Dieter wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2020 3:42 pm
pp4me wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2020 3:13 pm
Tortoise wrote: ↑Mon Jun 01, 2020 4:02 pm
Mountaineer wrote: ↑Mon Jun 01, 2020 3:51 pm
MangoMan wrote: ↑Mon Jun 01, 2020 3:44 pm
Am I the only one here that thinks part of the reason the rioting has gotten so out of hand is bc of the Covid lockdown? I agree with Scott Adams that this has set the progress of Black back 10 years. But doesn't take much to make people snap under the conditions we've been under.
I’m with you Pug. My wife and I just had that conversation. And we added hot weather to the mix. Pressure cooker times indeed.
Yes, in fact Scott Adams explicitly said on his podcast the other day that he thinks a big contributor to the riots and looting has been "pent-up energy" created by the Covid-19 lockdowns.
I tend to agree with this. As a matter of fact when the lockdowns first started and I saw millions of people being put out of work I remember saying that I believed we were going to eventually start seeing rioting in the streets. For once, I guess my crystal ball worked pretty well.
All that was really needed was for someone to light a match to the powder keg and that's what happened. And then you have the media and liberal/leftist politicians standing by ready to fan the flames into a full scale conflagration.
Really. All the lefties fault. Trump is such an f'ing uniter that he has peaceful protests tear gassed for a BS church photo opp.
Threatening to use military to dominate protesters.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/02/politics ... index.html
Blaming it all on left wing agitators and not actually doing any investigation of right wrong agitators.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/t ... r-n1221456
[Edit: who has been calling the press the enemy of the people for how long?]
You either missed my point or I'm not making it very well.
I didn't blame it all on left wing agitators. I blamed it on the Covid-19 lockdowns which I believed at the time would go down in history as a moment of temporary insanity, probably without parallel in America history. The economy was doing great, unemployment was at all an all time low, and there was real hope for a better life for a lot of people. And then one day you decide to put 40 million people out of work, mostly on the lower end of the socio-economic ladder, and crush whatever dreams they had for years to come. What could possibly go wrong with that?
It's not surprising that there are both left and right wing protesters. If you stopped and asked them I wonder what percentage would even know who George Floyd was.
As for the left wing media and politicians fanning the flames I stand by that. Because that's just what they do.
And as for Trump threatening to use the military, what is he supposed to do when all-out war has been declared on America?