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I'm still shocked to this day that police weren't mowing people down as they tried to force their way in. By not doing so, they basically said, "this is fine" IMO.
Some of them on camera got caught removing the barriers and ushering them in.
"Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses"
It's clear some people haven't seen the videos that have come out: quite a few people were let in by police. There is also some number of "arrested" people who turned out to be police and there is some evidence of them agitating the crowd.
I've got to admit, having seen similar tactics at the G20 protests in Toronto that resulted in total authoritarian overreaction, I'm now reading this telling of Jan 6 as an insurrection with skepticism.
I don't watch Fox News, nor am I American.
It doesn't take a genius to see Jan 6 is more complicated than "chuds attacked the capitol". "Lefty" mainstream media in America is just a different flavour of neoliberal shit slung by an opposing oligarch. American politics and media are just IRL WWE but with actual stakes and these psychopaths on all sides don't care who they hurt.
Examples of the IRL WWE in action on the "left": Kyle Rittenhouse, Nick Sandmann, Johnny Depp. On the "right": election interference, welfare queens, Planned Parenthood rumors.
As hard as this will be for you to accept, you're being sold lies just the same as the people you mock for being uninformed.
I'd rather take a principled stance here and protect people's rights even if I find those people and their actions distasteful, than create a precedent and make those rights harder to protect and uphold later. Some of what happened here is entrapment and its bullshit.
That's a lot of words to say nothing
Ok let me simplify it for you: the story you've been told is just as fake as the Fox News story. Hope that helps.
I think what is trying to be said is the police (off duty and on) are a conservative mob whipped into a frenzy. We know this by the many that attended, participatied and were arrested, charged and sentenced for their participation. We also know this from literally the entire history of police in America.
And you have some truth you want to lay on us, or is this just a broadly conspiratorial statement?
Fuck Putin. Ask him how Democracy's Dick tastes, and how civilian volunteers with drones kicking his ass feels.
This may be an ESL thing, but your comment communicated no information. Seems to be randomly chosen words with small chunks of your opinion peppered in. But the comment itself makes absolutely zero sense.
Fuck Putin. Ask him how Democracy's Dick tastes, and how civilian volunteers with drones kicking his ass feels.
So this was a left wing plot and for the first several hours, as Republicans begged Trump to do literally anything and he refused, he was actually doing what in your mind? Fighting a hidden battle against the deep state? All evidence suggests that Trump was more than OK with what was happening as it furthered his goals and supported his many other schemes of fraud, deception, and intimidation in order to remain in power.
no one is saying it was a left wing plot
Sure lol. Plenty of Republicans have blamed Antifa. But call it what you want, left wing plot, deep state plot, whatever. Whatever it is, it must be a master class in false flag operations considering it played right into everything that Trump had been broadcasting, desiring, and preparing for. They got him to play right along, vocally support the rioters, and withhold any assistance for the targets? Truly the greatest conspiracy of all time.
no one in this thread is saying it was a left wing plot. you're tilting at windmills.
Like I said, call it whatever you want. It's still stupid.
Fuck Putin. Ask him how Democracy's Dick tastes, and how civilian volunteers with drones kicking his ass feels.
Fuck Putin. Ask him how Democracy's Dick tastes, and how civilian volunteers with drones kicking his ass feels.
I have a flat earth to sell you!
I can't tell if you're agitating on the side of the insurrectionist traitors, or just stating facts. But there were collaborators on the side of the defenders. Multiple law enforcement and active military members have been arrested and charged for their participation of the insurrection.
I watched it live. the more aggressive chuds are bad guys, but so are Congress and the capitol police and federal prosecutors and the fuckin media. letting the chuds go is good precedent for my freedom. siding with the police state is bad for my freedom. I don't need to agree with the chuds to keep shouting "fuck the police"
This is exactly where I'm at. Taking a principled stance here means we protect our own rights down the road, which I think are far more valuable than jailing some gullible idiots.
So you’re saying the Police are complicit with Trump and his violent right wing extremists?
If it had been a liberal mob, we'd be marking the anniversary of the January 6 massacre, and it'd be a holiday for Republicans.
This. When I first heard I imagined they'd set up a few MG nests and show they weren't fucking around. I was quite surprised by how little a reaction, especially from the most gun happy country
They were the right colour.
They also had the right political views.
If they weren't lily white, it would have be a bloodbath, Tianemen Square style.
The seditionists were likely well armed, so firing at them might have felt like suicide.
I feel like there's a major attribute of most of the crowd that affected this...