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Seattle is evacuating its east precinct as a sign of "de-escalation and trust." If you want to understand the headspace of the crowd contingent tweeting about it: one big chunk is calling this "bait," and another is spreading the rumor that the police plan to burn it themselves.
My take is that every aspect of this is incontrovertibly bonkers, a predetermined win for violent accelerationists fueled by something between tribal religious fervor and genuine nation-scale mass hysteria
same as it ever was, just on an extremely accelerated time scale
“The police are violently assaulting peaceful protestors without reason and this is bait to give them a reason to violently assault peaceful protesters” is less analysis, more demonology. A lot of frenzied thinking at work.
How does this toothpaste ever get put back into the tube? We’re concurrently growing two entirely distinct nations—that literally speak different languages—within one country. And somehow they’re being forced to coexist, for… some reason?
In Chicago it's a clear lack of authority. You can even listen to alderman try to push the Mayor on it. Or the looters and rioters claiming "they can't do shit". What they mean is "they won't do shit".
Yeah, progressive city leadership is absolutely collapsing in several major metro areas simultaneously. The semi-public struggle sessions and the palpable fear of mob reprisals are not leaving many with the sense that these are stable places to start businesses or raise families.
Entropy leads to disorder and degeneration, which fuels the left, which leads to further disorder and degenration etc.
Chaos is a ladder. The culture war is around whether civilization suppresses or enables our worst impulses. Regardless, our worst impulses are on display.
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