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  Yep, I mean it's like the cities during BLM that "burned to the ground" and when people are: "Ummm... that's one store or one location and only happened in two major cities and at the worse was $2K in damages." These people are: "oh no, you are living in a fantasy world." or "Well, they rebuilt it over night using tax payers money to hide it." The real reason, I'll quote my former co-worker: "Should have been like the 1960s when they would shoot protesters for damages." When they were born over a decade later after that happened. Yet, thought the freedom conveys and January 6th were "peaceful protests". When everything showed they weren't and people have admitted they were screwed over by Trump. 
  It's like the boss or assistant manager that blames all the problems of a department or their own failings on the employee who does: all the sales, customer service and orders and has a damn good track record. Yet always blames them for not making them look good or the place's failures are on them. Then when that said employee quits or does get fired over a "made up issue". Then they are left to their own mechanics and then the real manager or board of directors see that they are a complete moron and they really don't know what they are doing. Then they come back with: "But it's not my fault, if they would have let me abuse them more, we wouldn't be in this mess." Board/Manager: "But the loses are all on you, you signed off on it." The assistant manager: "No that wasn't me."  Board/Manager: "That's your signature here." Assistant Manager: "... I'm fired aren't I?"
context: A huge problem is that many Americans find reality to painful so they seek out disinformation that fits what they want the world to be like. >
  
  The gutting of the middle class, increased costs of raising a healthy nuclear family (which society heavily pressures people to do), instability in the work place, decline of social support systems (and its replacement with much less healthy elements in social media) and increases in poverty caused by wealth concentration were always going to open the gates to these kinds of issues.
  It's no excuse for bad behaviors, but they do not necessarily happen in a vacuum either.
  My one hope is that by exposing our society's deep problems, it's finally also forcing us to confront them, even if only slowly. >
  
  These are features not bugs.