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lol @ protesters.
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thought hippies were supposed to be peaceful and not blow shit up n cause havoc. really wish these cops would be more violent against those darn hooligans, they dont even know what theyre doin. can we start a HRO anti-protest-protest group 2 go to TO. & kick some fgt ass?
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//////////Reply by terrance
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 3:18 pm
@brodo baggins, alts in arms bro, but only if we use knotted am appy v-necks
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//////////Reply by Glowing Shirt Guy
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
@brodo baggins,
“I did, and it was not the peaceful protesters doing violence.
It was the contracted Black Bloc who were doing any damage. If you recall there were 3 members of the Black Bloc in Montebello who were proven to be police officer agent provocateurs throwing rocks.
The problem was is that 30 of 50,000 doesn’t give the police the right to treat the rest of the people including residents and journalists as the problem.
Did you get a chance to sit in the designated free speech zone on Sat? I did. I saw it first hand. “
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//////////Reply by brodo baggins
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
@Glowing Shirt Guy, just sayin, the violence here is stupid & unnecessary. the protesters are cheering “our streets”, so why are they trashing their own streets…? it seems like this is more of a “get out of our country” thing which is rediculous. why don’t they juts protest tourism if they’re gonna be that immature and pathetic. i get your saying that the police shouldnt act upon the peaceful protesters, but from the videos it seems like the violent and non-violent groups are separate from each other, so they should target and eliminate the threat from those violent anarchists.
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Wow, very sad. I <3 Toronto, I always thought Canadians were a peaceful crew, apparently I am wrong again….
I guess the kids are going nuts up there ~In fact last time I was there someone was shot at the mall.
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//////////Reply by ConcernedBro
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 3:51 am
@LCF, I hate the faggots that are making this nation look bad. At most events, we riot ;_;
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//////////Reply by wiltjen
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 7:16 am
@LCF, most of the bad peeps weren’t Canadian. The vast majority of the protestors were peaceful. That being said, what is the point of all this if their message does not get across. I’m sorry, protesting “secret” meetings is not a good enough reason to trash our usually non-violent city.
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//////////Reply by LCF
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 9:27 am
@wiltjen, And it’s one of my all time fav. cities. Hope the peace is restored ASAP
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pretty tight really. looks fun.
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1. lol @ the tortured prophet making a statement via hand-drawn poster and strategic placement. You reached the internet bro. Congratulations!
2. all of these protesters are very ugly. R all canadians ugly or is it just the unemployed ‘socially aware’ ones? Maybe the rest are less ugly but more overweight?
3. I h8 anti-globalists who ‘fuck shit up’ and damage private property and hurt small businesses in protest against the gvmt and Microsoft. They are so stupid.
4. No, I rlly hate them. Look @ them. They have no point.
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//////////Reply by gingerbeard alt
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 10:45 pm
@disillusionbro, ur saying the girl in the bob marley shirt is ugly? agrees, i lk st vincent & joan newsome.
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rioting doesn’t mean anything in Canada. just a bunch of bros/babes who have lost sight of their chillwaves and long for getting them back.
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Kinda all make me feel sad–
blac bloc schmanarchists who poke keut holes in shop windows with little pickaxes, ppl wearing amappy and shitting on it at the same time, riotgear bros who finally get to use their batons, and the seemingly new majority of HRO readership made of t(w?)eens/expensivecollegealts who just wanna live in Conceptualland smoking dank and trading lolcat currency for a dip in the chillwave ocean
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//////////Reply by questionsssss
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 11:23 pm
@brosephstalin, 1. Where can I find the chillwave ocean?____2. Does HRO readership have a high turnover?
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this post ruled
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Hello Carles!
I just heard about your blog in Time Magazine, and boy am I ever impressed! I’m glad to see someone who is as mad at these violent rioters as I. My mother’s side of the family lives in the GTA, to which I make frequent visits, and it is just heartbreaking to see so much disrespect being displayed for common decency in that beautiful area.
I also notice that you’re a fan of The XX. I thought I was the only one! Not a lot of people around here listen to NPR and get exposed to indie music… but I guess that’s what I get for living in Hicksville! Lol! And by the way I totally agree that Shakira absolutely BUTCHERED Islands.
Just want to say that you have found a fan in me. Consider yourself bookmarked!
Cheers,
Karly
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//////////Reply by amp
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 5:47 pm
@Hipster Runoff fan,
i can’t tell if this post is a joke or serious
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//////////Reply by enon
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
@amp, I can tell you that im in love with Karly.
