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Yay, at least you bothered to watch the video.

And yes, No Bullshit's channel is loaded with a lot of biased opinions as he leans significantly to the right. But you'd be hard pressed to argue that, despite this particular video not making the mainstream air, that the coverage has shown the depths both sides have plunged to. Australian coverage has been downright blinkered at this point, there is no violence on the left at all and it's all nazi's killing folks... /eyeroll

So instead, you could look at channels like Sargon's, who, despite being constantly labelled as an alt right dickhead, is generally slightly left of center but who calls out violence where/when ever it happens.

I've seen a lot of shit in burrowing in to this, from a lot of sources on both sides (and people who try to be objective). Objectively, if you show up in black masks with pre-bagged shit, urine, fireworks and glass bottles, weighted sap gloves, bike locks and pepper spray combined with a clear message that it's okay to attack "nazi's" who's crime is expressing their admittedly vile ideology, you're not a good person.

Red shirts vs brown shirts, Wiemar Germany pre-WWII anyone?

You can try to make this about me ('ermagerd, you caused me to downvotes the video'), but you've admitted you didn't even watch the vid. At least I gave it a fair hearing, and while I do certainly admit the videos maker has an agenda, it is still documenting what is going on out there. Turn off the fucking voice track if you're too much of a snowflake to hear commentary you don't agree with, but the footage is damning...

As for Bob, I've been fairly unequivocal in the past about his line of deeply partisan BS and the veiled racism he espouses. As per the Ruins Everything sift up (https://videosift.com/video/Why-Proving-Someone-Wrong-Often-Backfires) atm about arguing and how it generally reinforces opinions, do you think that you two haranguing each other constantly (or even you and I) is going to accomplish anything other than entrenching the other side? \= |

Regardless of the actual utility, it's a pretty smart way to completely defeat lock picking, whether on a bike lock or a home's front door. (By the by, do you remember how bike locks can be easily picked using the cap from a ballpoint pen?)

I don't think I've ever seen any other kind of mechanical innovation to combat, let alone completely defeat, lock picking.

Please visit this website for context. DONT STEAL BIKES, BRO

However for those who have little time to research this event themselves, I will give a short summary.

The man was caught attempting to steal a bike by using a drill to break the bike lock. The bike belonged to a NYC messenger. Did you hear a man say "That's his work bike"? As an ex-messenger myself, I can't explain how much this bike was not 'just a bike'. That bike was this man's livelihood. This thief deserved what he got, which wasn't much.

Also anyone who doesn't wear their helmet properly needs a good learnin'.

Shimming a lock is somthing you can do with almost any simple retaining lock. I've been able to pick my own bike lock with a hollow pen.

wow, wasn't expecting such appreciation of insecurity
fyi i keep a bump key, master lock shiv and bike lock shiv in my backpack at school
i can get anywhere i want in that school.
but i have no reason, except to get on the roof and play about.