Extinction Rebellion
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8ball
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I'm confused - it reads like the investigation was kicked off because one of the guys on the train was a Buddhist.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Would you have joined in the beating had you been there?Well the one that got dragged off the roof of the train got a good hiding as well.
This is a game changer. Watch the posh twats, who can afford to take time off work to sit on trains and bridges, melt away now.
8ball
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Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Of course they were gammons. It dioesn't fit the narrative and preconceived prejudices for them to be anything else. Working class folk would never do something like this!
8ball
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That explains your confusion.
The media have a long history of intentionally misrepresenting crowd action, as it suits power to portray it as mindless rather than based on genuine grievance.
Reicher presents a pretty compelling alternative model to the Lebonian mindless mob.
Steve Reicher - Wikipedia
His analysis of the St Paul’s riot in Bristol in the early 80s served as a starting point for reinventing the way crowds are understood. Not that the media or politicians have an interest in catching up on 35 years of thought on the subject.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i am not confused
when was the last time you saw a dozen drivers get together to work in concert?
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Wearing you prat hat with pride and volume today eh?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i think you miss the point, which i took to be people angered by some twats on train = gammons, regardless of their age, gender, sex or indeed class. where previously gammon was applied to a certain sort of middle-aged gent, it seems to have lost all meaning if it can be so broadly applied. all that is solid melts into air.
8ball
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8ball
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This is where I would also have been confused, before learning to drive (which I don't do that often).
You get loads of tiny micro-negotiations happening continuously, without which traffic would barely move at all.
Also, when you get unexpected things like eg. partly blocked roads, broken traffic lights, partial floodings etc. you get emergent 'systems' happening to keep things moving in a very similar manner to some of the things kabbes is describing.
That said, London seems to have its own special rules, which may be obfuscating things further.
Tl;dr - generally speaking, drivers are “working as a team” most of the time, though I concede that I have never seen a whole bunch of them get out of their vehicles and beat someone up
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8ball
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Fair enough - it was a good reference and example.
cupid_stunt
Merry fecking Christmas.
Shut it, you gammon.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
8ball
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Since we're talking stereotypes, I'd also have associated gammons with a stereotype of drivers.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Well that's quite the point.
Sky News (Australia) reporting today with Brendan O’Neil claiming the public are now rising up against XR whom are perceived as an elitist organisation that hates the public, is against economic growth and progress.
5mins 25 in (first part discusses govts new agreed EU deal).
8ball
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Well well well..
Who could have predicted such a thing?
Any breaking news on ursine defecatory practices?
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
XR have run into a classic problem of all decentralised movements/ campaigns; how do you scale your cause without being subject to the vulnerability of a few people damaging the wider group with stupid actions like this?
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What?
Risk spoiling my £1500 Gucci loafers?
Not a chance.
I wonder what footwear the tube protestor was wearing, hopefully something of soft leather, as he did get a kick in on the guy who unceremoniously dragged him off.
Sky news Australia?
Himmm is there any massive industry in Australia that might have skin in the game? I wonder.
8ball
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Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