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//////////Reply by xxosess
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 11:27 pm
@amp, i’d like to think that carles wrote that reply just because he was bored. i would cmmnt my own blog all the time if i had one.
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//////////Reply by plagehaus
//////////Posted July 1st, 2010 at 1:00 am
@Hipster Runoff fan, aww you’re sweet.
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i was browsing through some photos and i saw a t-shirt that some f-ing s***head was wearing at some stupid rave in LA this weekend. his shirt seems to insult am appy and i find that extremely offensive. it says that am appy is gay.
i wish some of these cops would beat the crap out of this rave-tween. seems lk the alts should gang up and “eliminate” these people.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pureroker/4741357469/sizes/l/
seems lk with barry obama in power he might let us start eliminating groups we h8, lk when the alts took control in china, russia, cuba and killed all the d-bags.
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crls, I just wanted to let you know that you’re my hero and role model.
You’re very succinct with everything you write. And you pull it off with grace and personality. It also doesn’t hurt that I agree with most of your opinions.
ps g20 haters are stupid?
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seriously fellow anarcho bros, enough with the “who’s streets? our streets” chants. remember when crimethinc told you that “your politics were boring as fuck!” well they are. GENEROCHISTS as i like to call them.
as DEVO said…BE LIKE YOUR ANCESTORS OR BE DIFFERENT, IT DOESN’T MATTER
also, MOARZ G20 TITS OR GTFO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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is that bro really tearing up a justin bieber poster at the G20 protests??
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//////////Reply by WLLRZ
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 8:08 pm
@WLLRZ, actually, it appears he’s eating it.
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I like this crls but u should’ve included more pics of fans of formerly relevant bands to anarchist ppl like: bros in Bad Religion shirts, bros in Rancid shirts, bros in Against Me! (Reinventing Axl Rose-era or earlier) shirts. Like I wonder if they wear those shirts because they DGAF about ripping them or getting poop on them.
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I think G20 is for dirty hippies who find Burning Man too mnstrm.
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//////////Reply by Steve X. Nicks
//////////Posted June 28th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
@Operation Wolf, (via burning car)
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where the fuck is rage against the machine damnit!!!!
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<3 the riot cops in Reno 911 shorts beatin the shit out of alts. Cute lil canuckz
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lmao @ cappytalism / Jack Johnson bro
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those cops better be careful, 2 beatdowns can be lethal (via mw2). add me on ps3: fishniw
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feel like the g20 is just trying to unite the world [via fractional reserve banking].
worried bout anti-world government alts. star trek bros didnt believe in nations.
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Well, very little research was required to find out what these protests were about. Although, first it would help if someone learned a little about what the G-20 is. That’s an economic summit of the 20 biggest economies. The leaders get together and plan a unified economic strategy.
In general, the G-20 are all implementing Herbert Hoover’s solution to the economic downturn. They all want to cut budgets, and of course the parts that are cut are the parts that help people. They couldn’t dream about spending less on the military or on all these riot police.
Anyways, that’s the general message of the protests. That we don’t want the equivalent of ‘structural adjustment programs’ applied to our nations. That we we want to spend money on helping people and on stimulating our own economies and on creating jobs for our citizens. That now is not the time to use fake concerns about ‘deficits’ as an excuse to let our own people starve and be out of work.
Of course, the corporations that are getting rich, and the ones who own all the media, don’t want anyone to hear a message like that. So, they focus on ‘riot-porn’ and on strange looking kids and they’ll show the interviews of anyone with nose rings who can’t talk coherently about why they are protesting.
Meanwhile, there are many groups around these protests that have very coherent spokespeople who could explain this well. But you’ll never hear them unless you go look for them. It took me about ten minutes to find them and to learn the above description of why there were protests. I did have to go past the first page of google results, but its there for anyone who looks.
Or, everyone can just look at the pictures of the protest and make fun of the people being arrested and pretend that there’s no reason for this at all.
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@Samson, just sumtimes don’t feel like violence is the answer to “change we can believe in” , idk
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//////////Reply by brosephstalin
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@Samson, cool story, bro. feel like you get it.
u gotta see we live off of memes now, though
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//////////Reply by sis
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 5:23 am
@Samson, TL;DR
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//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
@Samson, actually govts across the world have implemented cuts against the police and military too
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STAND UP FOR WHAT ‘YOU’ BELIEVE IN!!!
