[rhegart]

Upper middle class morons who’ve never faced hardships or seen true evil, just lived in their bubble want to feel important and hyper tribalism reinforced via social media anger bubbles makes it a waste of time to have any nuance or discussions. These mobs are ruining primarily low income and minority lives while blue check marks rile them up and media gaslights and fans the flames. Every single city which has had these riots has seen a dramatic upshot in violent crime and economy ravaged. None have recovered since Ferguson

[coenhyde]

Well yes. But it goes both ways. I would argue that the Right doesn't have the ability to have a nuance discussion around this topic either. They read the headline "defund the police" and assume that means less police to deal with violent crimes. "defund the police" means to reallocate resources from police to people better capable of resolving low impact community issues. And let the police deal with violent crimes. If done properly you might see more police resources available to keep the community safe from violent crime.

[endogui]

If the staff in your local monopoly grocery store is underperforming, do you defund the store? How about your engineering company? In each case, the solution is to replace/remove under-performers while increasing funding, rather than to defund.

This is what Camden did when they "defunded": dissolve the city police, bringing the city under county sheriff jurisdiction, then pay for new staffing at the county level. They may have been able to save some money because they broke the police union, but in the long term funding increased.

[tossthisacct5]

Agreed riots against individualsand businesses and people in communities is extremely counterproductive and is mostly a result of directionless and angry people acting like idiots.

Instead, there should be organization and all violence should be directed to the state sponsored goon squads that can break into people's home and murder them with little to no consequence.

Of course, this has happened before and ended with the comical exposure of the right wing clowns that still serve as idols of right wingers today.

[yters]

also a lot of the riotets are young, upper middle class, white males

what says black lives matter better than trashing their neighborhoods?

read ellison's invisible man written in 1950s to see how long white people have been exploiting African Americans in this way!

[dragonwriter]

A number that have been caught actually rioting are white supremacists seeking to provoke a race war, and at least some caught encouraging it online (haven't seen any caught actually rioting)have been specifically police officers that are also white supremacists seeking to provoke a race war.