I think everyone knows what deescalation looks like but 5% of the population are unwilling to do it and the 10% on either side of the far tails don't wanna condemn their neighbors etc too much social separation for the sane thing without major social institutional supporthttps://twitter.com/mattparlmer/status/1298779514789670915 …
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Major social institutional powers in the US (incomplete list?): mainline newsmedia (east coast) universities tech DC mainline entertainment (west coast) am I missing any?
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I think Republicans and right institutions (remember churches? me either) have disintegrated institutionally to the point they're unlikely to have any ability to throw the brakes so gotta be left pulling a sista souljah probably ????? this is wild inchoate speculation
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But Dems and media seem so heavily indexed in social justice at that point that they probably have internal constraints on condemning riots and pulling political cover without some external forcing function idk I'm buying supplies and enjoying a pleasant summer evening
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Replying to @eigenrobot
A. The media are running on pure rage. B. Nobody wants to be the first one to stop applauding Stalin. C. They can’t admit that their side’s paramilitaries are actually harmful, or even real. Also ratings. They have absolutely no idea that any of this is actually real.
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yeah media really painted themselves into a corner
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