It’s unfortunate to see all the destruction created in Portland

@Frank52 it suits republicans

@JovialPlutonian Interestingly, you may have heard some commentators suggest that the Republican Party has been taken over by/sold itself to Trump and that he doesn't actually stand for the traditional values of that party. He has turned the whole thing into a personality cult. I don't know enough about the history to be sure but he does turn everything back to himself as we know.

@Frank52 he has old republican values

@bearinthehalfwayhouse Large scale protests work like this, like it or not. Yellow Vests (anti-establishment protests dear to populists) in France/Europe where the same, in similar proportions a part of them were there only for ravaging and destroying Paris, but you won't find a single conservative anywhere in the world complaining about it or saying they were ridiculous. Guess why. Cognitive bias?

@Elessar Eh, fair enough I guess. I suppose that is what it all just comes down to. I wanna go back to banging rocks and eating berries.

@bearinthehalfwayhouse It's difficult to have a neutral/objective point of view in these situations. In America itself and in this very same year, the ones who are now complaining about "BLM causing destruction" had no problems at all with (or even encouraged) occupying govt. buildings, halting roads and even ambulances in some state(s), in order to protest the Coronavirus lockdown.

Even there, cognitive bias, they have a problem with the former but none with the latter.