Essay by Eric Worrall
Replace – Extinction Riot “mates” claimed accountability for pouring oil onto the racetrack, perhaps an try and injure the horses and riders?
Chaos breaks out at Melbourne Cup, Police argue with protesters
By ISABEL MCMILLANN CA NEWSWIRE1:28PM NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Local weather protesters are operating amok on the Melbourne Cup, blocking a key entry level into Flemington racecourse.
Activists standing on the roof of a van blocking the highway have been filmed and dwell streamed by a fellow protester, as she was interviewed by police.
Protesters blocking the highway had been heard yelling “at your pheasant, drink your wine, your days are numbered, bourgeois swine”.
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“We’re on the Melbourne Cup asking for local weather justice.”
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The 162 yr previous Melbourne cup occasion is about as egalitarian as a big nationwide occasion might be. Ticket costs this yr began from AU $158 AUD for a household day ticket, so its truthful to say lots of the attendees had been atypical working class folks – although after all a lot pricier choices had been out there.
I bear in mind attending the Melbourne Cup as soon as as a child. We didn’t have champagne and pheasant, we had peanut butter sandwiches a picnic blanket. My mum introduced a thermos of tea and we had bottles of water, so we didn’t should pay for overpriced food and drinks on the stands – although mum purchased us all an ice cream when she gained one in all her lengthy shot $0.50 race bets.
In fact most socialists ceased to care about precise staff a very long time in the past. Notably the form of spoiled brat inexperienced champagne socialists who dwell off their rich mother and father, who fill their empty lives pretending to be downtrodden victims, destroying priceless artworks and disrupting the lives of actual working class folks. Everybody who isn’t a part of their clan of pretend proletariat is “bourgeois swine”, or no matter different insults their small minds can think about.
Notice the picture on the prime of the web page is a generic horse racing picture.
Replace (EW): h/t Mike Jonas – Extinction Riot “mates” claimed accountability for pouring oil onto the racetrack, perhaps an try and injure the horses and riders?
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