I think the worst bootlicking I've seen on here is people saying that protesting peacefully after curfew or protesting peacefully in spite of an order to disperse is "no longer peaceful" because "defiance is a form of violence" or "passive aggressive is still aggression".
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Replying to @AlexandraErin @arthur_affect
Protesting after dark and after curfew gives cover to the rioters and looters.
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Whatever's being burned or robbed during rioting and looting is less important than human lives. There is no level of violence perpetrated by the rioters and looters that reaches that of the systemic racism, assault, and murder being committed by police forces.
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"Whatever's being burned or robbed during rioting and looting is less important than human lives." Obviously true but that's not the complete tradeoff, stuff vs lives. You/we/they are losing much more than stuff (other people's) every time looters/rioters burn stuff.
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Replying to @schreibdave @scots_dragon and
When you're protesting police, looting has another purpose. You're showing the cops that they are ineffective. They can't protect people OR property. Good god, y'all. What are they good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.
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It is precisely the complex background series of assumptions that pious liberals call the "rule of law" that the purpose of a riot is to break down, or, more accurately/politically, to demonstrate was always an arbitrarily and capriciously enforced construct
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