Once again, I'll just make it clear I abhor the actions of these rioters and have no truck with their alleged "cause" whatsoever.
What is concerning me alot is the fact that they are painting targets on the backs of their own apparent "demographic " too.
The assumptions are that they are uneducated "benefit scum" - football fans, tattooed, fuelled by alcohol and whatever else, and basically criminal.
We already see alot of judgement piled on people who are in receipt of benefits for whatever reason. Again, not going to claim that there aren't issues with the system, but in reality most people on benefits aren't lawless nor happy with it (like me).
In Canada the peaceful trucker protests ended up with protesters having their bank accounts frozen and funding removed to stop the protests.
It wouldn't be beyond the wisdom of the authorities to take a more punitive stance across the board, as the attitude is that the rioters probably have too much time on their hands and enough disposable income to wreak havoc. A wholesale clamp down on benefit claimants would appease a section of the rightly appalled who also like having a group of scapegoats to blame for all the country's ills, which is sometimes framed as "the poor" these days.
The point I'm trying to make is that these rioters may not just end up the architects of their own, quite deserved and appropriate oppression, but the populist view might mean they take a whole lot of innocent people with them as collateral damage.
And thereby we have another can of worms all round.
The more I think about it, the more potential for absolute societal breakdown I see. I'm hoping that the vast majority of people can see it too and it won't come to pass, but a desire for revenge and punishment is of course natural. But it has to be based on a case by case approach not pointing at a whole section of society and making them "Untermensch".
The idiots rioting right now are absolutely begging for having the rights they do have to be taken away by the authorities they are allegedly appealing to. If they carry on I wonder what they'll think when we're in Social Credit territory, the Internet censored far more than it is now and their freedom curtailed in an unprecedented way. They want their "rights and freedoms" but they're actually begging for a more authoritarian society, which will affect everyone down the line.