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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by Consultant32452 on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @01:32AM (#13528271)
No, people protest against things that the media manipulates them into protesting for. The inflammatory language has been scandalous at best. The media didn't encourage people to protest when Obama and Clinton proudly funded a wall between the US and Mexico in 2006. But now we've had "No Wall" protests in quite a few places and traditional leftists making right-wing supply side economics arguments against renegotiating NAFTA... yet another thing both Clinton and Obama campaigned for in 2008. Make no mistake, this is the butt-hurt media's doing.
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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by ctack on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:42AM (#13528553)
I'm glad something is finally happening over there. After watching the second Iraq war happen with the media doing pretty much nothing, I can tell you that I could not agree more with what you said. But it will blow over and then it will be back to business as usual.
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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by jakeogh on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @05:12AM (#13529256)
Me too. What's happened over the last year (more really, starting with the RP revolution) should be viewed as evidence that it's really not business as usual.
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