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re: "Teen" takeovers blamed on Covid and lack of libraries

Posted on 5/29/26 at 11:30 am to
Posted by SouthEasternKaiju
SouthEast... you figure it out
Member since Aug 2021
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Posted on 5/29/26 at 11:30 am to
I’ll be the first if necessary. Because effectively that’s exactly what it is.
Posted by VoxDawg
Glory, Glory
Member since Sep 2012
77946 posts
Posted on 5/29/26 at 11:33 am to
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because it disproportionately affects black people duh

In fairness, the folks still wearing masks 6 years later are almost always black.
Posted by SallysHuman
Lady Palmetto Bug
Member since Jan 2025
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Posted on 5/29/26 at 11:37 am to
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People discuss and respond to it differently depending on who is causing the chaos.


Case in point, your mother had the decency to be embarrassed.

I am going to go out on a limb and assume your mom did not allow the pilfered bleachers to remain in your yard.

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Sometimes it’s just boys being boys, other times it’s a social pathology.


The difference between the two is how communities respond and handle their acting up youths.

Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
102901 posts
Posted on 5/29/26 at 11:38 am to
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lack of libraries


Next they’ll blame lack of swimming pools
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
35659 posts
Posted on 5/29/26 at 11:38 am to
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I grew up across the street from a playground (with a gym and fields for sports).

In high school or maybe his freshman year of college my brother and some of his friends took a section of bleachers and put them in our backyard and maybe they set some toilet paper on fire at the playground? Hard to remember the details all these years later. Nothing burned down or anything. The fire department wasn’t called that I can recall. The police department was ultimately called. It doesn’t take the CIA to spot a section of bleachers in a backyard across the street from the scene of a crime.

My family is very politically connected in that parish so my brother didn’t get in any real trouble. I think my mom was pretty embarrassed though.

These were white boys who graduated from private school in the early 2000s.


WTF does this anecdote have to do with anything?
Posted by hogcard1964
Alabama
Member since Jan 2017
20214 posts
Posted on 5/29/26 at 11:41 am to
I can guarantee that 80-90% of the thugs in that video do NOT know how to read.
Posted by hogcard1964
Alabama
Member since Jan 2017
20214 posts
Posted on 5/29/26 at 11:43 am to
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My family is very politically connected in that parish so my brother didn’t get in any real trouble. I think my mom was pretty embarrassed though.


I found part of the problem.
Posted by NIH
Member since Aug 2008
123074 posts
Posted on 5/29/26 at 11:44 am to
Classic liberal look over there tactic.
Posted by 4cubbies
Member since Sep 2008
61511 posts
Posted on 5/29/26 at 11:50 am to
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Case in point, your mother had the decency to be embarrassed.


I honestly don’t see the relevance of a parent’s emotional reaction to their kid’s bad behavior.

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I am going to go out on a limb and assume your mom did not allow the pilfered bleachers to remain in your yard.



The police dictated where the stolen property was stored.

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The difference between the two is how communities respond and handle their acting up youths.



Agreed. My brother and his friends didn’t face any consequences while 53 teens were arrested in one of the takeovers mentioned in the OP.
Posted by ljhog
Lake Jackson, Tx.
Member since Apr 2009
20608 posts
Posted on 5/29/26 at 11:51 am to
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Parents or lack of parents actually raising their children and teaching them right from wrong is the reason for "teens gone wild".


Teaching right from wrong, really? How dey gon do dat when the baby daddy and mommy don't know themselves?
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Putting those parents and teens in jail would end this immediately .

Hey already up in de penitenchery
Posted by SallysHuman
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Member since Jan 2025
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Posted on 5/29/26 at 11:53 am to
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I honestly don’t see the relevance of a parent’s emotional reaction to their kid’s bad behavior.


Here we have the absolute epitome of 'the problem'.

Posted by Big4SALTbro
Member since Jun 2019
24473 posts
Posted on 5/29/26 at 11:57 am to
Lack of fathers is the real problem
Posted by hogcard1964
Alabama
Member since Jan 2017
20214 posts
Posted on 5/29/26 at 12:04 pm to
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I honestly don’t see the relevance of a parent’s emotional reaction to their kid’s bad behavior.


Not everyone should have children.
Posted by SallysHuman
Lady Palmetto Bug
Member since Jan 2025
22363 posts
Posted on 5/29/26 at 12:06 pm to
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Lack of fathers is the real problem


There is no lack.

Women don't impregnate themselves.

They just suck.
Posted by wackatimesthree
Member since Oct 2019
13699 posts
Posted on 5/29/26 at 12:12 pm to
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I honestly don’t see the relevance of a parent’s emotional reaction to their kid’s bad behavior.




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My brother and his friends didn’t face any consequences while 53 teens were arrested in one of the takeovers mentioned in the OP.


That's because they didn't "take over" anything but an inanimate object that they had no ultimate use for. They weren't going to sell it or use it to hurt anyone and they couldn't hide it or transport it very far...eventually it's final destination was going to be back where they found it. And unless you left some details of your story out, they also didn't refuse any lawful orders to disperse or any other lawful orders of LE, and they definitely didn't injure any cops.

What do you want to bet the teenagers who were arrested did?
This post was edited on 5/29/26 at 12:18 pm
Posted by ManBearSharkReb
Member since Dec 2018
6305 posts
Posted on 5/29/26 at 12:15 pm to
“Teenagers”
“Police with MINOR INJURIES after being HIT BY A CAR.

How can you fix the problem if you can’t even be honest about it.
Posted by ManBearSharkReb
Member since Dec 2018
6305 posts
Posted on 5/29/26 at 12:16 pm to
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These third places she speaks of get ruined by the “teenagers”


FIFY
Posted by timdonaghyswhistle
Member since Jul 2018
21077 posts
Posted on 5/29/26 at 12:16 pm to
What we are seeing echoes of is uncivilized animals being uncivilized animals.
Posted by jimmy the leg
Member since Aug 2007
44367 posts
Posted on 5/29/26 at 12:17 pm to
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Samuel Abrams, a teacher and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.


A professional bullshite artist.
Posted by Purple Spoon
Hoth
Member since Feb 2005
20923 posts
Posted on 5/29/26 at 12:17 pm to
That’s a long way to say shitbag kids raised by grandmothers and no dad in Site.

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