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The Violent and Sartorially Complicated World of Biker Gangs

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Biker wars aren't that uncommon. Back in the late 1990's there was a biker war in Quebec, Canada that included car bombings. Innocent civilians were killed including a small boy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Biker_war

This will be dismissed as racist, pseudo-intellectual drivel by the effete silicon set, but anyone wanting to understand why this happens ought to read Jack Donovan's excellent essay "The way of the Gang" to understand why grown men do this kind of thing.

Google turns up nothing by that name. It does turn up a book by that author called "The Way of Men". Is that what you meant?

It's a later "chapter." The man writes essays, and he tried to string them into a book. The attempt is laughable, but the essays stand on their own.

BTW, this is where I show my powerlevel and burn the account. Nice knowing you, HN. I learned a lot.

Flagged. I don't come here for journalism about "everyday life" - even if 1000 others upvote this, it won't change what HN is about for me: startups, tech life, and things that tech folks typically find interesting. It's not that this is completely uninteresting - it's just that it is a run-of-the-mill article/post. There's nothing special about it - the only value it has is that it is topical relative to recent Texas crimes. If this had been submitted without the recent Texas shootings, it would've been flag killed instantly.

As the guidelines say, Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

if you replace biker gangs with semi-competitive / collaborate start ups, it's a pretty interesting parable.

Companies are happy to have similar companies co-exist as long as they're not "bottom rocker"-ing the exact niche / product in the market, and then it's all out war

But couldn't you say that about, say, 1,000 other articles/posts that were also posted on the internet today? My point is that this is not "special" in any way - it's a topic about crime which is, according to the guidelines, off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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