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HipChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 06:41 AM Original message |
How rioting brought UK youth together.. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 06:44 AM Response to Original message |
1. Who'd have thought that Fight Club got it wrong and that they all just wanted to loot side by side. |
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HipChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 06:47 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. I think you missed the point of the article... |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 06:50 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. I'm reading now. |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 06:45 AM Response to Original message |
2. I just finished reading that article |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 06:46 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Yep. But many on DU would like to dismiss it exclusively as thuggish looting...... |
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Darth_Kitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 07:00 AM Response to Reply #3 |
11. It is thuggish looting.... |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 07:07 AM Response to Reply #3 |
15. When thugs (of any race, color, creed, age, or national origin) are |
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Upton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 07:09 AM Response to Reply #3 |
16. It's thuggish looting alright.. |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 07:11 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Nobody is celebrating criminal behavior....... |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 07:28 AM Response to Reply #19 |
23. I can just imagine a shop-owner, watching his livlihood go up in flames or out |
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flamingdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 12:48 PM Response to Reply #19 |
33. I understand but just read that 3 were rammed by a car intentionally and died |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 07:10 AM Response to Reply #3 |
17. Let them |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 01:17 PM Response to Reply #3 |
41. It's not exclusively anything |
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hifiguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 03:00 PM Response to Reply #41 |
48. You win the thread, LB. |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 10:33 PM Response to Reply #41 |
54. Agreed...The biggest surprise to me is it seems every socio-economic group |
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HipChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-11-11 12:33 AM Response to Reply #41 |
57. Many people were predicting that this would kick-off after all the cuts |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 06:48 AM Response to Original message |
5. Good article, thank you for posting. |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 06:52 AM Response to Original message |
7. Youth ? |
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HipChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 06:57 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. In the sense of class/racial demographics.. |
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Darth_Kitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 06:56 AM Response to Original message |
8. And I see that rioting, destroying, etc will get the world on their side? |
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HipChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 06:58 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Spoiled, Entitled? Hardly... |
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Darth_Kitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 07:01 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Yes, exactly. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 07:03 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. Deleted message |
Darth_Kitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 07:21 AM Response to Reply #14 |
20. Yes, they are, aren't they? |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 08:09 AM Response to Reply #20 |
24. And the corporate controlled media has who's interest in mind? nt |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 07:10 AM Response to Reply #8 |
18. You think they care if you're on their side? What good will you being on their side do them? |
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Darth_Kitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 07:24 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Uh...they wanted people's attention? |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 01:26 PM Response to Reply #8 |
44. 'Spoiled and entitled?' Most of them are neither of these things unless you use the word 'spoiled' |
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Upton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 07:00 AM Response to Original message |
12. Brought together? |
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Darth_Kitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 07:25 AM Response to Reply #12 |
22. Oh, be careful, you are supposed to have compassion for their cause. |
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Broderick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 01:14 PM Response to Reply #22 |
40. Yeah what is the cause? |
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Bodhi BloodWave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 02:54 PM Response to Reply #40 |
47. what shootout, didn't the news recently state that the bullet in the radio was police issue? |
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Broderick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 03:23 PM Response to Reply #47 |
50. I don't know - I hear differently |
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Bodhi BloodWave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 05:05 PM Response to Reply #50 |
51. Oh, there was a bullet in the radio, its just that it was a bullet from a police gun |
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Broderick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 08:51 PM Response to Reply #51 |
53. ok |
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Bodhi BloodWave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 11:57 PM Response to Reply #53 |
55. the overall protests are valid, that there are a section that want to loot and riot |
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pintobean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 08:15 AM Response to Original message |
25. Diversity amongst thieves |
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Chorophyll (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 08:33 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Brings a tear to my eye. |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 08:24 AM Response to Original message |
26. The rioting has not brought them together. It's each man for himself in stealing and arson. |
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Bragi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 08:51 AM Response to Original message |
28. MSM desparately trying to strip the riots of all context |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 08:54 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Mindless consumerism by any means necessary |
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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 05:24 PM Response to Reply #29 |
52. A far better article to point to. |
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HipChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 12:37 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Media manipulation at it's best...and that's why it will continue to occur |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 09:08 AM Response to Original message |
30. Now they can be together in prison cells. nt |
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flamingdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 12:47 PM Response to Original message |
32. This is like the L.A. Riots of 1993, whites joined in to get goods and the news |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
34. By current logic, the Guardian gets it |
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socialshockwave (637 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
35. These youth in no way represent me. |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 01:01 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. the clean up video shows community of young going out to clean up rioters mess |
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socialshockwave (637 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 01:12 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. Oh I know. And good on 'em. n/t |
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AngryOldDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
36. I'm not going to praise violent and destructive acts by a group of thugs. |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
37. did you see the clean up video? it was more youths coming together to clean up after rioters |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 01:39 PM Response to Reply #37 |
46. Good for them! |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
42. Thanks for this |
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Vehl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 01:25 PM Response to Original message |
43. These rioters belong in jail |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 01:28 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. And will go there. |
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hifiguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 03:03 PM Response to Original message |
49. When the aristocracy, financial or hereditary, steals everyone blind |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 11:59 PM Response to Reply #49 |
56. How is burning down the local family-owned grocery store "rising up against the aristocracy"? (nt) |
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