>>1998482
>Nigga's gon' nig

ftfy

>>1998490
/lit/ too?

god dammit.

>>1998482
What are a few looted mansions, compared to their looted lives?

—Peter Weiss, /The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade/

>>1998506
Awesome quote

>he thinks this is happening for political or social reasons

they are using bbm to organise

they are dressed in designer gear

tottenham isn't even that poor.

It's sad to think of the young people in egypt/iran/syria when these thugs are just stealing/destroying for fun and loot.

>>1998520
>he thinks this is happening for political or social reasons

well if you think about it, it is a social problem, high unemployment, bad education, nothing to do, cuts in everything, rises in uni costs, there's a reason this didn't happen in the 90s. I agree with you that it's mostly just ignorant youths wanting free shit but the reason that is happening is interlinked with the other stuff.

>>1998520
Happy, well-educated, comfortable people don't riot. You know that. So how is this not a political or social problem?

>>1998506
wow, I love that.

is this about London?

>>1998527
so why do they think that rioting their city, their place of shelter, is going to make their situation better? I dont understand really

>>1998546
lol
so can someone explain to me exactly why this is happening?
its been going on for like three days right?
i only saw a short news article online, but I have no idea what the motivation is of this or why they are doing this, or who is doing it, and what they are doing exactly? i guess I could go read someothing but this is better?

>>1998542

It's tradition - the cops shoot a guy, apparently for no reason, and Londoners riot. London is a city of riots, especially when it gets hot.

People see the country being mismanaged, bankers being bailed out while welfare is cut, police riding around in their 4x4s, eyeballing the citizenry like all of a sudden the cops are in charge of us and not the other way round, everybody's broke, out of work, disaffected and dispirited and all it needs is one spark to ignite the city.

Happens at least once a decade - it's a way of clearing the air.

If I were in Britain right now I would be smashing CCTV cameras. From little things, big things grow. The fact that poor Britons, long neglected by Labour and the Unions have very clearly voiced the fact that things are intolerable, and that they refuse, even if on a holiday from normality, to be governed is important.

New Labour and Thatcher relied upon Labour and the Unions disorganising this part of the working class, while buying off white collar snobs and those in solid non-militant union jobs.

>>1998556
It started out in tottenham because some gang member was killed, and then people just used that as an oppurtunity to lash out and get free shit. It's mostly just young teens smashing shit up and setting shit on fire and looting.

>>1998560

well I think its dumb. damaging your city isnt going to help any problems.

>>1998564
how did they get free shit? do you mean from stealing?

>>1998520

>tottenham isn't even that poor.

It's the poorest area in London, and the eighth poorest place in the UK. And funding was cut to Haringey council by something like 8% this year, while the rich boroughs like Richmond and Harrow actually got increases. This kind of thing does tend to angry up the blood.

>>1998570
yeah, the looting. like this clown who posted this to his facebook

>comfortable, well educated people don't riot

They did in Egypt and Tunisia, except they did it for progressive reasons and in non-violent ways. If these people legitimately cared about social issues they would do something similar, instead we see the criminal actions of greedy opportunists

>>1998575
>comfortable
so they were comfortable with the political situation and just did it for the hell of it?

>>1998575
>I hate workers

Bourgeois nationalist scum.

>>1998566

That's the point - it's not their city that they're destroying. London is a palimpsest of cities, layered on one another, and people feel that their cities are becoming increasingly alienated from the mainstream.

It's easy to say that it's just about getting a new telly - and the more people accept this story of bored, acquisitive youth, then the longer the British can paper over the cracks and pretend that society is not hideously mismanaged.

>>1998581
Look, I've been in the movement since I was eight and my mother took me to a nation wide political strike of her union. We had to travel six and a half hours that day, and she with two young kids.

And I'd take a fucking telly if we were kicking in pawn shop doors or smashing in chain store shutters.

>>1998581

wow

well this makes me fucking mad. that people are like this. it just makes me think that everyone is selfish, oh hey i guess i can get a free tv now. like seriously? im disgusted with humanity. this makes me really sad and hopeless.

>>1998581
>That's the point - it's not their city that they're destroying. London is a palimpsest of cities, layered on one another, and people feel that their cities are becoming increasingly alienated from the mainstream.

shut the fuck up please. That was not on this guy's mind, who represents perfectly the mentality behind it. leave your armchair theories for when you become a journalist.

That's the point - it's not their city that they're destroying. London is a palimpsest of cities, layered on one another, and people feel that their cities are becoming increasingly alienated from the mainstream.

>and the more people accept this story of bored, acquisitive youth, then the longer the British can paper over the cracks and pretend that society is not hideously mismanaged.

Are you trying to say that people won't think society is not mismanaged when there are "bored, acquisitive youth"?

>>1998585
>everyone is selfish

No shit.

>>1998583

then youre kind of a shitty person.along with the rest of the rioters.

destroying a city isnt going to fix shit. you can get help other ways, maybe not that easily but you still can. and putting other people in harm, because of your problems, is fucked up and selfish. they burned fucking buildings and crap? that people were in. yeah, that shows how much they are doing it for a reason, but really it just shows that they are taking advantage of the situation to take home stolen crap

>>1998573

Hackney is the poorest area of London, retard

>>1998588
They put me in harm every day of my life.

