Edit: Some people pointed out that “mass looting” is more or less propaganda. I edited the title to be accurate.

Newsweek isn’t accurate, in general. I thought it was newsworthy that there was a riot after the game, but maybe I should not be feeding into a right-wing mythology about “lawless left-wing cities,” which this story pretty definitely is doing.

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    Looting at several stores on one street corner in a city the size of LA… headline says “mass looting.” Maybe I’m just used to a different level of looting after big protests in the past, but that doesn’t sound like mass looting to me.

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      Also looks like a “news” reporting outlet that likes to over-report on every crime that occurs in a large city.

      I saw news week and I knew there was no reason to give this headline any credibility. Does “media bias checker bot” not do the right wing?

      Also won’t be surprised to see other news outlets “pick up” on this because of the obvious built in virality that right wing reporting has inherent to it these days (see right wing posts doing 10;1 better than left since musk take over of Twitter)

      This whole thing reeks, and I’m sad that I’ll be a conspiracy of very few when in the past this would have conspiracy idiots all over it.

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        I think you are both right. I edited the title away from Newsweek’s misleading title, and added a note adding some context.

        I’m not sure I should have posted this, to be honest, for that exact reason.

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          Props to you for contributing content to the site! That’s more than I normally do. Thanks for adding recognition that this story might’ve been written with bias based on the source. You get my kudos for the day, hopefully you have a great end of October Day

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    I think this is less “sports fans destroy own city” and more “existing criminals take advantage of chaos to get away with crimes”.

    Personally I believe there is some responsibility on the massed, drunk sports fans to beat up and deter looters from taking advantage of their celebrations.

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      When I was in college, our sportsball team won a game against the other guy’s sportsball team by not many points. Many hundreds of students started a chant going out of the sportsball arena, and four freshmen decided to light a couch on fire, apparently thinking they’d just blend in. The police were there immediately, firefighters put out the couch in a few minutes, and they all got hit with fines.

      In short, I think you’re exactly right, and most sportsball fans just want to be loud and drink.

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    WTF?! You guys win and you tear the place apart? Really making us in Philly look like angels.

    Seriously, please do not set busses on fire. A lot of them are running on batteries these days. That’s some super toxic shit.

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      I wouldn’t call a single group looting a single street corner and attempting to set one bus on fire, “tearing the place apart.”

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      First thing I thought of was Philly. This is a whole other level of stupid. We’re not that bad.

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        The headline is blowing what actually happened way out of proportion. It’s a similar level of stupid as Philly.

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        I mean, “stupid” and “bad” are different things. Philly’s got lots of stupid, but they mean well.

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          Philly got some “means well” but mostly we have “having a good damn time” and “doesn’t give a fuck”. We’re not malicious, but we’re not sympathetic either.

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      Here in Seattle we had a polite riot after the superbowl. We were partying in the street until the light turned green, then shuffled back to the sidewalk. As soon as the light turned red again, we would flood back into the street.

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      I have read no reports that anyone attempted to harm a Santa during the riots. Don’t tar LA with the Philly label.

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        Right. Throwing snowballs at someone is the same as setting a bus on fire. Got it.

        That’s the dumbest thing to bring up. You could bring up setting a cop car on fire during the George Floyd protests, you could mention the car flipping and dumpster fire after the Eagles championship, shit - you could go with our police department bombing a residence, but you went with throwing snowballs as the label to keep off of LA.

        Are you not at all aware of the history of riots in Los Angeles? You’ve done plenty of your own tarring over there, bub.

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    Would have used any reason to riot. A loss would have been just as good. Tie. Whatever man .There are gun restrictions here for reasons.

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    Let me guess: Republicans are already complaining about our lawless cities full of crime because of this and the media is mostly showing black people.

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    A typical Wednesday in South LA.

    Actually all seriousness, the illegal fireworks were going off in my shitty, low-mid income neighborhood. Granted, these assholes use illegal fireworks for everything (like, Mother’s Day, really?!) so it’s pretty par for the course.

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    “No way to prevent this” says the country where this regularly hap–

    Oh wait, it’s looting. Sorry, force of habit.

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    Reminds me of the riots over a hockey game in Vancouver. If you riot over a sports event your city should get turned into a work camp.

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      If you riot over any fucking game your team should be banned for participating for a time. Fans can’t behave then the fans can’t watch their team play. Maybe ban all their sports teams. Between religion and sports we humans have some weird hangups about “our teams”

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        Seriously. Like… the thing I’m probably the most hardcore fan of is music, specifically metal, punk, and industrial. But I just cannot imagine rioting over something like a band playing a shitty live show or putting out a shitty album. I assume those would be the closest equivalence to your sports team losing. And don’t get me started on religious folk, most of them have legitimately lost their minds at this point.

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      Interesting idea! Since everyone in the city was a sports fan and participated in the riots, and of course everyone participating in the riots was from the city, it totally makes sense.

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    Sheesh guys, at least act like you’ve been there before. Bad look, but not unexpected considering the culprits