Shades of ‘Atlas Shrugged’ in Real Life

Epoch Times ^ | 2-11-2020 | Mark Hendrickson

[laplata]

“A FReeper wrote that any time he walks by a chain-link fence and youngsters are around, he grabs it and shakes it and yells AVENGE MEEEE!!
I like the sentiment, but that’ll get you locked up nowadayze”.

That’s an idiotic thing to do. And I do not like the sentiment when it is applied to children in such a way. It’s idiotic.

[DoodleBob]

To be precise, it was teenagers vs little children where he'd put on the act.

Again, in a vacuum it's cool but a) it's a jail sentence today and b) if someone did that around my kids....

[laplata]

You’re right. It makes no sense to do something like that and it accomplishes nothing. Little children would be scared but most teenagers would say “That guy’s a goof ball making an ass out of himself”.

When we were teenagers we’d pull stunts like that.

[DoodleBob]

Most of the harmless things many of us did as youths - like lighting off fire crackers, making fun of the Ayatollah, riding a bike without a helmet, and hanging out at the mall - are illegal or hate crimes.

[TBP]

Go Galt.

[laplata]

You must be much younger than me if you made fun of the

the Ayatollah when you were a youth.

[Fledermaus]

HA

[SERE_DOC]

Or as first heard by yours truly on Bill Whittle "Scoldylocks" of Saint Greta

Don't know the origin but pretty funny and accurate.

[trebb]

That’s a question for the ages...