Marat:
Now it's happening and you can't stop it happening
The people used to suffer everything
now they take their revenge
You are watching that revenge
and you don't remember that you drove the people to it
Now you protest
but it's too late
to start crying over the blood they are spilling
For what is this blood
compared with the blood they shed for your
in your predatory wars
in your predatory peace

>>1998578

Economically comfortable, but not politically free.

>>1998586

>Are you trying to say that people won't think society is not mismanaged when there are "bored, acquisitive youth"?

That's exactly what I'm saying - as long as people are giving it the "kids today" line, then there's no concept that perhaps this riot is based on legitimate grievance, far more so than the student riots last year, which were treated with far more indulgence, because they involved little Tarquin and Camilla engaging with the political world.

>>1998583

I'm with you on this one - I was rioting with the AFA and ANL way back in the way back, and if there was ever the opportunity of a free telly, or the chance to kick in an off-licence window and grab free snouts and booze, then of course we would, but that's not why we were rioting in the first place, regardless of what the media said. They just highlight the looting to distract from the politics.

>>1998585

That's not what I was trying to say.

>>1998599
>That's exactly what I'm saying - as long as people are giving it the "kids today" line, then there's no concept that perhaps this riot is based on legitimate grievance, far more so than the student riots last year, which were treated with far more indulgence, because they involved little Tarquin and Camilla engaging with the political world.

Ok im sorry for telling you to shut the fuck up and being a dick in general. But I don't think there is any real grievance in it, I think the problems here are just that society is fucked up generally, the fact that these people are poorly educated, the tuition fee rises, mass unemployment and cuts.

Don't worry friends! Order will be restored—pick up that can—when RIM in Canada sells out privacy and freedom of speech for Blackberry users to a government. This is nothing like the Soviet Union or the attacks on anti-war protesters in the 1960s. Do not adjust your white-collar hypocrisy as you will mostly earn four to sixteen times their income when you graduate from college without ever having to join a union.

Herald:
We only show these people massacred
because this indisputably occurred
Please calmly watch these barbarous displays
which could not happen nowadays
The men of that time mostly now demised
were primitive we are more civilised.

>>1998599
they highlight the looting from the politics because you confuse it together. its hard to believe that everyone is stealing tvs and crap just for politics. and its really fucking disgusting that you are going to put other peoples lives at risk for politics, even so. youre shit, and ithink everyone who is stealing, rioting,and looting.is a complete and total idiot.

>>1998590

Hackney may be the poorest borough, but Tottenham is the poorest ward, you fucking mong. The only thing that keeps Haringey off the bottom is the fact that there's so much inequality in the borough, on one side you've got Highgate and Muswell Hill, on the other you've got fucking Tottenham and White Hart Lane with everybody killing their fucking babies and shooting at each other.

You should really check these places out before you start flapping your fucking chops like a cunt.

>>1998609

>they highlight the looting from the politics because you confuse it together.

lolwut

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8630533/Riots-the-underclass-lashes-out.html

Fun fact: Ho Chi Minh used to live in Haringey. Crouch End to be precise. Worked in a hotel over in Westminster.

I had that Henry Kissinger in the back of my cab last week. Lavverly fella.

>>1998625
>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8630533/Riots-the-underclass-lashes-out.htm
l

Not coming from Britain, I don't know if the Telegraph is a fucked paper. I only read the Guardian, and that irregularly. Is the Telegraph normally "allowed" to sell social democracy and Keynsianism?

>>1998616
>>1998616
>>1998616

When people talk about poverty in the UK, it's relative poverty, not absolute poverty.

Comparing to Egypt, etc is ludicrous

>>1998632
It's usually referred to as the Torygraph. It leans right and looks down.

>>1998635
>>1998632

Which is why that article is so surprising.

>>1998632
The Telegraph is about as right-wing as mainstream news gets in Britain. I don't know where you're getting anything about Keynesian economics from that.

>>1998632

The Telegraph is usually somewhere to the right of Mussolini, so this was a very surprising article. I nearly didn't bother, expecting the usual conservative reactionary bullshit, for them to talk about "bad income distribution, a business sector engaged in “corporate larceny”, a weak banking structure and an import/export imbalance." is a fairly seismic change, tbh.

>>1998635
Hard to judge that opinion piece then, it might be blue sky stuff.

>>1998639
They noted that society is necessary for an economy to function.

These poor downtrodden youth are just protesting that Daddy David cut their ethnic allowance. Giving black people money so they won't kill you: some call it mugging, some call it social justice.

>people defending this

>>1998644
Thanks for that. Don't you have an EDL rally to attend?

I'm not really sure what's going on, but when I see working class on one side and riot police on the other, I don't need to ask myself whose side I'm on.

The four singers:
Why do they have the gold
Why do they have all the power
Why do they have friends at top
Why do they have the entrepreneurial spirit
We've got nothing always had nothing
nothing but holes and millions of them
Living in holes
Dying in holes
Holes in our bellies
and holes in our clothes
Marat we're poor and the poor stay poor
Marat don't make us wait any more
We want our rights and we don't care how
We want our revolution NOW.

Herald:
Observe how easily a crowd turns mob
through ignorance of its wise rules job
Rather than bang an empty drum
of protest citizens be dumb
Work for a trust the powerful few
what's best for them is best for you

>>1998661
Being on 4chan, the answer isn't really obvious, which do you pick?

