JTarrou
4hr ago
All this is true, and yet most people aren't all people.
The world is full of keyboard warriors. The real ones are in the military or prison.
Now you know why each political party wants to put their warriors in the streets.
JTarrou
8hr ago
Great, make your worst-case scenario, let's take it all as gospel FTSOA.
The right has several thousand more fatalities and several trillion more dollars in damage to do before the ledger of riots is balanced in just my lifetime.
J6 was a minor riot that killed no one, and during which police shot and killed an unarmed middle-aged woman. There's no math that makes this the equivalent of even one weekend of BLM, much less the entirety.
JTarrou
12hr ago
I think Freddie has a point that a culture that does not provide sufficient sanctioned outlets for young male aggression will have to deal with the unsanctioned versions. How that violence expresses itself is memetic, something I've been saying for some time. Serial killers, school shooters, anarchist assassins, muslim suicide bombers etc. are all culturally embedded expressions.
Of course, this is only something he can come at with ten thousand words of obscure physics analogy and only when his side is the one in the hot seat for encouraging this violent tendency toward their opponents.
JTarrou
20hr ago
Think oil pipeline security facing off with NGO-funded armed protesters, or CIA-funded terror cells sniping at the FBI-funded terror cells.
JTarrou
20hr ago
Like I said, we're not there yet. AOC is still pretty milfy for a politician.
JTarrou
20hr ago
That would make it what, 147th on the list of most violent/destructive protests in the past twenty years? Like I said, very minor.
JTarrou
20hr ago
Interestingly, the left's attempt to paint the assassin as a Fuentes fan has really raised his profile. A real "choose your destructor" moment, and not one I think is likely to go well.
Zinn appears to be a long-term psycho. Did jail time for calling in a bomb threat to a marathon, some possible 9/11 fakery etc. A sort of political gadfly loonie like the second Trump shooter, not sure on his actual politics.
Perhaps not surprising that someone extreme in several areas of his life might be extreme in another.
As a side note on the child porn, let me ask a conspiratorial question: Without any opinion on this particular case, given the level of tech access of government agencies and corporations, what are the odds that nobody is putting child porn files onto the devices of people they want to discredit?
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