How long before anarchy breaks out and people take protection and order into their own hands?

You live in Idaho?

The world has gone insane wrote:

Something that amazes me is how much rioting, looting, and destruction there is and how much it's being tolerated. Maybe it's because I live in Idaho, the gun-happiest state in the country, but if that stuff happened here, the perpetrators would literally be shot by civilians. Why isn't this happening elsewhere? How long before it does? Seems like might be the only way, sadly.

..because we aren't gun-crazy lunatics with no comprehension of historical context.

You want to kill thousands of people to save some windows and insured electronics? that's fkd

drove across Idaho last year and was amazed that nearly 50% of the radio stations playing at any one time where either evangelical preachers or someone calling for a Holy War....and this was on FM!

stopped to get a coffee and it was coffee shop/gunshop with crossed assault rifles as the logo.

Seriously wacko-land out there...fulla complete nut jobs completely divorced from modern society.

game over wrote:

..because we aren't gun-crazy lunatics

completely divorced from modern society.

Perhaps that's the point. Perhaps some see 'modern society' as growing increasingly sick. If you live in the middle of the city, perhaps some people see you as the lunatic, living among the drug-addled world of homelessness, mental illness, overpriced everything, and the pollution.

Perhaps some people prefer the slower paced nature living. You know, the trees, mountains, streams, wildlife, and stuff?

Perhaps it's you that is the lunatic... and likely narcissist.

from the underground wrote:

Because the Jewish media wants whites demoralized completely, makes their flooding of non-whites into white lands all the easier. Oppose it and you are a RAYYYYYYCISTTTTT!! Defend your culture or show any kind of white identify and you are banned from just about anything. Say ITS OK TO BE WHITE and you are risking losing your job. Its open terrorism against whites by leftists, blm, anti-fa, etc. This has been going on for decades, but they've really ramped it up the last few years.

If you think BLM and anti-fa are "anti-white," does that mean you think fascism and racism and police brutality are synonymous with "white"? And if so, are those good things to be proud of? Do you think Hitler was right all along? Should we re-institute chattel slavery? I'm serious, I don't understand where you're going with this rhetoric. Where would you draw the line? Which sorts of people do you think deserve to be treated as people, which do you think shouldn't be? How badly should "we" be allowed to treat them? Why would we even want to do that? Do you equate cruelty with virtue?

I believe everyone was born with equal rights regardless of their color/nationality/gender or whatever else you care to mention. Does that make me anti-white?

Beep Beep wrote:

game over wrote:

..because we aren't gun-crazy lunatics

completely divorced from modern society.

Perhaps that's the point. Perhaps some see 'modern society' as growing increasingly sick. If you live in the middle of the city, perhaps some people see you as the lunatic, living among the drug-addled world of homelessness, mental illness, overpriced everything, and the pollution.

Perhaps some people prefer the slower paced nature living. You know, the trees, mountains, streams, wildlife, and stuff?

Perhaps it's you that is the lunatic... and likely narcissist.

who said I live in a city? I live about in the trees, mountains, streams .....i just don't happen to like to tune my radio to Christian jihad messages or load up my AR-15 itching to blow away looters.

Beep Beep wrote:

game over wrote:

..because we aren't gun-crazy lunatics

completely divorced from modern society.

Perhaps that's the point. Perhaps some see 'modern society' as growing increasingly sick. If you live in the middle of the city, perhaps some people see you as the lunatic, living among the drug-addled world of homelessness, mental illness, overpriced everything, and the pollution.

Perhaps some people prefer the slower paced nature living. You know, the trees, mountains, streams, wildlife, and stuff?

Perhaps it's you that is the lunatic... and likely narcissist.

Very well put. We're seeing real-time what robust life-risk management means. City life has it's tail risks and every so often the toll comes due - I've seen it personally, real-time in the city I live in.

The long arch of history bends towards reality. If someone told you it bends towards justice, they were lying to you're face (and you believed it).

