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And what they don’t mention is a group within the protestors tried to fire bomb a federal building. All bets are off when anarchy hits federal buildings like th

• tsimionescu 6y ago
  If 'all bets are off' when a group 'tries' to attack a government building, then you have a problem with democracy. And 'waiting for the details to come out in a few weeks' is never justified. If the government has just cause, they should ideally show it before they do seemingly illegal actions, especially in the current climate; at the very least, once the governor of the state is suing to get federal agents to stop, any evidence of a just cause should be immediately made public. Since neither has happened, people should act now, not later. Any data that comes to light weeks from now is going to be rightfully suspected of being manufactured anyway.
  • concordDance 6y ago
    > And 'waiting for the details to come out in a few weeks' is never justified. Given how distorted and contextless the politically relevant information we get is, waiting a few weeks for the details is almost always the right choice. This situation may be an exception but I doubt it.
    • tsimionescu 6y ago
      Doing nothing is not a default position in this type of situation - it is an active choice. This is similar to the pandemic. If you stop and wait for more data, you're not taking a conservative approach, you're deciding based on the available data that the best course of action is to do nothing.
      • concordDance 6y ago
        With an information environment as awful as the current one? That choice is still normally the best one.