{"id":74318,"date":"2020-06-03T08:35:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T13:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74318"},"modified":"2021-03-02T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T15:00:09","slug":"follow-the-hidden-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74318","title":{"rendered":"Follow The Hidden Money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

It has become obvious there were two groups reacting to George Floyd’s death.\u00a0 His family\/friends\/supporters who wanted wanted answers from government and were exercising their First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and petition for redress of grievances; and the Antifa, looking to cause trouble.
Antifa has been very careful – there have been no homes destroyed, nobody killed, no personal danger.\u00a0 They are destroying businesses to protest capitalism’s exploitation of low income and minority people.
Except . . . most businesses carry insurance and most of those policies cover “civil unrest” which means Antifa is really striking at insurance companies.\u00a0 Fine, they’re capitalist organizations, they deserve it.\u00a0\u00a0
Except insurance companies spread their risk over multiple lines – home, auto, business – so if the company takes a hit in the business line, they can cover it by raising rates in the home and auto lines.\u00a0 Which means Antifa is really attacking every home owner and car owner in Minnesota.\u00a0 Fine, they’re rich capitalist pigs, they deserve it, too.
Except . . . remember all those programs to help low income and minorities into homes?\u00a0 The escalator to wealth?\u00a0 The first step on the ladder?\u00a0 Those homes were all purchased with loans that require the homeowner to maintain insurance.\u00a0 For wealthy homeowners, no problem, pay the higher rates.\u00a0 But for marginal homeowners, it’s an issue.\u00a0 And it’s a bigger issue in the time of Covid, when minority and low income people have been laid off in higher numbers.\u00a0 Which means Antifa is really attacking low income and minority homeowners.\u00a0\u00a0
I know, it takes effort to understand your actions have effects which are SEEN and also effects which are UNSEEN.\u00a0\u00a0it takes effort to see the ripple effect of Black homelessness downstream from burning some schmuck’s\u00a0bar.\u00a0 It takes effort to redirect your actions into productive, positive, beneficial work instead of mindless destruction.
But failure to think the problem all the way through, means you end up harming the people you intended to help.\u00a0 That includes your supporters, like Governor Walz’ daughter Hope and Attorney General Ellison.\u00a0\u00a0
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

We’ll need to revisit this in ten years, when the DFL power structure wonders where the &^%^% their tax base went. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has become obvious there were two groups reacting to George Floyd’s death.\u00a0 His family\/friends\/supporters who wanted wanted answers from government and were exercising their First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and petition for redress of grievances; and the Antifa, looking to cause trouble.Antifa has been very careful – there have been no homes destroyed, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,51],"tags":[382,432],"class_list":["post-74318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","category-liberal-tyranny","tag-anti-fa","tag-george-floyd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74319,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74318\/revisions\/74319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}