Here's a direct quote from someone I'm close to:

"I don't agree at all with those people storming the capital. This does not represent who we are, but what do you expect when the media claims not a single voter fraud case was won in court when in fact almost all of them never went to trial? They are lying."

Nearly half the nation voted for Trump. I don't believe half the nation is full of hatred and disinformation. No more so do I feel people burning businesses and shooting cops represent the BLM movement.

These people protesting. BLM, Occupy Wallstreet, Tea Party, Voter Fraud. At a certain level, they are all protesting the same thing. They are protesting the system. Cops, Bankers, Regulators, Politicians. The wealth gap is widening and people are getting frustrated. Unfortunately people are easily misled and are resorting to group think instead of recognizing the real problem.

I'm not a republican, but does anyone not feel just a little uncomfortable that the less worse option this year was a career politician with his own sorted history and snake oil salesman smile? Come on man.

If your lawsuit doesn't even go to trial (for a variety of reasons), you clearly haven't won it. Unless you win a lawsuit, "haven't won any of their lawsuits" is 100% true. And the media did report on sme of the lawsuits being thrown out, but I'm sure they would have found something wrong with reporting that too. Or should the courts just suddenly start entertaining invalid lawsuits just so Trump lawyers don't look as incompetent? (And from reading up a bit, multiple courts have judged on merit and found that the claimants didn't provide compelling evidence for their claims)

My point was that the lawsuits are irrelevant. People are looking for answers and misplacing their blame.

Yeah, I was hoping that the HN crowd would be pondering over the root cause for how we got here. There is a reason a lot of people are angry on both the sides, and the reasons mostly overlap.

I couldn't tell, since what they have to say never reaches my feed. However I've been reading comments like yours across every platform for over a decade.

At some point I'm not sure if they're really all that, or if I was just conditioned to believe that, and to leave them out of the conversation.

I spent the last few days reading the donald site and it's just as bad as everyone says it is. Calls for refreshing the tree of liberty, calls for violence (in minecraft), etc.

Check out thedonald.win and voat if you want to see what you're missing. People saying things like this are sugar coating it.