What scenario would be enough for you to protest?

The amount of people that are unhappy with the way the country is run outnumber the amount of people who run the country in this way.

Realistically there is potential for a lot of fun to be had if we all did a mad bastid riot or something. YUP OU DAT!

veryangryman wrote: »

Let's assume we have the day off. The free time with not cloud in the sky. And you are angry enough at the powers that be.

Would you still find a good reason not to protest and consider it pointless? If yes ok but why.


I see a lot of protest threads and minor ish protests but they are always anbeaten down by the lethargic. I am at the conclusion that some will just not protest even if it affected them badly

at this extremly late stage it seems absolutely nothing will be bring the Irish general public to the streets, just look at all the corruption that's been proven locally, nationally and globally yet most still insist on keepin the head down and will throw up every conceivable excuse under the sun why they won't be joining any form of protest that happens against the most serious of problems with todays society

Napper Hawkins wrote: »

Most definitely in this country. I'd be all for protesting, but the scum just laugh at us and ignore us.

Nothing short of violence is going to change anything and we would most likely make a balls of that too.

Just leave, fail country has failed.

sadly, the elite laugh simply because there are nowhere near enough people on the streets protesting in Ireland at the same time or for long enough. i've had the pleasure of starting a few protests, been involved with the 3rd longest running occupy camp in the world, attended as many protests organised by many different demographics and no matter how serious the issue is the general public still do sweet FA about it. even when we do see 10000 show up for the socialist party gathering in dublin a few months ago or the 150,000 that showed up in dublin Nov 2011 to force fianna fail to call a general election immediately, that's it, one or two measly hours of protest and everyone fcuks off and with hindsight on my side don't bother to come together again at the same time for any reason, still to this day. most are defeated and couldn't even begin to imagine themselves brave enough to just say "they've had enough and want change yesterday", not tomorrow or within 6 months, or, like how we let OUR government kick our debts 40 years down the road, and with that, nothing ever changes!!

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

I'd protest at cosetted overpaid blackmailing ESB workers if they go on strike.

if i had a euro for evertime i heard this old chestnut!! i get sick in my fcuking mouth everytime i see this as someones reply on these issues. i've been verbally and seriously physically assaulted on the street during occupy by so many of my own people, and 99% of the time they were drunk out of their mind ignoramuses. it was an eye opener and i will never ever ever be able to look at society in an sweet innocent way ever again. i've seen the best and the absolute worst in average joe soaps these last few years, the latter so much that it made the solidarity shown amongst the Turkish people as they were being poisoned/beaten to death while protesting on their streets seem like a wet dream to me. Remember when their "leader" thought he was being smart be going on tv and telling all the women to go get their kids or husbands off the streets before the army and police go on their next rampage, i cried tears of joy that each and every single one of them left their houses immediately and formed human chains of mothers around all protestors across the whole country!! not one police or army knew how to deal with what the brave brave women had taken upon themselves to implement because it was the right thing to do. such carry on (solidarity!!) is only a pipe dream in this country