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How Burning Man Turned Into a Nightmare, Though Organizers Disagree(follow up. Exodus has begun)
townhall.com ^
| 9/5/2023
| Matt Vespa
Posted on 09/05/2023 7:52:12 AM PDT by rktman
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Non profit but someone is making bank on this. Reports are that there were still 60,000 last night so they could watch the man burn at 2100 hrs and the temple of babel burn at midnight. Gonna be a little hard to "leave no trace" with all the ruts that will remain once they manage to get all the stuck vehicles out. So, 70-80,000 at minimum $500/tkt.............. IIRC the Paiute tribe gets about $7 million from them. Anyone? Bueller? Now the burers will be in town returning the hundreds of campers rented and a lot of them looking for ways to return to wherever they came from. I can hardly wait for more MJ odors mixed with gallon of patchouli oil stink for a few days. 😉👍
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posted on
09/05/2023 7:52:12 AM PDT
by
rktman
To: rktman
The “organizers” understand that there are a lot of people who love to wallow in the mud. The muddier, the better.
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posted on
09/05/2023 7:54:07 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(I don't know what the hell it is but you can bet in America, it's "racist" and needs to be cancelled)
To: rktman
This has been all over the news for 3 days now, who cares?
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posted on
09/05/2023 7:55:34 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: rktman
Looked it up on Wiki and some say it’s a celebration of “counter culture” others call it an excuse to party.
I’d say the best and brightest of the Democrat party youth in that area attends that.
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posted on
09/05/2023 7:56:21 AM PDT
by
Phoenix8
To: rktman
I never knew much about Burning Man. While some say it is a festival of liberal counter culture druggie types, a few people here on Free Republic said it’s actually a peaceful family friendly event.
To: rktman
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posted on
09/05/2023 7:56:39 AM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
To: rktman
To: Celtic Conservative
From what I saw of it (videos), I agree.
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posted on
09/05/2023 7:57:44 AM PDT
by
stevio
(Fight until you die.)
To: Dilbert San Diego
If there’s any such thing as a sincere “counter culture” protestor type, it’s sure as hell not the well-off people who spend the money at Burning Man. These are all fake counterculturalists and posers.
Maybe the goofs and nuts that tried to block the expensive vehicles trying to come in are the real thing.
Good job busting them up, Rangers.
And good job by the Lord raining these turkeys out.
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posted on
09/05/2023 8:00:56 AM PDT
by
old-ager
To: Dilbert San Diego
Modern day Woodstock? I was only 15 in 1969 but I do remember my dad complaining about the nasty hippies non-stop. LOL
To: Dilbert San Diego
Interesting art and contraptions. Lots of weird people that are way way out there. I would never attend something like that.
To: Melinda in TN
"...was only 15 in 1969 but I do remember my dad complaining about the nasty hippies...".
I was 4.
I was sitting on the living room floor watching it on TV.
My Dad (sitting on the couch) -
"THOSE KIDS ARE CRAZY!!!" He kept saying...
That's my memory of Woodstock. LOL.
To: rktman
Only way I'd attend something like this anymore is via helicopter with a pilot and fueled up craft at my beck and call to get me out of there the instant I get bored or feel inconvenienced. I'd also require an A/C equipped trailer. Since I don't have any of those things, I doubt I'll ever try to go to Burning Man. Used to be a big deal in Silicon Valley back in the late '90s and early '00s.
Seems very commercialized and overdone the last decade or so, much like Coachella.
To: Dilbert San Diego
I read that Burning Man is a free love, drug fueled orgy. The eco hippie stuff is just a cover story.
To: Dilbert San Diego
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posted on
09/05/2023 8:33:44 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
To: GaltAdonis
😁 Mine was the same. I think Walter Cronkite was on the 6:00 news each night. We weren’t allowed to bother Dad while the news was on, but I could hear him from my bedroom. We didn’t come between Dad and Walter unless we wanted swatted.
To: DeplorablePaul
I think its “all of that” and more.
Too many people in one place for me. That crap always makes me nervous. It only takes a little push to turn a drunk herd into a stampede.
To: rktman
To: rktman
This reminds me of the last Phish concert in the Northeast Kingdom of VT.
My parents lived down the street and the masses of mud soaked knuckleheads wandered by their house on the way in and out.
To: rktman
The good part about camping on a lakebed is that it’s flat. The bad part is why it’s flat.
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