>>1998664

Working class, of course.

>>1998664
My class—the working class.

Cops are scabs in fancy suits.

Reminds me of the rioting in Athens

>>1998661
It's not really police vs working class, the police were absent for most of it. it's the working class vs the commercial parts of their areas. Some of it is police vs, them though, this is up the road from me, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJkAo5f8mo4 its probably best to watch it on mute.

>>1998661
This is part of the problem. The police are only able to police by consent, and they don't have it. Certainly not in some of the poorest areas.

These people have no faith in the police or the political system. They are not represented in any way and they lack the social vocabulary to represent themselves.

>>1998661
Behold, the tiny mind of a Marxist ideologue. His world has two shades and no data beyond them is required to make a decision.

>>1998676

I was actually paraphrasing Orwell there, but okay.

First Agitation of Jacques Roux
Roux:
Pick up your arms
Fight for your rights
Grab what you need and grab it now
or wait a hundred years
and see what the authorities arrange
Up there they despise you
because you never had the cash
to learn to read and write
You're good enough for the dirty work of the Revolution
but they screw their noses up at you
because your sweat stinks
You have to sit way down there
so they won't have to see you
And down there
in ignorance and stink
you're allowed to do your bit
toward bringing in the golden age
in which you'll all do the same old dirty work
Up there their poets talk of
the majestic glory of life
They veil their machinations with
refined works of art
and refined luxury
So stand up
Stand up in front of them
and let them see how many of you there are

>>1998675
>These people have no faith in the police or the political system. They are not represented in any way and they lack the social vocabulary to represent themselves

whos fault is this?

Second Agitation of Jacques Roux
Roux:
We demand
the opening of the granaries to feed the poor
We demand
the public ownership of workshops and factories
We demand
the conversion of the churches into schools
so that now at last something useful can be taught in them
We demand that everyone should do all they can
to put an end to war
This damned war
which is run for the benefit of profiteers
and leads only to more wars
We demand
that those who started the war
should bear its costs
Once and for all
the idea of glorious victories
won by the glorious army
must be wiped out
Neither side is glorious
On either side they're just frightened men messing their pants
and they all want the same thing
Not to lie under the earth
but to walk upon it
WITHOUT CRUTCHES

>>1998683
All of ours. We, the people allowed this to happen, while we were watching television.

>>1998684
>>1998596
>>1998608
>>1998663

Why not fuck off with this tl;dr out-dated agitprop and actually contribute something to the argument, or just fuck right off?

what the fuck is with this tin tin stuff? i thought tin tin was some kind of belgian explorer.

>>1998685

I haven't got a television.

I don't suppose you know if there's one in the window of a shop on Tottenham High Road, do you?

>>1998686
Naw, it's related dude, it started out with poetry and its continuing with it. Feel free to post the opposite viewpoint if you want.

>>1998690
No, but if you can find out who is out looting, you can probably nick their TV while the filth are busy

>>1998692

Brilliant thinking - you're a fucking genius.

>Wait till you see your neighbours going out for a bit of a loot
>Rob their gaff while they're out
>???
>Profit.

It's win-win, cos at least they'll have some room to put all their new swag.

>>1998686
Peter Weiss wrote Marat/Sade as a discussion of the relationships between bourgeois conservatives, bourgeois liberals, bourgeois radicals, working class socialists, and a politically impotent mob.

It is as significant this evening, when a mob will acquire more televisions, as it was in the 1960s when written as an attack on the Soviet Union.

Unlike the discussion of politics, I am actually posting /lit/erature.

Corday:
What kind of town is this
What sort of streets are these
Who invented this
who profits by it
I saw peddlers
at every corner
they're selling little guillotines
with tiny sharp blades
and dolls filled with red liquid
which spurts from the neck
when the sentence is carried out
What kind of children are these
who can play
with this toy so efficiently
and who sits in judgment
who sits in judgment

>>1998691

It started out with a quote which seemed related to the discussion OP wanted to start - you're just regurgitating walls of text. It's like having an annoying child in the room shouting nursery rhymes while you're trying to read.

>>1998697
>...and where were you at the time of the burglary, Sir?
>I was out looting.
>...

How long will "liberals" be able to sustain their delusion about black violence? Even while other oppressed minorities -- Jews, Asians, whites -- thrive in any location under any condition, even while scientists have all but eliminated every purely social explanation for the IQ gap, even as blacks murder, rape and rob whites at exorbitant rates compared to non-blacks of the same self-imposed income level, still the "liberals" find fault only with whites. The doublethink is extraordinary. How long can it go on?

>>1998699
>Unlike the discussion of politics, I am actually posting /lit/erature.

He's got you there.

>>1998700
I'm the OP, and I posted >>1998691 theres nothing wrong with what that guy is doing, if you don't like it, don't read it, bro

>>1998702
But these riots have nothing to do with race, as has been pointed out repeatedly in the media. Whites, blacks and asians are on both sides. However, you seem to be upset. Are you experiencing some anal pain over the lack of racial hatred being reported?

>>1998702

oh, shit, we've just become /new/

>>1998703

He's got nothing except a fistful of quotes in one hand, and a fistful of his own dick in the other.

