Critical Miss: Riotous Anger

[JoJo]

When you break it all down, the only reason this crap is actually happening is one very simple answer.

People suck.

No that's wrong, just a few people suck and ruin it for everyone else. Don't tar us all with the same brush because of the actions of a few idiots, there are about 9 million people in London and just a few thousand rioters in total.

Now, now. Calm down. I didn't say everyone sucked equally.

However, all people do suck a some point or another. Like I said before in another comment, not all people have sucked enough to be called assholes.

These rioters however are assholes because they really really suck.

I suggest in future then you word your claim better. No-one's perfect, but to say something sucks generally implies that it's mostly bad. Take for example video games, all video games suck in some way or another because none of them are perfect but if you say a video game sucks then that means you didn't like it. You wouldn't say your favourite game sucks.

 

[jrobin7401]

>_> Everyone is talking about the riots... I feel out of place in my desire to comment on Erin's dress. It's adorable. <_<

Don't feel out of place my friend. It is.
If only she were real. ^_^

Lets not forget about the Mega Man choker

 

[Christopher Parker]

For the first riot, I blame stupid people. For the subsequent ones, I blame people who saw the first riot and thought "We can actually get away with this shit". Still, the judges have been told to make an example of anyone convicted, so there'll probably be a lot of maximum sentences handed out.

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

Actually, no, I won't be blaming that guy.

Can i come trash your house :3 You wont blame me right? So its all cool. Have a nice TV? I hope so. Ill be round in 30 mins. Be sure to douse it all in petrol, it makes it easier for me. Thanks in advance.

OT: Yes. These people are oppertunistic scum bags. I used to love my country. I had no idea brits were this savage. Throw these animals away. This country is for people.

 

[The Great JT]

Love the Mega Man choker.

 

[The Lugz]

Not really. People just need to learn that there is a time and a place for police brutality. Large scale riots like the one in London are most definatly the correct time and place. You would not believe how fast a riot will stop when you start firing tear gas at them then move in to beat the crap out of everybody with clubs.

this, and i wouldn't stop there

anyone rioting is acting like the worst kind of terrorist
frankly if i had the power, anyone caught rioting would simply be deported to a rock in the middle of the ocean

i'm not saying people don't have the right to argue, it's basically a human need.
but there's a world of difference between trashing trade districts, looting, murder
( i'll say it again, terrorism by the people. )
and having a constructive argument ( even a protest if you want ) to reach an agreement

 

[ShindoL Shill]

why did we not see it before?
the rioters are the ones whos fault it is the rioters are rioting.
and probably the government for the cock-ups that pissed them off, but mostly the people who are actually rioting.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I think it's more like how have we got to the stage where the looters think that its okay to behave like that.

Blame is pretty pointless at this stage we know what the problems are, Unemployment, poor housing and education, lack of any role model or responsibility at every level of these peoples lives.

They are lazy brutalized and hopeless (meaning they are 'without hope' not useless) There needs to be action. The politicians aren't helping anything concentrating on trying to find something to blame. They need to go into the council estates and sort out these issues that have literally been ignored by both parties for years.

 

[The Lugz]

you can learn some really cool stuff, like police wear clip on ties.

to stop rioters from strangling them I guess?

 

[dmcc85]

why is she drinking that much orange-juice?

 

[PiercedMonk]

Its this kind of situation that has me questioning the value of freedom. Dont get me wrong, its something that i have always seen as an essential human right, but then again it also allows scumbags to start shit like what happened in London. Talk about a double edged sword.

Not really. People just need to learn that there is a time and a place for police brutality. Large scale riots like the one in London are most definatly the correct time and place. You would not believe how fast a riot will stop when you start firing tear gas at them then move in to beat the crap out of everybody with clubs.

Considering the match which ignited this particular powder keg was police shooting a guy on the ground in handcuffs, maybe -- just maybe -- we shouldn't be so quick to advocate in favour of police brutality.

Not that I'm condoning the actions of the rioters, but going in mob handed and cracking skulls can't be the best solution.

 

[Imp_Emissary]

When you break it all down, the only reason this crap is actually happening is one very simple answer.

People suck.

No that's wrong, just a few people suck and ruin it for everyone else. Don't tar us all with the same brush because of the actions of a few idiots, there are about 9 million people in London and just a few thousand rioters in total.

Now, now. Calm down. I didn't say everyone sucked equally.

However, all people do suck a some point or another. Like I said before in another comment, not all people have sucked enough to be called assholes.

These rioters however are assholes because they really really suck.

I suggest in future then you word your claim better. No-one's perfect, but to say something sucks generally implies that it's mostly bad. Take for example video games, all video games suck in some way or another because none of them are perfect but if you say a video game sucks then that means you didn't like it. You wouldn't say your favourite game sucks.

Actually, I would say my favourite game/s suck.(in some ways.)

Even my Half Life games. They work pretty much as perfect as you like, but they taunt me to no end by making me wait so long for more.

I will try to be more detailed next time, but it wasn't so bad.
If I had explained what I ment completely, we may have never had this nice "talk".

So that's nice, right?

