Could people take out their anger on the people causing rather than their peers? What kind of piece of shit do you need to be to not just ruin your peers life but also a whole movement by giving it a bad rep…
A French small business owner has his video game store looted
Submitted 2 weeks ago by dacalla@lemmy.zip to videos@lemmy.world
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AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
AAA@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
The people responsible for this are just there for the violence, destruction and looting. They use the legit protests as a cover. They don’t care about the people or the movement
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
opportunistic assholes, the same sort of asshole that loot homes after flooding etc
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Welcome to crab mentality. Humans are scared, dumb, fucking creatures, man.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I forget the exact details but in Milwaukee the cops shot a black kid and in response the community… burned down a gas station and hair salon in their own neighborhood.
There was a clip of a woman being interviewed begging people to stop destroying their own neighborhood. Something like “go to the suburbs and burn their shit down!! We need our weaves!”
Idk. A lot of unfocused rage and anger will take itself out on the first thing it can find.
baatliwala@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
boobookittyfrick@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Bro was summoning the power of kakarot
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
crank0271@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not very Nice, France
FluorideMind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Send in the roof Koreans!
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Deep cut!
baines@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
on a society level i’d rather the dudes store get looted than constant school shootings but i acknowledge that is selfish
on a personal level if i was him i’d want a few buddies and ARs for sure
not sure how you reconcile that as a society, maybe address the issues that caused the original problem
jfrnz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s not selfish, just idiotic. There’s no minimum violence bar we need to hit, it’s okay to be against both.
gastroglizzy@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
maybe address the issues that caused the original problem
I don’t want to see another gun ban because I know they don’t work. I’d rather see the root causes of violence addressed. If you address poverty, unemployment, homelessness, and mental illness with robust social programs and treat them as the systemic public health issues that they are, bans are unnecessary because crime will be obsolete.
Banning guns with a law, enforced by police to whom the law does not apply, won’t stop gun violence; it will further entrench the police state.
If simply having guns lead to gun violence, then other countries with higher rates of gun ownership than the US would have the same problems with gun violence.
lennee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
not nice, france
majster@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Anarchism in lemmy posts is some utopia while praxis looks a lil bit different
postcapitalism@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Pray tell how this has anything to do with self-determined decentralized communal organizations, or did you just ask ChatGPT “what is anarchism” before this post
majster@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Ok. Then this is what happens during the glorious revolution. After the revolution, contrary to the last X times, we will have:
self-determined decentralized communal organizations
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s just tribes with extra steps.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
absolute fucking trash, jump kicking a retreating man from behind
attempted murder, lock 'em up
ieightpi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
France, your looking pretty bad to people in the US. And that’s a low bar to clear.
spacegoat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I care as much about US opinions as a pig in shit
ieightpi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Don’t act like France is any better than the US. Your just as imperialisctic as the rest of them.
chunes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I care about a european’s opinion even less. Phenomenal hypocrites.
tigermountain@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Maybe they should be attacking government buildings.
thomas@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
They did that too.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Move in to the residences is the problem makers
yesman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
sik0fewl@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
These aren’t protestors, they are rioters.
audrbox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
What makes a group “rioters” vs. protestors who are prepared to escalate appropriately in reaction to intolerable conditions?
gmtom@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bro what the fuck are you talking about?
This is a real video you can see with your own eyes of rioters trying to loot a small business.
This isn’t some hypothetical argument on Reddit like you’re used to, it’s some real that actually happened.
fenrasulfr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
At least 1 decent person trying to help him after he was attacked. The rest are just terrible.
DeadMartyr@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Tbh the amount of bystanders astounds me, like I cannot imagine being there, seeing that guy flying kick someone with their back turned and not immediately grabbing and pummeling him.
This is coming from someone who doesnt think rioting as protest is wrong–but it’s really obvious why the videogame store is being looted/vandalized instead of things that actually matter.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Stop oppressing us or we will steal video games from an easy target!
100_kg_90_de_belin@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
As Jello Biafra sang: “Smash a bank If you’ve got real balls”
CybranM@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
I find it amusing that there’s a lot of sympathetic comments on this post putting a face on the consequences of these riots but on the other post showing a police car in a crowd all the comments were proud of the rioters.
I’m all for showing numbers and voicing our concerns but we’re just punching sideways when there’s a riot. I find it sad that people here on Lemmy side with the rioters
dropdrip@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I side with the rioters because rioting creates a capital cost that can not be ignored. Peaceful protests can be ignored and are ignored. Smash windows and burn buildings. After the riot capital has to respond. It’s juvenile to suggest political change can happen with none of the advocates harmed. That’s a fantasy. Revolutions are messy that’s the reality.
Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Yes, peaceful protests are easy to ignore. But surely there is a balance between “don’t break anything” and “destroy a working class business”.
Maybe destroy public property (the property of those that need to make the change) or the property of the ultra rich (the property of those that made the change necessary).
It’s like arguing that a kid who gets bullied is justified in responding violently, but instead of lashing out at a staff member or the bully, they’re beating up band kids
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
So you’re the type that thinks dancing at No Kings is an effective protest?
CybranM@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
I’m the type that doesn’t consider burning down the city I live in and destroying public property is the path to progress. France’s economy is already strained and guess who’ll have to pay to rebuild everything? Hint: It’s not the elites
It might be cathartic to burn down your house because you don’t like your landlord but it doesn’t solve anything
BigBenis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
As, so this is the shining example of protest so many of you have been insisting that Americans must replicate over the last couple years?
Can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard, “you need to protest like the French” on here. How righteous they are indeed.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Oh come on, you are kidding, right?
Amongst all the minions of protesters there are a few assholes that just want to riot and fight and you call that
shining example of protests
Of course its not, atop pretending it is
BigBenis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Of course its not, stop pretending it is
Yeah, that’s literally my point.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The protests stem from underfunded schools. The US tried to sell ad space on a public execution. The countries are not comparable.
Its disgraceful to see the French doing this. The US should have done something ages ago.
emmy5482@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Isn’t Zing a huge brand. Owned by GameStop/electronics boutique?
Doesnt really scream small business owner.
Ghoelian@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Maybe it’s a franchise, making this guy technically a small business owner? Not familiar with zing btw
emmy5482@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Could be I guess. Hard to know cause they’d probably never make it public.
Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My dude needs some rooftop Koreans.
myyass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Then they will wonder why stores never open back up and others will wonder why nothing changed. If you want to protest, sit on your ass at home and don’t spend money or go to work for a week.
tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t have a Google account but I guess 5 star reviews would help him
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Wait, are they smol business? Like a franchise then?
It seems they have 300 locations & their parent company is GameStop.
wiki/Micromania-Zingtired_n_bored@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well a franchise store is still a small business
likebudda@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
What a piece of shit. This is not speaking truth to power, this is playing right into their hands and is hurting the legitimate protestor’s cause.
Burn the banks, smash the Starbucks, loot the Dior Store. But leave the small shops in peace.
If dissent is not heard, it must be felt.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Cant happen when it all goes digital
Minnels@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Because owning nothing is better? Fuck your logic.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
You think gangs of scrotes will smash in the Steam servers and run away with the games?
hamsamrich@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is what happens
chunes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
These are the people who are endlessly blasting my country on lemmy. XD Fucking clowns
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fuck that coward who kicked him from behind.
jimmy90@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
as we’ve learned in other posts these are justifiable acts of the unheard and not commie agitators who fancy a rumble and some free shit
i hope they all get the education they so passionately want