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Anti-Tech Protesters Target VC With Vulgar Flyer

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Anger toward the tech upper class continues to simmer in the Bay Area. We've seen multiple protests against the Google Bus, and in an incident that happened just last week, protesters vomited aboard a bus for Yahoo workers.The tension revolves around the high cost of living and the argument that tech millionaires and billionaires are driving up the cost of housing and destroying the Bay Area's traditional quality of life.
The latest incident targets one tech employee directly.
Digg founder and Google Ventures partner Kevin Rose published an Instagram with the message: "My house was protested today by anti-tech folks, they had a large banner saying 'Kevin Rose Parasite' handed these to my neighbors."


Read more: Protest Flyer At Kevin Rose's House - Business Insider



Several reports of this incident have made the news, all trying to re-categorize the protesters as something other than leftist OWS types. This is not far different than the discussion on another thread concerning the Mozilla exec forced to resign.

What are your thoughts as to this type of bullying by the extreme left?
 
This might be a good illustration of the downfall of the left in America. They've been so actively buying votes from the masses with hand outs for decades this illustrates no matter how much you give the entitlement class they will always demand more. The left may one day figure out they can't print up enough money to keep up with the entitlement groups demands.


Several reports of this incident have made the news, all trying to re-categorize the protesters as something other than leftist OWS types. This is not far different than the discussion on another thread concerning the Mozilla exec forced to resign.

What are your thoughts as to this type of bullying by the extreme left?
 
Several reports of this incident have made the news, all trying to re-categorize the protesters as something other than leftist OWS types. This is not far different than the discussion on another thread concerning the Mozilla exec forced to resign.

What are your thoughts as to this type of bullying by the extreme left?

Nothing in this story says left other than right wing paranoia. I dont see the problem here.
 
This might be a good illustration of the downfall of the left in America. They've been so actively buying votes from the masses with hand outs for decades this illustrates no matter how much you give the entitlement class they will always demand more. The left may one day figure out they can't print up enough money to keep up with the entitlement groups demands.

if they spent half the time working and investing as they did protesting then they might be in better shape.

last time i checked you didn't earn anything protesting.
 
What are your thoughts as to this type of bullying by the extreme left?

We would do well to ignore them. Perhaps, if we do, they will stop the nonsense.
 
Several reports of this incident have made the news, all trying to re-categorize the protesters as something other than leftist OWS types. This is not far different than the discussion on another thread concerning the Mozilla exec forced to resign.

What are your thoughts as to this type of bullying by the extreme left?

Good on 'em.
 
New "Civil War" amongst the left?
 
Nothing in this story says left other than right wing paranoia. I dont see the problem here.

Obama and demo's projected that they wanted to use "income inequality" as an electoral theme, and right on que the OWS stooges run with it, and start attacking people of means. And you think they're Republicans? Now that's amusing.
 
Several reports of this incident have made the news, all trying to re-categorize the protesters as something other than leftist OWS types. This is not far different than the discussion on another thread concerning the Mozilla exec forced to resign.

What are your thoughts as to this type of bullying by the extreme left?

Dude, progressives from the Bay are anti-everything. I'm shocked they haven't committed mass suicide as a protest against humanity.

Their ideal utopia would be a world where only 6 million humans exist in the world and we all live in jungle communes like tribal people.

Don't get me wrong - technology can be dangerous - especially when it comes to privacy but my concerns have nothing to do with these wacko's hatred for humanity and their desire to live in trees like the Jungle Book.

Oh and the fact they were purposely puking on a bus speaks volumes as to how insane they really are and legitimizes everything I just stated.
 
Several reports of this incident have made the news, all trying to re-categorize the protesters as something other than leftist OWS types. This is not far different than the discussion on another thread concerning the Mozilla exec forced to resign.

What are your thoughts as to this type of bullying by the extreme left?

Nothing says fun like puking on a bus. Except when it's urinating in the parks near Wall Street when you're protesting those people too.
 
Obama and demo's projected that they wanted to use "income inequality" as an electoral theme, and right on que the OWS stooges run with it, and start attacking people of means. And you think they're Republicans? Now that's amusing.

They could be either party or neither. Truth is you don't know. You just assume any one who does anything that you don't like is an extreme leftist.
 
If you want a good laugh, read the lunatic rantings of the protestors.

