Gun-toting Trumptards from Virginia arrested in Philadelphia based on a tip from the FBI re potential threat to election counting

[Dan Druff]

Except it's not just looting.

The 1994 Northridge Earthquake (Los Angeles) had some looting following it. It didn't have any rioting, arson, or violence. Notice how it differed from the LA Riots two years earlier, which did have rioting/arson/violence.

Were this only looting, you'd have a point. However, it isn't. It's a full scale of violent protest combined with looting. In fact, some places like Portland have relatively little looting, but tons of violence/arson/vandalism.

Simply put, you're full of shit when you make this comparison.

Yea there's a reason why my reply was ONLY about LOOTING. You were successful in countering a point i didn't make.

This part of the thread was about common criminals being responsible for most of the looting. For unknown reasons you decided to go on a diatribe about the Left doing all of the things.

If you're confused why left is responsible for some protests turning into riots there's all sorts of reasons for that. The biggest reason is conflict escalation.

And don't worry you can find plenty of riots that have nothing to do with the Left, with all of the things (arson/violence/vandalism/looting). The biggest reason why the Right doesn't have much history in US with riots in the last 60ish years is mostly because your protests have been tiny. You know that amazing debunk of 93% of protests being peaceful because most of them were small. Let's just run with that, to waste least amount of time.

Look up The Troubles, if you're interested in protests turning into riots and how conflict escalation works. I assume that's at least something you've heard about.

You only replied about looting because you were able to find other instances of looting during other times of disaster and unrest, but not of mass rioting/arson/vandalism/assault.

So you just went with the looting to make your point, hoping nobody would notice that it failed to answer why all of these other things also "coincidentally" happened at the same time as left wing protests.

There have been a number of right-wing protests which were large in size in modern US history, yet they never seemed to break out into violence. Even the ones where "guns are brandished" (meaning carried around) never results in a bit of violence.

I'm enjoying all of the bending, dodging, and weaving you're doing in order to avoid admitting that the left has it in their culture to lash out and violently protest, whereas the right does protest without hurting anyone or anything.

I know this makes leftists upset, because they like to see themselves as the logical, smarter, more grounded side, but the truth is that a large number of you turn into violent thugs when you don't get your way. And then the apolitical violent thugs join the party when they see that your feckless politicians won't let the police stop anyone.