Mostly Peaceful Explosives
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They shouldnt be doing that, but those are literal fireworks. Fireworks are to explosions as butter knives are to bladed weapons. It is technically the case, but institutionally speaking, the extremeified version of the language is used to disempower people. Gun? Assault rifle->legislation. Butter knife? Bladed weapon->legislation. Protester? Terrorist->legislation. Critique? Hate speech->legislation. When I notice this lingual effect, I consider it to be a red flag for manipulation, and somehow it is always in the same direction, even when I get caught up in some situation and convince myself that it's not- it is.
Fireworks can and often have started fires before. It's just 1 step below a Molotov Cocktail, eh? And they throw those too (maybe not here but in The Summer OF Love they sure did) along with bottles of their diseased urine & etc.
Hey man, yeah, not gonna argue with you there, because that's my point about the system escalating the language as a method for control. A butter knife has been the weapon used in horrible acts, for instance. The categorical truth is what provides the escalation with permission. I'm not telling you it would be bad for antifa & friends to get buttfucked for blowing fireworks in doorways as explosive weapons. I'm just saying that it's always the same with the state- it doesnt select by loyalty, it selects for power. Selecting a convenient moment to establish fireworks as terroristic explosions is the same as selecting a convenient moment to characterize a butter knife as weapon of le deaf. It is the same function of influence, committed against the same body: common people as a whole.
Divide and conquer requires division. We can see this in broad concept and it seems simple, but when we are in the midst of the effect we usually make the rationalizations that we are expected to make- rendering the tactic effective