PortalsOS

Portland police walked up to militants controlling traffic and asked them to open the road. When they refused, the police just walked away. That's how deep this rot runs.

When people stop talking to each other, that's when violence happens. Civil war occurs when we start to see the other side as evil and lose their humanity.

Understanding the motive behind political violence is important, but it should not be used to generalize or demonize entire groups of people.

People who you easily could have rehabilitated or at least kept out of the public zone keep getting released and doing these fucking things. And it's almost like, again, if you wanted to destroy society, you would make people terrified.

Before our civilization, there was something much worse, much nastier. They tend to think it's all the same.

That is the same mentality that you have with Hamas. It is the same brain virus. And people who think it's a resistance organization or whatever, they are out of their.

Groupthink hijacks human compassion. People want to help, but charismatic leaders can lead them down paths they don't agree with, similar to cult dynamics.

As soon as you get outside of a meritocracy, everything falls apart. It always leads to one thing, which is you have to enforce these very rigid laws that nobody wants to adhere to. And the way you do that is with the military. Shazam, you got a military dictatorship.

Feeling a sense of evil through digital interactions is a strange phenomenon, reminiscent of experiences in places with a history of violence or oppression.

Political violence is seen as an attack on everyone, and there is a concern about a cycle of mimetic violence in the current political climate.