bunch of commentary and updates on these sites most saliently, claims that the initial looting was orchestrated and then just exploded into a free for all who knowshttps://twitter.com/Dumaurier10/status/1416822578308685825?s=19 …
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commentary this is brutal https://twitter.com/Dumaurier10/status/1416829073754673157?s=19 …pic.twitter.com/0q3G6IGovX
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annals of ethnic tension contdpic.twitter.com/rcsSliYCtv
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one thing that's very interesting to me about this is that the turmoil is maybe(?? I know nothing of this publication) being covered in India with an angle that no media outlet in the US would ever ever take https://www.opindia.com/2021/07/anti-white-indian-bigotry-south-africa-racism-african-national-congress-economic-freedom-fighters-eff/amp/ …pic.twitter.com/t0aAJrqcTz
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Indians are a merchant class, like the Lebanese and the Chinese. Sort of the Koreans of South Africa in terms of location and type of business
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Would be interesting to classify middlemen minorities on a “always just pay” like Chinese in Indo to “we have a roof, don’t we?” Koreans gradient. ZA Indians seem to be very far out on that axis by now.
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ZA is also a great exhibition for, to paraphrase Sandburg: “Sometime they’ll give a gun control and nobody will come.”
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Replying to @ITBeHa @eigenrobot
Hahaha I like this paraphrase. Seems accurate based on videos
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think the issue is probably more that they wont confiscate guns but if you use them to kill a home intruder you will go to jail forever
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Replying to @eigenrobot @Face_Almighty44
Doesn’t that just depend on the level of NGAF it reaches? Seems very much like the point where you don’t call the police but friends with shovels. You even reposted the vid where a mixed group of vigilantes just fired into a distant mob, IIRC?
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yeah I think that's probably the obvious play
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