The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance

Re:The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance by ben509 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @02:15PM (#25703540)

A coup is when state actors illegally overthrow other state actors. Most coups are pulled off by militaries, e.g. how Pinochet got into power.

This would be an uprising; it's being called a "coup" because uprising sounds sympathetic.

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Re:The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance by DangitBobby on Saturday January 09, 2021 @02:37PM (#25703810)

I still think it's possible someone was attempting a coup but that the protestors were not in on it.

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Re:The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance by beerandt on Saturday January 09, 2021 @03:53PM (#25704631)

If so, I struggle to see what the desired outcome would have been at the capital.

But people need to be careful, because by saying it was a coup, it normalizes the concept for those who saw Wednesday as a good faith protest march, regardless of what it's now perceived as.

Changing/ shifting the definition of words has behavioral consequences.

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Re:The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance by ben509 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:34PM (#25708246)

I wouldn't be surprised if a few of them had some kind of underpants gnomes plan to snatch a Senator.

But, really, it was a protest. The point was to engage in drama and theatrics. Why break into the Capitol? Even more drama.

Now people are dead, it's managed to tar even Trump's public image, and they're going to get hit with federal charges.

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