 

[gallaetha_matt]

Im gonna do what I can to keep this post even tempered, but Im raging quite substantially at that comic.
I still cannot get my head around this notion that people have that riots start out of nowhere, the areas that riots started in are the poorest areas of the country, areas made poorer by the actions and policies of Mr David Cameron- these people where pushed and pushed ot the very edge where they snapped.
So yeah blame the rioters and looters for acting like animals, but dont for one fucking second make out that the blame lands solely with them.

I know right? "The arguments of both the left and the right are too over simplified, so I'm just gonna blame the rioters and nobody else."

It's like they took a half day or something. Or worse, just used the BBC as their sole source of news on this.

 

[Gigano]

...but he just needs a hug. And an intensive 5,000 £ a week pedagogic and psychological evaluation and encouragement program, to see whether it isn't some unresolved issues with his father that can utterly absolve him of personal responsibility, because it's all society's fault that it just didn't give the father enough hugs to pass onto his son.

Or you could throw the worthless criminal scum in jail.

 

[orangeban]

Yeah, I looked at the BBC's coverage on the riots and David Cameron's response, and they had a bit about Ed Milliband's response to Cameron and I have to say, Milliband comes out looking pretty good, which is new.

First part of captcha: 1984

Ominous.

 

[jigilojoe]

there is a way to protest and this is not it. My fellow brits i must ask you:
[HEADING=1]WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!! HAVE YOU NO PRIDE OR HONOR FOR YOUR FELLOW COUNTRYMEN[/HEADING]
been gone for a year and you let the economy go to pot and act like bloody savages!

I took part in the 'other way to protest' only a matter of months ago, sat in a uni for a few days and listened to revolutionary speakers, as did many other students effected by the changes in university fees. Did it work? Did it hell, a week of that merely made us look like twats.

We need anger, cause sitting around doing nothing did nothing for us, though it did give the rich something to laugh at while they sipped at their wine.

The only thing which brings me pride is the fact that people are now finally standing up and acting like the animals their treated like.

As you said you haven't been in this country for a year, people are real pissed.

OT: I do, though, agree that games are not to blame

EDIT: Also, just seen on the news that I'm gonna have to pay 8% more for my train fares which is already over £350 (over 560 dollars) per year and now I don't get grants for going to college, I can't afford this shit.
[HEADING=1]VIVA LA FUCKING REVOLUTION![/HEADING] Please excuse my French

 

[Togs]

I know right? "The arguments of both the left and the right are too over simplified, so I'm just gonna blame the rioters and nobody else."

It's like they took a half day or something. Or worse, just used the BBC as their sole source of news on this.

And yet saddeningly it seems to the general consensus of opinion, people seem incapable of being rational on the subject

...but he just needs a hug. And an intensive 5,000 £ a week pedagogic and psychological evaluation and encouragement program, to see whether it isn't some unresolved issues with his father that can utterly absolve him of personal responsibility, because it's all society's fault that it just didn't give the father enough hugs to pass onto his son.

Or you could throw the worthless criminal scum in jail.

Case in point- this reads like the bad copy of a right wing pundits rant.

 

[Delsana]

I know right? "The arguments of both the left and the right are too over simplified, so I'm just gonna blame the rioters and nobody else."

It's like they took a half day or something. Or worse, just used the BBC as their sole source of news on this.

And yet saddeningly it seems to the general consensus of opinion, people seem incapable of being rational on the subject

...but he just needs a hug. And an intensive 5,000 £ a week pedagogic and psychological evaluation and encouragement program, to see whether it isn't some unresolved issues with his father that can utterly absolve him of personal responsibility, because it's all society's fault that it just didn't give the father enough hugs to pass onto his son.

Or you could throw the worthless criminal scum in jail.

Case in point- this reads like the bad copy of a right wing pundits rant.

In some cases... just a few though... though more than "a few" would seem...

What your parents do... really can scar you for life and affect you.

 

[standokan]

...wait a minute

 

[PiercedMonk]

Considering the match which ignited this particular powder keg was police shooting a guy on the ground in handcuffs, maybe -- just maybe -- we shouldn't be so quick to advocate in favour of police brutality.

Well actually they shot him in the chest after he brandished a loaded gun but meh, memetic decay. I'm sure after a few months he'll have been a model citizen instead of a guy carrying a gun he should never have had.

I'm not saying that he was a good guy. However, an eye [http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23975846-man-shot-dead-by-police-in-tottenham.do] witness [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023951/Mark-Duggan-shooting-inquiry-Answers-key-questions-triggered-Tottenham-riots.html] claims he was being held on the ground when he was shot. I was apparently wrong about the handcuffs.

Considering the officers were claiming he shot first, but the round they recovered from being lodged in the radio was police issue, fired from a police issue carbine, you have to admit that the circumstances surrounding the shooting are at least a bit sketchy.

Don't get me wrong; I have a lot of respect for the police, and I've had many very positive encounters with law enforcement officers both in my day to day life, and as someone who frequently engages in protest activities which are not always entirely legal. I actually had to call them last night. However, I've also had the rare bad experiance with some guys on a powertrip, and bad things can happen. Bad things can really happen when violence is used to solve a situation.