When one side commits violence with impunity and it comes up against another side that has been quietly seething and is getting tired of being assaulted with no response from government (other than tacit approval of the assaults), it will not go very well for the first side. They are not used to actually having people fight back.
When that happens the side that wants to do away with police will be crying like whipped pups to the police for protection.
This is an old dynamic, Matt. It goes back to the original edition: freikorps vs bolsheviks, Berlin 1919. It goes back even further than that, to the Blue vs Green riots of Constantinople. This is a dynamic which will be with us for a while yet.
In other words: look for a process, not an event.
The violence was not extraordinary: but it *was* extraordinarily well *calibrated*, if you really watch it. Virtually all the punches were pulled.
Heck there appeared to be "referees" visibly acting to modulate the action - mostly older (and beefier) women. And they appeared to be respected by both sides.
The one kid who got knocked out - that's why I say the kids need coaches, and a league. Mass MMA, like Calcio Storico in Italy.
This is literally happening some blocks from where I live so I watch the tape veeeeewy cawefuwy (as Elmore Fudd would say).
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ReplyDeleteWe're fucked.
We are heading into a time of unrest and violence. It's only just begun
ReplyDeleteThis is how hanging out with you guys here for decades has affected me:
DeleteI've absorbed enough Jewish Mom vibes to think my god those kids need some proper coaching or their going to hurt themselves...
When one side commits violence with impunity and it comes up against another side that has been quietly seething and is getting tired of being assaulted with no response from government (other than tacit approval of the assaults), it will not go very well for the first side. They are not used to actually having people fight back.
ReplyDeleteWhen that happens the side that wants to do away with police will be crying like whipped pups to the police for protection.
This is an old dynamic, Matt. It goes back to the original edition: freikorps vs bolsheviks, Berlin 1919. It goes back even further than that, to the Blue vs Green riots of Constantinople. This is a dynamic which will be with us for a while yet.
DeleteIn other words: look for a process, not an event.
The violence was not extraordinary: but it *was* extraordinarily well *calibrated*, if you really watch it. Virtually all the punches were pulled.
Heck there appeared to be "referees" visibly acting to modulate the action - mostly older (and beefier) women. And they appeared to be respected by both sides.
The one kid who got knocked out - that's why I say the kids need coaches, and a league. Mass MMA, like Calcio Storico in Italy.
This is literally happening some blocks from where I live so I watch the tape veeeeewy cawefuwy (as Elmore Fudd would say).