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You can't get blood out of a turnip, especially during a riot

  1. We thought it might be a good idea to collect our most heartily felt tweets and replies in English (and some retweets as well) on the #londonriots /  #ukriots, to see what the result would look like.

  2. Wu_Ming_Foundt
    Why it's kicking off in London. Tariq Ali, Nina Power, Richard Seymour, Laurie Penny http://bit.ly/pT4QhG #londonriots - via @VersoBooks
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  3. Wu_Ming_Foundt
    RT @jongomm: ‎"We smashed the place up and Boris set fire to the toilets." -- David Cameron, June 1986 #londonriots #bullingdonriots
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  4. Wu_Ming_Foundt
    2 recent books on rioting: LA RIVOLTA by Pierandrea Amato (2010) and TUMULTI by Illuminati & Rispoli (2011) #londonriots #Italiantheory
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  5. Wu_Ming_Foundt
    By arresting people for "inciting riots on FB", the cops are superseding distinctions between #clicktivism and the real thing! #londonriots
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  6. Wu_Ming_Foundt
    In quasi-Zizekian terms: UK cops are treating interpassivity (rioting by proxy) as if it were motherfuckin' ACTION #londonriots #clicktivism
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  8. Wu_Ming_Foundt
    If Twitter played "key role" in the #londonriots, how come 4 Brits out of 5 tweeting on the subject are halfwits or even outright fascists?
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  9. Wu_Ming_Foundt
    These twerps demanding dictatorship are probably the same scumbags who e-petitioned for death penalty return in the UK #londonriots
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  10. Wu_Ming_Foundt
    @civetta maybe not the same individuals. Certainly of the same kind, no matter what they were thinking of thmselves before the riots started
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  11. giuseppegenna
    @wu_ming_foundt #londonriots -- London Riots. (The BBC will never replay this. Send it out) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biJgILxGK0o&feature=share via youtube
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  12. Wu_Ming_Foundt
    Look, there never were "pure" urban riots in which people didn't steal TV sets & home appliances. It was like that in the '60s #londonriots
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  13. Wu_Ming_Foundt
    If you judge the rioters' "values" by the things they steal, you blame them 4 living (like all of us) in a consumerist society #londonriots
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  14. Wu_Ming_Foundt
    And you're implicitly saying that you (the included) deserve to have those commodities, while they (the excluded) don't #londonriots
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  15. PaoloCaravello
    @Wu_Ming_Foundt Im afraid u r missing the point: this has now turned into PURE opportunistic looting
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  16. Wu_Ming_Foundt
    @PaoloCaravello there's never anything pure in such events. Similar accusations resounded after Harlem 64, Watts 65, Brixton 81 #londonriots
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  17. Wu_Ming_Foundt
    @IrinitaMo if you only knew the history of riots and civil disorders, you'd realize you're repeating old cliches and mistakes #londonriots
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  18. Wu_Ming_Foundt
    Do you live uncommodified, crap-free lives? Are you entitled to cast the first stone at "consumerist" rioters? #londonriots
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  22. Wu_Ming_Foundt
    We're no fans of the Situationist International and their epigones, but after the 1965 LA riots they wrote a beatiful analysis #londonriots
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  23. Wu_Ming_Foundt
    "Looting exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police..." http://bit.ly/oRtzXm #londonriots #Watts1965
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  24. stefi_idlab
    @Wu_Ming_Foundt, @alekone: british media are cute > egyptians riot = democracy. greeks riot = failure of a state. brits riot = petty crime
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