America is Fucked

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  • NBQ001

    Non-violent Protests are good but this shit has nothing to do with Floyd or standing up against racism.

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    • And beyond that it undermines the actual legitimate causes and issuesMondoMorphic
    • America is rotting at its core.utopian
    • Rome is burning.NBQ00
    • The legitimate cause is capitalism. This was inevitable since the crash of 2008, just surprised it’s taken this long.SlashPeckham
    • I don’t agree with looting btwSlashPeckham
    • Capitalism is the cause? Yeah, right.NBQ00
    • This is what happens when you have gross inequality.Chimp
    • "people reacting to looting like it's murder is what happens in a country that treats people like things and things like people"Milan
    • We're seeing a system that can't correct itself.. Housing, education, food, art are commodities the capitalist system can't deliver in a way that nourishes.SlashPeckham
    • So yeah its capitalism. It's eating our society and will burn down the environment. I'm not a communist btwSlashPeckham
    • Looting is just stealing and vandalism
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    • There's looting and there's less bad looting I think. If you loot a family store that's terrible and you really screw people. If you loot a chainstore with aBeeswax
    • muitimillion dollar corporation that pays min wage to most of its workers, some shady manufacturing in an asian country with tax breaks worth millions againBeeswax
    • that's kind of a harm that they have deal with. They can't always win right? Let them lose a little. And you know they are all insured for this.Beeswax
    • Yeah that’s fine, but don’t forget that millions see the footage and write you off as thugs
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    • And these looters are those min wage starbucks workers, who need medicaid or medicare etc. if they get sick, who will never own a property and forever serveBeeswax
    • Do you want to be right? Or do you want to be effective?
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    • these masters.Before judging looting maybe judge the system.I wouldnt loot coz I can afford that stuff but they can't.The system blocked them from reaching therBeeswax
    • In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.Sellies
    • Unfortunately, force always attracts men of low morality.Sellies
    • In this democracy it’s the irrational desires of the majority which are in control. Desires which are controlled by.. the marketSlashPeckham
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