Subj : Re: Fundamentalists and
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Mon Sep 05 2022 22:49:57

On 05 Sep 2022, Mike Powell said the following...
 MP> > Are anarchists leftist, though? Anarchy doesn't seem like it would have 
 MP> > of a social safety net. "Every man for himself" doesn't seem very
 MP> > "socialist." It sounds much more "rugged individualist" to me.
 MP> Anarchy is extreme left wing.  It is the eventual (de-)evolution
 MP> on the socialism-communism spectrum... your society (d)evolves to the
 MP> point where it no longer needs government because everyone is doing what
 MP> they are "supposed to," without threat from a government, to keey the
 MP> socialist / communist society going.
 MP> 
 MP> Practicing Anarchist seem not to have the patience to wait for the
 MP> (de-)evolution to happen naturally, I will grant you that.

Anarchy is also extreme right-wing. It's the cross-over behind the political
spectrum.

 MP> > I never denied that there were riots, but I did try to puch back on the 
 MP> > that the protests in general were violent, which they were not.
 MP> > On the other hand, the George Floyd riots were widespread across the US 
 MP> > only a few of them having violence associated with them.
 MP> Riot, by definition, is a violent disturbance.  Unlike the 2020
 MP> narrative, you don't have "peaceful" riots.  By your admission, "riots
 MP> were widespread across the US," which, by the definition of riot, means
 MP> there was also violence across the US.

There was, but in a very limited scope.

 MP> > The vast majority of the protesters were, in fact, peaceful. There were
 MP> > hundreds of arrests of those suspected of violence, although they did no
 MP> > the individual news attention that the insurrectionists are getting.
 MP> In hindsight, wouldn't you say they should have?

Perhaps.

 MP> On the Louisville news, they did a good job of showing some of the
 MP> rioting and destruction that happened downtown, but the only time they
 MP> covered arrests were when peaceful protesters (in the true sense) were
 MP> arrested for tresspassing after congregating on, and refusing to leave,
 MP> private property.

Yeah, I don't know why they didn't cover the majority of criminal
consequences.

 MP> Oh, yeah, and they also covered the arrest of an armed protester who
 MP> accidentally shot one of his fellow protesters.

And there's that.

 MP> To my knowledge, they never made any arrests when it came to the
 MP> person(s) who threatened to blow up buildings and cause other harm to
 MP> state employees in the Capitol City during 2020, that closed state
 MP> government for two days.

Our knowledge is often limited.

Jeff.

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