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   Stephen Brooks 🦆 (sjb@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 06:38:04 JST Stephen Brooks 🦆

   It's funny how governments offer all sorts of theories on why riots happen, but "government policy" is never one of them.

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     Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 06:38:14 JST Wolf480pl

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     @sjb that'd be like being asked "why did the rocket fail" and answering "because we tried to fly it"

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     Stephen Brooks 🦆 (sjb@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 06:53:34 JST Stephen Brooks 🦆

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     • Wolf480pl

     @wolf480pl My angle is amusement at all the blame-shifting. After 2001 it was always "the terrorists did it" and after 2010 "the social media did it".

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     Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 06:53:35 JST Wolf480pl

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     @sjb I was trying to imply that the questiin govts are asking are "how do we implement this policy withiut causing riots", so answering "don't implement this policy, implement a different one" would kinda miss the point.

     Though that's a bit of a sarcastic answer, assuming the worst intentions on govt's part...

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     Stephen Brooks 🦆 (sjb@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 06:53:36 JST Stephen Brooks 🦆

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     • Wolf480pl

     @wolf480pl or "because we built it wrong"?