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I highly recommend checking out Trevor Noah's recent video on the protests - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb4Bg8mu2aM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb4Bg8m

by asenna 6y ago

I highly recommend checking out Trevor Noah's recent video on the protests - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb4Bg8mu2aM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb4Bg8mu2aM He mentions how society is at its core a contract on how to engage with one another. Everything we do is in some form conforming to that contract and when this contract is violated (like the stores being looted and vandalized), it angers you. However, to the people who're really affected by this issue at the very bottom of the society - they feel they're being ripped off in the contract and are being cheated every single day. After a breaking point they can feel like they don't really have to adhere to the contract anymore themselves when no one else sticks to it in their oppressed world. PS - Please note, he's obviously not justifying the lootings, mainly tries to make sense of it and how we got to where we are right now.

aaronchall 6y ago
The sense I get of it is that he is making excuses for looting behavior.
- nikofeyn 6y ago
  if that's the case, then why is that bad and the fact that the most wealthy, corporations, and our politicians get away with their excuses from looting people? their looting is stealing data, not paying their share of taxes, abusing power, etc., and just because they aren't physical acts doesn't excuse them. but it's because they are the status quo, and they define what's looting or not. i'm not in favor of stealing and violence, particularly because the ones getting stolen from are at the bottom as well, but it sure seems those at the top sure live in a different society and under different rules that conveniently favor their form of "looting".
  - lobotryas 6y ago
    One is legal (whether you like it or not) the other is illegal. If you don’t like that, vote to have the law changed. No one gets to be a vigilante/looter without legal/social consequences.
    - bearjaws 6y ago
      I don't think anyone is looking for no consequences, they really don't care anymore. For example, your idea of voting in the minds of the protestors is laughable. They believe (and I tend to agree) that money controls policy in this nation and the ultra-wealthy have control over policy, therefor their vote doesn't matter.
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ReticentVole 6y ago
If you want a more conservative perspective, from Black Pilled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnuJz174H9s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnuJz174H9s
- thundergolfer 6y ago
  Ok I went in and watched the video. I found nothing of value. He called Trump the “fake right”, which makes me think this guy isn’t some trad-catholic conservative. Is he the conspiratorial conservative type?

by asenna 6y ago

aaronchall 6y ago

The sense I get of it is that he is making excuses for looting behavior.

nikofeyn 6y ago
if that's the case, then why is that bad and the fact that the most wealthy, corporations, and our politicians get away with their excuses from looting people? their looting is stealing data, not paying their share of taxes, abusing power, etc., and just because they aren't physical acts doesn't excuse them. but it's because they are the status quo, and they define what's looting or not. i'm not in favor of stealing and violence, particularly because the ones getting stolen from are at the bottom as well, but it sure seems those at the top sure live in a different society and under different rules that conveniently favor their form of "looting".
- lobotryas 6y ago
  One is legal (whether you like it or not) the other is illegal. If you don’t like that, vote to have the law changed. No one gets to be a vigilante/looter without legal/social consequences.
  - bearjaws 6y ago
    I don't think anyone is looking for no consequences, they really don't care anymore. For example, your idea of voting in the minds of the protestors is laughable. They believe (and I tend to agree) that money controls policy in this nation and the ultra-wealthy have control over policy, therefor their vote doesn't matter.
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ReticentVole 6y ago

If you want a more conservative perspective, from Black Pilled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnuJz174H9s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnuJz174H9s

thundergolfer 6y ago
Ok I went in and watched the video. I found nothing of value. He called Trump the “fake right”, which makes me think this guy isn’t some trad-catholic conservative. Is he the conspiratorial conservative type?