Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
Quote Originally Posted by gimmick View Post

Looting since the beginning of time has been associated with any chaotic event that caused enough disturbance. Opportunity. You're just so self centered and ignorant to even try understanding it. Americans didn't invent looting. It's been around for a while.

You think looting in London during WWII air raids was political in nature? Or hundred other examples that you don't seem to be aware of.

A random glimpse to history times...

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/ins...ome-front.html

"One of the most common crimes was looting. When a building was damaged or destroyed during bombing raids, looters would steal what they could. Both homes and shops were targets. People would come home to find that not only had their home been destroyed, but also that their possessions had been stolen. The loot may have been sold or kept by the individuals."

...Anteeeeeeeeeeefa obv.
Except it's not just looting.

The 1994 Northridge Earthquake (Los Angeles) had some looting following it. It didn't have any rioting, arson, or violence. Notice how it differed from the LA Riots two years earlier, which did have rioting/arson/violence.

Were this only looting, you'd have a point. However, it isn't. It's a full scale of violent protest combined with looting. In fact, some places like Portland have relatively little looting, but tons of violence/arson/vandalism.

Simply put, you're full of shit when you make this comparison.
Yea there's a reason why my reply was ONLY about LOOTING. You were successful in countering a point i didn't make.

This part of the thread was about common criminals being responsible for most of the looting. For unknown reasons you decided to go on a diatribe about the Left doing all of the things.

If you're confused why left is responsible for some protests turning into riots there's all sorts of reasons for that. The biggest reason is conflict escalation.

And don't worry you can find plenty of riots that have nothing to do with the Left, with all of the things (arson/violence/vandalism/looting). The biggest reason why the Right doesn't have much history in US with riots in the last 60ish years is mostly because your protests have been tiny. You know that amazing debunk of 93% of protests being peaceful because most of them were small. Let's just run with that, to waste least amount of time.

Look up The Troubles, if you're interested in protests turning into riots and how conflict escalation works. I assume that's at least something you've heard about.