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Like Hillary seeing her opportunity for a Senate seat. She establishes a residence in New York just in time to run for Senate. These mercenary politicians need to be outlawed.
I have felt this way for many many years. Franken was the deciding vote in the senate and stole the seat here after his friend Wellstone died. That sort of stuff turns my stomach.
I agree that people who rage in the streets, burn buildings, overturn police cars are angry and are explosive with their indignation.
People who go out with the intention of stealing electronics are acting on a completely different drive, IMHO. How many of those who were looters went out with the intention of making a righteous, indignant stand and somehow ended up with sticky fingers?
Indeed. Big difference between the looters and the people flipping cars over/burning buildings. The looters are indeed opportunistic. People waging war in the streets, those aren't opportunists. Those are some angry individuals with nothing to lose. Those persons are bent on revenge.
I remember seeing those guy during the LA riots. Those dudes were fully strapped and didn't look like they were playing around.
I have no problems with peaceful protests. The manner in which that guy died is awful and a full investigation needs to be done. I don't see the need to rest your body weight on some guys neck. If that is an acceptable practice within that department that needs to be looked at and changed.
It really annoys me that these things always turn out to be excuse to loot. Fools are stealing shoes and TV sets. It's people acting like thugs, plain and simple. I get it may start out a certain way then it always seems to morph into an excuse to steal and act like fools.
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Indeed. Big difference between the looters and the people flipping cars over/burning buildings. The looters are indeed opportunistic. People waging war in the streets, those aren't opportunists. Those are some angry individuals with nothing to lose. Those persons are bent on revenge.
And honestly, I can much more identify with pent up rage that turns to property violence, over the joy of breaking into a Target and making off with whatever you can carry.
Indeed. Big difference between the looters and the people flipping cars over/burning buildings. The looters are indeed opportunistic. People waging war in the streets, those aren't opportunists. Those are some angry individuals with nothing to lose. Those persons are bent on revenge.
Both are opportunists, they just have different goals. The looters seek to take advantage of the situation in order to steal because they are thieves, the rioters are taking advantage of the situation in order to destroy things because they are violent animals.
IMO, Minneapolis better move the National Guard into the area, or there will be another level of riot. Remember the Rodney King riots that resulted in the beating of an innocent man, Reginald Denny? Jacob Frey better tighten things up before it gets further out of control.
No, that's attempting to legitimize the action. It's merely violent people looking for an excuse to be violent people and they should be put down like the animals they are. I have no sympathy for that kind of thing.
Is what happened to that man in Minneapolis wrong? Absolutely, the cop needs to be locked up and they should throw away the key....but that was merely the excuse those animals were using to go have a bit of fun and destroy things and rob places.
If they were in a better part of the country where there was some actual leadership, that kind of thing would not be tolerated.
Actually, I'm likely more familiar with this kind of behavior than you think. My father remembers the Milwaukee riot of 1967. He actually lived in that kind of environment. According to what I know, alot of angry people, alot of people who feel like nothing will ever get better. Putting those rioters down might stop them now, but it won't prevent future riots. Not if the conditions for potential riots keep continuing. Yes, those are violent individuals in the streets.
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