Locals Rant About Election Night Revelers

Photo via eqx1979's flickr.

Straight from the front lines of gentrification comes the above public rant. Following the Election Night celebration, and arrests, it seems some of the other Williamsburg locals (artists and teachers born and bred in New York and Ivy League educated!) are lashing out against their fellow Obama supporters. The self-described "working left" advises the "trust fund Midwest spoiled brats" to stop using the new President-elect as a reason to "blow shit cocaine" up their asses, or something.

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By Jen Carlson in News on November 10, 2008 3:30 PM

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chimera

people are so dumb (looking at you ed new york), the word "hipster" has existed since the 1960s...hippies were considered hipsters!!! Anyone remotely artistic is considered a hipster. In short, the word hipster is derogatory and means NOTHING.

ed_newyork

Attention dumb hipsters, New York was cool before you got here, you're not setting any trends, just trying really really hard to be different.

Mandatory Williamsburg outfits:

Guys - Beard and thick glasses, pasty pale sickly complexion.

Girls - straight-up ugly, but dressed so weird as to distract men in dark, smelly bars.

Now proceed to walk up and down Bedford avenue with your head up your ass.

debra88

I sense a need for new contributors. This is about as newsworthy as a scrawling on plywood in the Lower East Side.

shamanovsky

yeah, it is all too familiar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTmGMkZ0vbo&fmt=18

I am glad they are banning fist pumping.

markedman

oh christ, quit your whining. if property was damaged that is lame, but if the worst that happened was that you lost a bit of sleep, you need to get a grip. I'd say there is a pretty solid chance that I get to work earlier than you (7am), leave later (7:30 on the 5th) and my day is much more hectic than yours (working with hundred of middle schoolers) and I was celebrating/observing the scene until 1:30. Losing a few hours of sleep for a historic event never killed anyone. guess that's the difference between us state educated leftists and those ivy league leftists.

max_impact

haha another thing to SUPPORT the note:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/threadseven/3004991514/

(please note the fine mason jar, probably bought at Ikea)

if that isn't a fine mid-western moo cow hipster i don't know what is...the police must have taken her into custody thinking it was cattle gone astray.

blablanyc

I like how they are "Ivy League trained" and not Ivy League educated.

REALITY CHECK

Meanwhile, after celebrating, everyone else got on with their lives, and some even read the news about Obama's plan to close Guantánamo Bay and reverse hundreds of Bush's executive orders. Basically, stuff that's ACTUALLY IMPORTANT.

Carry on, carry on.

NannyState

A hipster wrote that note and you all took the bait. No true leftist could care less about kids partying in the streets. And the whole "donate to hospitals and public schools" crap is snide: no true leftist believes in charity. That's what communal action is about.

max_impact

while a little biased the note is pretty well spot on.

The election was used as an excuse by many to damage property of others and disrupt people who, like myself, had to get up early and go to work.

If you need more proof check out these photos of one of the women who was later arrested.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/threadseven/3004991514/

OBAMA WINS!

"But who cares?

Games over-Let's go get wasted man

To the 7-11, to the liquor store

Let's party all night and party some more

" - Dead Kennedys

dr zippy

The "Ivy League" ranter used "ur" instead of "your", am I the only one who finds that funny?

No, but you were the first one to mention it.

Wisconsin State? University of Ohio?

algul_siento

The "Ivy League" ranter used "ur" instead of "your", am I the only one who finds that funny?

Clarice City

Besides, Ivy League only refers to an athletic conference. If they truly attended an "Ivy" they would know that.

Clarice City

For self-proclaimed Ivy League graduates their writing mechanics are rather poor.

bagelman

i thought that obama was supposed to usher in a post-hipster society

JacqueMehoff

I really surprised more of these "people" aren't mugged. I mean they're indifferent towards local minorities. they must have some sort of mugger repellent. from now on I'm assuming all hipsters to have money unless shown otherwise. I will accept the monthly bank statement as proof.

this is from my short stinct at a major media company almost everyone was from the midwest and have some connection to Michigan State, Wisconsin State, some school in DC. didn't see any Ohio state.

Rocknrope

This is why I despise both the old and new Williamsburg.

sinisterteashop

Bingo #9.

rasputinsghost

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There's nothing elitist about instructing certain groups of people where they can cannot live. Real egalitarian, guys.