rioting all over the USA

GDaddy

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Well, I think the mayor should direct the LAPD to retreat and let these demonstrators rage. Let's test PlasticBoi's theory and see if they refrain from tearing sh!t up or burning buildings down. 'Cause that'll work. Who cares if they kill another 100 businesses and put another 1000 workers out of work?
 
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hal9000

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It’s amazing how we glorify and mythologize some riots and uprisings throughout history and not others.

What does it take to qualify as one of the “good” uprisings?

At what point does this become “people at the gates with pitchforks and torches”?
 

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It’s amazing how we glorify and mythologize some riots and uprisings throughout history and not others.

What does it take to qualify as one of the “good” uprisings?

At what point does this become “people at the gates with pitchforks and torches”?
A good uprising is one that targets a specific culpable person or a specific culpable organization and does not target those who are not culpable.
 
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hal9000

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A good uprising is one that targets a specific culpable person or a specific culpable organization and does not target those who are not culpable.
the Boston tea party targeted a person? The Arab Spring?

These riots are targeting a cop who murdered a man in the streets like they do in 3rd World countries. By your logic, they’re justified.

When a neighborhood is destroyed with rocks and Molotov cocktails it’s called rioting. When it’s destroyed with eminent domain it’s called “progress”.
 

ElOgro

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It’s amazing how we glorify and mythologize some riots and uprisings throughout history and not others.

What does it take to qualify as one of the “good” uprisings?

At what point does this become “people at the gates with pitchforks and torches”?
At the point when you are one of the pitchfork carrying mob. Until then you’re just another looser inciting public discord on the internets from your basement.
 

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Trump's rhetoric, his excessive use of appeals to fear, for the last 4 years are secondary stressors biasing the rioters' neuroception in response to the cop killing the black dude unnecessarily.

I predict trump will use the riots to make a power grab.

...have been greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen. That’s when people would have been really badly hurt, at least. Many Secret Service agents just waiting for action. “We put the young ones on the front line, sir, they love it, and....
...good practice.” As you saw last night, they were very cool & very professional. Never let it get out of hand. Thank you!

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