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@death @dude @Ox @realcaseyrollins I agree totally, and there were definitely elements that wanted this. This only leads to further authoritarianism. It's a platform for those on the fake right to show liberals/fake-left/blacks are all the hateful stereotypes they have been claiming. Rioting provides them the weapon for their enemies to stab them with.

@death just going off my experience at other protests, I'm near certain there's a ton of agent provocateurs in play. @Ox @djsumdog @realcaseyrollins
@death >Perhaps the Reichstag is burning.

The system, if not collapsing, is certainly about to undergo a major shift. From what I'm seeing so far, leadership at every level is breaking down. Stuff like the riots offer them a chance to offer some illusion of control. Let things get bad enough that enough people are willing to give up civil liberty for order like in the wake of 9/11 while shifting attention from the multiple failures taking place.

The kids in the street may think that they're winning but they're just pawns following the script. @realcaseyrollins @Ox @djsumdog

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@realcaseyrollins violence begets violence. They will always be able to muster more people and firepower than the civilians. The youngsters pulling this shit may get away with it for a few days but the current behaviour will pull the public opinion to the side of who can end the chaos.

I get why the people took to the streets initially. I get that they're tired of not being herd. That said, the current behaviour must stop. They've become no better than those they oppose and at present a present a FAR greater (short term) threat to their community than the powers that be. @Ox @djsumdog
@Ox all they're doing at the moment is providing justification for an increasing escalation of force. Trump is already pushing DoD to support the National Guard and armed insurrection allows for the sole legal precedent to use the military against a domestic target. These people are naive suicidal idiots @realcaseyrollins @djsumdog

A comic. A person walks by wearing a shirt that says "NO FEAR". They read another person's shirt, which says eating poop. In the final panel, the first person's shirt says "ONE FEAR".

trying to rationally argue someone out of rioting is just lol
Gentlemen, I appeal to your better judgement.. consider for a moment the efficacy of "rioting"..
i personally happen to believe that the power structure in the US is existentially reliant upon generating PoC rage and these riots are just evidence that the ruling class is still in place
if everything were fine for african americans there would be no political capital to generate from their plight

Y'all gotta decide whether or not the entertainment is worth the death and destruction, that's all.

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As long as we keep telling ourselves we can't do anything to rioters, the violence will flourish until there's nothing and no one left to destroy.

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