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What The UK Riots Mean For Bookstores

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Apparently human garbage do not like to read.

What The UK Riots Mean For Bookstores
British bookstores seemed largely unaffected by the rioting that took place last night across the UK, according to a report on The Bookseller website. High-street chains such as Waterstone's and WH Smith, as well as smaller independent bookstores, were reportedly spared during the violence, which mostly targeted electronics and high-street fashion stores.
 
those people are basically feral humans. I'll admit, I have no real solution to their presence in society.
 
cpwill said:
those people are basically feral humans. I'll admit, I have no real solution to their presence in society.
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Too bad you can't just deport them to some dirt poor 3rd world country.
 
cpwill said:
those people are basically feral humans. I'll admit, I have no real solution to their presence in society.
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They need a culture-ectomy.

It is the environment they live in that makes them this way. Which is sad, because it means there is a loss of human value due to how we structure society. The more we can do to give these people a sense of power over their own lives (which gives them a better answer to "what is in it for me?" than mere transitory pleasures), they will do the heavy lifting of reforming themselves on their own. However, this means they need realistic economic opportunity and probably need to be adopted by families with better traditions and outlooks.
 
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Interesting - I wonder why book stores were spared. Makes no sense. they're often leeches on societies desires to learn where oversized book full of nothing are sold for overstuffed prices.
 
Manc Skipper said:
They mimic American gang culture, how many would you like? You'd hardly notice they were there...
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Mimic american gang culture?

While I appreciate your humor, here - I think we can hardly claim to have inspired the world with our gang activity. :shrug: Such behavior is found worldwide - and throughout history.
 
Mildred: What're you rebelling against, Johnny?
Johnny: Whaddya got?

The idea that the youth want to rebel against something isn't new. To me, the idea that politicians want to try and get in political jabs and blame this or that is even more concerning. They are supposed to be the "grown ups".

Long after the shops are cleaned up the politicians will still be doing their damage.

We can and should punish all involved. Politicians and looters alike.
 

youth's rebelling isn't entirely new. youths rebelling in this kind of antisocial (in the clinical sense) fashion is. this is closer to Russian Nihilism, circa the late 19th Century - but instead of a few educated elites, its' functionally illiterate segments of society . scary stuff.
 

They remind me a bit of the gangsters and bank robbers that wandered the US during the depression. They see riches all around them with absolutely no way to legally obtain such items for themselves. They are young, full of energy and vitality. Desperate people do desperate things.
 
People are born on the dole and they die on the dole, and as long as they are provided for there is no incentive to change their frame of mind which is inherited from one generation to the next -- namely, that education and accomplishment is to be mocked, attempts to better oneself constitutes selling out to da Man, and that society somehow OWES it to them for various ill-defined reasons. It is the sense of entitlement that precipitated the reaction, as they act out when any of that largesse is restricted.

Why read books when all your peeps ridicule you for doing so?
 

And some of the news has been calling them "revolutionaries".... But it's a load of BS, this proves that these people lack the capacities to actually start a revolution.

Actually, wait, let's use the middle east precedent : these rooters are to be treated as the legitimate government of Britain, the royalty and parliament must be transferred to their control, or a no-fly zone will be installed over Britain until all government controls have been handed over to the rioters. NATO bombardment to commence within he week for humanitarian reasons.
 
I gotta wonder how these riots are affecting, or if they are affecting at all, tourism, and flights in / out of these areas in the U.K where riots are going on.
 
Travelsonic said:
I gotta wonder how these riots are affecting, or if they are affecting at all, tourism, and flights in / out of these areas in the U.K where riots are going on.
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I'm sure tourism and business has atken a hit in these areas - I sure as heck would cancel business and vacation plans due to these things.
 

there are plenty of legal ways for them to attain those items. the trick with this particular populace is that they have never been pushed into taking those legal paths. how can a teacher be expected to honestly impress upon a student that doing their homework is necessary for success, when all they see in real life is that success comes from the drug trade and successfully manipulating the welfare state? theyse people aren't acting out because they are poor - true poverty riots tend actually to have a high percentage of female leadership - they are acting out because they are young, they have never received any kind of moral training, and they have spent a lifetime of taking and acting out without punishment.


Thank You, Welfare State

 
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Aunt Spiker said:
I'm sure tourism and business has atken a hit in these areas - I sure as heck would cancel business and vacation plans due to these things.
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otoh, sales of baseball bats (as Britian's citizenry is banned from defending itself with any kind of actual 'weapon' - you could hurt the rioter or rapist, doncha know) seems to have skyrocketed.
 
cpwill said:
otoh, sales of baseball bats (as Britian's citizenry is banned from defending itself with any kind of actual 'weapon' - you could hurt the rioter or rapist, doncha know) seems to have skyrocketed.
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The amazing part about that is that the sales of these things only went up NOW, as opposed to instantly after being defanged and declawed...
 
:shrug: they were promised social utopia. sadly, they believed it.
 

As I said in another post (which might not be around). We have this sort of stuff at every G8 Conference. When their protests are aimed directly at the politicians then I might think they are paying attention.
 
cpwill said:
:shrug: they were promised social utopia. sadly, they believed it.
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It can happen here.

I read an excellent piece on the topic last night, by Max Hastings in The Mail On-Line. Anyone interested in the underlying causes should have a look.

 
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