in Charlotte this morning



http://www.charlotte.com/news/story/330218.html

short story, a few people from the "Rainforest Action Network" hung themselves from a crane near the Bank of America building in downtown Charlotte (not like noose hanged...note...they are alive and well) and a sign talking about how Bank of America supports coal plants and so they're evil or whatever...course I wonder how much extra CO2 they got in the air from all the stopped traffic they caused

figured i'd make a thread

my perspective is i dont give a shit...plus I just jumped on 277 to get to work like I usually do anyway


[Edited on October 23, 2007 at 12:27 PM. Reason : .]

10/23/2007 12:24:37 PM

Surely there are more productive ways that they can be helping the environment. Like, oh I dunno, planting new trees or something? Their silly little "protests" never work, they only succeed in making these guys look like tools. They don't increase awareness for their cause, they do not inspire people to take action, they just make themselves look like immensely selfish douche bags.

10/23/2007 1:05:22 PM

sometimes these protests are counter-productive, no doubt, but to say that they don't increase awareness is idiotic

[Edited on October 23, 2007 at 1:11 PM. Reason : .]

10/23/2007 1:11:47 PM

people do notice, but you cant protest nuclear and carbon producing energy sources and hydroelectric dams. unless their stance is that we should stop using electricity.

10/23/2007 1:38:16 PM

The article mentions there were four of the Rainforest Action Network members who were involved...and also that the Rainforest Action Network is based out of San Francisco...the article doesn't, however, mention if these people live in the area or travelled in from San Fran...and if they travelled in the question would be what type of CO2 emitting vehicles did they travel in

10/23/2007 1:41:24 PM

Although this protest won't change anything, at least some "activists" get to sleep well tonight knowing that they tried to make a difference. I haven't seen one American protest in recent years that amounts to anything more than some douchebags having a circle jerk.

10/23/2007 1:43:30 PM

Fuck Bank of America they are full of a bunch of money grubbing douches and completely fuck over small businesses and the average consumer.

10/23/2007 1:45:16 PM

Fuck Bank of America every bank on the planet they are full of a bunch of money grubbing douches and completely fuck over small businesses and the average consumer.

10/23/2007 1:48:05 PM

30th don't you work downtown? Did you see any of this mess earlier this morning?

10/23/2007 1:50:30 PM

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"Fuck Bank of America every bank on the planet they are full of a bunch of money grubbing douches and completely fuck over small businesses and the average consumer."

Many small town banks don't do this.

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"The article mentions there were four of the Rainforest Action Network members who were involved...and also that the Rainforest Action Network is based out of San Francisco...the article doesn't, however, mention if these people live in the area or travelled in from San Fran...and if they travelled in the question would be what type of CO2 emitting vehicles did they travel in"

Either you read the article and didn't comprehend it, or you are trying to throw in a pointless strawman and tieing it all back to the global warming debate, which is not what this protest was about. Not at all.

10/23/2007 2:09:07 PM

NCSU for da win

10/23/2007 2:11:07 PM

They're not protesting the use of the coal, just the way the company that BoA invested in is getting it.

10/23/2007 2:18:58 PM

I like how BoA could give their exCEO as 20million dollor retirement bonus yet gave my dad's company a "run around the bush" for over a year with the 150K they owed him (nearly putting the small company out of business)

10/23/2007 2:21:08 PM

I doubt the BoA board had anything to do with your dad's case.

10/23/2007 2:23:48 PM

Combined with the fact that BoA greenwashes like a mofo. If all of my finances were not tied into BoA I would consider relocating my money but I doubt I would find a bank that didn't have some kind of investment into environmentally dubious companies.

10/23/2007 2:23:54 PM

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"which is not what this protest was about. Not at all."

it was about a bunch of bums without jobs trying to act cool...if you think its anything else then you're even dumber than you look

10/23/2007 2:30:38 PM

Yea, the place was definitely better when you weren't here. There was still some bickering, but it wasn't as baselessly trollish as that.

You can have the last word. I'm done.

10/23/2007 2:31:33 PM

how come you'd rather throw out some debate terms like 'strawman' rather than address the story? leave it to a partisan hack like yourself to fuck up this thread

btw the entire TWW is better when you're "between aliases"

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"it wasn't as baselessly trollish as that"

yeah it was...like i said you're drunk at the parties so you can't see how dumb everybody looks cause you look just as dumb

10/23/2007 2:33:17 PM

I thought this was going to be about all the damn fees they charge for everything

10/23/2007 2:37:13 PM

Treetwista so first you bitch when environmental groups petition the government for redress of grievances (in other threads). Then you bitch when they take a market based approach to bring awareness and change business practices. Then you bitch that they aren't in the stone age and might have to ride in a (probably hybrid) car to go to where they can have their message heard. Is there anything that is going to please you that will allow us to have a functioning democracy?

[Edited on October 23, 2007 at 2:42 PM. Reason : .]

10/23/2007 2:41:27 PM

you must have missed this part

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"my perspective is i dont give a shit"

if thats bitching......then i dont know what i'd call all the partisan bitching that you guys do on a daily basis about how bad everything is

i dont care about BofA or these protestors...why should I?

Maybe if I worked downtown I'd bitch about the traffic jam their protest called but thats about it...I mean who enjoys traffic jams

10/23/2007 2:47:17 PM

Well, you were the one who made the thread... obviously you care on some level.

10/23/2007 2:49:22 PM

i come out and explicitly say i dont give a shit but apparently thats not good enough to convince you that i dont give a shit...great logic

i figured some of you people who do take this shit passionately would spark a discussion...allow me to say again i do not care one iota about this but i saw part of it this morning on my way to work

so tell me what exactly you're trying to add to the discussion? or are you just looking for something to bitch about?

10/23/2007 2:51:00 PM

This thread was d.o.a.

10/23/2007 3:11:52 PM

^^sounds like classic troll-baiting to me

10/23/2007 3:13:25 PM

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"You can have the last word. I'm done."

you're obviously not done...more proof nothing you say can be trusted

10/23/2007 3:18:36 PM

Here are the culprits btw



They look like productive members of society

10/23/2007 3:47:49 PM

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"i dont care about BofA or these protestors..."

more proof nothing you say can be trusted

10/23/2007 3:49:17 PM

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"You can have the last word. I'm done"

typea i guess your problem is you dont know if you should be jealous of these guys or not

10/23/2007 3:50:21 PM

Weak trolling.

10/23/2007 4:00:31 PM

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"(not like noose hanged...note...they are alive and well)"

I bet they would hae gotten a lot more notice if they'd used nooses.

Hell, if they'd set themselves on fire they'd go down as legends.

10/23/2007 4:07:00 PM

i like their pics. the bald guy looks like he'd be a riot to drop 4 hits of acid and run around on a Saturday night in Las Vegas or Daytona.

and the longhair dude, well that's a pretty awesome pic. he could use that on Facebook and no one would know the difference.

10/23/2007 6:07:58 PM

and if the 3rd guy had darker skin this would be called a possible terrorist situation

10/23/2007 6:23:46 PM

I definitely think I recognize the guy 3rd from the left

I think I've met him at a Rising Tide or Earth First meeting in Asheville

10/25/2007 11:09:11 AM

probably right...cant recall which but one of the dudes is from asheville

10/25/2007 2:38:42 PM