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The riot when the mods see this posted in OT, not P&N.
The only problem with that is that a bunch of people won't dive into the septic tank to vote.The riot when the mods see this posted in OT, not P&N.
Months after riots and fires damaged buildings in Minneapolis and St. Paul, business and property owners are absorbing a new blow: The costs of demolishing ruined structures and clearing their sites could be far more than their insurance will cover.
Let see, just from one city alone (Minneapolis) has about 1,500 buildings burned and/or destroyed.
Minneapolis, St. Paul businesses face rising costs to demolish buildings damaged in riots - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal (bizjournals.com)
So much for "but...but..but...insurance will take care of it". Uh huh.
And before some of you put your own words as mine, wrong is wrong, it does not matter who does it.
I'm actually interested in what the general population of AT thinks about this. If we end up with a bunch of political declarations it will get moved to P&N.This week's "riot" was a premeditated coup. It was incited by the President and his cronies, and it was based on nothing but debunked bullshit.
The July riots were in response to centuries of verified injustice. Lots of people have died and lost property, but the causation cannot be debunked, because it is painfully obvious.
The riot when the mods see this posted in OT, not P&N.
Are we sure the mods won't just stand aside and let the P&N rabble invade OT?
What if they (we) take hostages?
There is ample evidence the people causing violence were not part of the BLM movement. They jumped in the crowds without asking and then started fires and broke into buildings.Let see, just from one city alone (Minneapolis) has about 1,500 buildings burned and/or destroyed from the riots during the summer. Not including other cities.
Minneapolis, St. Paul businesses face rising costs to demolish buildings damaged in riots - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal (bizjournals.com)
So much for "but...but..but...insurance will take care of it". Uh huh.
And before some of you put your own words as mine, wrong is wrong, it does not matter who does it.
There is ample evidence the people causing violence were not part of the BLM movement. They jumped in the crowds without asking and then started fires and broke into buildings.
So, insurrection is far far worst than rioting, but had there been zero tolerance accountability for the rioting, I don’t think things would have escalated to an insurrection.
I am not debating that. Zero tolerance means zero tolerance. That means if a police officer incited the violence, zero tolerance. If it’s a politician, zero tolerance. If it’s a member of BLM, zero tolerance. It’s insurrection if you attack the Capital Building or a federal courthouse, as both are symbols of a functioning democracy. The problem is that everyone is viewing the escalation from their respective social media bubbles. It’s been a year of social unrest fueled by Balkanization of our electorate. I would counter that had Trump somehow managed to win, we would be seeing similar unrest, just manifested differently.There were plenty of videos of cops hurting and tear gassing protestors last summer. They just didn't make it onto right wing media which only made it look like a one way street, and made it look like every major city was burning for months and months, which is where these insurrectionists get their info from. These lunatics in the capitol would have done the exact same thing, George Floyd protests or not, because nothing would have changed if Trump lost the election, he started saying last spring if he lost the election it had to be fraud. He's been planning this sentiment for a while.
