Anarchist with 5 disabilities, who has never been in a riot, and who wants to destroy busses because one pissed him off as a kid explains how riots are awesome. Even the local spergs arent having it.

110  2017-07-09 by [deleted]

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This, but unironically.

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u/Thumblesteen how many good boy points does it cost you to be on the internet

Typically my internet bill represents roughly $50 USD.

You mean your parents internet bill is 50 dollars. How disappointed are they that they raised a worthless communist

Your username is really fun to say out loud. Do it, everyone.

I do it whenever i whip out my penis lmao

Lies. We all know it's the Windows shut down sound.

I believe you must be mistaken. I provide for myself perfectly well.

Don't you mean the taxpayers provide for you with your five disabilities

I am a taxpayer myself so from a semantic viewpoint that is technically correct.

So you actually pay taxes and are a commie,do yourself a favor and google cars of the Soviet union, that's what you get in a communist country and the best thing is you have to wait a couple of years to get it. I'm sure you didn't know that but I did being my parents immigrated from the Soviet bloc

sub is named "COMPLETE ANARCHY"

Fuckin' commies and their soviet union

The issue here is that no Anarchist society lasted long enough to create cars, so you just use the next best thing.

it's just different color lipsticks on the same retarded pig

Tankies love calling themselves anarchists because it makes them not feel like authoritarian shitheels.

Authoritarian's lost all meaning at this point. "Anarchists are authoritarian! Rioters are authoritarian! Looters are authoritarian! Everyone I don't like is authoritarian!" This is what you sound like.

I know we're all retarded here, but you're not supposed to try

Yes you are.

Well, its simpler to just say they are faggots, but that gets people upset.

Nazis had the best rockets. Just throwing it out there.

I unironically drive a lada niva, they are alright.

Anyone who buys anything pays taxes. If for the last year I lived in a cave and only bought one pack of gum technically I'd be a taxpayer.

So you pay taxes on your SSDI?

Hmm...

If you did that in any significant way you'd be arguing that taxes are theft

That would be irrelevant to the line of reasoning. My opinion on taxes and whether or not I pay taxes are two separate matters.

I never implied anything different.

Have you looked into suicide?

I have. It's a worrisome societal ail that affects many vulnerable groups in society.

Don't knock it till you try it, comrade.

Like I said. I did try looking into it and it was a very sobering revelation.

I know you good people at r/drama likes to hold a post-post interview, if you will, whenever I write something that gains some notoriety. I'd like to thank you all for your time and as usual it's been a pleasure hanging out with you guys and I hope you'll continue to promote my work.

All the best.

lol wtf are you on about?

Like I said. I did try looking into it and it was a very sobering revelation.

I know you good people at r/drama likes to hold a post-post interview, if you will, whenever I write something that gains some notoriety. I'd like to thank you all for your time and as usual it's been a pleasure hanging out with you guys and I hope you'll continue to promote my work.

All the best.

Its like one of those artists who sniffs at people for just not understanding their great work when in reality they are just horrible. Lol

leftists

like useless artists

Buddy, they are the worthless artists

Get crippled, again.

Post manifesto and bussy before shooting the concrete near two republican senators

You should look into it again. Please.

is that why your wife uses shopping bags as bandages?

I'm guessing at least four of those five disabilities are located in his frontal lobe.

Fair

And people say eugenics isn't a good idea

it would be a good idea if it didn't lead to even more inbred retards

doing this will seriously lower your rent.

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Watts riots did not destroy Watts, it liberated it from the police!

It's more fun to imagine this isn't a troll, but this is laying it on pretty thick.

Every word in that post just screams out that he's a troll, but then I remember how many suburban mayos I've met in real life who really believe all this shit.

Same way burning down detroit gave us $1 houses.

I hate to break it to you, but anything the revolutionary left will do will "give it a bad name" -/u/Aiicc

And what does it tell you when the same demographic you're trying to pander to and fight for hates you and looks down on you like the trash you are?

This may be tough to understand, but when you go into people's neighborhoods and destroy shit, whether it be public or private, it makes perfect sense that they'll see you as a piece of shit that deserves a beating.

I'm just going to copy and paste an earlier comment I made but this is the mind of an Anarchist.

"Anarchists seriously think that everyone aside from the super rich are actually secret anarchists longing for revolution. These rioters honestly believe that people will see them looting stores and trying to hit cops with metal from slingshots on tv and immediately go "Oh man, Capitalism is so evil and oppressive! I must rise up to abolish all hierarchies and private property!"

