Police Officers In Berlin Had To Break Up Fight Between Supporters of Two Rival YouTubers (bbc.com) 93
More than 100 police officers were deployed to break up a mass brawl reportedly organized by two rival YouTube stars in Berlin. The BBC reports: The fight broke out on Thursday evening on Alexanderplatz square in the German capital, police said, adding that nine people were arrested. More than 400 people had gathered after two social media influencers reportedly urged their fans to join a face-off. As tensions escalated, a large melee involving around 50 people erupted. Officers used pepper spray and tear gas after attempts to disperse the crowds with loudspeakers failed. As police intervened, clashes spilled over in a nearby subway, where rocks picked up from railway lines were reportedly thrown. The YouTubers who reportedly started this mess are named "Thatsbekir" and "Bahar Al Amood," both of which denied that they were at fault for the brawl in social media posts.
Re: Chimps Trumptards... (Score:1)
Thank you for being outraged, American dogs! Fight among yourselves!
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Information Operations Directorate
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Re: Sounds like Cultural Enrichment (Score:4, Insightful)
Depends on your definition of European. Both of the YouTubers are middle eastern in origin (a Turk and an Arab) so it looks like that whole "bring in 1 million refugees" plan has succeeded in enriching Germany with some foreign culture.
Re: Too bad their fans were German too, Nazi. (Score:1)
Did you somehow conveniently "overlook" all the Germans im there? (INB4 no true Scotsman)
You obviously don't understand how cultural enrichment works.
It's as if you're pointing to a bunch of ISIS fighters and yelling "But look, they have some white American-looking guys in there! And they married a bunch of chicks from England!"
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Integration as modern liberals envision doesn't exist. We can't have parallel societies as in the past any more, because democracy and the welfare system pushes us together and into competition for the club of government to beat each other with. So now there can be only assimilation or strife.
Either they submit to us, or we submit to them ... there is no middle road. Demographics seem to point to us submitting to them, the future does not look white/bright.
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What's interesting is how well some immigrants integrate and how well some don't. In the US, I've run into a lot of 2nd generation Latinos that are so suburban middle class you'd think they were immigrants from the 19th century, not the 1970s.
It might have something to do with racial appearance, a lot of Latinos are very Caucasian in terms of racial appearance and can often be confused with Italians, Greeks or Jews. But I think some of it is cultural -- for all the anti-Mexican hysteria, Mexican culture
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I grew up in Detroit, where we had Hamtramck, which had the largest Polish population of any city outside Poland. We had Greektown, we and other enclaves of German, Arab, and other groups. While they often worked or went to school together, they went home to their little clique neighborhoods.
When I moved to the DC area, I saw a much more integrated city, but to this day we have pockets of Korean, Vietnamese and a few other ethnicities.
Americans that I worked with in Germany and Korea did the same...while
Where's the YouTube video? (Score:5, Funny)
Pics or it didn't happen
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As you can easily see, those are the elite IT specialists Ms. Merkel so eagerly invited to come to Germany.
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Yea, Berlin is a damn shitshow. Crime, gangs, laughing-stock education-wise, far-left local government and a giant money drain the rest of the country has to pay for.
There's a meme in German: "Ach, Berlin". Kind of like "Florida man" but instead of individuals doing dumb shit it's a whole city.
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In a country of law aka "free government under the law", nope.
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Exactly. The MSM rhetoric is perfectly calibrated to be soft enough to prevent activism or rioting, yet hard enough to ensure the people stay divided and easy to manipulate in their voting patterns. Someone once said here that the Democratic and Republican parties are just taking turns raping the USA, and I posit that that's an intentionally worked-out agreement rather than an accident. Notice, for example, how few laws get rolled back once the other party is in power, even controversial ones whose rollback
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Parties are always happy that the other party installs a law they themselves don't dare to do.
