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      <![CDATA[We should uplift these unenlightened black people and make them see how they have been forced to behave in this manner by evil white racists.
        
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I agree with blaming the store and our country's sick culture, but poverty?  Impoverished people can't afford laptops at any price.
        
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I don't blame the herd.  Sure it's a sick scene, but I blame it more on the store, culture, and poverty.  Are these people worse than people who can afford to shop at boutiques?
        
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      <![CDATA[You know what's worse than shopping on Black Friday? Getting up at 3 a.m. to report on it for the local paper.
        
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      <![CDATA[The dumbest thing about Black Friday is that, especially this year, prices are likely going to be discounted as much or more as the Christmas shopping season goes on.
        
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      <![CDATA[Well - if the euthanasia law hadn't passed (or your state doesn't have one), shopping at Walmart on Black Friday might be an alternative to consider...
        
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      <![CDATA[there was also a shooting at a toys r us in california today. ugh.
        
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      <![CDATA[<i>I will pay any price (or full price), absorb any markup, if it means not having to line up outside a Wal-Mart at 5 AM</i><br />
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Would anyone expect anything else from you, Editor Bossman?  How do your <a href="http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2008/11/26/i_am_no_defeatist_coward_am">employees</a> feel?
        
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      <![CDATA[#6 Blame Walmart too for staying open while the bodies were carted away.<br />
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#14  The McRib is back.  I saw a commercial for it a couple days ago.
        
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      <![CDATA[thank jeebus i live in the international district and it's just another day in the hood here..all the markets up and around 12th and jackson are fairly quiet and sane we might head over to saigon deli for some bahn mi for isht and giggles
        
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      <![CDATA[That would never have happened at Frederick & Nelson!
        
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      <![CDATA[How would they feel if we went to their place of employment next time they decide to bring back the McRib and we trample them at opening hour?
        
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      <![CDATA[<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/money/galleries/walmart_stampede_captured_in_pictures/walmart_stampede_captured_in_pictures.html">http://www.nydailynews.com/money/galleri&hellip;</a><br />
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      <![CDATA[This is why I typically don't leave the house on Black Friday.  The hordes of wide-eyed, frenzied consumers freaks me the fuck out.
        
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      <![CDATA[Couldn't have happened at a nicer store.
        
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      <![CDATA[amen, brother.<br />
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it's pretty hard to drag me out shopping the other 364 days too, but this one day?  i won't even go out for effing groceries.  i would be out there with all the people in the world i understand the least, and that is a recipe for misery.  forget it.
        
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      <![CDATA[No, don't buy nothing... BUY MORE STUFF!<br />
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<a href="http://buymorestuff.org/">http://buymorestuff.org/</a>
        
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      <![CDATA[Never mind the discount - think of how much money you save by being dead!
        
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      <![CDATA[Happy Buy Nothing Day, Seattle.<br />
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<a href="http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd">www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd</a>
        
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      <![CDATA[Motherfucking god damn motherfuckers. The worst part? People kept fucking shopping. Even after it had been determined that people had been seriously injured, they rang people up and ESCORTED them to their cars with their purchases in tow. god damn immoral fucking motherfucking bastard motherfuckers. FUCK.
        
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      <![CDATA[Merry Christmas!!!!
        
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