London calling

[Cain]

Via Amazon.co.uk...allegedly



Could well be shooped, but made me laugh regardless.

Mencius Moldbug sarcastically notes:

Movers and shakers #4, #5, and #6 evince the same remarkable upsurge - in the last 24 hours! - in transatlantic attention to our romantic national pastime. Now that's what I call a special relationship! Can an expansion team be far behind? The London Chavs, perhaps? But why is no one buying gloves? UK readers please note: barehanding a long fly ball is no joke.

You're displaying remarkable perspicuity, however, in voting aluminium. Admittedly, the "Bronx" brand exerts a powerful fashion attraction. But not only is the aluminium bat cheaper, it's almost impossible to break. There's not much use in a broken baseball bat. And remember: the strike zone starts at the knees.

[Cain]

Three days late and a dollar short:

http://www.voxeu.org/sites/default/files/file/DP8513.pdf

Expenditure cuts carry a significant risk of increasing the frequency of riots, anti-government demonstrations, general strikes, political assassinations, and attempts at revolutionary overthrow of the established order. While these are low- probability events in normal years, they become much more common as austerity measures are implemented. ... We demonstrate that the general pattern of association between unrest and budget cuts holds in Europe for the period 1919-2009. It can be found in almost all sub-periods, and for all types of unrest. Strikingly, where we can trace the cause of each incident (during the period 1980-95), we can show that only austerity-inspired demonstrations respond to budget cuts in the time- series. Also, when we use recently-developed data that allows clean identification of policy-driven changes in the budget balance, our results hold.

[Cramulus]

on the radio this morning, they said something to the effect of "Officials are trying to end the violence... but they have to contend with attitudes like this..."

and then they cut in a soundbyte of some overexcited Scotsman with a heavy brogue talking reallllly quickly. I couldn't understand a word of it! 

[Adios]

Where do you see this ending Cain?

[Cain]

Hard to say.  If the violence spreads to Scotland, where the reserve police are coming from, it's going to be pure whack-a-mole policing.

In the short term, the police will just carry on mass-arresting and giving beatdowns to anyone who looks like fighting back.  That'll cause the violence to eventually fizzle out, but it's not going to solve the root problems.  They are a) everyone hates the police b) no-one trusts the police and c) everyone now knows that policing is a social fiction and police do not exist, only men with badges and truncheons.

Expect another flareup in six to nine months.

[Adios]

Hard to say.  If the violence spreads to Scotland, where the reserve police are coming from, it's going to be pure whack-a-mole policing.

In the short term, the police will just carry on mass-arresting and giving beatdowns to anyone who looks like fighting back.  That'll cause the violence to eventually fizzle out, but it's not going to solve the root problems.  They are a) everyone hates the police b) no-one trusts the police and c) everyone now knows that policing is a social fiction and police do not exist, only men with badges and truncheons.

Expect another flareup in six to nine months.

Damn. In that case I predict an open police state for you soon.

[Cain]

Soon?

[Adios]

Damn.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Hard to say.  If the violence spreads to Scotland, where the reserve police are coming from, it's going to be pure whack-a-mole policing.

In the short term, the police will just carry on mass-arresting and giving beatdowns to anyone who looks like fighting back.  That'll cause the violence to eventually fizzle out, but it's not going to solve the root problems.  They are a) everyone hates the police b) no-one trusts the police and c) everyone now knows that policing is a social fiction and police do not exist, only men with badges and truncheons.

Expect another flareup in six to nine months.

Not everyone. Not yet. In scotland, tho, more and more people have been cottoning on to this for years now. Most of the places I've stayed in my life community policing means taking a brick to someones face if they fuck with you. The coppers will be involved if it's a murder but, generally, everyone knows they're no fucking use if you need something done. The woodentops are basically bouncers for football matches and social gatherings. CID are just a bunch of bent cunts who spend so much time looking after their own agendas, if it wasn't for the cheap grey suits you couldn't tell them apart from the legitimate gangsters, who generally tend to dress better.

[Faust]

Soon?

Go greece. The only country in the world where the government cant afford to violate your civil liberties.

[maphdet]

Soon?

Thanks for the map find.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

Three days late and a dollar short:

http://www.voxeu.org/sites/default/files/file/DP8513.pdf

Expenditure cuts carry a significant risk of increasing the frequency of riots, anti-government demonstrations, general strikes, political assassinations, and attempts at revolutionary overthrow of the established order. While these are low- probability events in normal years, they become much more common as austerity measures are implemented. ... We demonstrate that the general pattern of association between unrest and budget cuts holds in Europe for the period 1919-2009. It can be found in almost all sub-periods, and for all types of unrest. Strikingly, where we can trace the cause of each incident (during the period 1980-95), we can show that only austerity-inspired demonstrations respond to budget cuts in the time- series. Also, when we use recently-developed data that allows clean identification of policy-driven changes in the budget balance, our results hold.

me and my mum were attributing the riots to this at lunch today.

[East Coast Hustle]

I've been losing facebook friends at an alarming rate the last 36 hours.

Apparently it's bad form to be on the side of the rioters.

[Adios]

I've been losing facebook friends at an alarming rate the last 36 hours.

Apparently it's bad form to be on the side of the rioters.

[Doktor Howl]

I've been losing facebook friends at an alarming rate the last 36 hours.

Apparently it's bad form to be on the side of the rioters.

You say that like it's a bad thing.