This isn't posting literature, it's posting un-edited screeds of an old, outdated play, with no commentary, no editorial, no concept that the poster has even read the crap he's posting.

It's not /lit/ - and if I wanted to re-read the Marat/Sade, I'd get the fucking thing out of the library. Fortunately my agitprop days are well behind me, so I think I'll save myself the arseache.

>>1998702
If you're trolling, stop. If you're not, then your answer to my picture is gonna be "lolol thats just one pic you retard, blacks are 2% of the population and disproportionate to the amount of white people in general so that means that black people are inherently more violent" which probably makes perfect sense to you in your little bubble that ignores any kind of social circumstance. I do not class myself as a social liberal either.

Does /lit/ think any single literary work could ever have the power to effect social change on the scale that would cause/prevent riots such as these? Is it possible?

>>1998711
Religious texts
The communist manifesto

(Captcha: Autonoma lechere)

I am reminded of the kids from the estate off /Monkey Dust/. I'm also reminded of the "Tony Blair's unreasonable promises" off /Monkey Dust./

Marat:
Hypocrites
They wear the people's cap on their heads
but their underwear's embroidered with crowns
and if so much as a shop gets looted
they squeal
Beggars villains gutter rats

>>1998711

Literature has a long history of inspiring social change.

>>1998716
I mean in the present day. I just can't see modern inner city communities gathering together to listen to someone read the communist manifesto.

>>1998711

If you mean fiction, then no. Nobody ever changed the world with a novel - it's the most self-indulgent and irrelevant of all art forms.

If you mean a pamphlet/tract/essay or whatever, then yes - more fires have been started with revolutionary writings than any other way.

I'm not sure if a poem can start a revolution, but it can sustain one. See Le Marsellaise.

>>1998708
whine on you crazy diamond

>>1998721
I don't think anything could do that just yet, maybe in the future, depending on how all this pans out. I think the general situation we are in is afraid of all kinds of extremism.

>>1998722
>>1998718
See above. I'm aware of the history, but it seems unlikely to happen today.

>>1998702

I don't believe this guy is British, or has ever been to Britain. Something about the writing style, and the vacabulary, screams seppo to me.

Americans will never realise that the UK is not a racially divided country, we are a country riddled with class division and resentment.

Nobody minds a paki if he's a doctor, nobody cares if their daughter shacks up with a nig-nog if he's got a porsche.

UK gangs are multi-racial, and we don't ghettoise ourselves on race, but god help anyone who ever gets ideas above their station, or tries to climb out of the shit bucket.

>>1998723

Kiss my cock-end, you wanker.

>>1998729
It's never been about black or white, or rich or poor, or even male and female. It's about those with power exploiting those who have none.

>>1998736
>It's about those with power exploiting those who have none.

Yup, that's class war. And our class, the working class, has been losing since Thatcher.

A riot is kind of like a 3-2 loss, it's still a loss, but it feels better than a three nil.

>>1998705


Well oh they might wear classic Reeboks
Or knackered Converse
Or tracky bottoms tucked in socks
But all of that's what the point is not
The point's that there ain't no romance around there
And there's the truth that they can't see
They'd probably like to throw a punch at me
And if you could only see them, then you would agree
Agree that there ain't no romance around there

You know, oh it's a funny thing you know
We'll tell 'em if you like
We'll tell 'em all tonight
They'll never listen
Cause their minds are made up
And course it's all okay to carry on that way

And over there there's broken bones
There's only music, so that there's new ringtones
And it don't take no Sherlock Holmes
To see it's a little different around here

>>1998752
>Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough

Is there a space in British poetry for class-culture diss tracks?

Also why is the middle class whining about property from Poms reminding me terribly of Will Self's _Quantity Theory of Insanity_?

>>1998747

We've been losing since way before then.

>>1998752
B-

>Protests start
I'm supportive
>London gets fucked up
Violence is one of the few ways to get your point heard.
>poor people being made homeless and getting mugged.
This shit needs to stop. It's no longer about Mark Duggan, it's just a bunch of scummy cunts just in it for themselves trying to steal shit and fuck shit up.

On the upside it shows David Cameron doens't have control.

>>1998797
Mark Duggan was a cunt. I supported the riots though, theres so much wrong with the country at the moment, a dead gang member is the least of our worries.

>On the upside it shows David Cameron doens't have control
yes, as long as some fucking politician is getting embarrassed everything is ok.

pic related, its you.

>>1998722

>If you mean fiction, then no. Nobody ever changed the world with a novel - it's the most self-indulgent and irrelevant of all art forms.

1984.

>>1998801
1984 did sweet fuck all politically except grow a boner in the pants of 14 year old boys who like uncomfortably written alienated heterosexual sex.

>>1998800
I never said it was okay, I merely said it's an upside. An upside in an overall negative still makes an overall negative.

Charles Dickens fiction influenced a lot of reform in Victorian Britain regarding the poor.

