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Re:White nationalist group posing as antifa called for viole... by cousin_it on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @09:44AM (#23390912)
When you loot a store in your area, you aren't hurting "rich people", because they aren't a unified blob. You're just hurting a few people, like this guy and his wife: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uqOM94RJVc Eventually they will bounce back and restart somewhere else, where they are more welcome. But your area will have fewer businesses and jobs for a long time, because you've showed everyone the return on investment.

Edit: it seems exactly this happened after the Ferguson riots https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ferguson-anniversary-fina...

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Re:White nationalist group posing as antifa called for viole... by 1MachineElf on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @10:16AM (#23391231)
Baltimore has NOT recovered from it's 2015 riots.
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Re:White nationalist group posing as antifa called for viole... by newen on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @11:56AM (#23392428)
Why should the looters care? How do the looters benefit from having stores in their area that they are too poor to buy from? The taxes from these stores are less and less helping them with social programs etc and go more towards funding police departments that brutalize them.
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Re:White nationalist group posing as antifa called for viole... by thisiszilff on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @01:14PM (#23393412)
> The taxes from these stores are less and less helping them with social programs etc and go more towards funding police departments that brutalize them.

That sounds like an assumption whose truth is heavily dependent on being in a specific locality.

> How do the looters benefit from having stores in their area that they are too poor to buy from?

Again, an assumption that is highly dependent on geography and specific looting. You're also assuming that the looters are necessarily poor -- forgetting about, for example, organized crime.

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