They've always thought that society is on the cusp of revolution. That all the discontent in society is like a massive barrel of gunpowder and all it needs is one spark to ignite it, which is why they do this shit. They don't see themselves as being the aggressors, they see capitalist society as a place of constant violence where every law, every church, every paycheck is based on force.

Anarchists think that doing nothing is akin to standing idly by while millions suffered, which itself is to commit an act of violence. So the way they see it is not whether the use of violence itself might be justified, but exactly how violence might be maximally effective for eliminating evil and oppressive property and capital. Interestingly enough because anarchists view laws themselves as violent many subscribe to illegalism as a way to resist the 'violence' of those laws. Unfortunately that doesn't mean most OD on fentynal however, it just means they don't shower and they steal.

TL;DR: Anarchists are violent because they both believe it's a moral imperative and because they're trying to start a revolution. If you have money in your wallet or you own property anarchists honestly think you're being violent against them."

Long story short, Korean shop owners are being 'violent' to anarchists so they feel the need to smash the shops.

BASED ROOF KOREANS.

STARCRAFT > ANTIFA

Wow, it was awesome how the Watts Riots liberated the proletariat from the menace of Korean shop owners.

Wasn't that the one where they dragged a guy out of his truck and beat him to death?

the truck driver did get the shit kicked out of him, but he didn't die

didn't he get like tons of dain bramage tho

I mean that's close enough

And now he is an anarchist. Samsara is eternal.

no. wrong decade.

Pretty sure that was the Rodney King riots not the Watts riots.

It depends on how organised the rioters are and what their platform is.

Again, jobs are only at risk if you don't complete the purpose at hand, which is to alienate the capitalists and take the local economy for yourselves. You can just "start" a business or co-op when no cops or capitalists are around to stop you. It's about capturing the venues for yourself if you want to fully purpose riots.

Jesus. Fucking. Christ.

I hope this cunt dies. This is so Fucking dumb. I can't even list all the ways I hate this piece of shit.

I hope this cunt dies.

Well, eventually.

I've never been in a riot. I just studied political science for the last half decade and know how riots work.

The jokes write themselves.

Guys I read about war in a book once, that basically makes me Genghis Khan.

I played Rome: Total War. Bow to your Imperator.

Which faction though?

Scippio for life

In that case I wouldn't trust you to command a kindergarten Tball team.

Always the House of the Julii because I thought the Romans looked weird being green or blue.

bitch I've studied state-of-the-art war simulations such as those developed by Konami and Electronic Arts. Genghis Khan is basically me

Hey, that post is also my post. Lol

It's a good post

Shucks, thanks fam.

"last half decade" means "I am in my fifth year of a four year university degree in political science."

It's better than that.

I said I studied it. I never said anything about schools. Believe it or not but I can pick up books, articles, listen to lectures and generally educate myself at my own volition

Oh sweet Jesus. "I hang out at the library and read Marx, Engels and Gramsci. I am pretty much qualified to be Supreme Leader of the Universe (except anarchists don't believe in that, obviously). AMA."

It's better than that.

I said I studied it. I never said anything about schools. Believe it or not but I can pick up books, articles, listen to lectures and generally educate myself at my own volition

Even better, guy claims to be a indie game developer living in a converted trolley park with his chronically ill wife who uses plastic bags for bandages.

I hate to break it to you, but anything the revolutionary left will do will "give it a bad name" - that's pretty much unavoidable since that's what the capitalists are trying to accomplish. You can't just do what's the most popular at any given time and expect anything to come out of it.

Of course /u/aiicc people only hate violent idiot psychopaths because of capitalist propaganda it's not because you assault people and riot for no Fucking reason and jerk each other off while talking about all the people you're going to kill in your glorious revolution

They don't riot for no reason, they riot for no good reason. I'm as lazy as I am drunk so just read this and realize how balls on chin retarded anarchists are;

"Anarchists seriously think that everyone aside from the super rich are actually secret anarchists longing for revolution. These rioters honestly believe that people will see them looting stores and trying to hit cops with metal from slingshots on tv and immediately go "Oh man, Capitalism is so evil and oppressive! I must rise up to abolish all hierarchies and private property!"

They've always thought that society is on the cusp of revolution. That all the discontent in society is like a massive barrel of gunpowder and all it needs is one spark to ignite it, which is why they do this shit. They don't see themselves as being the aggressors, they see capitalist society as a place of constant violence where every law, every church, every paycheck is based on force.