Are you dizzy blud?
My fam are rioting for a reason
Me skeen the yuff flood
On the streeds of London
Five-oh shouldn't been beefing
Bayden whites hyping too much
Bayden whites been out of touch

Panic on the streets of London
Panic on the streets of Birmingham
I wonder to myself
Could life ever be sane again ?
The Leeds side-streets that you slip down
I wonder to myself
Hopes may rise on the Grasmere
But Honey Pie, you're not safe here
So you run down
To the safety of the town
But there's Panic on the streets of Carlisle
Dublin, Dundee, Humberside
I wonder to myself

>>1998821
London calling to the faraway towns
Now war is declared, and battle come down
London calling to the underworld
Come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls
London calling, now don't look to us
Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust
London calling, see we ain't got no swing
'Cept for the ring of that truncheon thing

>>1998803
1984 did more than that. It's like a how-to handbook for modern government.

>>1998801

I agree with >>1998803

Nineteen Eighty-four did nothing at all to change the world, despite being an extremely good novel. Orwell's non-fiction work (including his propaganda work at the Ministry of Information) had a far greater effect than any of his fiction did.

>>1998827
>1984…It's like a how-to handbook for modern government.

Because we live in a society without a ruling class per se governed by Stalinist parties run by mediocre individuals with bad degrees who ritualistically purge their own membership through a torture system?

Fuck off seppo. Your interpretation of 1984 is as shallow as your politics.

>>1998827
>how-to handbook for modern government.
You're a fucking moron.

>>1998814
wasteman

I tried to get to my taxi
A man in a tracksuit attacked me
He said that he saw it before me
Wants to get things a bit gory

Girls scrabble around with no clothes on
To borrow a pound for a condom
If it wasn't for chip fat, they'd be frozen
They're not very sensible

La-ah-ah, lalala la la la
Ah-ah-ah, lalala la la la

I predict a riot, I predict a riot
I predict a riot, I predict a riot

And if there's anybody left in here
That doesn't want to be out there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYmyELfHofo

Thread goes quiet as all the britfags prepare for a night's rioting by having fish fingers for their tea innit.

>>1998874
my town's shopping strip is all boarded up and shut down in preparation for tonight. shit is going down.

>>1998874
Personally, I'm masturbating to raven haired beauties with a bit of meat on their bones.

>>1998877
>>1998877

Oh yeah, Godmanchester better prepare, shit's about to get real.

Opportunistic scumbags everywhere will be out tonight, capitalising on this.

I wouldn't go out in Liverpool or Manchester.

>>1998899

I think that Godmanchester is pretty safe though.

Nice triple dubs, and I am now determined that post 1998999 appear in this thread. It seems appropriate somehow.

Shit's supposed to be starting at 4 today, half an hour, folks.

>>1998899

I wouldn't go out in Liverpool anyway - it's a fucking dump, and scousers are all thieving cunts at the best of times.

>>1998905

According to whom, you fucking broken bottle of spastics?

>>1998908
Was the insult really necessary? I was on the phone with my buddy, a bank in my area got fucked up last night, apparently its already started in uxbridge, word spreads among youths, you basement dweller.

>>1998910

Well fuck you. I don't believe you have a buddy. Enjoy your internet, tosspump.

I'm using youropenbook.org and twitter to track reports of riots. Apparently it's kicking off already.

>>1998899
>be scottish
>know your safe because everyone is too jaked out their head to riot.

>>1998919
Well that's just you being pretty puerile, isn't it? I'm not going to cry because some anon thinks I don't have any friends.

>>1998921

There's a twitter feed called @we'reallhavingajollyoldriot?

Sounds ok to me dude. Very plausible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biJgILxGK0o&feature=player_embedded

Darcus Howe on the Tottenham event: claims it's an insurrection, not a riot. And also curbstomps some whippersnapper from the BBC like it weren't no thing.

>>1998939
Fucking slag. "You say you weren't shocked, so you condone it?"

>>1998952

I personally like her face at the end while she's fucking about with her imaginary paperwork on the desk - she's got this shamefaced 'not only did I just get schooled on national TV, but I'm also probably in line for a disciplinary for this shit' kind of a look on her mush that is, frankly, priceless.

Have some respect for an old west indian negro. Fucking right, bitch, I hope they make you apologise to him personally..

>>1998527
I am impressed that a 4chan anon just addressed the situation with more balance and nuance than 90% of the posts under the Guardian article.

>>1998939
Oh man this made my day.
I have the most cynical grin on right now.

>>1998964

I'm more concerned with the low quality of the guardian commenters, rather than impressed with 4chan's stellar analysis.

>>1998973
I've yet to see a single newspaper comment section that isn't generally moronic and slanted as fuck. I don't even read newspapers anymore because of it.

>>1998964
>/lit/
>not just pretentious arseholes

(but mostly pretentious arseholes)

>>1998974
>comment section
>slanted as fuck

No?! Really!?!!?

>>1998980
I mostly meant newspaper sites with 'independent' status. don't be such a jerk. if people were nicer to each other then they wouldn't riot.

It's true, the First Lesson of the Internet is never read comment sections (at least when they deal with politics, religion, or anything that can plausibly be linked to them, i.e. more or less anything). But then, /lit/ is essentially 100% comment section, and somehow it works.

>>1998985
literature isnt as touchy a topic as those, i think the 4chan boards' demographics are generally cohesive anyway in terms of ideology, /new/ didn't self destruct for example, Krautchan /int/ is pretty right wing generally but it works because of its demographic.

>>1998973
Boris Johnson says he does not want to hear social and economic justifications for the rioting.

