Patrick Casey was giving some literally retarded takes on live stream a little while back, talking about how this "wasn't a big deal" compared to the size of Ferguson and Cincinnati riots. Maybe it's just me, but I have never seen this level of public support for looting and illegalism before. I think quibbling about dollar damages and casualty figures is missing the forest for the trees, even if the destruction in this incident doesn't become as extensive as I think it will become. What matters is that there is public sanction for uprising, even if it is a very opportunistic and unfocused type of uprising. That has the potential to develop in interesting directions.
In a sense, this is quite exhilarating to watch, because I really do think that we are continuing to see more and more confirmation of Turchin's hypotheses.
I still believe that the 2020s will be the most momentous decade since the 1960s.