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For reference, this is equal to the cost of the Intuit Dome, the Clippers' new stadium in Los Angeles.

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The Rabbit Hole

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Dec 16

Most Liberals think the BLM Riots resulted in less than $10 million dollars in property damage. Reality: The BLM Riots resulted in around $2 billion dollars in property damage.

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Noah Smith

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Dec 17

$2B is also the cost of the city's new water filtration system in Portland.

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Where does this claim of $2 billion in damage come from?

George Floyd protests - Wikipedia

and it's certainly an undercount since there's no way to track uninsured expenses. i know multiple people in LA who had their tiny, uninsured stores destroyed by rioters. i guess they didn't like black owned bicycle shops.

opportunity cost. what’s the lost earnings potential?

Andrew Kalinowski

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Dec 17

My cake store in Emeryville, CA had about $200k of damage alone. And I'm one store of 20 in a shopping center that got completely looted/run over by "protesters" (Understanding that there are legitimate protesters - just not these ones)

I don’t think many people appreciate how the acceptance and lack of consequences from the BLM riots led to the capital riot. It was mentioned, but people on the left just effortlessly hand-waved it as “not the same thing” because of course their riots are justified.

This is still a meme on the right

Yeah and not one person was held accountable that I am aware of.

We didnt have to pay police 1 billion in overtime.

BLM was specifically targeting Asian owned businesses and the Democrats cheered.

There were also dozens of murders (most still unsolved) associated with the movement and its myriad disturbances.

well this is a big country with lots of places where protests took place

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For a different kind of reference, Beryl, the fourth-costliest hurricane of the 2024 season, did $8 billion in damage. Debby did $12 billion, Milton did $85 billion, and Helene did $114 billion.

I'd be skeptical here. The source linked on the chart is just this WEF article which includes the disclaimer "The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum.", and includes no citations or data.

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How 2020 protests changed insurance forever

The recent increase in the size and frequency of insurance industry losses from riot and civil disorder is alarming and the threat hasn’t receded.

I could see challenging the $2 billion figure, but it’s kind of odd there hasn’t been an effort (in, say, newspapers) to quantify the damage

"the Intuit Dome" well i think its cool they stopped calling it the Eskimo dome at least

Artzf

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Dec 17

It’s equivalent to destroying ~4,500 homes at the median price of ~$450k.

That's still ... a lot?

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Dec 17

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Citing a post that Elon replied "wow!" to makes me immediately skeptical

Add in fentanyl challenges and cities like Portland have a bigger hill to climb to get back to normal Our politicians are acting like we're on the right track, but we're don't have the facilities to help the addicts We can't let anyone think the urban crisis is ok

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