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Posted on 06/16/2026 3:52:58 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Who celebrates a basketball victory by torching a school bus?
New York City reacted to a championship victory by its Knicks basketball team with an orgy of violence and property damage, torching school buses, shattering a police-vehicle windshield, and attacking police officers.
The riot was downplayed by the city’s political class and press.
The city’s "there is only one solution, intifada revolution" mayor, socialist Zohran Mamdani, offered a generalized, "it is, frankly, unacceptable when we see violence, whether it's directed at those around them or at police officers," while insisting, "there were a select few who acted in a way that does not represent who we are as a city."
"The vast, vast, vast majority of people who came out to celebrate did so peacefully," New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, insisted, which is technically true but also precisely the kind of spin we saw on display from so many in 2020 to deflect attention from the criminality they could see with their own eyes.
The New York Post, usually on high alert for signs of deterioration, kept what a headline called "anarchy in the big apple" off the tabloid front page. A Post editorial advised, "let’s all just bask in the euphoria," claiming "the whole town erupted in joy." Said the editorial, "Yes, some of it got out of hand, but the NYPD did an amazing job limiting the chaos and we expect New York’s finest will keep Thursday’s parade orderly and safe, too."
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Of course no one noticed because it got buried in true communist fashion.
Gotham......has gone Gotham.
Wrong.
A riot is a bunch of people mulling about.
Take J6 for example....
This was but a BLM-like civil rights demonstration, like a Birmingham march or a CHOPS,
for the right to
PART-TY
What is it about sports victories and riots? Is it really that sports fans love to destory stuff when they get excoeted, or is that in all the commotion of the celebration, the rioters take the opportunity to destroy?
A rhetorical question. Everybody knows who does this.
I think it is more of the latter than the former.
It was nothing like Philly. This was not a "typical" sports celebration/riot.
Might as well...since the Joker is now the Mayor.
So I got curious about this and started snooping around using AI. Yes, I know how horrible AI is, and there’s a ritual I do to improve its results a little, but I kinda figured that the “mostly peaceful” instincts of AI would tip towards blaming the sports fans. Nope. It quickly made the case that the major criminal acts (torching cars, smashing windows, looting) were done by a select few opportunistic non-fans, and that fans nearly all stuck to minor stuff (climbing statues or signposts, writing team logos as graffiti, etc.)
Now that gangs of thugs are being ARRESTED...it may give others PAUSE...AND MAYBE THE SAVAGES WILL JUST MELT AWAY
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