09-03-2020, 10:41 AM
(09-03-2020, 03:01 AM)Dill Wrote: 1. Who "allows it to continue"? Biden and Harris are not in power. They can't order police into the streets. The mayors in the afflicted cities are not "allowing" it to continue, even if efforts to prevent it are not always effective. The mayors and governors in question are not using the tactics you want, and certainly not the ones Trump wants. That doesn't mean rioters have their permission.
Standing by and doing nothing is not a tactic. Not prosecuting rioters is. Both enable riots.
Quote:2. My description of a division in the US over the causes of the protests and riots neither states nor implies that numbers make beliefs "correct" or "truthful" or "moral." You are refuting a "logic" which isn't there. Numbers are not "irrelevant" to elections and policies, though.
So your point was just that numbers matter in elections? I guess thanks for pointing out the obvious.
Quote:3. No one has "mitigated" the violence, unless you are refering to Trump's exception for his supporters. And it is not a "correct tactic" to focus on effects in place of causes.
Utterly false. The protests have consistently been described as "largely peaceful" long past the time this was true.
Quote:4. Not sure, with the amount of thread space devoted to who "condemns violence" or not, and assumptions the violence is "allowed."
Your not being sure doesn't mean the rest of us aren't.