>>1998992
>don't listen when people aren't rioting
>don't listen when people are rioting
>this country will fix itself

>>1998995
When the revolution comes, the politicians will be the first to go.

Just a shame these urban yuff won't bring around any change.

The sun and Daily Mail are reporting it's just oppurtunistic bastards and sadly they echo the majority of the public.

>>1998995

>don't listen when people aren't rioting
>don't listen when people are rioting
>End up swinging from a lamp-post

>>1998999
The media are some of the scummiest players in this whole thing.

>>1998901

see

>>1998999

Sometimes you burn iconic statues or iconic buildings,
To make your message resonate across the globe.
A double-decker bus is also fine.

>>1999011

It's a bit derivative though.

Last night I had a little altercation
They wobbled menacingly
Beneath the yellow street light it became a situation
Well, they wanted my brand-new phone with all the pictures of the kids and the wife
A struggle ensued and then fat children took my life

Fat children took my life
Fat children took my life
Fat children took my life

Well, some passers-by took me to the station
The police force was elsewhere,
putting bullets in some guy's head for no particular reason
So I died in the back of the cab
but I'll be back to haunt them
This thing does not end here
My spirit walks the streets of Tottenham

Singing:
Fat children took my life
Fat children took my life
Fat children took my life

Oh, the parents are the problem
Giving birth to maggots without the sense to become flies
So pander to your pampered little princess
of such enormous size

>>1999029
>Fat children
This wasn't New London, Minnesota, it was London, England.

>>1999021
Well you can't expect them to just stop the riot to ponder the originality of their acts of arson, now can you?

>>1998561
>>1998596
Where is this comic from?

Big Yezzy and Jay - Z release an album together. The poor kids rise up.

Better than expected.

Regardless of the actual booty, what the rioter really takes is the spectacle literally. The spectacle which offers itself as a whole is taken as such: the spell of the shop window is broken and the objects are revealed for what they really are in relation to their subjective appropriation—useful, beautiful, empty, or worthless as the case may be. The real desire which begins to emerge is for the power to choose, to assign value, to control what is offered and that which is possible. During the 1990 Poll Tax riot in London, it was the signs of conspicuous consumption that were attacked: the most expensive shops, the brightest neon signs, and the most prestigious cars. Caught up in the fracas by an accident of traffic flow, a vintage car was spared by the crowd. Was this the remnant of an old respect which the emerging consciousness should overcome, or the manifestation of a new system of values which distinguished between one form of consumption and another? From a situationist perspective, there is no tribunal at which such questions can be decided, and certainly no possibility of distinguishing between the ‘good’ values of the revolutionary consciousness and the ‘bad’ ones of spectacular reification in advance. It is only when the real possibility of actively effecting a particular situation arises that ‘real desires begin to be expressed’.

- Sadie Plant, The Most Radical Gesture

All press have the same mentality.

>Dem kids be outta control. Dem parents need be looking at dem self.

You know, because society never made the youth who the are, it's their parents. Typical fucking press always claiming societal troubles are just private issues.

>>1999079
+50009209304349000

>>1999060
Tintin Breaking free.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin:_Breaking_Free

>>1999079
Pretty sure that be the right wing press, compadre. Except even the Daily Telegraph has a piece about social problems (see above somewhere). Either we're building a social democratic utopia off the back of this, or the Telegraph noticed that enraging your readership is a great way to get page views.

..wait, I think I've figured out which it is.

>>1999029

I hadn't thought about that song, but Jarvis was weirdly prophetic there, kinda.

>>1999032

>New London, Minnesota

>This thing does not end here
>My spirit walks the streets of Tottenham

I think it's kind of clear which London this song is referring to...

>>1999087
It's standard media practice to piss off people to get noticed now, remember that huffington post article about overrated books that included all of /lit/s favourite shit?

>>1999089
Not nearly as prophetic as the Kaiser Chiefs. Although they lose points for lack of specifics.

>>1999089
I think it was a joke at America being fat.

>>1999089
it's a real song? damn i thought it was just some garbage that anon typed up.

>>1999095
Prophecies aside, though, the biggest news is that

THIS IS ALL /LIT/'S FAULT!

Seriously, check the timing and content of this post and have your mind blown:

>>1994733

Watching BBC news.
>Asking every guest: "Do you think we need to use watercanons and rubber bullets?"

Sure, because using violence against these people rioting because they are sick of the government abusing it's power, will surely make the situation better.

And another thing, we did the BBC become less neutral and more siding with the right?

>>1999101
Probably about the time thugs started beating up reporters.

Also, thing is: rubber bullets and watercannons wouldn't be an abuse of power, they'd be preventing abuses of power. They'd be the police doing their job.

>>1999101
>rioting because they are sick of the government abusing its power
But that's not why people are rioting. They are rioting because they are filthy, greedy, selfish, degenerates. They are rioting because they want to break things, have fun, and get some free shit.

>>1999104
They are filthy, greedy, selfish, degenerates because of mass unemployment, bad education, and society being fucked up in general.

>>1999104
>Individulism and greed
Yup, thank you capitalism.

protest and revolution have become mainstream, resulting in the degeneration of it just like everything mainstream has to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Riots aren't about anything anymore, they're just for the sake of rioting. And we buy our anarchy symbol t-shirts from a factory to express our individuality.

