Here’s what I read from Terminal. The system didn’t diminish violence, it caused it. Society protested but that was ignored. The system caused more violence which is training the rest of society to be violent.
None of this would have happened if the system wasn’t violent. You can call that inherent, but I’d say that if it was so inherent, it would have been the first response, not the last. Society has been trying for decades to deal with this peacefully and only limited progress has been made. This is a reaction to a problem and thought, ‘hey that system gets to enforce its will on others, lets copy that.)
(I’m putting in the qualifier that the system has some violence inherent to it. This is a case where someone jumped over that line and then into the next state. It wasn’t even close.)
edit: Maybe I could say it this way. Violence is inherent is the system. It’s a very poor idea that society is now copycatting.
Right, terminal is saying the system caused the violence. It's "inherent in the system". So long as the system exists, the violence exists, and if the system disappears, the violence disappears. These are the claims of anarchists and communists, who don't see the world the way most people do. The system they say is inherently violent is the Republic, it's capitalism, it's the very idea of police. Most people see government and police as a method to address their problems. Antifa sees them as the cause of the problems. That's what it means to say the violence is inherent in the system.
The people gathering at government buildings and police precincts obviously don't believe that. They're going to these places seeking reform and redress. They believe the system can be rid of this violence and are demanding it. If you think the violence is inherent in the system, you don't waste your breath demanding reform, that would just be shouting at a brick wall expecting it to move. The system cannot be reformed, the violence cannot be removed from it, it is
inherent. If a problem is inherent to a system, the only options are accept the problems in perpetuity or revolt and tear that system down. It's not police reform, it's no police. It's not pay for people's needs, it's eliminate the idea of payments. It's not change the nation's laws, it's the total elimination of the nation-state as we know it. These are the desires of anarcho-communists, of Antifa. Most people see violence occurring in spite of the systems we have in place to protect us. Antifa sees all violence as the result of those systems, and revolution as the answer.
So when people are peacefully demonstrating for change, and somebody shows up with bricks, it's not far out there to suggest it's the people who see violence inherent in the system. Those who see peaceful protest as utterly meaningless are left only with the options of give up or break things. Antifa breaks things.
Cells still have leadership, Antifa has an absurdly flat hierarchy, literally anyone can and does claim membership since it’s less a group than a way of approaching activism. There is no “boss” to most groups, though some more focused organizations may have a defined structure.
You don't need a boss to be violent. You don't need a hierarchy. A Discord server is the level of organization you'd need to get bricks to city centers uniformly.
Please point me to any antifa group who's explicit message is to raise the intensity of the scuffle, cause there will be thousands of exceptions. Hell, the John Brown Gun Club advocate turning up to demos with rifles, and they are there explicitly to de-escalate situations by coming in with firepower.
You do understand this is super dumb, right? You've said this before, and it was dumb then, and it's dumb now. You're not going to convince reasonable people that showing up with rifles is promoting peace. You wouldn't suggest the armed idiots marching on coronavirus responses are more peaceful because they have guns, I'm not giving you even the suggestion that your armed idiots are somehow different. This is dumb.