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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by paulddraper on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:23AM (#25711891)
Multiple politicans have assassinated before, the Republic has carried on.

If there were a lot at once...yeah that could be bad.

But frankly there's just so little chance of that happening. If there was a chance in hell of that happening, Security Service/Capitol police would have actually done something about the protesters.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by legutierr on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:30AM (#25711928)
You seem to place a lot of faith in an institution—the Capitol Police—that most would agree failed spectacularly on Wednesday.

It was pure luck that the doors of the Senate were locked and barred just two minutes before the mob arrived. What do you think would have happened if the rioters had gotten there five minutes before they did, when the doors were still ajar? What do you think those men with flex cuffs were intending to do? It seems that one of them was a retired Air Force lt. colonel. What do you think his motivations were?

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