(while hiding your face)
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//////////Reply by lolbro
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
@brobro, nice entry level black bloc post bro…
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//////////Reply by brobro
//////////Posted June 29th, 2010 at 11:47 pm
@lolbro,
feel like u dont ‘get’ it bro
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//////////Reply by lolbro
//////////Posted June 30th, 2010 at 12:07 am
@brobro, its total @n@rchy in my ~post-hro posting zone bro…
Are IRL events no longer pure because they are ‘trying too hard to produce sharable internet content’? –Interesting question, Carles…
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Awesome post, Carles.
Just wanna b there, run riot, maybe try to start a moshpit and create some memes along the way.
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Rubber bullets FTW
My hard on fantasizing about being in riot gear blasting “everything is ok” bro was temporarily less hard when I saw the gal seemingly being clubbed by the canadian mexi turd.
No recession for the industrial glass companies.
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foolish names and foolish faces are often seen in public places yall
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I wonder what our dear friend ‘The Codger’ would have to say about these riots?
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wonder if a relevant canadian buzzband will make a protest song
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wow your captions are so idiotic, way to go, good job fishing for internet memes you idiot
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I SUPPORT POLICE BRUTALITY!
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for such an internet mem fiend, why dont u type in g 20 on the ‘internet’ and it can tell u. and remember kids, pictures are just an after product. these were not people trying to make memes or w/e they are. they are protesting legitimate concerns. read a book b4 publicizing ur ignorance.
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don’t believe in nething.
just want to ride chill waves of the interweb.
also want to stop seeing the word “faggot” in the comments section. not so funnie, even ironically yall.
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we’re so fucked.
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we’re so fucked
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Protests are great for picking up hot sluts!
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one little write-up in time and u got all these fucking serious-ass flamers up in the comments s’n.
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fuck the G20… when are more people going to protest the bilderberg meetings? those are far more secretive and evil
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rly enjoying the name paronomastics:
brodo baggins
Alan Bromax
apabroic
brosephstalin
ben bronanke
Altso Frightened
BrohanSebastianBach
tht is smthing not every blog ‘community’ can bring on a regular basis. very hip + trendy tees should be given to these brosters. I wonder who uses more “”, Derrida or Carles?
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testing
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HELL YEAH THE VIDEO IS BLOGGABLE!
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MY MAIN 2 PROBLEMS WITH THE G20:
1. THE IDIOTS CONDUCTING VIOLENCE (A SMALL MINORITY OF THE PROTESTERS)
2. THE ACTUAL G20 WORLD LEADERS MEET IN PRIVATE. NO CAMERAS. NO MINUTES. NOBODY KNOWS WHAT DECISIONS WERE MADE. WTH IS WITH THAT YOU TELL ME.
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I agree with everything but the question of whether Toronto is a “solid place to raise children”. Having lived in Toronto for a number of years, including attending high school in Toronto, I can tell you that it is normally a great city to live in. Most (or more likely all) of these “Black Bloc” protesters come from anywhere but Toronto, and the reason they’re so willing to destroy shit is because it doesn’t affect them in any way. It’s not their property, so why should they care?
Toronto is one of the best cities I’ve ever been to, and it stays that way in my eyes despite what happened over the g20 weekend. Toronto is incredibly safe compared to any number of cities, including Washington, DC, well known for being one of the crime capitals of the US. The experience of living in Toronto is amazing, being exposed to any number of cultures, food, languages, and people, as well as having every opportunity that living in the city provides. Toronto has a great art scene, great music scene, is well respected in fashion etc.
There’s no question in my mind that Toronto is indeed a “solid place to raise your children”, it just sucks when stupid people come to town to wreck your shit, and you’re left picking up the pieces.
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1.3 Billion$$$ Wa$ted..the world has a big problem when 1% of people own 45% of the wealth, when some people dont have clean water to drink or food to eat, we build a fake lake in toronto and ire cops who can’t handle “Vandals” so they take it out on helpless faggots and women.
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The fact that “we don’t know what the G20 leaders are talking about” makes these yearly brotests/festivals/photo-ops even more pathetic. Nobody protested when I didn’t know/care who the fuck Civil Civic is/was (are they still relevant?).
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What the fuck does Civil Civic have to do with it?
apart from being an AAWWEESOME BAND:
http://shop.civilcivic.com/
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It’s HIPSTER PATROL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF6AtHHaAZs
(36 seconds in)
Seriously, if there was one of those in my town, I would either throw eggs at the black blockers or just find somewhere with a good view and sit down with some popcorn and a soft drink.
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