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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by southeastern on Saturday January 09, 2021 @02:23AM (#25698314)
But this wasn't a rally. This was literally them storming the halls of Congress to take back their country from what they believe are corrupt communist deep state agents. Why do they believe that? Because their leader Trump has been amplifying this type of conspiratorial misinformation on Twitter for the past 4 years
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by notSupplied on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:56PM (#25702609)
The “the percent of protests that are peaceful” largely depends on what you decide to include in that category.

Suppose the peaceful portion of BLM protests didn’t happen, would the violent riots go from being justified to unjust? Why would the presence of the peaceful protests change our moral assessment of the violent ones? Same with the MAGA demonstrations. It should not matter that there were numerous other peaceful MAGA rallies when assessing the storming on the capital.

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