Inside the privileged lives of protesters busted for rioting in Manhattan. They came from privileged backgrounds that include pricey private colleges, modeling careers and summers abroad. One of them was wealthy Upper East Sider Clara Kraebber whose parents have a second home in Connecticut.

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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Makes sense, if you have a job you need to be at, or you're broke cause you ain't got a job, you can't be out protesting. That requires a life of leisure, excess calories, nubile orgies, and the best chemicals money can buy. Dirty rat fuckers and yacht club teens apply inside.

There was a point they were useful. Even BLM was useful for a hot second before fucking everything up.

[–]redditbegay 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

if you have a job you need to be at, or you're broke cause you ain't got a job, you can't be out protesting.

And thus the system is, by design.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

If you look at it like we were aways feudalistic slaves at some point, then our lot in life as peons is rather better than it's been in times past. Vote Benevolent Overlords 2020.

[–]horatioherbert 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

How was BLM useful before f’n everything up?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

As boots on the ground. The majority of regular people can't just pack up and hit the protest trail. I mean not if you gotta work for a living. I believe strongly we need police reform, so initially our goals coincided before they went totally sideways.

[–]horatioherbert 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Police reform is a good start to improving the local situation and can only be accomplished with powerful Third party. The two parties currently in power play off each other to our detriment but it will improve with even a regional Third party power

[–]Nemacolin 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

OK. So?

[–]Chipit[S] 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Since when do we have any sympathy for the problems of the rich and privileged? Let's all take this opportunity to shit all over them, like they are constantly doing to us. It's class warfare, and we're losing.

[–]Karen 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

So, it was a protest organized in part by the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement. One of their stated goals is "Ownership Through Use: The Co-operative Economy and Expropriation."

From their own website, "Revolutionary struggle necessitates an aspiration for collectivity. Those who exploit us and withhold the fruits of our work from us will not willingly give up their wealth and power. To carve out autonomous territory, or to begin the revolutionary process, goods, land, and tools must be expropriated, or taken away from those who withhold them."

I mean, it seems pretty weird that rich people are protesting themselves right? "Oh my god, I hate myself for not giving up my second home! I need to go loot some stores to feel better about it!"

If you watch the Flat Earth documentary, you can see that the kinds of people who get caught up in these movements, and end up staying with them even when it's nonsensical, do so because it's their complete identity - not necessarily because they believe in what it stands for. They like the sense of belonging, and they might even an important voice in their movement. So if the movement ends, where does that leave them?

And that's what people who are privileged, yet protest against privilege look like. People who are protesting for their identity, not their beliefs.

[–]Nemacolin 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

So you are OK with political activity as long as these people support this, and those people support that?

[–]Karen 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

I don’t even understand what you’re trying to say.

[–]Nemacolin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I am not surprised.

[–]Karen 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

People often don’t get what you’re saying I’m guessing, which is why you’re not surprised.

[–]Airbus320 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Its a troll

[–]Nemacolin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not at all. You are the first to complain.

Are you sure the people you are talking about are real?

[–]redditbegay 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Fuhrmeister, 30, of Stuyvesant Heights, charged with rioting and possession of a graffiti instrument

Amazing how that could be a crime. What other laws like that are on the books?

[–]Trajan 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It probably depends on context to imply intent, like the UK offence of going equipped for theft. While having tools on you isn’t an offence, it will be if you happen to have those tools on you while skulking around cars at 2am.

[–]Chipit[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Go figure, under democracies people pass laws that they want. They don't like living in cities full of ugliness. Someone who's not a painter walking around with spray cans is up to no good.