Re: Don't take your guns (or ammo) to town...

Posted by gepr on Sep 16, 2020; 7:35pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Cell-Press-Patterns-tp7598733p7598746.html

I can't find it now. But some outlet argued that state-sponsored violence positively reinforced empathy for the victim and negatively reinforced empathy for the police and state. And riot-violence positively reinforced empathy for the police and state and negatively reinforced opinions of the rioters. I don't believe it (yet) because it makes too much *sense* to be an actual result. Sounds like rationalization or confirmation bias.

But if it's true, then riots do work ... to bolster a fascist state. Rioters who call themselves "anarchists" are either tools of the fascists or just too stupid to understand what they're doing. Actual anarchists would not riot.

On 9/16/20 12:17 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> In my neighborhood somewhat hijacked a LED street sign to say "Riot's work".   If it is just the 2nd amendment types barging into the capitols with their guns, then the danger will be perceived as one-sided.

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