It was suggested the Democrats had done particularly badly in rural areas in 1994. Is that true?
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I'm really hopeful for the student walkouts--besides the one account linked to above, there's another Twitter account calling for a walkout, and the Women's March people are also organizing one. Hopefully they don't all talk over each other and cancel out the effectiveness, but bring more attention to the issue.
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Originally posted by Incandenza View PostI'm really hopeful for the student walkouts--besides the one account linked to above, there's another Twitter account calling for a walkout, and the Women's March people are also organizing one. Hopefully they don't all talk over each other and cancel out the effectiveness, but bring more attention to the issue.
This one has had 30 000 retweets though
https://twitter.com/schoolwalkoutUS/status/964697373074231298
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My only worry with this date being so far in the future is that the anger will wear off and the drip drip drip of pro gun arguments that they'll all be subject to will dilute the protest. I know they've chosen April 20th for a good reason but I'd be much more positive if it were March 7th
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostMy only worry with this date being so far in the future is that the anger will wear off and the drip drip drip of pro gun arguments that they'll all be subject to will dilute the protest. I know they've chosen April 20th for a good reason but I'd be much more positive if it were March 7th
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if you go to the National School Walkout page you can see people signing their petition in real time
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostMy only worry with this date being so far in the future is that the anger will wear off and the drip drip drip of pro gun arguments that they'll all be subject to will dilute the protest. I know they've chosen April 20th for a good reason but I'd be much more positive if it were March 7th
It's also 420 day (International cannabis day).
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And Hitler's birthday, come to that.
This from a report on the Florida students' response
One sign said, "The Elementary students couldn't protest — WE CAN," a reference to the 2012 shooting massacre of 26 students and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
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They call themselves "survivors' which is powerful- and absolutely right.
https://twitter.com/sarahchad_/status/964958797734318081
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This woman is a fucking hero. And a hell of an orator.
"We are going to be the last mass shooting."
https://twitter.com/Mikel_Jollett/status/964996741320736768
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Righteous. This doesn’t end here. It’ll get dirty, possibly mass murderous if any restrictions ever do come in, but the bastards are losing. The majority of Americans already support restrictions on assault rifles and semi automatics and checks before buying a gun, lets see the 20% of perverted violence fetishist scumbuckets properly marginalized and treated with the contempt and scorn they deserve. Even by folk who might go hunting with a rifle once in a while. Fuck this bullshit misreading of the 2nd Amendment. I can see unpredecedented youth turn out in Mid Terms, if they get around the suppression traps.Last edited by Lang Spoon; 18-02-2018, 00:17.
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Originally posted by BrunoI've encountered my share of politically disengaged adolescents so this looks like a really hopeful sign. But we're never going to do what Australia or the UK did, there'd be civil war. We're going to put armed guards and metal detectors in every school, some states will allow armed teachers, and the killers will find other soft targets. More guns than people is a stubborn fact.
A lot of kids are disengaged because they’ve never been given a reason to be engaged. Most of the political discussion they’ve seen - on TV, on social media, from politicians themselves - is so transparently stupid that they’ve been alienated from it completely.
Post-911 paranoia is just a fact of life to them. They don’t remember anything before it. They don’t remember a time that we weren’t at war with Eurasia. They don’t remember anything in the news pre-Obama, so they simply have no experience of politics actually changing much of anything, so they don’t expect it to. The kids I talked to after Trump was elected were - with a few exceptions - maddeningly naive and ignorant about what was about to happen (as were their parents, in many cases.)
But hopefully the “this isn’t normal” message is starting to get through. And the #metoo and guns are two issues that speak to their lived experience, so I think they are waking up a bit. I hope.
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And another guy.
“This is about creating a badge of shame for any politician taking money from the NRA and using us as collateral.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/965235765931401218
Last edited by Nefertiti2; 18-02-2018, 18:29.
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Originally posted by Nefertiti2 View PostAnd another guy.
“This is about creating a badge of shame for any politician taking money from the NRA and using us as collateral.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/965235765931401218
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