Anarchists think that doing nothing is akin to standing idly by while millions suffered, which itself is to commit an act of violence. So the way they see it is not whether the use of violence itself might be justified, but exactly how violence might be maximally effective for eliminating evil and oppressive property and capital. Interestingly enough because anarchists view laws themselves as violent many subscribe to illegalism as a way to resist the 'violence' of those laws. Unfortunately that doesn't mean most OD on fentynal however, it just means they don't shower and they steal.

TL;DR: Anarchists are violent because they both believe it's a moral imperative and because they're trying to start a revolution. If you have money in your wallet or you own property anarchists honestly think you're being violent against them."

Looting a Korean shop is 'self-defense' for them. If you own a car, cash, or property you're committing 'violence' against anarchists. They'll always claim they're just defending themselves. Know that you can point out they're exactly as insane as McVeigh was and watch them try and squirm out of that one.

Holy shit, he considers the Watts riot a success?

Blacks burned their communities to the tune of $40m (1965 dollars!) of damage.

It helps fight poverty and gives poor families more disposable income

Three meals a day and no rent in prison, fam.

u/thumblesteen im curious what your response to these arguments are?

It's even better when they "attack" the local chain of some "big business"... Surprise: it's a franchise. Burning down a Starbucks simply removes one revenue-generating store from the corporation, but they don't actively lose anything...

Degentrification. Aim for public property, bus stops, commercial objects like billboards, signs, local businesses, particularly places poor people can't afford to go anyway

/u/Thublesteen, did you assume that when your parents forbade you from riding the bus it was because it was for the bourgeois?

I think it's just my own childhood trauma. My dad had cancer and walked around with a cane, and this asshole bus driver almost ran him over once as he struggled to cross the street.

Since then I've always hated buses.

So like batman I guess but with buses.

/u/thumblesteen

He is literally this retarded.

He's got to be a troll

His whole reason for being an anarchist is to encourage riots so he can get back at those god damn buses. It's his master plan.

The hero we need.

Its simple... we kill the DogChasingCarsMan.

not realizing the local poor rely on cheap restaurants for food and if they have the luxury of a car, it is to get to a job and not to provide leftists with a convenient gas-filled object to light up

u/Ariel-Akita would you consider yourself an idiot or a retard?

Nothing says suburban keyboard komando more than telling people in the inner city that they should burn down their neighborhood

It's moral to throw poor people under the bus if help inconveniences more privileged people.

...and then he just flat out admits it

So tell us u/thumblesteen - almost 100 people died in the Watts riots and Rodney King riots. Were there deaths worth it? What "inconvenience" did the wealthy people on the west side suffer while south LA burned? They couldn't go to their favorite Korean BBQ place anymore?

I find it astonishing that these riots didn't led to segregation laws or mass deportations.

How can we throw poors under buses if we've torched all of the bus stations 🤔🤔🤔

Maybe he is actually a turbo-racist psy-op.

Thumblesteen The dude who made those edgy leftist fallout mods? The genius behind this? lmao

disturbing power fantasies about running your own feudal kingdom in a weird post-apocalyptic society, then you'll fit right in

Implying this dosent sound badass. Lol

Aww, I thought it said he wanted to destroy bussies :( >tfw no bussy destroying anarchist bf

To be this unaware of reality, jesus fucking christ.

Imagine being that much of a piece of shit b

/u/thumblesteen

I realize you've done the NEET thing and have been googling the term "political science" half heartedly for 5 years, but I actually went to college and what you've said doesn't even make sense from a common sense point of view, much less an in depth socioeconomic point of view, which makes it even funnier

There is no local economy.

Again, jobs are only at risk if you don't complete the purpose at hand, which is to alienate the capitalists and take the local economy for yourselves.

This shit pisses me off so much. I started my business with £250, and absolutely dragged myself out of poverty through it. I think all this 'pull yourself up by the bootstraps' stuff is pretty over-emphasised, because god know, it's a hell of lot easier to make money when you already have it, but I'm exploiting no-one; I've actually managed to pay off debts running a business, and I might even be able to buy a flat in the next few years. At that point I could maybe go back into education and contribute a lot more to society, all from a shitty little business run out of a spare room. I've paid a good bit for all the goods and services I use to run my business, and paid a fair deal in taxes on it too. I really resent these fucksticks saying that what I've worked my ass off to build up should be smashed; it's hard to put into words how much actually. Hell, I was brought up in a caravan, I'm literal trailertrash; I was a 'free school meals' kid, and got free clothes from a local charity for school. No-one can call me privileged. I don't really care all that much about Starbucks or McDonalds, because a broken window is just a number on a spreadsheet to them, but this fucking twat specifically says to "[a]im for public property, bus stops... local businesses"; it's right there in black and white.

