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i just think it is so beautiful that that we can still post anonymously to this board.
look at what a piece of crap brooklynian is now that they forbid guest-posting. it has become an incestous clubhouse of similar-voiced sycophants.
i personally love the variety and spontaneity of ideas and crosscurent opinion you get when you let literally any fool who can throw his/her two-cents in.
oh yeah, the artwork is just outrageous. it reminds me of all the injustice in the world and all the injustice that has ever happened.
economic inequality, exploitation, death penalty, permanent war economy, bourgeois cultural hegemony, all that stuff. i just really cant stand it.
i say abolish money and war and revert to peaceful agrarian polymorphous technocratic society. grass skirts and sandals for everybody! state-subsidized love-making!
i can visualize it so easily. it’s so beautiful. i’m crying in my own ejaculate!
“gentrifiers do take neighborhoods by force, by the force of their wealth. they don’t need automatic weapons; they’ve got checkbooks.”
Now that would be a funny and ironic poster. Substitute the image of the machine gun with a checkbook.
it’s ignorant to say that someone is supporting something or someone because they’ve attached an image to a blog for discussion (or not probably as the case may be).
REALLY ignorant.
if you don’t like your freedom of speech, i can think a lot of countries where’d you’d fit in a lot better than here.
I can even see a gangster rapper from Bed Stuy rockin one of these t-shirts onstage.
Oh “art,” how sublime ART though…
Nice to see Brownstoner supporting the work of Tom Metzger.
Yes, longtime residents are forced to accept checks for 10 times what they paid for their home. What injustice.
gentrifiers do take neighborhoods by force, by the force of their wealth. they don’t need automatic weapons; they’ve got checkbooks.
context is king.
btw, i just love the mental picture raised by anon’s notion that the sticker is meant to “incite gentrifiers to rise up and take the area by force.” can you picture some starbucks-swillin’, bugaboo-sportin’, relaxed-khaki-wearin’ i-banker spotting the half-torn sticker on the side of a construction scaffolding and whipping out a mahcine gun and going after the nearest SRO? 😀
anyway we all know this war is not fought with guns, it’s a war of attrition.
OMG, I need to swap out my Defend Brooklyn T for a Gentrify Brooklyn! Super hip!