Whether or not you want feds to arrest rioters really comes down to whether or not you're fine with the rioting.

We can argue about how that should happen but if you're anti-violence you agree that it needs to happen

@realcaseyrollins the sides arent real, they are two paths that lead to the same authoritarian end

@a7 There's the pro , -adjacent anarchy & chaos side, and the law and order side. I'm not talking about authoritarianism here, and I'm not sure why you are either. Arresting violent criminals isn't authoritarian.

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:gadsen: There is another option. :mcafeesmug:

:brain0: riot good
:brain1: police good
:brain2: boogtime
:brain3: We wouldn't have a riot if we had more people taking notes from the Roof Koreans

I know me a dude, he flew in from Texas at the beginning of the riots. His friends called him up, said "RIOTS, GO TIME, 1992 HAS COMMENCED AGAIN" and he landed in LA, grabbed his rifle, and got on a roof. K-town was dead silent this time. They didn't even *try* to loot Koreatown. He ended up getting drunk on a roof talking about the old days with his buddies.

The places that burned? 100% places where the victims were shouting "halp me gubbamint" instead of "ON NE PASSEZ-PAS!"
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This!!

But yeah frankly time is coming soon, the police are largely ineffective. The feds' success is our only hope to stem the coming civil war.

Save, of course, capitulation.

@realcaseyrollins @p authoritarianism isnt suddenly good because you like who its targeting

@realcaseyrollins @p well I guess too a lot of people it is- that’s the issue. Who will be capitulated in the next wave of authority? Your vote matters :alexjonessmug:

@realcaseyrollins @p doesnt it seem odd how theres always a new vaguely defined enemy in cycles

@a7 @p I'm proud to be the enemy of the violent. It's your prerogative, whether or not you want to do the same.

@realcaseyrollins @a7 The cops are state's instruments of violence, though. That's their literal function. You just shoot at whoever kicks in your door to do violence to you, and this stops rioters, it stops cops, it stops all of them.
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@p @a7 Fair but in this case they are using the least possible violence to stop those terrorizing the nation. I'm cool with that. And actually bravo for the vanning cuz these are the least violent arrests I've seen in a bit.

@realcaseyrollins @a7 I'm not okay with it: they're demanding a government service to do something they can and should do for themselves. If everyone knows there's a 1-2% chance that you put a brick through a window and the occupants return fire means that there is a 0% chance bricks go through the windows in that area. So you need a small number of people willing to defend themselves and the riots don't arrive in your neighborhood. This means that the places getting looted have people marching in, burning buildings, unopposed. The government hasn't stopped it. The places that aren't getting looted are the places where the people shoot back.
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