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Fuck Gentrification - Join the Fuck Parade...Part 3!

Citizen66 said:
:D

Gentrification helps people.

Gonna need some supporting evidence for this one I think.
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Actually it's something I certainly have seen in my lifetime. Obviously doesn't ring true for all but I can think of many I know personally that I grew up with in St Pauls, Bristol that didn't give a flying fuck about leaving it behind and moving out, my Mother included. Certainly met many of her fellow retirees (sp) in Jamaica who retired happily after selling up. Can think of a small mansion owned by a retired couple near her house over there. He was a bus driver and she was a nurse but they did well out of selling the family home in Notting Hill as you can imagine!

On the flipside I have also seen working class areas too that have become fashionable with the middle classes and priced out the locals and how an area's reputation for radical politics, squats and a free party scene itself attracts the hipsters and the businesses that cater for them swiftly followed by the property developers.

Stokes Croft, riots in 2011. This 12 months later: Let's move to Stokes Croft, Bristol
 
Batboy said:
Telephone call just now.....

dials..... 666

Batboy 'Hi is that the anarchist group Class War?'
Person at the end of the phone 'Err Yes... what do you fucking want?'
Batboy ' Can you put me through to the boss?'
Person at other end of phone 'We don't have bosses , we fucking hate bosses grr!'
Batboy ' Err ok er Can I speak to who is in charge?
Person at other end of phone 'Are you taking the piss mate!?'
Batboy' Err no I just wanted to speak to the decision maker'
Person at other end of phone ' We don't have decision makers'
Batboy 'Oh I see well how does anything get decided?'
Person at the other end of the phone '.... silence and muttering'
Batboy 'Right I see... shame I was going to be offering lots of free beer to the boss'
Person at the other end of phone ' hang on I'll just transfer you....same voiced raised by two octaves ' You're through to the boss, can I help you?'
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I'd put on a falsetto voice and pretend to be boss if you were offering free beer.

God knows I am no anarchist but it aint half hilarious to see you small businesmen and 'friends to the working man' (LOL) get the crit arse backwards
 
DotCommunist said:
I'd put on a falsetto voice and pretend to be boss if you were offering free beer.

God knows I am no anarchist but it aint half hilarious to see you small businesmen and 'friends to the working man' (LOL) get the crit arse backwards
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It's every bit as hilarious as the new jokes thread.
 
Jon-of-arc said:
Normal people, who were pretty fucking terrified at the burning effigies
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what normal person eats cereal at gone 9 on a saturday night? unless he's high and in his own house

No a terrible beauty was born here. First we take the cereal cafes. And then berlin.
 
S☼I said:
What I'm getting at is - what are the aims of a protest such as this? Does it help local people? How does it? (These are not rhetorical, I'm not doing the teacher thing of asking questions I already know the answer to, I'm just wondering how something like this will "reach" the wider public given it's only going to be reported as "hate-filled mob threaten cafe-goers" etc)
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thats called the socratic method. In any case I expect nothing from class war except these sort of things, what else are they supposed to do. The womens division is called 'the womens death brigade' ffs. How is anyone going to take that seriously? Only I think thats the point. Situationism etc?
 
BlackArab said:
Actually it's something I certainly have seen in my lifetime. Obviously doesn't ring true for all but I can think of many I know personally that I grew up with in St Pauls, Bristol that didn't give a flying fuck about leaving it behind and moving out, my Mother included. Certainly met many of her fellow retirees (sp) in Jamaica who retired happily after selling up. Can think of a small mansion owned by a retired couple near her house over there. He was a bus driver and she was a nurse but they did well out of selling the family home in Notting Hill as you can imagine!

On the flipside I have also seen working class areas too that have become fashionable with the middle classes and priced out the locals and how an area's reputation for radical politics, squats and a free party scene itself attracts the hipsters and the businesses that cater for them swiftly followed by the property developers.

Stokes Croft, riots in 2011. This 12 months later: Let's move to Stokes Croft, Bristol
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If we're playing by the rules of neo-liberals though, and Im not suggesting it always results in something bad for people, they're not necessarily exercising choice either, are they?
 
Then a little dog (I think it was a French bulldog) pelted down the street, absolutely terrified and trying desperately to escape the mob who were kicking at it, throwing cans of beer at it, and trying to rip the poor creature apart with their bare hands. For a moment I was only worried about two things; one, that the dog would run into incoming traffic and be crushed; two, what happened to the dog's owner - had he/she been attacked by these thugs?

#FuckParade - An Eyewitness Account and TWO Open Letters | Posh, Broke, & Bored - International luxury lifestyle blog
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One blogger, is swearing blind the protesters kicked and hurt a small dog, this is hard to believe, but she claims she saw it, baffled by that sort of behaviour

then again, RTS used to attract some dubious characters.
 
I really appreciate your comment, not just because it's an insight into the problem of gentrification, but also because you've pointed out a very important sentiment that I share: that a lot of people online are criticising me because they judge me as 'posh', or as some put it: "a Tory" (by the way, I have no solid political opinion because I simply am not eligible to vote). I've been addressed by many with a venomous "Tory (insert vulgar noun)" - to which I think, what does my political affiliation (if any?) have to do with this? Why do they think "Tory" is an insult (I certainly don't, but if they do than that says more about them than it does of me)?[/QUOTE]

she isn't exactly politically savvy, btw,
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If their eyes weren't so unclouded by hate maybe they could see the real problem for what it is - not a bunch of "capitalist-posho-Tories" but rather, a housing crisis created by people willing to pay extortionate prices for property they don't intend to live in. x 0
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Why are you quoting this incoherent logically flawed rubbish. And why not post a link to that which you quote. Mindless copy and paste. Sorry but it just annoys me.
 
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