Did Twitter et al get all twisted in a bunch about it?
Invading the capitol building to stop the electoral count and intimidate congress into overturning the election results is not symbolic.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/408169-police-arrest-128...
You're comparing that with a mob of people who violently clashed with the police outside the Capitol, then stormed inside, broke windows, climbed the walls, sat inside offices with their feet up on desks, walked away with "souvenirs", and planted IEDs. The result of that? 13 arrests.
Can you please explain why your comparison is not disingenuous?
"Demonstrators wore shirts that said "Believe Women" and "Be A Hero" in support of Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez, who have each accused Kavanaugh of separate incidents of sexual assault. Kavanaugh has strongly denied the allegations."
How many offices did they trash? How many people died? How many injured? How many had pipes, clubs or guns? How many had molotov cocktails?
That'd be zero on all counts.
At worst, the Kavanaugh protestors committed trespass and pleaded to swing voters; whereas yesterday's mob broke property, assaulted police, looted, and had the intent to overturn the democratic process. While flying confederate and Trump flags and tearing down American flags.
This is genuinely new example of the hypocrisy of the left. I wonder how the apologists will contend with this.
There are pictures of literal Nazis — like, literal literal — holding up nameplates broken off walls [1]. They broke into offices, left threatening messages [2], made it out safely and proudly showed off stolen items [3].
[1] https://twitter.com/beschlossdc/status/1346971421134741505
[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-supporters-leave-threa...
[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/ks29bj/the_man_shown_...
Five people are dead.
Dozens are injured, several severely.
A number of those taken into custody were found with molotov cocktails, police-style plastic restraints, pipes, clubs and firearms.
What do you think they were going to do with those molotov cocktails? Drink them?
Or the restraints?
Don't minimize what happened or compare it to other bad acts.
I don't know of any public official (except President Trump) who encouraged or condoned violence of any kind.
Facts matter.
Does that mean in the future demonstrations and protests that could potentially end up in violence like that be suppressed by Facebook and Twitter? Or can we expect partisanship and see them bless other protests that turn to violence?
Note: I do not condone occupying public buildings like this. That’s unacceptable. But I think that should be applied evenly to all protests and wherever property is destroyed.