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Of course people with babies didn't riot, and of course rubber bullets can't be fired near them. What are you suggesting?? There's some truly "weird" stuff on HN as of late.

Moving on.

Perhaps they didn't riot.

Whereas we know that a lot of actual riots in the past six years weren't treated enough as such. Allowing the populations that they affected to be terrorized, sometimes over an extended period of time.

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Sometimes the riot happens after the teargas and rubber bullets. Sometimes the riot happens because people whose humanity isn't being respected choose not to respect your property. And sometimes riots happen because people are assholes and nobody is going to stop them.

The neat thing is all 3 of those can be true at the same time.

>Sometimes the riot happens after the teargas and rubber bullets.

Gaslighter

>Sometimes the riot happens because people whose humanity isn't being respected choose not to respect your property.

A psychopath's excuse to harm innocent people.

People who want to destroy property will always claim that their "humanity isn't being respected". Psychopaths commonly play the victim to justify harming people who have nothing to do with them.

>The neat thing is all 3 of those can be true at the same time.

Pseudo-intellectualism.

Peaceful protestors in Washington D.C. have been teargassed in recent memory.

Rioting is not needed for police to abuse their authority.

The comment under discussion was the one psychopathically lamenting that well-off peaceful protestors "with babies" weren't met with force. In contrast, no one thinks that the recent LA riots were peaceful.

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