Friend: "Yeah, but this is an ideological conflict. What types of people & ideologies come together in a moment like this to..."

Me, cutting him off: "My only ideology in this moment right now is, & #39;do not burn my stuff.& #39; It& #39;s on that low a level at this point, which is a https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚨" title="Polizeiautos mit drehendem Licht" aria-label="Emoji: Polizeiautos mit drehendem Licht">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚨" title="Polizeiautos mit drehendem Licht" aria-label="Emoji: Polizeiautos mit drehendem Licht">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚨" title="Polizeiautos mit drehendem Licht" aria-label="Emoji: Polizeiautos mit drehendem Licht">"

I can grasp & nod along with all kinds of talk of stolen labor & reparations & diversity of tactics & on & on. But when I see people& #39;s stuff on fire everywhere, & think "wow that could be my stuff that my family & community depend on for basic life functioning", it hits different

I won& #39;t tolerate fascism, won& #39;t have communism, & in general I have my opinions on the isms I like or don& #39;t like. But right now? I& #39;m lately real heavy into "just don& #39;t burn my stuff"-ism, which is one of the most primitive, uncomplicated isms you can be into. The Old Gods, sorta.

This thread is a warning to every bluecheck & egghead who thinks we& #39;re in some abstract battle of narratives, some ideological conflict in a discursive space.

No, guys, that was LAST week.

This week we& #39;re getting down to "Hey that& #39;s mine. Don& #39;t you burn it."

Maybe if we called the phenomenon of burning people& #39;s stuff "mob asset forfeiture", on the model of "civil asset forfeiture", we could get some more people to come out strongly against it.

"It& #39;s like cops taking your stuff, but a mob burns it instead of auctioning it off."

Yes. This is what& #39;s dangerous. There are supposed to be all sorts of ideological lines for me to navigate. But I& #39;m getting cornered in a place where there& #39;s only 1 line: btwn "People ok w/ Jon& #39;s stuff burning" & "People NOT ok w/ Jon& #39;s stuff burning." https://twitter.com/trapc45/status/1299439396618461186">https://twitter.com/trapc45/s...

How much of this "people ok with burning Jon& #39;s stuff" threat is real vs. how much is social media? Hard to tell, really. But I know this for certain: it was all a bunch of social media hype for the residents of Kenosha, WI up until the night it wasn& #39;t.