Re:The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance
by ardy42 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:23PM
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>>> They are also presently discussing their next day-out for rednecks in the form of another insurrection and coup attempt on the 17th of January.
> But if you play out the actual implications then you can use hyperbole and call it a coup. That's valuable language and you don't want to let a crisis go to waste.
The GGP labeled this with an both the correct term and an incorrect term.
1/6 was an insurrection, not a coup. An insurrection is a rebellion against civil authority, which this clearly was, even if it was incompetently executed. I think a coup is typically used for when power is illegally taken by military or police authorities, which this was not.
Re:The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance
by unityByFreedom on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:50AM
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A crowd enters the capitol building shouting for Mike Pence, they somehow know where to find the ziptie stash, and it's hyperbole to call it a coup?
Trump calls it "getting revenge" and we call it a coup attempt because that's what it was, a coup attempt.
This type of performative hyperbole coming from the left is going to make this whole situation worse. What those yahoo's did was bad enough, there's zero reason to throw gasoline on the fire.