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/06/18753651.php

Here is what they want:

We demand that Google give three billion dollars to an anarchist organization of our choosing. This money will then be used to create autonomous, anti-capitalist, and anti-racist communities throughout the Bay Area and Northern California. In these communities, whether in San Francisco or in the woods, no one will ever have to pay rent and housing will be free. With this three billion from Google, we will solve the housing crisis in the Bay Area and prove to the world that an anarchist world is not only possible but in fact irrepressible. If given the chance, most humans will pursue a course towards increased freedom and greater liberty. As it stands, only people like Kevin Rose are given the opportunity to reshape their world, and look at what they do with those opportunities.

 
They could be either party or neither. Truth is you don't know. You just assume any one who does anything that you don't like is an extreme leftist.

What? Are you for real? Show me ANY examples of a conservative group destroying property, or defaming people outside their home in this fashion....

Nope, this is the extreme left, and you are defending them.
 
If you want a good laugh, read the lunatic rantings of the protestors.

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/06/18753651.php

Here is what they want:

We demand that Google give three billion dollars to an anarchist organization of our choosing. This money will then be used to create autonomous, anti-capitalist, and anti-racist communities throughout the Bay Area and Northern California. In these communities, whether in San Francisco or in the woods, no one will ever have to pay rent and housing will be free. With this three billion from Google, we will solve the housing crisis in the Bay Area and prove to the world that an anarchist world is not only possible but in fact irrepressible. If given the chance, most humans will pursue a course towards increased freedom and greater liberty. As it stands, only people like Kevin Rose are given the opportunity to reshape their world, and look at what they do with those opportunities.


They sound like spoiled children...."I want what you have so give it to me or I'll destroy you!"
 
What? Are you for real? Show me ANY examples of a conservative group destroying property, or defaming people outside their home in this fashion....

Nope, this is the extreme left, and you are defending them.

There is no shortage of instances where right leaning people found plenty of ways to protest certain people moving into their towns and neighborhoods.
 
Several reports of this incident have made the news, all trying to re-categorize the protesters as something other than leftist OWS types. This is not far different than the discussion on another thread concerning the Mozilla exec forced to resign.

What are your thoughts as to this type of bullying by the extreme left?

Protest and assembly are valued and hallowed right of the individual. There was nothing wrong here.
 
Protest and assembly are valued and hallowed right of the individual. There was nothing wrong here.

No? Did this mob have a permit to protest in front of the guy's house?

Do you agree that defaming someone in their neighborhood is a positive way to do things?

What makes you believe that anything like this is acceptable in a civilized society?
 
There is no shortage of instances where right leaning people found plenty of ways to protest certain people moving into their towns and neighborhoods.


Then it should be easy for you to provide some examples, as I asked for....This is only you giving a hollow response.
 
No? Did this mob have a permit to protest in front of the guy's house?

Do you agree that defaming someone in their neighborhood is a positive way to do things?

What makes you believe that anything like this is acceptable in a civilized society?

Cry some more. Assembly and protest are amongst the most valued of rights and must be protected. Sorry you don't like the consequences of freedom, but I suggest you get over it.
 
Cry some more. Assembly and protest are amongst the most valued of rights and must be protected. Sorry you don't like the consequences of freedom, but I suggest you get over it.

it seems to me if they spent more time getting a better education, working, investing and coming up with their own idea then they could get to the same point as these people did.
instead they stand on a corner crying about it while not getting paid.

that makes sense. lets cry about not having something someone else has and not get paid. instead of going out and making our own idea's and get paid for it.

maybe if they spent more time on their education and job skills they could get a nice paying job with one of those tech companies.
 
Cry some more.

Wait, huh? Who's crying? Just answer the questions....What's the matter with you?

Assembly and protest are amongst the most valued of rights and must be protected.

And if they went about it in the legal way then they are protected...This however, I suspect wasn't handled in that way.

Sorry you don't like the consequences of freedom, but I suggest you get over it.

Oh you suggest? Yeah? or else what? What are YOU Ikari going to do? Maybe you should take a pill or something.
 
No? Did this mob have a permit to protest in front of the guy's house?

Do you agree that defaming someone in their neighborhood is a positive way to do things?

What makes you believe that anything like this is acceptable in a civilized society?

A permit to exercise a right?

While i agree this behavior is assinine, i'm betting you don't think gun owners should be required to have permits to execise THAT right.
 
it seems to me if they spent more time getting a better education, working, investing and coming up with their own idea then they could get to the same point as these people did.
instead they stand on a corner crying about it while not getting paid.

that makes sense. lets cry about not having something someone else has and not get paid. instead of going out and making our own idea's and get paid for it.

maybe if they spent more time on their education and job skills they could get a nice paying job with one of those tech companies.

Then hold a counter protest. Or instead of sitting around wading time being concerned about the activities of this group of apparently undereducated unemployed jerks, you focus on your own work and your own business.
 
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