it's a question i've posed before to 'this is what you SHOULD do' types say you've been sent back in time to after the rodney king tape has been broadcast. it is march 1991. the LA riots will happen in april 1992. you have about a year inbetween." how would you stop the LA riots from happening? - ThreadSky

spacetwinks.bsky.social • 13 days ago

it's a question i've posed before to 'this is what you SHOULD do' types

say you've been sent back in time to after the rodney king tape has been broadcast. it is march 1991. the LA riots will happen in april 1992. you have about a year inbetween."

how would you stop the LA riots from happening?

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semperfitrex.bsky.social•13 days ago

Tell the LAPD politely but firmly to be nice.

walguns.bsky.social•13 days ago

That's one hell of a gamejam idea

spacetwinks.bsky.social•13 days ago

in order to prevent the LA Riots you have to either, A) convince the LAPD to genuinely make amends to the black community or at least get the courts, heavily manipulated by the cops at the time, to convict, or B) make a speech so convincing it totally negates all anger.

are these realistic?

spacetwinks.bsky.social•13 days ago

like you think about it, of course you're not preventing the LA riots, not even with magical future knowledge of what's going to happen. how could you possibly. there's too many people involved, it's too big, and the cops have too much invested in maintaining immunity to consequences.

spacetwinks.bsky.social•13 days ago

the ultimate effect here is people mostly spitting to the wind, and, being gracious, i think at least some of it is an - understandable - act of desperation from feeling a lack of ability to control or influence the circumstances around them.

but it's still spitting into the wind.

spacetwinks.bsky.social•13 days ago

there's the other bit to it, to all the "don't do this, don't do that" where people seem to unconsciously assume there's someone commanding all choices of how to react like a strategy game, or that everyone will of course react with perfect rational calm in a very blatant crisis point.

spacetwinks.bsky.social•13 days ago

i think that they think that they would, of COURSE, react perfectly rationally in such a situation and not do anything that would reflect badly, or could be used for smearing propaganda. a kind of 'i am the batman of protests'.

i don't think it's conscious most of the time. but it's... heh. y'know.

grimalex.bsky.social•13 days ago

You see something similar on reddit when somebody posts a "fail vid" of a common accident.

According to the redditors, they would *never* make such a mistake themselves. They would simply evaluate the situation rationally, ignore all distractions, and act correctly all within a fraction of a sec.

spacetwinks.bsky.social•13 days ago

anyway. cheers to all the motherfuckers pushing ICE back, boo to all the fucking scolds and "in this situation i would simply act perfectly and in a way the right wing and cops (but i repeat myself) could never distort to use against me or my cause"

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