The government shutdown and the general encroachment of the public sector on the private sector in Minnesota is certainly one reason I advocate escaping Minnesota. However, it is things like this, which are increasing in frequency, that provide additional incentive to escape Minnesota or at least move out of Nuevo Detroit (aka Minneapolis).
In the meantime your Captain has just embarked on day #3 of his great South Dakotan adventure. Day #1 was a 10 mile hike through the Black Hills, Day #2 was a 300 mile motorcycle ride through the Black Hills. Day #3 will entail another 10 mile hike through the agate-rich prairies. 2 M1 Cusano cigars have been smoked and copious amounts of booze have been consumed. Watching the news from back "home" just makes this trip that much more enjoyable.
Enjoy the decline!
That the idiocy of the left (in all its variations from economically illiterate Marxists to mildly socialist liberals) is bone-deep is reflected in that article. The mother who was beaten by the mob doesn't want to see the teenage girls in the mob punished; she just wants to see them do some community service. Three points here.
ReplyDeleteFirst, community service is punishment. You don't get it as a reward for being a good citizen, you get it in lieu of serving jail time because you have been adjudicated guilty of a crime for which most people go to jail.
Second, is there something magical about picking up trash or serving dinner to homeless people that is going to make a mob of violent teenaged thugs somehow see the light? The only light that will be seen by them, is that (1) homeless people smell; (2) people throw way too much shit out their car windows; and, (3) it's possible to do Assault With Intent to Cause Grievous Bodily Harm, and to get away with it.
Third, for all the feminist yammering of the left, their go-to move in all circumstances is to blame the victim, even where the victim is a set-upon woman and where doing so would protect preferred minority groups. It was almost certainly a mob of black girls, because if it was white girls their race would have been mentioned up front in the article. So in order to protect the minorities, to avoid giving offense, the article cannot say who committed the attack and the mother insists that she and her daughters are at least in part to blame. FWIW, the only person to blame if somebody kicks your ass over a minor beef, is the person who does the ass-kicking. In liberal victim-land, however, She deserved it, she was asking for it, maybe she should try to work on not giving offense and provoking the indigenous personnel, why can't we all get along.
The left is bone crushingly stupid, to the point where they'd stick their hands in a blender and then bemoan the missing digits as the fault of the power companies and Kitchen-Aid.
I see it as crimes of desperation.
ReplyDeleteNot desperation because they have no choice. Desperation because the youth of today have no future.
Expect to see more of this. Today's under 20s are looking to be the second generation (arguably) that has not been as successful as their parents. And, at some level they know it.
I for one would like more details abut your trip.
ReplyDeleteTo follow up on what CBMTTEK said - in a way this reminds me of Columbine: a group of kids who don't see themselves as having any future, who think their present (hopeless) situation is the end of (their personal) history, lashing out violently.
ReplyDeleteThe same root cause - children growing up without a Patriarchy to mold them into Adults.
You know, from what I gather these 'urban' flash mobs have been increasing in frequency, to a worrying degree, and yet the MSM never seems to draw the connection. Each one is an isolated incident. Funny, that.
The herd needs a major thinning in that city!!
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