https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/george-floyd-protest/289-cfe46ff8-f64b-43ed-ada6-244a9a7601d0

Interesting that about 1,000 people in New Orleans turned out for that city's protest and it not only was completely peaceful, it even involved "social distancing" among marchers. No property damage at all.

And, like most marches I've seen, it was pretty well split between black and white people, most of them young.

I watched a loooot of coverage overnight, and there's something genuine in this observation.

I just don't get it.

I get burning the police station.
I get burning businesses if they have a history of racism or something awful.
I get burning the property of someone you know to be horrible.
I get going to the rich neighborhoods and burning them.

NO I do not think it is justifiable, but I get it.

But I absolutely do not get random running around and fucking shit up in your own neighborhood.

But what makes even less sense is doing it because your favorite sports team won.

It's Antifa and their fellow travelers.

White supremacists, neo-nazis and other bogey men are being/will be blamed by the politicians, and the claim is that Putin is orchestrating things.

O I do not think it is justifiable, but I get it.

But I absolutely do not get random running around and fucking shit up in your own neighborhood.

But what makes even less sense is doing it because your favorite sports team won.

NicoleK at May 31, 2020 8:00 AM

It’ s safer that way. Going to some store that has Koreans with shotguns on the roof is fucking dangerous.

People looking for an excuse to riot after having their cities shut down for ten weeks are going to find one.

> I absolutely do not get random
> running around and fucking shit
> up in your own neighborhood.

Ahem, throat-clearing, disclaimer, hedge, etc.:

To the extent that this rioting ISN'T merely smug white & MC enjoying a moment of youthful fantasy about being a hardass black person with nothing to live for so nothing to risk (as I believe much of it to be)…

They steal shoes and teevee sets (and *your* feelings of safety) because that's as high as their aspirations can take time. They're not worldly.

Beyond the absolutely random arson, it's been a surprise to see how many fast food restaurants have been devastated. These rioters may love a Wendy's McDouble, but the don't like having to pay as much for it as they do. And they know that after a long childhood of sandwiches from these places, they're in no way invested in the businesses themselves. Their hunger 10 years ago was quashed, but the profits from that exchange are more apparent for the distant owner of the business (even if that person is in the lower-middle class).

Still, though, I don't own the restaurant down the street but I like having it there! Not having it there would make my neighborhood worse!

I get that they're angry but why aren't they running to wealthy neighborhoods? I mean I'm glad they aren't! But it would make sense.

These are fake-news events. The people who started the looting are paid and bused in by Soros, in the hope voters will get the false message that racist President Trump can't maintain public order.

Trump was absolutely right to say when the looting starts, the shooting starts, and should never have apologized afterwards. If government does not use that level of force, it will encourage both more looting and justified victims shooting back.

What's more, it's time to invoke the Insurrection Act and section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Let those who commit acts of war against the US lose the right to vote and maybe we'll see fewer of the cowardly mayors and governors that allowed it to happen.

And yes, Floyd's killer does need to go in front of a jury for murder. But so does every single looter and arsonist, and the agitators who organized the destruction, and the fat cat lefties who paid them to do it.

It is times like this that make the Second Amendment very important. The founders seemed to have known what they were doing.

Large areas that were burned in the LA riots years ago were never rebuilt

What's Trackback

“These people are acutely aware that in no sense are these neighborhoods "own." They rent, and their landlords are ruthless.“

I wonder how much of where they live is Section 8 housing.

> Section 8

Again, housing that isn't their property.

> (ahem)

It's not possible to take persuasion from anyone using the words "fake news."

> Large areas that were burned
> in the LA riots years ago were
> never rebuilt

Where? And '65 or '92?

> why aren't they running
> to wealthy neighborhoods?

For thirty years I've wondered about that. A working theory is that if you're the kind of person who dreams of stealing a pair of shoes or trashing the Dr. Pepper fountain at Burger Filet, you don't know where those neighborhoods are.

You've never been on a leisurely drive up Malibu. You've never been invited to a party in the Swish Alps, and Rihanna has never had you over for drinks on a sunny weekend afternoon (the Palisades, on Sunset).

That thing where you forget that Gmpas won't let you post a tilted 3D view anymore. Anyway, the Santa Monica range is a nice neighborhood.

