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So seems the USA is very quickly mirroring the rise of Nazism (though with different races being targeted)..
We are past the Resistag Fire, that was 9/11, we are past the Reichstag fire decree, that was the patriot act.. right now seems we are at the "Kristallnacht" stage. Race riots where businesses and homes are being burnt and destroyed based on the race of the owner.
Looks like we will have full on oppression and violence from here on out.
Good job USA!
@realcaseyrollins No I am not suggesting these are literal neo-nazis or that the ideals of nazism is on the rise itself.
I'm saying it parallels nazism, the players and ideology is all different, but the broad strokes are the same.. A rice is seen as the evil entity that needs to be attacked (whites), an oppressive government taking away its peoples rights, and race riots to seal the deal.
all the elements are there, no one will be wearing swastikas or hailing hitler though.
@freemo
Right on.
One issue that gets lost in the sauce tho is that this is probably more of a class thing than a race thing, although who is on whose side is racially imbalanced.
It's largely the government & business owners vs. consumers
It **should** be more of a class thing.. it isnt though.
One piece of evidence against that. the upper class business owners arent all getting attacked equally. People are putting "minority owned" in their windows and getting passed up by rioters while the white owned businesses are being destroyed and burned the the ground.
It is clear its not about class, if it was the minority owned businesses would be targeted just as easily as the white owned ones.
@freemo
Minority businesses actually are getting targeted. Not sure what the ratio of the targeting is
@realcaseyrollins targeted? or just accidentally destroyed because no one really knew or rioting became indiscriminate?
That said I really wouldnt be surprised if there are some people who are also racist assholes who might use the chaos to get some good old fashion racism against balcks or other minorities in too. riots are chaos there is likely a little bit of everything.
But from I'm seeing most of the hate seems targeted at whites in the riots.
@freemo It is not clear to me that the business being torched and looted has anything to do with the "race" of the owners. Mob mentality does not reason. It just goes forth and destroys everything in its wake.
@lordalveric there is a lot of just random rioting i agree.. but there is a clear pattern here on the ground of businesses with "minority owned" on the window and every building to either side on fire and destroyed and the minority one untouched... This happens enough times to be a pattern.
@freemo I have not noticed "minority owned" signs in the windows, and not every "minority owned" business puts those signs in their windows!
In fact, any business could slap those signs up, "white"-owned or otherwise.
Sometimes, the "blacks" hate certain minorities, like the Chinese or Koreans that sometimes open shops in their neighbourhoods. They've been targeted in some of the riots in the past.
Whatever. This is a great tragedy, on a scale larger than I can recall, ever. I think some of the riots in the 60s may have been at this scale, but I was in single-digits then, age-wise.
@lordalveric You are in germany, of course you dont.. they are everywhere here.
Yes anyone could throw one up.. and maybe some do. but point is people are doing it and it is working.
@freemo The really sad tragedy is that the business they burn to the ground or loot were probably perhaps employing a lot of people from the community, and now those jobs are gone. Simply gone, not to return for many years, regardless of the skin hues of the owners.
@lordalveric of course its pathetic and self defeating, that doesn't help.
@freemo And they never bloody learn, either. Year after year, decade after decade, same old story.
Get back to the land of -- relative -- sanity as soon as you can.
@lordalveric its high on my list. I mostly came here to protect my property and friends witht he expectation of riots.. second they started locking people down I expected riots would come soon enough
@freemo On that matter, you were spot on. A powder keg waiting to be tamped off. And oh man, what a powder keg!!!!! 
Take care man.
@lordalveric thanks you too
@freemo Nazis? I haven't seen many literaly Neo-Nazis running around, although I admit, so much crap is going down that it's hard to keep track of everything.