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Thousands of houses and businesses burned down, families moving out of cities, huge records set for guns sold and for first time gun buyers, and you pretend not

Thousands of houses and businesses burned down, families moving out of cities, huge records set for guns sold and for first time gun buyers, and you pretend nothing happened last year.

emodendroket 6y ago
It's neither the first time we had race riots nor, most likely, the last. What action do you think is needed?
- seneca 6y ago
  These riots were lead by avowed Marxists. They received millions in donations from the largest companies in the world. These same companies lined up to shut down any criticism of these riots. At the same time, countervailing forced are censored and demonized (maybe rightfully, but wildly unequally) and swiftly wiped off the internet by coordinated efforts. I respect the fact that people can think these are good things, but pretending it's business as usual is just laughable.
  - emodendroket 6y ago
    Is that so? Why would the world's largest companies support the abolition of private property?
    - seneca 6y ago
      I'm not a member of those companies' boards, so I could not say. I suspect because they're politically aligned with the "soundbite" message presented by the leadership of the riots, and that their marketing teams calculated it is beneficial for PR purposes. Useful Innocents.
      - emodendroket 6y ago
        My suspicion is that the protests are far less coordinated or politically aligned than you suggest. For every "committed Marxist" involved I think you have a lot of plain old liberals and people with no real coherent political ideology at all.
        Dirlewanger 6y ago
        That's surely the case with many protestors, but these protests these widespread didn't happen without coordination at the top. Ironically, that's one of the reasons why Occupy Wall Street failed miserably: it was mostly just bored NYC-area college students that wanted something to do.
pfraze 6y ago
Thousands?
- yostrovs 6y ago
  Just the insurance payouts are close to $2 bullion. Also dozens of people were killed. https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a455-4067-b06a-66f9db4cea9c.html https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a4...

Thousands of houses and businesses burned down, families moving out of cities, huge records set for guns sold and for first time gun buyers, and you pretend nothing happened last year.

emodendroket 6y ago

It's neither the first time we had race riots nor, most likely, the last. What action do you think is needed?

seneca 6y ago
These riots were lead by avowed Marxists. They received millions in donations from the largest companies in the world. These same companies lined up to shut down any criticism of these riots. At the same time, countervailing forced are censored and demonized (maybe rightfully, but wildly unequally) and swiftly wiped off the internet by coordinated efforts. I respect the fact that people can think these are good things, but pretending it's business as usual is just laughable.
- emodendroket 6y ago
  Is that so? Why would the world's largest companies support the abolition of private property?
  - seneca 6y ago
    I'm not a member of those companies' boards, so I could not say. I suspect because they're politically aligned with the "soundbite" message presented by the leadership of the riots, and that their marketing teams calculated it is beneficial for PR purposes. Useful Innocents.
    - emodendroket 6y ago
      My suspicion is that the protests are far less coordinated or politically aligned than you suggest. For every "committed Marxist" involved I think you have a lot of plain old liberals and people with no real coherent political ideology at all.
      - Dirlewanger 6y ago
        That's surely the case with many protestors, but these protests these widespread didn't happen without coordination at the top. Ironically, that's one of the reasons why Occupy Wall Street failed miserably: it was mostly just bored NYC-area college students that wanted something to do.

pfraze 6y ago

Thousands?

yostrovs 6y ago
Just the insurance payouts are close to $2 bullion. Also dozens of people were killed. https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a455-4067-b06a-66f9db4cea9c.html https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a4...