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My question is how is destroying small businesses and disrupting the lives of innocent people in your own community protesting cops? If anything, they created j

My question is how is destroying small businesses and disrupting the lives of innocent people in your own community protesting cops? If anything, they created jobs for the police. And they've caused people that otherwise would support them to not support them (except out of fear for their lives).

kwk1 6y ago
It's a group of people, not an amoeba, not everyone has the same motivation, so of course if you consider them as Them, then Them will have logically inconsistent behavior.
amalter 6y ago
From a purely pragmatic point of view, setting fire to a small business, especially a restaurant in NYC, is an act of kindness. All of these folks are under water and suddenly the buck stops at the re-insurers. Sometimes the disease is worse than the cure.
basch 6y ago
In situations of institutional inequality, the bottom row considers everything above it complicit. https://i.imgur.com/vpv5anc.jpg https://i.imgur.com/vpv5anc.jpg It's a have vs have not, opportunity vs not. A business owner is a have. It's a form of leveling a playing field by destroying what others have. Similar to the intention of the terrorists in Fight Club or Goldeneye, a reset to blow up banks and financial institutions. I don't think the rioting mob necessary has thought it out that well, but the anger causing it, and targeting business moreso than residential is an attack on the benefactors of protection rackets, whether they be law enforcement, banks, anyone who gives some a different opportunity than others. In this case business and land owners. It's a belief that "fixing the system from the inside" has failed. Attack's on the media are similar, because they are intrinsically linked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex The message of Fight Club was NOT to blow everything up, and that it can be fixed from the inside, but not everyone agrees.

kwk1 6y ago

It's a group of people, not an amoeba, not everyone has the same motivation, so of course if you consider them as Them, then Them will have logically inconsistent behavior.

amalter 6y ago

From a purely pragmatic point of view, setting fire to a small business, especially a restaurant in NYC, is an act of kindness. All of these folks are under water and suddenly the buck stops at the re-insurers. Sometimes the disease is worse than the cure.

basch 6y ago

In situations of institutional inequality, the bottom row considers everything above it complicit. https://i.imgur.com/vpv5anc.jpg https://i.imgur.com/vpv5anc.jpg It's a have vs have not, opportunity vs not. A business owner is a have. It's a form of leveling a playing field by destroying what others have. Similar to the intention of the terrorists in Fight Club or Goldeneye, a reset to blow up banks and financial institutions. I don't think the rioting mob necessary has thought it out that well, but the anger causing it, and targeting business moreso than residential is an attack on the benefactors of protection rackets, whether they be law enforcement, banks, anyone who gives some a different opportunity than others. In this case business and land owners. It's a belief that "fixing the system from the inside" has failed. Attack's on the media are similar, because they are intrinsically linked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex The message of Fight Club was NOT to blow everything up, and that it can be fixed from the inside, but not everyone agrees.