It's moral to throw poor people under the bus if help inconveniences more privileged people.

Meanwhile for the rest of the world tomorrow is another day, nothing is disrupted or changed. Except for that poor man who now has no ride to work, a black eye and kids to feed. His world just stopped. Subway will just buy a new window. Not this poor man though. That's okay though, somehow this has all made his life magically better because some college kid with a string of mental illness just said so. German police should have shot these people in the streets like the dogs they are.

btw, can someone explain to me what the G20 riots are? Are those racists who don't like refugees, or commies/anarchists who don't like, I don't know, isn't (((globalization))) a right wing dogwhistle?

Like, is there some consistent idea for why leftie subs support those riots, or is it just all the way retarded?

btw, can someone explain to me what the G20 riots are?

G20 is basically a meeting between the defacto political and economic elite of the worlds top 20 economies to discuss trade, economics, etc. Thus "FUCK CAPITALISM REEEEEEE"

Are those racists who don't like refugees, or commies/anarchists who don't like, I don't know, isn't (((globalization))) a right wing dogwhistle?

If you take a step back for a minute and look at things there isnt that much difference between a sovcit and a anarchotard. A dog whistle for a pitbull is still a dog whistle for a chihuahua.

Like, is there some consistent idea for why leftie subs support those riots, or is it just all the way retarded?

Its masturbation.

/u/Thumblesteen, can you please enlighten me, why do you support riots that apparently are about the discontent with refugees?

This is also a guy who things animals should be allowed and have representation in Congress. Lol

I mean, I understand that for them it's mostly about violently reeing, but I wonder if people like /u/Thumblesteen notice that something is awry when they're reeing together with like literal nazi skinheads, supporting their racist goals.

I mean, I understand that for them it's mostly about violently reeeing as an end in itself, but I wonder if people like /u/Thumblesteen notice that something is awry when they're reeeing together with like literal nazi skinheads, supporting their racist goals.

I always wondered what would happen if you put a bunch of sov cit racist rednecks and anarchists in a room together.

I can only give you my own perspective, and I appreciate how even if you disagree with me that you take the time to like understand what we believe in.

Like, is there some consistent idea for why leftie subs support those riots, or is it just all the way retarded?

G20 riots were really irrelevant to the post. The post was just made in commemoration to this. The topic of the post was riots in general and how they can be a useful tactic for societal change. We do think riots are an effective way to put pressure on governments who fail to represent our interests in an effort to provide short term social change. There is also economic benefits such as reducing gentrification. Basically when you smash all the fair trade organic cafés in your district, then the hipsters have to go elsewhere, and your rent won't get raised.

Are those racists who don't like refugees, or commies/anarchists who don't like, I don't know, isn't (((globalization))) a right wing dogwhistle?

Globalism is a large spectrum of policies by various governments, some that are good in my opinion, and some that are bad. You could call the Pinochet regime a product of globalism considering the foreign governments who put him in power, just as easily as you could call us two communicating from different parts of the world globalism. The far-right tends to distort globalism to exclusively refer to immigration. This in my opinion is a reductionist method to keep political social rather than economic. In this sense it is a right wing dog whistle, since they like to see it as the polar opposite of nationalism. But basically globalism is the outcome of technology and global economics, both good and bad.

can you please enlighten me, why do you support riots that apparently are about the discontent with refugees?

These riots are not about the refugees, and if they were I would oppose them. The refugees are a common scapegoat for structural economic problems that have plagued Europe for as long as there's been a class system. These riots protested the EU over its neoliberal policies that put restrictions on migration for poorer people, that put restrictions on regulating industry to the benefit of the workers. That put restrictions on the democratic power people have with their own domestic policy.

Just look at Neo-Nazi organisations in Ukraine and you can see how fascists are just as likely to support the EU in an effort to allow predominately white immigration whilst making it harder for people outside of Europe.

In recent elections it's become clear now even to the middle class that they lack political representation, with voter turnout in most major elections in both Britain and the US, along with several other places reaching record lows. Imagine that situation only instead of it being the last 8 years, it's the last 80 years. Chances are you'd resort to rioting too after the detriment and neglect suffered by policymaking made entirely against your own interests and well being.

