Tynan's Anger

I was surprised to see that New York Assembly Districts 50 and 37, which consists of prime hipster/gentrification land, actually voted largely in favor of Thompson.

The only problem? Those districts had the lowest turnout of any district in New York City that rich.

[New York Times]

Labels: apathy in action, bill thompson, fucking hipsters, mayoral election, michael bloomberg, new york city, stupid

Next week will be the 40th anniversary of the riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. Right before that ignoble anniversary, we get word of another riot in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. On one level, the socioeconomic tensions of the Williamsburg riot are the same as forty years ago. In both cases, young, privileged leftists were acting weird and unpredictably, which prompted the brutality from a blue-collar, lower class police force of the same age who couldn't understand why anyone would act that way.

The difference, however, is the purpose behind the two events. In 1968, there was an unpopular, pointless war, and even the weirdest of the radicals were politically driven in their weirdness. Today, we're in the same kind of war, and the purpose of the event that spurned a riot was to dress like pandas and be crazy.

Now can you see why I hate irony?

Labels: 1968, chicago, fucking hipsters, here's what's wrong with the world today., irony, pandas, radicals, riots, williamsburg