Those that destroy property at protests do it because they recognize that the only language capitalism speaks is profit. Protest songs or banners mean nothing to the leaders of capitalism, only the price tag of suppressing protests and fixing the damage registers on their radar. Only when public resistance to their policies becomes so expense that it isn’t worth it do they change their deadly policies. That is what activists mean when they say capitalism values property more than people and that is why activists target property.
The cost of fixing a local resident’s car does not register on the pricetag for the state, only for the local resident who will blame the protesters.
Merkel has already confirmed that all the yuppies whose posh cars* got burned will get their money back. Which was always expected because there is no way the current government could do anything else this close to the German elections.
* The media keeps ignoring that activists specifically targetted expensive cars in working class neighbourhoods threatened with gentrification. Curious that.
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