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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou know, you never hear about what Triangle Shirtwaist *customers* thought of the fire
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You know, you never hear about what Triangle Shirtwaist *customers* thought of the fire
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You know, you never hear about what Triangle Shirtwaist *customers* thought of the fire (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Aug 2019
OP
Yeah, yeah, people taking to the streets, fighting for their lives, blah, blah, blah
gratuitous
Aug 2019
#1
Read somewhere there are claims the demos are run by, paid for by US in fight vs China
bobbieinok
Aug 2019
#2
"Was your bus in Montgomery Alabama late or cancelled? The New York Times would wants to hear...."
mahatmakanejeeves
Aug 2019
#5
Pointn taken, OTOH every group thinks their cause is a matter of life or death
Ex Lurker
Aug 2019
#6
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)1. Yeah, yeah, people taking to the streets, fighting for their lives, blah, blah, blah
What the Times is interested in is whether your flight to Hong Kong was canceled, because that's what's really important to the Times and its readers.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)2. Read somewhere there are claims the demos are run by, paid for by US in fight vs China
Any validity?
Leith
(7,813 posts)3. That sounds like a piece of propaganda
that somebody threw out there to see if it would stick.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)4. Think so too. Wondered if any DUer had heard this
Codeine
(25,586 posts)7. The Chinese - and probably the RT crowd -
would love us to believe that, but its unlikely.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,591 posts)5. "Was your bus in Montgomery Alabama late or cancelled? The New York Times would wants to hear...."
CrazyInvertedPopehat Retweeted
Was your bus in Montgomery Alabama late or cancelled? The New York Times would want to hear from the thousands affected by Rosa Parks and The Montgomery Bus Boycott!
....civil rights what now?
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Ex Lurker
(3,816 posts)6. Pointn taken, OTOH every group thinks their cause is a matter of life or death
Remember than next time Vegans blockade a restaurant or college students shut down a campus over demanding free laundry detergent.