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Bay Area cities, restaurants bracing for potential election-night unrest
- wow_no 6y agoWhy
- austincheney 6y agoLooking like the insecurity of a third world nation. I remember years ago one of my bosses telling me a major advantage of moving to the US is political stability, that you didn’t have to be in fear of your life/property walking to work because of civil unrest.
- computerphage 6y agoThird world nation seems quite exaggerated to me.
- Zenbit_UX 6y agoI don't see how.
- the_only_law 6y agoIt won't happen this year I don't think, but I'm curious what would happened in an election as close as 2000 nowadays.
- gamechangr 6y agoIs this only in the Bay Area?
- wow_why 6y agoWhy?
- gedy 6y ago> “You can have whatever you have planned, but the people are going to do what they’re going to do,” she said. “In Oakland, the message is ‘this is not the America we want to live in, and gear up for four years of a fight.’” I honestly am a little confused by people who state they are 'anti-Fascist', but then excuse rioting over.. results of a democratic election? What's the alternative?
- dragonwriter 6y ago> I honestly am a little confused by people who state they are 'anti-Fascist', but then excuse rioting over.. results of a democratic election? What's the alternative? The US federal system of elections is not democratic, and even if it were, democracy is necessary for, but not sufficient to, a government which is in accord with the rights of the people. Popular tyranny remains tyranny, and its victims are no less justified in resisting. Now, you can argue that the outcome these people fear would not actually be a tyranny, but that's a different argument than that your apparent argument that not submitting to a democratic output irrespective of its content is equivalent to fascism.
- redis_mlc 6y agoYour post is conceptually correct, but unhelpful. The problem isn't our election system. The problems are: - the Democratic Party keeps nominating very flawed candidates that shouldn't be elected. People like Obama and Biden accomplished nothing in their careers, yet are nominated to run for President of the most powerful country on earth. (The problems we're having with the CCP now are related to Obama's weakness in patrolling the South China Sea.) - the Marxist rioters have no purpose in life, so could keep rioting regardless of who's elected. I doubt if antifa members and supporters even know what the word "fascist" means. - the alternative the left is looking for is to replace the US constitution, which is the envy of the world and has worked for 2 centuries, with Marxism, with a century of failure. - Republicans and the right, who have a moral center, are not rioting or cancelling people, it's the left, whose god is political correctness (a Maoist phrase.) - the current college generation are fragile snowflakes who shatter when stressed, which is the fault of parents and society, but still a problem that feeds the riots.
- human_person 6y agoI think this is happening all over the US. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/walmart-pulls-guns-ammo-displays-in-u-s-stores-citing-civil-unrest-11604002136 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/walmar...
- mc32 6y agoThis doesn't make any sense in SF. SF is as progressive as they come (bar Berkeley, I guess) so all your neighbors on average think the same way... but the idea of the agitators is that because people elsewhere didn't vote in the same way, they will inflict a wound on themselves because of that. How does that make any sense, unless people have been brainwashed.