We do think riots are an effective way to put pressure on governments who fail to represent our interests in an effort to provide short term social change.

"Our interests"? Who's that "us"? Do you realize that the workers who you think you represent voted for Donald Trump and Brexit? And for a good reason too, because the mainstream liberals failed to represent their interests. Which is a fact, whatever, the weird thing about it is the way you claim to represent their interests while being totally opposed to their interests.

These riots protested the EU over its neoliberal policies that put restrictions on migration for poorer people, that put restrictions on regulating industry to the benefit of the workers.

The EU policies allowed hundreds of thousands of poorer people to go to richer countries to pick strawberries there, what the fuck is this even about. Like you're at the same time claiming that you support the EU allowing poor Poles to go to Scotland to pick strawberries, and that you're totes on the same page with poor Scots who are upset that they are paid as much as Poles for picking strawberries now.

That put restrictions on the democratic power people have with their own domestic policy.

If that's not nationalism then I don't know what nationalism is.


My point is that you're terminally confused about what your goals and means actually are. You're repeating neat leftist soundbites without ever realizing that they contradict each other hard.

I'm not against your goal of trying to help people everywhere, quite the opposite. I'm against you being completely retarded and self-contradicting along the way, which harms the cause.

Read this comment please. It's enlightening about the way the current left ideology is fraught with contradictions, and why blindly supporting all about it at the same time means that you come over as an angry stupid person.

"Our interests"? Who's that "us"? Do you realize that the workers who you think you represent voted for Donald Trump and Brexit?

Really? People in Germany did that? Fact is that this is a stereotype. Most people who voted for Trump were educated upper middle class/upper class people. Majority of workers in the US did not vote for anyone. Even so, just because they vote for someone does not mean that person have their interests at heart, or even represent those interests.

In fact, in most fascist movements they use labour rhetoric appropriated from Marxists in order to gain popular support, and then betray those promises with mass privatisation and militarised governments.

Happened in Chile, happened in Italy, both 1930 and also in 1948. Happened during the reign of the colonels in Greece, happened in Franco's Spain, happened in all kinds of places. Had nothing to do with class interests, it was simply a matter of propaganda.

Which is a fact, whatever, the weird thing about it is the way you claim to represent their interests while being totally opposed to their interests as well.

Again, I'm not working class. I'm what's known as the lower classes, or the lumpenproletariat, and we almost never vote. Both due to restriction and also due to lack of representation in general. So the people I claim to represent are myself and people of my class. Some of my interests also overlaps with workers however, and typically the proletariat as a whole works together. Which they do.

You can claim that voting dictates interests, but in truth policy does, and so far neither the Obama or the Trump administration met anyone's interests besides the rich and the powerful.

The EU policies allowed hundreds of thousands of poorer people to go to richer countries to pick strawberries there, what the fuck is this even about.

Only within Europe itself, and even then that's only partially true. Typically the poorest can't afford to meet the economic tests of EU border control. On top of that the Shengen visas actively discriminate against Roma/Vagabond people.

Like you're at the same time claiming that you support the EU allowing poor Poles to go to Scotland to pick strawberries, and that you're totes on the same page with poor Scots who are upset that they get paid as much as Poles for picking strawberries now.

Both Poles and Scots are white Europeans, and nobody ever made a career or living out of picking strawberries. Like I'm sorry but foraging isn't a career.

If that's not nationalism then I don't know what nationalism is.

It is a form of nationalism, yes. Just like how anti-colonialism is also a form of nationalism. But I doubt the Haitian Jacobins were Neo-Nazis.

I'm not against your goal of trying to help people everywhere, quite the opposite. I'm against you being completely retarded and self-contradicting along the way, which harms the cause.

You're the one who's banging on about strawberries.

It's enlightening about the way the current left ideology is fraught with contradictions, and why blindly supporting all about it at the same time means that you come over as an angry stupid person.

I read it and it does what most people do. It conflates centre-right labour politics with leftism.

Left-Right paradigm is very simple:

In the French Revolution there were two wings in the parliament during negotiations. In the Right Wing you had the business owners, the capitalists, the politicians, the clergy and the nobility.

In the Left Wing you had the workers, the artisans, the revolutionaries, the poor and the commoners.

Aside from the social democrats, and some democratic socialists, majority of other leftists. Whether Marxist Republicans, Socialists, Libertarians, Vanguardists, Leninists, Maoists, Anarchists, and so on reject parliamentary politics as a whole, and instead practice direct action.

