5. I wonder what % of people at protests are (i) people who want to start a riot constantly, (ii) people who just want to protest in a relarively chill manner, (iii) not especially political locals who are happy to just go with the flow wrt burning shit down opportunistically
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wrt (iii): like, without endorsing it, I get it, there is something exciting and interesting about burning shit to the ground
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6. wrt (5), I suspect there's a certain threshold of crowd density necessary to spark a riot thinking about this like combustion group (iii) is fuel-oxygen mixture, (i) is a spark, (ii) is idk atmospheric nitrogen or something? idk work in progress
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7. this is probably going to be really bad for Minneapolis the Twin Cities are quite geographically spread out and while some neighborhoods (eg Northeast) have gentrified a lot I remember the state of things in the 90s and in those years much of Minneapolis was a wasteland
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the suburbs are extremely nice, housing and schools are cheap and good, and its easy to move out and it seems like property damage is much more prevalent here than in the 2015ish BLM protests ---> capital flight?
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8. Hunch is Somalis are disproportionately affected by covid lockdowns. Many in service jobs; many driving cabs/Uber/etc; many with plenty of kids. And not sure exactly of current distribution but many riots weren't too far from Riverside Plaza aka Little Mogadishu
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9. More generally wonder about how much of this is less about police per se and rather downstream of covid economic damage
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10. and per (9) how generalizable such riots will be given that lockdowns exist in most large cities
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probably not a bad idea doubt it gets that bad but you know depending on your needs shotgun or pistol may be a better choice
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I have all three. If I had to keep one I would keep my Smith and Wesson MP15. Because safety is job one, they should be stored locked and unloaded. With the shotgun you don't necessarily want to be fumbling with shells. And pistols aren't always reliable. Plus the aesthetic
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