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While I like poking fun at YT morons, in this case it's just a case of "standard thing happens + Internet = Breaking News!!!!". There have been youth gangs in Berlin beating each other up about nothing much for at least a hundred years, and in fact it's calmed down a lot since the 1920s when there were literal street battles with people being killed in the fighting, e.g. KPD vs. SA. So this is business as usual, but only the addition of the Internet makes it newsworthy.
Social media has a lot to answer for
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None of this woosy pushing and shoving they do today.
Re:Nothing Compared To The Damage Caused By MSM (Score:4, Interesting)
5 Insightful my ass. Grow the fuck up: There's no "global conspiracy" by what you call the "MSM" to control the population for some sort of social and economic order. There's one thing, and one thing only that motivates mainstream media: Their own personal profit. Period.
Hollywood and mainstream media are businesses. They produce the content they do for one reason only: Because it's what we demand. We don't give a flying fuck about what "real, ordinary people have to go through in the real world". We want gore, we want drama, we want sex and we want sports. And that's exactly what they give us, because that's how you make money doing business.
Everybody's always trying to find someone else to put the blame on for the world going to shit: The jews, the muslims, the immigrants, the "elite", the media, ect etc. They're all too cowardly to look in the mirror. We are a ruined, degenerate species. And if we don't wise up, gather the courage to look at ourselves for what we truly are, and collectively get our shit together real soon, we'll end-up like all other mistakes of nature ended-up: Extinct.
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If the goal is to make money, then how do you explain that the "MSM" are becoming less and less profitable? How do you explain that they are slowly replaced with alternative media? How do you explain that a generic YouTuber with almost no means and doing some generic political commentaries can get more views than news channels from the "MSM"?
I live in Quebec. I'm on the right. There are no "MSM" here for me. No "MSM" wants to sell me anything. They view me either as an undesirable customer or, at best, as s
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If the goal is to make money, then how do you explain that the "MSM" are becoming less and less profitable? How do you explain that they are slowly replaced with alternative media? How do you explain that a generic YouTuber with almost no means and doing some generic political commentaries can get more views than news channels from the "MSM"?
One of the dumbest questions ever asked on /. The MSM doesn't control the internet, and the same way that Sears and KMart didn't. The same way that the big real estate companies are quivering in their boots over Zillow and Redfin. Because the internet has changed their business model, and the competition is driving down their profits.
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If a nobody with a webcam can compete with a professional news organization, then it's obvious the professional news organization is not doing its job anymore. That's the problem with the majority of news media. It's not that there is this big bad Internet thing that allows competition, it's that they don't do their job anymore.
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It's not "a nobody". It's literally billions of cameras.
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You should either look up the definition of the word "literally" or you should learn take two seconds to read back what you wrote before clicking on the "Submit" button.
Anyway, the fact is the majority of news media have lost so much credibility that a lot of people now think the information from a random nobody is as good as the one from professional news organizations. Journalism was once seen as a noble profession, now it is seen by many as mostly worthless.
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Most of them don't make money any more
That's a load of crap and you know it. Sure they're profit margins have dropped since the internet changed the whole business model. But WaPo and NYT have always been liberal news havens since long before Bezos. WaPo even does critical stories about him.
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Who I blame is actual Mainstream Media who for many decades have deliberately - and profitably - ignored and censored what real, ordinary people have to go through in the real world. All in the name of social cohesion and economic stability.
Your premise is backwards. Newspapers don't profit from social cohesion and economic stability, newspapers profit from outrage and fear. This is where we get the term "yellow journalism," and the Spanish American war is sometimes credited as a war we fought for the sake of newspaper profits. This is debated, but the newspapers did profit from that war.
Let's consider: where did you get the idea that the "Mainstream Media" was doing this? Was it from the "non-Mainstream Media"? They are also out to make a
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the net is as bad a fundamentalist religion (Score:2)
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The VI/VIM wars had their process terminated. Star Trek TAS master race! *sharp gurgling noise*
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