TV news is bending over backwards, both Fox and rest, to distinguish and totally separate protesters and looters. It’s nice optics management, but I suspect the line between them is much fuzzier than they’re willing to admit. Same demographics, similar psychographics.
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I’ll say this though... if the police in very unequal societies is primarily a praetorian guard defending the core bastions of wealth and power, they’ve definitely learned quite a few tricks since the fall of the Roman Empire. They can stabilize far more complex situations now.
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Protest really is a weapon of the weak. You wouldn’t use it if almost any other tactic were available to you.
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Also a desperate pretense that this is only about George Floyd or at best about policing in black communities. Studious avoidance of the thought that there is a powder keg created by how the costs and risks of Covid have ended up distributed in a 4-year-old Trumpist America.
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Aww he’s so excited about delivering on the utopia he promised in 2016, it’s practically dank-cute. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1267227396341669889?s=21 …https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1267227396341669889 …
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Protest, if it bares a single tooth, is by nature a threat against the status quo. It is an act of violence. The holder of the monopoly of violence can not allow that.
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