What has burning people’s businesses down got to do with George Floyd’s death

These people are just criminals taking advantage of a tragic situation

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Elessar · 26-30, M

Best way to counter protests, especially pacific ones, is to infiltrate extremists/violent elements, so you can brutally suppress everyone later. It happens all around the world any time a large-scale protest occurs, I don't see why the U.S. would be exempt.

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@Elessar The way things started off at Autozone in Minneapolis... suspicious to the max.

Elessar · 26-30, M

@QuixoticSoul I don't know the specific details, but that's just the standard procedure I guess. After at least 1789 no modern country will face large-scale protests just by looking at them, I would imagine

ChloeYoung · 18-21, F

@Elessar I agree, it doesn’t matter how wealthy, large or democratic a country is. If you push people to far they’ll fight back, like what recently happened in China

Elessar · 26-30, M

@ChloeYoung And even if they wont, a challenged gov. just needs to make most people think they're protesting violently for them to approve the use of brutal force (even if most protestors are or were peaceful).

ChloeYoung · 18-21, F

@Elessar Im now wondering if these situations are more likely to happen in democratic countries cause the people are less frightened of the authorities, just saying 🤷‍♀️

Elessar · 26-30, M

@ChloeYoung In non-democratic countries things like these most likely would be suppressed before they became large enough to be noticeable. It took us external help to get rid of the Fascist party, for instance, the resistance movement alone would've had a hard time to overthrow it. And it went on for 20 years..