-Krispy

If the violence and destruction were to be brought to residential neighborhoods and against ordinary citizens, then we would have what the OP is talking about, if not civil war.

The world has gone insane wrote:

Something that amazes me is how much rioting, looting, and destruction there is and how much it's being tolerated. Maybe it's because I live in Idaho, the gun-happiest state in the country, but if that stuff happened here, the perpetrators would literally be shot by civilians. Why isn't this happening elsewhere? How long before it does? Seems like might be the only way, sadly.

If the people of Idaho were subjected to decades of illegal abuses of power, assault, repeated violations of constitutional rights, and extrajudicial killings at the hands of government employees, what would happen in Idaho, "the gun-happiest state in the country"?

Would the citizens petition and complain to the government?

Would they march, with signs and chants, exercising their 1st Amendment freedoms of assembly and speech?

Would they form the National Association for the Advancement of Idaho Citizens in an effort to get the word out? Would they, say take a knee at a football game?

Would they form angry, violent mobs in the street, like the colonists did in British America during the years 1765-1775? If so, would detractors denounce these Idahoans as "rioters?"

Would these hypothetically oppressed citizens of Idaho vigorously exercise their 2nd Amendment rights?

If the people of Idaho were subjected to decades of illegal abuses of power, assault, repeated violations of constitutional rights, and extrajudicial killings at the hands of government employees, I think we all know what would happen.

Too bad they aren’t more like those folks here in NYC, e.g., at “The New York Times,” that insist that Bruce Jenner is a woman or that race- and sex-based discrimination for hiring, school admissions, vendor selection, etc., will promote societal justice and harmony.

if you live in Idaho and worried about not getting a job because you are white...........you are delusional.

and what does Caitlyn Jenner's gender have anything to do with you? Why does that threaten you?

game over wrote:

if you live in Idaho and worried about not getting a job because you are white...........you are delusional.

and what does Caitlyn Jenner's gender have anything to do with you? Why does that threaten you?

Have you zero sense of self-irony? You ranted against the allegedly lunatic beliefs of Idahoans, then questioned why I should be concerned about the allegedly lunatic beliefs, some highly discriminatory along lines of race and sex, of people much closer to me.

NYC guy wrote:

game over wrote:

if you live in Idaho and worried about not getting a job because you are white...........you are delusional.

and what does Caitlyn Jenner's gender have anything to do with you? Why does that threaten you?

Have you zero sense of self-irony? You ranted against the allegedly lunatic beliefs of Idahoans, then questioned why I should be concerned about the allegedly lunatic beliefs, some highly discriminatory along lines of race and sex, of people much closer to me.

you just compared someone who wants to be called a woman but you don't think they should be to the same level of crazy as some lunatic who wants to mow down hundreds of people with his gun.

you just equated affirmative action with mass killing.

you probably can't see the lunacy of that, but most people do.

You are exhibit A.

lil Joe wrote:

Your white privilege reeks of vile selfishness. You are. On. The. Wrong. Side. Of. History.

Interesting. You should listen to this black American speak about white privilege...

The good thing is there are still kids going beyond the pandemic and the riots and trying to be an inspiration for other kids. Most everyone else is dead weight.

The kids running today who are an inspiration ignore losers like you.

The world has gone insane wrote:

Something that amazes me is how much rioting, looting, and destruction there is and how much it's being tolerated. Maybe it's because I live in Idaho, the gun-happiest state in the country, but if that stuff happened here, the perpetrators would literally be shot by civilians. Why isn't this happening elsewhere? How long before it does? Seems like might be the only way, sadly.

In all the other states besides Idaho, people go to prison for murder.

The kids understand that rioting, looting and murder is not the way. They choose to be inspirations. They will lead the way in the future and people like you should follow their example.

TheseKidsUnderstand wrote:

The kids understand that rioting, looting and murder is not the way. They choose to be inspirations. They will lead the way in the future and people like you should follow their example.

now if only cops understood the same thing