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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
Mon Apr 13, 2015, 07:01 AM Apr 2015

Did SeaWorld Send Out 'Social Communism' Trolls With Signs At Protest?

They held a nice protest out in front of SeaWorld Florida in Orlando on Saturday, and some uninvited guests showed up. Actually, they apparently were invited -- by someone associated with SeaWorld.

"Support Social Communism" the signs read. They featured both a Russian hammer and sickle and a Chinese star. Or something like that.

The invitations came with paychecks to go stand among the protesters with signs that would at once make the protesters look bad and simultaneously express the company's opinion of the dirty hippies marching out front.

Soooo .... does anyone know exactly what "Social Communism" is? Ever hear of it? Me neither.

And neither, apparently, had the people carrying the signs. Lincoln O'Barry, writing over at his dad's Dolphin Project website, and one of the people protesting, asked the guy carrying the sign if he actually knew of any communists:

When Dolphin Project spoke with one of them, the unnamed Communist admitted to “just doing this as a job to make so extra money.” When we asked him to actually name a communist, he “couldn’t.”

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/04/did-seaworld-send-out-social-communism


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Did SeaWorld Send Out 'Social Communism' Trolls With Signs At Protest? (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Apr 2015 OP
There's a sense of irony there... Scootaloo Apr 2015 #1
What? hatrack Apr 2015 #2
Excellent response there! Nihil Apr 2015 #3
 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
1. There's a sense of irony there...
Mon Apr 13, 2015, 07:10 AM
Apr 2015
When Dolphin Project spoke with one of them, the unnamed Communist admitted to “just doing this as a job to make so extra money.” When we asked him to actually name a communist, he “couldn’t.”


Good time to start, dude. And sounds like you might have a good reasone. Fellow travellers always welcome at the table

~original

We've got perogies.

hatrack

(59,593 posts)
2. What?
Mon Apr 13, 2015, 07:40 AM
Apr 2015

That doesn't even make sense. WTF is "Social Communism" - some kind of double secret probation communism?

 

Nihil

(13,508 posts)
3. Excellent response there!
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 04:07 AM
Apr 2015

Standing by the fakes with a "Paid by Seaworld" sign so that people see the truth.


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