>>1999104
This. I consider myself fairly left-wing, and I basically agree with this. Even if you're trying to see this as a struggle of the oppressed- and I agree that there are social roots to all of this that need to be dealt with- you can't portray the looters as class-conscious protestors. Because they're not protesting. They're looting stuff.

>>1999104

So what happened this week to make them suddenly turn into greedy degenerates, you raving retarded fuck?

Why did they not riot last year, genius? Do you think that it took them this fucking long to decide which brand of television to steal?

Their degeneracy is why the riot is not directed at deserving targets but is instead opportunistic, but it isn't the reason for the riot. The reason for the riot is that they've been pushed to breaking point, same as every other riot in history.

>>1999109
I agree with "you can't portray the looters as class-conscious protestors" but you can't then say that society is perfectly fine and these people are the only problem in the uk. shit was bound to happen. fuck this gay earth

>>1999112
>fuck this gay earth
i think if everyone was gay there would be no problem.

>>1999118
lol i only said that because it's a proto-meme

>>1999096

Well thanks, Captain Obvious.

>>1999101


>"Do you think we need to use watercanons and rubber bullets?"

I initially misread that as Watercolours and rubber bullets which made me chuckle for a full minute or so. Then again, I am shockingly high.

>>1999095

The Kaiser Chiefs lose further points for being fat, ugly and shit. They also forfeit one full internet because fuck you, Kaiser Chiefs.

>>1999108

>protest and revolution have become mainstream,

Hipster. That's the worst and saddest escuse I've ever heard for being a lazy, uncommitted cunt. Go out and punch a copper in the knackers. Go on, DO IT YOU FAG.

>>1999110

>Do you think that it took them this fucking long to decide which brand of television to steal?

I recommend a Philips, they're reliable as fuck.

>>1999101
>rioting because they are sick of the government abusing it's power,

http://www.leftfootforward.org/2011/08/speculation-can-wait-the-priority-is-to-stop-the-rioting/

>>1999109

Riots and protests aren't the same thing at all. Riots are what you get when people think that protesting is a waste of time.

The British riot when they think they are not being listened to. They are a violent people in the final analysis, and when communication breaks down, they resort to their fists both personally and politically. They're a pugnacious lot, and periodically like to remind their political masters that they cut their king's head off long before the other countries were into it.

Psychotic hipsters, this is the essential nature of the British underclass, and governments tend to forget how nasty they can turn, and how the bizzies only have sticks and shields at the end of the day, and so do we. And there's more of us.

The Briitish are not natural anarchists, but they like to remind both police and goverment that they have power only by consent.

>speculation-can-wait-the-priority-is-to-stop-the-rioting

Actually my priority is just to sit back with a cup of tea, steeple my fingers and say "eeeexcellent" every so often.

The riots hurt the government. The more shit gets burned the harder it will be for them to continue their policy of raping the poor in the name of austerity, which destroys lives just as surely as burning down someone's house.

>>1998566
I'm tired of the whole "damaging *YOUR* city" bullshit.
If people felt any ownership or say in how the city is run, they wouldn't do this. Same goes with countries.
When a class of people are swept off the street to make room for those who spend money, and our in and out of prisons or jail cells, harassed and beaten by the authorities, they don't really feel like they have a stake in how things are, now do they? It is much better for those of us to just watch this world burn and create another one on it's ashes.

>my face when people think that this will change anything for the better.

Enjoy even more negative thoughts about the working class youngsters. There will be no revolution, only more reasons to ignore the working class.

>>1999134

Remember the poll tax riots? The ones that brought down Thatcher?

Didn't think so, somehow.

“The BBC can interview the Taliban, but is apparently incapable of a single meaningful interview with a London protester. “protesters” or “rioters”, there are no interviews, but endless pathetic commentary.” - Wikileaks Twitter

>>1999130
I actually enjoyed this. It reminded me of my socialist lecturer going on about how we may not match mainland Europe in terms of protesting at every injustice, but when we do, it comes across more poignant because we only do it as a final act.

>>1999134
Yeah, I expect the middle and upper class friendly media (sponsored by advertising mind you), to all of a sudden glorify and not demonize the working/expolited/dispossed class.

>>1999134
From the tyler the creator pic, I'm guessing you're underage, this theory is backed up in that you think these are the first riots ever committed by the working class, and will leave some permanent imprint on them.

>>1999138

Snap.

>>1999137

>The ones that brought down Thatcher?

[citation required]

>>1999134
Yes, we need to be calm and respectful to authority, and restore order so that we can have our proper revolution.

A (PARTIAL) LIST OF RIOTS IN LONDON: 1189, 1196, 1221, 1268, 1391, 1517, 1668, 1710, 1719, 1768, 1769, 1780, 1809, 1816, 1866, 1886, 1907, 1919, 1932, 1936, 1958, 1974, 1977, 1981, two in 1985, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2009, 2010, and now two in 2011. Nothing new.

>>1999158
This is the biggest since the 80s. the ones since then were diet riots.

>>1999152
>Brought down thatcher.
That's why the Conservatives went onto win the 1992 election.

I know you'll say that was because John Major took her place, but c'mon you don't believe that for a minute.