So I'm sorry but I'm not confused. You are. Which I don't blame you for since that's what happens when most mass media is owned by oil companies and one Australian billionaire. But fact is that for obvious reasons you're not going to hear our side of the story, and you're certainly not going to have your entire upbringing, school, advanced education and so on, and the bias thereof, be contradicted by one single reddit post. That's not realistic.

Both Poles and Scots are white Europeans, and nobody ever made a career or living out of picking strawberries. Like I'm sorry but foraging isn't a career.

You are retarded.

Doing manual agricultural work, like picking strawberries on strawberry fields, is a thing that more than provides a living for hundreds of thousands Eastern European seasonal workers.

Left-Right paradigm is very simple

No, it's not simple, as demonstrated by the way the attitude towards immigration changed.

Again, I'm not working class. I'm what's known as the lower classes, or the lumpenproletariat, and we almost never vote.

Don't try to conflate yourself with lumpenproletariat even, you're a leech that would be put to the wall first thing after a revolution. "the workers, the artisans, the revolutionaries, the poor and the commoners" would feed your useless self to the Lady Guillotine at the first opportunity, because they hate your unproductive, parasitic guts. Workers and capitalists are united in this hatred.

You are a "тунеядец", and for all my dislike for the Soviets, one thing they did right: your kind either learned how to serve the people by shoveling gravel to build railroads or ended up in a shallow grave by the wayside.

This post is ao filled with bad history it could keep that aub busy for a month.

Both Poles and Scots are white Europeans, and nobody ever made a career or living out of picking strawberries. Like I'm sorry but foraging isn't a career.

That's the kind of thing I expect to hear from someone that hates migrant workers.

Most people who voted for Trump were educated upper middle class/upper class people.

So you're saying he's the right choice, if the most educated people voted for him?

When I was stupid teenage I was in anarchist organization, we did Food Not Bombs, Kristallnacht memorial marches, peaceful protests against the draft, support for union strikes and even a fucking yoga for elder people (no shit, we had a pack with eco-nuts).

I always think about myself back then as a unsufarable know-it-all cunt, on his way to become a lazy shithead but then I read this and well, I was stupid but the worst I did against my community was loitering.

u/Thumblesteen, go volunteer for a soup kitchen, you absolute cretin.

Hah I also did food not bombs and such, even if I was always libertarian, not anarchist. It was fun and harmless and actually helpful for the community, even if barely. Don't think it was stupid at all. But I feel like lefties changed a lot in last 2-3 years. Now it's all about pampering islam, hating on rich people and violence.

I remember when antifa was about protecting women marches or lgbt events from aggressive nationalists, now its about attacking Trump supporters ... while nationalists now wear suits and ties and win PR.

Don't think it was stupid at all

I was calling myself stupid, FnB is still good stuff and I still donate if I manage to find them.

I remember when antifa was about protecting women marches or lgbt events

Yup, yup. This was Antifa I grew up with. The outer layer of people willing to engage nazi if they break police line.

Too bad this guy will never go to a riot, it would be funny as fuck to see him and his 5 disabilities ass get beaten up for trying to break some dudes car

They have a pretty good plan, tbh. If you kill all the poors, they can't be oppressed.

destroy bussies

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

In an extreme example of gentrification, image you and your family and friends all live in the same neighborhood, you're poor, and a racial minority. Maybe a handful of restaurants or cafes in the area start getting business from younger, "middle class"/wealthy white people, which attracts competing business from outside of the neighborhood. These businesses probably are ill received inside the neighborhood but successfully draw in customers from outside the neighborhood. Think about stereotypical hipsters you know if you know any, what places they go to eat or get coffee in the city. They're not generally going to places in upscale neighborhoods, from my experience, but ones in neighborhoods where the customers look or live nothing like the people living around there. But it causes an image in these young wealthy kids of the neighborhood, that it's cool or hip to live there. Some of them start to move in while real estate investors start buying up empty homes, causing taxes to go up, city ordinances start changing, cops are getting called more frequently for shit that people were solving or living with before the gentrification.

/u/Bash-Bobcat So basically they take a shitty neighborhood and make it less shit? Oh the horror.

Not really "horror" but it has an impact on people.

At least you admit it.

The NRA video was right all along. Hope these fuckers try it and get the shit beaten out of them by leftist genderqueer minorities from the working class who still don't take kindly to kiddies trying to fuck up their transportation and employment.