[NEWS] Protests and Looting occur after 20% rise in Mexican gas prices

[Poliwhirl]

it's still rioting, the context is irrelevant. don't try to warp the picture by using the wrong word

what makes you think anyone would get the impression that this isn't a riot when "looting" is included in the title

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[Juncoph]

what makes you think anyone would get the impression that this isn't a riot when "looting" is included in the title

ask the op who refuses to call it anything but a protest

[Johnimiester]

ask the op who refuses to call it anything but a protest

I never said it wasn't a riot. The term riot in the context of Tactical Nuke's post has a connotation that the resulting actions are not called for and are overreactions/unjustified on the behalf of those affected.

also can we stop calling them protests and instead call them riots

like they actually are

[Perry]

The article sourced calls them 'demonstrators' and also calls it a protest. I don't think lashing out at OP for the sources' error is at all correct. If you want to find the part that mentions it's a riot, go ahead and post that source instead.

[Juncoph]

I never said it wasn't a riot. The term riot in the context of Tactical Nuke's post has a connotation that the resulting actions are not called for and are overreactions/unjustified on the behalf of those affected.

am i tactical nuke

[Ragequit]

donde es la biblioteca bitch

[extremely extreme]

how can a 20% price hike cause this much outrage? thats like raising the price of a gallon of gas from $2.00 to $2.40 which is pretty normal here in the states.

[crazies alt]

also can we stop calling them protests and instead call them riots

like they actually are

whats the loving difference at this point

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[Perry]

how can a 20% price hike cause this much outrage? thats like raising the price of a gallon of gas from $2.00 to $2.40 which is pretty normal here in the states.

say it costs 2$ per gallon normally and you use a gallon per day
now it goes up to 2.40$ per gallon and a gallon per day

you've successfully went from spending 730$ a year to 870$ a year. if you put that at the regular gas prices which is about 2200 a year then you've now gone up to 2700$ a year which may seem like nothing to you but for the working person that means that you'll lose an entire month of groceries

[e-maxx]

how can a 20% price hike cause this much outrage? thats like raising the price of a gallon of gas from $2.00 to $2.40 which is pretty normal here in the states.

my guess would be festering anger and this was just the tipping point since gas in mexico is roughly 30% higher than in america

[Whackin]

donde es la biblioteca bitch

did you just steal MY joke

[OrangeMan]

this doesn't mean they aren't riots

They aren't though. They're taking back what's theirs

[Tactical Nuke]

I never said it wasn't a riot. The term riot in the context of Tactical Nuke's post has a connotation that the resulting actions are not called for and are overreactions/unjustified on the behalf of those affected.

interesting how much you can extrapolate from my pretty plain complaint about the poor writing of the article

nowhere did I say that rioting or protesting this was not justified, never mind the fact that rioting is never justified

what I said is that it is factually incorrect to call this a protest, because looting is a characteristic of rioting (thus making it rioting), and that it is a disservice to refer to such frowned-upon behavior in such nonaggressive terms

[Ragequit]

did you just steal MY joke

haha i said it first limprichard