just realized we don't really have riots anymore that shit used to go down all the time in 18C but it's really quite rare these days this seems significant. I would have pegged riots as Lindy knowing history up through idk 1900
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1. Higher opportunity cost because wealth 2. drugs in the water 3. redirected online? Hm doesn't seem to exactly fill the ecstatic component of mobbing or maybe it does not that I think on it
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4. mega-Cop's better at shutting down riots this seems plausible
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5. demographic greying, mostly kids and young adults riot and you need some kind of critical density for a riot to fire
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I guess it got costly to riot IRL so people shifted their antisocial passions online? ok I buy it good work everyone we figured out the Discourse we can all go home
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QOL sucks less, more to lose.
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yeah that seems likely guess you need some real Malcontents to catalyze the thing and we don't churn those out like we used to
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A. Police militarization works. B. who's "we" here because there have been significant riots both in America and France in the last couple years
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C. Rioting seems to be most common when in the social-atomization equivalent of the middle income trap: people are convinced The State is real but not yet convinced The State is all-powerful, so routinely confront it in groups rather than routing around or cowering before.
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tbh I think police tactics are a big part of it
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