#BlackLivesMatter protesters enter residential areas in Georgetown, Washington DC, just to wake up the “White, rich people” who are guilty of trying to sleep at night pic.twitter.com/DuckMAUfOD
— BasedPoland (@BasedPoland) August 9, 2020
#Antifa are attacking an Amazon store again in Seattle. They’ve using sledgehammers and have been rioting for hours and smashing businesses in and around Capitol Hill. Video by @BGOnTheScene #SeattleRiots pic.twitter.com/iB4sIVyoBd
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 10, 2020
“We’re gonna burn your building down”
“We know where you live”
As #antifa have taken to Portland residential areas to riot, they’ve also assaulted & intimidated residents there. Tonight, they threatened those who looked out the window. #PortlandRiots pic.twitter.com/1qiIOLk99j
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 9, 2020
Looters broke into a Chicago mall and are looting the place clean tonight. #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/wKJZbcvpoZ
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 10, 2020
I don’t think people who aren’t in Chicago realize how nuts this is. The area that that got “flash-mob” looted yesterday is the absolute heart of the commercial/tourist downtown. They targeted the high-end stores intentionally. This is lawlessness on a wild-West level scale.
— Jeff B., now with 50% more annoyingness (@EsotericCD) August 10, 2020
Again, people not familiar with the geography of the city don’t understand what’s happening right now: the entire central section of Chicago (The Loop, more or less) is currently shut down to traffic. They *raised the bridges*. It’s some serious ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK-level shit.
— Jeff B., now with 50% more annoyingness (@EsotericCD) August 10, 2020
“Human life is conducted on a thin crust of normality, in which mutual respect maintains a genial equilibrium between people. Beneath this thin crust is the dark sea of instincts, quiescent for the most part but sometimes erupting in a show of violence. Above it is the light-filled air of thought and imagination, into which our sympathies expand and which we people with our visions of human value. Culture is the collective practice which renews those visions and extends our sympathies into all the corners of the heart. It is the ongoing record of the life of feeling which offers to every new generation the examples, images and words that will teach it what to feel. But when the eruptions come it can do nothing to tame the violence. Nor can religion do anything, nor can ordinary morality. For violence breeds violence, and anger breeds anger. Good people, whether educated or uneducated, whether aesthetes or philistines, will try to bring order and decency in the midst of chaos but bad people will always resist them, and in the worst moments of human conflict it is the bad people who prevail. Some of these bad people will be cultivated; some will be religious; all of them will be bent on a path of destruction, consulting their faith or their education only as a source of excuses, and never as an order to stop. No institution, no doctrine, no art that human beings have devised has ever been able to prevent the atrocities that occur once the crust of normal life has broken.”
— Roger Scruton, Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged