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sorry i never really spoke to anyone on the ride - arrived late and left early. plus i forgot my pirate stuff :(
But on the points about "troublemakers" and "anarchists" - what a crock of shite. who said they were anarchists? Or was this just a typical knee-jerk assumption? I'm going to nail my colours to the mast a bit and say that i know a LOT of real anarchists and other assorted radicals. Frankly, the people who were shouting at drivers don't know shit about radical politics if they think that this will bring about revolution and whatnot. And the people on the forum assuming that these people were somehow radicals are equally talking shite. In fact, the anarchos who i know would actually be very pissed off to know that people had been lobbing abuse at strangers just because they happen to be driving cars. It's just painfully bad politics. As any anarchist worth their salt will know, forging positive social relationships between different people on uncommon ground is the only way to build any form of emancipatory politics.
Anyone who thinks that argy-bargy for its own sake is what radical politics looks like is clearly talking out their arse.