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>>1999105
>mass unemployment, bad education
They have access to public school, don't they? Just like most people who aren't rioting? There are unemployed, publicly educated people who are not looting and robbing; what accounts for this difference?
>>1999110
At the moment, the reason for the riot is irrelevant. The United Kingdom does have governmental and social issues that will need to be addressed at some point. However, there is currently a national emergency. The motivation of the original rioters (desire for social change? reaction to police brutality?) doesn't matter right now, because there are currently thousands of violent criminals motivated by greed roving the streets and assaulting the selves and livelihoods of decent Englishmen.

>>1999173
"the reason for the riot is irrelevant....will need to be addressed at some point...currently a national emergency. The motivation of the original rioters doesn't matter right now, there are currently thousands of violent criminals roving the streets and assaulting the selves and livelihoods of decent Englishmen."

THIS is why the riot is occuring. One class of people are ALWAYS ignored for the sake of another one. And will not be ignored any more.

IF YOU THINK WE'RE IRRELEVANT, YOU'RE FUCKED!

>>1999173

>assaulting the selves and livelihoods of decent Englishmen.

Are you the Daily Mail?

>>1998506

What's the good of a revolution
Without general copulation?

Just saw on the news that the riots have spread to the midlands. West Bromwich and maybe Wolverhampton.

People are just doing it for the sake of it. Fucking feral kids mostly it seems.

>>1999200
they're feral because society is wilderness

>>1999205

No, they're feral because their parents have no values. Everyone knows exactly the sort of people that are rioting. They're scum.

>>1999213
why don't their parents have values?

>>1999183
You're intentionally quoting me out of context to change the meaning of my words. Stop it.

I said that the reason for the original riot is irrelevant AT THE MOMENT. If the government acted competently and with the interests of the British people at heart, would this be happening? Probably not. However, the more pressing concern is that the government is not taking action to do its most basic duty: to protect the citizenry and their property. People are being robbed and forced to strip at knife-point. Small businesses are being broken into and livelihoods ruined. Most of these people are motivated by greed, pure and simple.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14458424

>>1999213

GOOD VALUES

GOOD GARDEN

>>1999216

The answer to that would take some time to give. All I'll say is that although their has always been that element in society, they have generally been a minority. It seems that in the last 50 years they have been steadily growing.

Pretty soon the lunatics will outnumber the staff and take over the asylum.

>>1999223

Oh shut up. Ignorant wankers have been pronouncing the decline of society since before records began.

Riots aren't new, and neither is your inane, self-important, evidence-free bullshit.

THIS IS IT. THE END OF CIVILISATION. NOTHING OF THIS MAGNITUDE HAS EVER HAPPENED BEFORE.

>>1998520

The further from home the events pictured, the more uncritically they are endorsed. Riots in Bahrain, for example, are assumed to be anti-authoritarian, while unrest in England is opportunistic, and the Really Really Free Markets down the street are not even worth mentioning. It’s not a stretch to guess that if the same pundits were situated in Manama, they would dismiss the Bahraini workers, look hopefully to London rioters, and celebrate the advanced gift economies of North America.

>>1999228

HE'S RIGHT. LOOT THE GUN SHOPS AND HEAD TO THE HILLS.

I was in a pub yesterday in London, kids ran in with a gun robbed all of us and threatened to burn down the pub. Two people were stabbed.

This is just hell. All the town centres are empty and boarded up. This isn't political, it is simply people looking out to cause a bit of trouble and get a few free things.

I wish people were like that here in the states. Its kind of sickening how complacent we are. Cops can shoot an unarmed man 87 times here and no one cares. Cops can brutalize a University student and it because a national joke. Fuck this country.

>>1999277
becomes*

>>1999277

These aren't protectors, they're just people rioting for the fun of it which is just stupid.

Plus, you guys has the LA riots in 1991 over the police arresting a black man violently.

I wish people here in the United States would riot but for other reasons. Our country is a mess and no one really seems to care at all. I guess it's all good as long as they're still able to watch Shane Dawson on the YouTube.

>>1999277

'Murikans are too busy deciding who is a Real American (tm), giving tax breaks to the Job Creators (while they outsource eeeeerythang to India), calling Obama a nigger, and playing Modern Warfare 3

>>1999353

>Looks up Shane Dawson

>>1999353
Americans do riot. Well... anarchists in America riot. anarchistnews{dot}org
Funny how the mainstream press fails to cover it most of the time though.

>>1999421
that is not a real riot, you fucking idiot. fuck your shit, fuck it so hard. god damn fucking anarchists can go to hell and sit on my dick.

>>1999424
>sit on my dick.
that is by far one of the most unusual insults i have ever heard

>>1999438
HEEEEEY, SIT ON IT

>>1999060
The comic is at
http://tintinrevolution.free.fr/pages/image001.html

>>1998482
Thanks for reminding me how much I fucking hate that poem.

>>1999173
>At the moment, the reason for the riot is irrelevant. The United Kingdom does have governmental and social issues […] there is currently a national emergency. The motivation of the original rioters (desire for social change? reaction to police brutality?) doesn't matter right now,

What matters is to continuing rioting and not get caught.

New cities. New targets. New methods of socially networking property damage.

Take down the CCTVs as fast as you can.

>>1999223
>Pretty soon the lunatics will outnumber the staff and take over the asylum.

Just as planned in Marat/Sade.

What's the point of a revolution without general?
Without general copulation copulation copulation copulation?