I get that they're angry but why aren't they running to wealthy neighborhoods? I mean I'm glad they aren't! But it would make sense. ~ NicoleK at May 31, 2020 11:42 AM

Looters are fundamentally lazy. Long-term planning is not the forte of someone whose mentality is to loot the local Target and smash the windows at the local Wells Fargo branch.

To get to Malibu or Grosse Pointe would require logistics and planning on their part. That is, if as Crid points out, they could even find those places.

Plus, once you get there, where do you go to maximize your haul? The looters know what's in their own neighborhoods, where the stuff they've been coveting is kept, where the clerk who was snooty to them works, where the store that turned them down for credit is located.

The Witness Protection Program was started when an enterprising US Marshall noticed that gangsters, thugs, and hoods rarely strayed from their neighborhoods. They were territorial. Moving a snitch from New York to Philadelphia to hide him was as safe as moving him to Montana; and cheaper. "They're not worldly."

I get that they're angry but why aren't they running to wealthy neighborhoods?

Because if they go into a neighborhood that starting prices in the mid-500Ks, and they start pillaging and burning, shots will be fired.

There's a reason why Roof Koreans are legendary. They armed themselves, and demonstrated a capacity for putting ordinance down rage. Riots are fun to participate in, until you get shot at. Then it's time to be elsewhere.

See this tweet: it provides some screenshots of tweets sent by a wealthy NBA player. Summary: it goes from "burn that shit down" to "don't do that in my neighborhood, you animals!".

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1267152709741772800

> mid-500Ks, and they start pillaging
> and burning, shots will be fired.

Mid-500K's where? Across America, real wealth (whatever the metric) is protected by hired help. Most rich people have better things to play with than guns.

Mid-500K's where? Across America, real wealth (whatever the metric) is protected by hired help. Most rich people have better things to play with than guns.

Crid at May 31, 2020 5:34 PM

Not me. I lead a full life, and still play with guns. So do most of my neighbors.

You're rich?

I live on acreage with a (recently refinanced) worth over $500k. We own an arsenal, though very small compared to neighbors. We have multimillionares in less than 2 mile (MLB great, among others). Also rotting-RVs in less than a mile. Rural is fun. The unifying glue isn't income, it's values. Space and independence, namely.

I have a neighbor, not sure who, with an actual tank. It's unmistakable, when they fire it. Looters aren't a worry, here.

You're rich?

Crid at May 31, 2020 8:44 PM

Depends on how you define it. Compared to the average Chinese citizen, hell yes, I’m rich.

I also don’t have much debt.

It’s not what you make, it is what you have left over after the tax man commeth.

100k a year goes a lot further here in Cheyenne Wy than in LA. Or New York.

You are thinking of pretend wealth Crid. It is all debt financed. The majority of wealthy people in the US don't even live in gated communities much less have hired security. Oddly enough people with over 100k in non-house debt are more likely to have a hired security service than people with over 10M in assets.

> You are thinking of pretend wealth Crid.

1. Comma.

2. Potential wealth in the pipeline of Dallas' premiere centralized clearinghouse!

Potential wealth is a different thing. Keep up!

We got out of the city specifically to avoid these types of situations: Plagues, government lockdowns, rioting, egg shortages... and yeah, we have a small arsenal, as do many of our friends.
I had hoped to go to my office to check the mail and scan some things this week, but it's across from the state Capitol and I'm worried I could get caught in a protest, or that my building might be ransacked. I really don't want to have to shoot someone.
Some old friends got caught in a riot on the River Walk in San Antonio with their small children. It sounds like it was pretty harrowing.

The only things I miss about city life are the food and the shopping. (I still like to try things on before I buy them.)

A bunch of minority-owned businesses were vandalized and looted in Downtown Austin. The Target that was looted is in a minority neighborhood.

It appears that most of the people who were arrested in both Austin and San Antonio were white males under the age of 25. (I've been looking through the mugshots in the local paper.)

> Keep up!

The imaginations of children are too fertile to track, but no one would bother anyway.

NicoleK: "I get that they're angry but why aren't they running to wealthy neighborhoods? I mean I'm glad they aren't! But it would make sense."

And just why does it make sense? Please educate me as to why destroying rich people's property makes sense?