Stores near my area are boarding up shops so no dumbasses come and loot. But I gotta ask, why did the death of one nigger (George Floyd), who wasn't even a good person be the "last straw" that triggered all this rioting and protesting? Why does everyone care about BLM now? Did the corona lock down help negatively escalate everything?
BLM started in 2013, and I still remember it being somewhat "acceptable" to say "All Lives Matter" in like 2014/2015. With only the SJW and or the black community being mad for saying that. Now everyone who says All Lives Matters gets mocked and ridiculed.
Where was all this support for all the people who were unjustly killed by cops prior? Now everyone seems to be talking about BLM. I'm hearing reports of different countries beyond America also having protests in "solidarity" with America and or protests on police brutality.
I'm not saying that these people who are standing up against/police brutality/corruption/etc are wrong or shouldn't do so. It just seems disingenuous and band wagon hopping. Especially since I'll bet that no "earth shattering" changes will come from this.
I'm going to second the notion that COVID-19 more or less exacerbated everything and upped a lot of the preexisting tension greatly.
There's probably a lot of other shady shit since it's an election year, Biden is a dud of a candidate, and all other attempts to remove Trump have failed miserably. I'd say the DNC and the corporate lobbyists who back them are fanning the flames and it's pretty damn obvious BLM and Antifa are in on it. I also wouldn't be surprised if China was doing some shady stuff in the midst of this as well.
Basically, the Millennial Left and the neoliberal corporate bigwigs who back them have gotten desperate and used George Floyd's death as the opportunity to more or less activate the last plan they have and basically enact a coup.
The ratcheting of woke culture for the eight years helped set the stage and get their shock troops to act like it's their time, with the corporate overlords endorsing BLM (and by extension Antifa) to give this movement a sense of legitimacy and the social media commissars taking the mask off for good and starting the Maoist struggle sessions in earnest.
Which is stupid because any rebellion that sticks takes years (and is often accompanied by war). For the most part, life is normal for everyone outside the major cities. On top of that, too many people are comfortable with what they have to create a rebellion (that was actually one of the biggest problems at the beginning of the Revolutionary War in the US and it took Thomas Paine’s book Common Sense to get more people to join the cause). When it came to the Russian Revolution, there was an initial 1905 Revolution, but the real power shift didn’t happen until 1917. This is why it will fail. Too many people are comfortable and the people leading this “revolution” have no patience, planning, or even practical goals to set in after taking power.
Even then, the Russian Revolution didn't get any traction until World War I ruined the Russian economy and resulted in Russia getting its ass handed to them by Germany at Tannenberg and Masurian Lakes early on in the war (they fared better against Austria-Hungary though)
The war made life for the Russian people so difficult they threw their weight behind Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
Similarly, the French Revolution was kicked off by a tanking economy coupled with crop failures and a famine.
We haven't gotten to that point just yet, even with Corona wrecking the economy in the months leading up to the riots, but we're dangerously close and if this coup can't be stopped before the year is over, then we probably will be at the point for an actual revolution, as horrifying as that will be.
