Word: vomiting
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...Kapitalanleger, a German minority shareholders group, describes Müntefering's interventions as "an absolutely scandalous election ploy." Dieter Hundt, president of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations, fears the debate will prove "extremely damaging" to the country's international image. "What's happening currently makes me want to vomit," he told one TV interviewer. Business argues that foreign investment is vital for the economy and that short-term investors, while sometimes uncomfortable for management, keep them on their toes. But unions adore the locust comparisons, and are urging the government to introduce measures to discourage short-term speculative investment...
Nonetheless, future protesters should recognize that radical tactics can be an important part of political action. So support vomit. You’ll feel better in the morning...
...weeks ago, Harvard witnessed one of the most unusual acts of protest I’ve ever heard of. As representatives of the Central Intellgence Agency (CIA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) urged Harvard students to join up, a student forced himself to vomit into a bag. This act—supposed to symbolize the student’s disgust with the shoddy human rights record of America’s intelligence community—has become the subject of more discussion than any other puke in Harvard’s history. One man’s vomit...
Like most people, I am uncomfortable with vomit. But what made the CIA/DHS protest so brilliantly appropriate is exactly that it was so inappropriate. The vomit jolted students into paying attention. A quiet rally outside the event would not have had this effect. Vomit may not be pretty, but vomit works...
Some argue that the Progressive Puker distracted the campus from the CIA’s brutal history. According to this line of thought, we were all sitting around politely discussing ways to end torture before some crazy radical came and puked in our faces. This argument has some legitimacy. Vomit is more newsworthy than the CIA’s history, just like PSLM’s sit in was more newsworthy than the poverty of Harvard’s workers and civil disobedience was more newsworthy than the brutality of Jim Crow. The fact that these tactics generate more discussion...