You can't make this kind of stuff up..well, at least not unless you have brain damage:
Final trashing of downtown Vancouver is a manifestation of what has become the normal popular response to contemporary capitalism's behaviour. In this instance, the corporate media hype around the playoffs, NHL manipulation of the series, local on-site liquor vendors' fuelling of the crowd, and the assuredly pre-ordained defeat of the Canucks led to the ensuing post-defeat looting of the high-end chain stores and the trashing of cop cars. As we have seen increasingly across the globe, this event was simply a local manifestation of frustration and anger generated by contemporary capitalism as practiced and lived in this outpost of empire.
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Further insantiy dresses as inanity:
"The mere presence of Canadian teams in the playoffs reduced the U.S. TV audience share and hence broadcaster and league revenues. Consequently, when, despite the odds, a 2010-11 season-leading Canada-based team looked likely to win the playoffs, NHL headquarters reacted, first by intervening in the officiating to extend each series to as close to seven games-shows as possible and, then, to connive in critically disabling the Vancouver team (Boston helped their cause by signing the son of the NHL executive in charge of officiating to the Bruins roster)."
This after the fool spends a paragraph complaining about hockey violence. Guy's a disgrace to Bloomington, IA.
Well, he came from Canada first, so we can share the blame. I promise not to hold him against Bloomington if they promise not to hold him against us.
What a load of crap! Isn't tearing down the system a leftist enjoyment of their rights?
What I found really remarkable is simply the avoidance of some basic facts:
-The age group of the rioters was approximately 17-22 (by my eye).
-The famed "youth vote" voted largely for the Liberals & NDP voters in the 2011 election.
-Vancouver elected largely Liberal & NDP MPs during the 2011 election.
So those probably weren't Tory voters going apeshit in downtown Van. Seems like it's worth saying.
There seem to be a lot of privileged, middle class kids. I suspect you may be right about how they would have voted, to the extent that any of them did vote.
But bottom line is that they are all people who are benefiting quite nicely from capitalism. I think they were inspired by John Labatt and John Molson combined with an inflated sense of entitlement, not any reaction to Capitalism.
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