1. I explained it was so. That's not the same thing as thinking it should be so.
2. Give me a break. Your posts reek of arrogance, even if you don't use the language of **** like blackbdog. You're still definitely on his team.
3. Everything is an archetype.
4. It's just that your side doesn't care about the ones on the Left and dismiss them while you believe everything about those on the right. The Left is your team and you accept they are always well-meaning, so their 'protests' are not riots no matter how many people they assault or how many buildings they burn and loot. Their hearts are in the right place, right? They're in favor of 'social justice' just like you. And those evil people on the Right are not.
5. There is a huge contempt from liberal urban university graduates, especially those indoctrinated in social justice towards blue-collar workers, towards conservatives, towards rural people, towards the military, towards religious people (but only if they're Christian), and towards anyone who doesn't speak the same bullshit indecipherable linguistic babble as they do and have the same fashionable views on the alphabet soup people, law and order, border security and racial injustice. Even that doddering fool Biden can't seem to make any announcements that don't single out some identity group or other for special praise. And he's the moderate standard-bearer. Why did he pick that incompetent idiot for a vice president? Because he insisted on a woman and on a woman of color and he didn't have much to choose from. She was unpopular in the primaries and is unpopular now. Whatever happened to picking people on merit and not color?
6. There's only one reason **** like this happens and it's a lack of policing. You have proper policing with a decent response time, you have local prosecutors zealously putting violent people in prison and a strong parole system that doesn't act like a revolving door, you have police clamping down on street protests the moment they show signs of violence, and you won't see things like this happening. When you have police ordered to retreat and let their police station be burned, ordered to not arrest demonstrators, huge blocks of stores looted and burned and local Democratic prosecutors refusing to press charges against criminals then you get stuff like this. It shouldn't happen but it will happen. But only in cities run by the Democrats. You think you'd have two straight years of daily riots in Portland if it was run by Republicans? Not likely, bud.
1. So you're against vigilantism ? Open carry laws ? Be clear on this because I can't seem to understand where you stand on this. I don't deny the legality of what happened, but I am saying that the new firearm laws, and culture are leading down a dangerous path.
2. You see politics as team sports and want to 'win' arguments. That's why you are sizing up my arrogance etc. I don't have any opinion on your character, just trying to understand your arguments.
3. What does that mean ? Are you an archetype ? I am not one.
4. You're making up opinions on me without knowing me especially adding me to some fictitious 'team'. Even if you knew me, it's known as ad hominem. And I already said that I have and respect my conservative friends.
5. This is all archetypes and identity politics. It only serves as a shortcut for people who would rather argue personalities than facts IMO.
6. The US already has a strong law-and-order mentality and a high percentage of incarceration. Both sides seem to be against the government, in some form, and each other generally. There are stand-offs against the Bureau of Land Management, State Governments, local police and so on.
So, I defer to my past comments about arming the culture war and how destructive it is. Your solution seems to be a hard clampdown. Trump was in office for 4 years and he was pretty hard line. I just don't see how that would alleviate things.
The US is the wealthiest nation in history, on the whole, and nobody seems to want to broker peace in this culture war. You want to clampdown on BLM gatherings/BLM riots. I think that kid tried the clampdown route, in his own way.