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Wonkette reports that yesterday’s live Tea Party events had a virtual parallel. On the simulated world(s) of Second Life, tea partiers staged protests with demonstrators garbed in elaborate 1773-era costumes, Photoshopped signs (”The Debt Star,” a Demotivators-style poster bearing a picture of Darth Vader’s evil orb) and animal avatars. The similarities with actual tea party protesters yesterday: signs comparing Barack Obama with Hitler and Osama bin Laden, plus some provided by the national Tea Party website.
Key differences: humanoid bunnies, busty foxes and more than a few African Americans in attendance. Plus, one nude woman who appears wearing that old-timey symbol of poverty, a rain barrel. Have the Second Life teabaggers shopped for a rain barrel lately? Oak barrels start at $125 and go beyond the above-poverty-level price of $500 each.
A few screengrabs; go to Wonkette to see more.
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Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 3:43 pm
If you’re putting that much work into Second Life, you need to work harder on your first.
Comment posted April 18, 2009 @ 3:50 pm
The work that went into making that Second Life protest was about as much work as goes into making this blog or even making your comment. It’s just part of the Internet. Time to get over your cultural prejudices and see the future is in the 3D web. It’s normal, and doesn’t signal loss of a first life anymore than this blog or your comment does.
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