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Oh well if they’re young suburban adults nvrmd
So, I was just hanging out with friends, enjoying a smoothie at this nice outdoor place – don’t worry, we had masks, everyone was distancing! We’re totally about that. We heard something coming around the corner, and it sounded like a parade? My friend Jinny gets on her phone (well TBH she was already on it) and googles whether there was a parade scheduled for tonight, like a circus thing, but before she gets her results we see them. It’s a bunch of guys dressed in black with signs and umbrellas, and they’re, like, chanting? I got it on my phone, and I think it was something like Hey Ho, Hey Ho, Oligarchical Capitalism and its Inherent Systemic Oppression of BIPOC and Non-Heteronormative Paradigm Gender Non-Conformity Has Got To Go, or something, and I’m like, whatever –
But then one of them smashes a window, and I thought, can you believe that?
“NBD,” says Jenni. “They have insurance. Trust me. My dad’s in insurance.”
“I know we’re just hanging around downtown to escape the stultifying milieu of our soul-sapping suburban lives,” says Todd, I know, that’s so Todd, “but I have this sudden welling of passion for a cause I’ve barely spent any time thinking about. The sight of these people, their manifest passion, makes me think we should find a store and set it on fire.”
“Awesome,” said Lee. “And let me just say here and now that several of those androgynous people have made me suddenly question my own identity, and I am now going to change my pronouns to ‘they.’”
I guess it was just the heat of the moment – literally the heat, the crowd had set fire to the restaurant where we were sitting – but we just got up and fell alongside, and started marching and chanting and throwing things, and IDK it felt like I was part of something for the first time, so we went inside the drug store and Todd jumped over the counter and got some lighter fluid and we went to the bookstore next door and drenched some stuff and set it on fire. We all did a group pose for the ‘Gram and called it a night, went back to the car and drove back to the boring burbs, laughing, like, what was that about.
You know how you get caught up in something and go with the moment and you’re burning a restaurant and the next day you’re, like, okay, we were in the moment, but then it turns out it was for justice? That’s awesome. I wonder if I can put it on my intern application resume.
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The AP article is racist.
I hope they put up statues so we can tear them down . . .
These riots and the destruction flowing from them will raise insurance premiums for years to come. So besides the businesses who are unfortunately underinsured or poorly insured and as a result could very well lose their businesses altogether, those that do survive, along with every other business in the area, will suffer significant costs in the form of higher prices. I have to say, we have a lot of very ignorant people in this country who think they are really, really smart.
I always hear this when I hear the “smart people” talking about insurance paying for their destruction.
I think what AP is trying to say is, “these are upper-middle class white college kids . . . you know . . . the people we like.” Because if they were urban minorities then it we should fear them?
So, if you don’t understand what people mean by “systemic racism” is, it is what AP is practicing in this article.
They keep throwing those out there for us:
Earlier, we were told that we couldn’t arrest looters because they really needed the stuff they were stealing.
Now, somehow, we are told that the looters are really just rich white kids from the suburbs. If that is the case, then they didn’t really need the stuff they were stealing and they should be arrested and put in jail for stealing, unless the AP is saying that it is ok to steal if you are rich and white, which I sincerely doubt.
Ah! You seek narrative consistency!
You shall seek forever and never find!
Except it’s ALWAYS the conservatives calling for law enforcement and some jail time no matter who did the crime….who are called racist. Back in reality world, it’s the anti-establishment anti-business attitude the press wants celebrity and leniency for. The kids will grow up and eventually need jobs and nothing equals a bad police report to torpedo your interview chances. I hope their record follows them for years and they eventually reflect on who truly led them astray.
I got caught up in the moment is a variation of he/she is really a good person, or they were turning their lives around, or they made a bad choice. It’s something street cop’s have heard hundreds of times. I didn’t care if someone I arrested started a hamster rescue shelter, it’s the criminal act itself that matters. I didn’t call someone’s former sixth grade teacher, priest, minister, or rabbi for a character reference before they went to booking.
If smashing windows, burning down buildings, and bullying diners is what “regular citizens caught up in the moment” do, then something is seriously wrong with our “regular citizens.”
A friendly word of advice from Uncle Mike to all suburban revolutionaries:
It’s all fun and games until someone shoots you in the chest, then clubs you with the stock while you’re bubbling away on the pavement.
That, and any business that locates in an urban area will probably have higher premiums too – if they can even get insurance . . .
It’s also worth remembering that while Bill Ayers wasn’t a suburban yute, his dad was CEO of Commonwealth Edison. And yet for some reason, I don’t think his privileged upbringing mollified any of the neighbors on West 11th Street 50 years ago, when Ayers and his friends blew up the Greenwich Village townhouse…
I doubt they will ever blame those TRULY responsible.
A versatile chant to say the least, but I believe the correct form is “Hey Hey, Ho Ho”
“there”?
Which is interesting when the point is to make fun of someone else’s IQ
Step 1: Assume that anyone who objects to rioting is doing so because he is a bigot and doesn’t like leftists.
Step 2: Demonstrate #notallrioters.
Step 2: Sit back and wait for the assumed bigots to die of cognitive dissonance.
What the don’t realize is that we really don’t care about the politics of people who commit crimes, we just want them to be either prevented from committing the crimes or arrested and prosecuted soon after they commit the crimes.
Of note: being young, white, and suburban does not prevent someone from being a radical leftist. Obvs.
Hey, isn’t that @roblong‘s new pad?
Yeah, bad.
Failure to proofread is not indicative of a low IQ. But it is a rather boneheaded mistake to make . . .
Seriously. If I was hiring and I saw a shoplifting charge or a drug charge in an applicant’s youth I might overlook it, but a willingness to loot or burn businesses in the name of righteousness? That is not a person I would trust to behave ethically on my company’s behalf. Everyone has a lapse of judgement now and again. Some people exhibit a lack of judgement, but this kind of thing is an evil moral principle and it is unlikely to fade with time.
The New Gap Year might(should?) end up being 6-10 months in the County lockup and picking up trash on the side of the road while wearing orange…
You are correct. “Hey Ho, Hey Ho” (usually with the archaic spelling and pronunciation “heigh”) is what precedes the next line of “It’s off to work we go.” A situation that it appears that these spoiled rich kids have never had to come to terms with in their life.
Perish the thought.
Or someone’s pronounced circumlocutory pretentiousness. Like mine.
Even if they get charged/convicted, it might have been lowered to something like “disorderly conduct” or “disturbing the peace” and you won’t know what they REALLY did. That’s one big reason why so many people are in prison for “non-violent” drug crimes: plea-bargaining.
Can it be indicative of an intelligence problem when sometimes titles a video “High Ho” when the subtitles text is right in front of them with the correct spelling?
Along with its instead of it’s, of course.
But I would still bet that whoever typed that is still smarter than the girl in the video
Another low bar…