I just got off the phone with a friend of mine who lives in a nice part of London, and she told me with horror that there has been looting on her street. For the past three nights, London has been in a bizarre state of rioting. Bizarre because it doesn't stand for anything but people breaking into department and electrical stores, stealing loads of stuff that doesn't belong to them, just to prove they can.
Yeah, because that's what makes you macho - breaking a window and stealing stolen goods. This isn't about race, it isn't about injustice, or even animal rights (hey, I'd participate in that riot myself). That's what makes it so utterly stupid - it's just about roaming gangs of losers, using Twitter to add a modern twist to an age-old act of bullying. And these idiots think they aren't going to get caught, after posting pictures of themselves posing with their stolen goods. Who are these people? It'd be funny if it wasn't so surreally stupid.
And scary.
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