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Re:Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform by Causality1 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @11:38AM (#25716425)
If you spend a whole year burning and looting a city and the city is still there you weren't very good at it.
Re:Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform by IanDrake on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:50PM (#25718868)
I haven't tried, I make things, not destroy other people's things.
Re:Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform by Causality1 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:12PM (#25719906)
Don't get me wrong, there's definitely a double standard at work. I recall every news outlet spending bottles of ink explaining how massive BLM protests somehow weren't spreading covid but now the capitol protests are. However I think there's a fundamental difference between breaking into a Target and looting it and attacking the capitol of the United States. Of particular concern are all of the side details. The detail that a threat assessment was not done for this protest despite knowing about it weeks in advance. The fact the police responded less strongly to this attack than they did to a protest by disabled veterans in wheelchairs and later took selfies with the attackers. The fact that insurgents carrying blue lives matter flags beat a police officer to death with a fire extinguisher. The detail that the person speaking to this crowd just a few hours earlier was the president of the United States.
Re:Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform by newacct583 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @10:47PM (#25724203)
> I recall every news outlet spending bottles of ink explaining how massive BLM protests somehow weren't spreading covid but now the capitol protests are

It's actually been reported that a covid-positive individual was clustered with members of congress during the evacuation. I don't know why you think that isn't correct to report.

Re:Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform by Causality1 on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:06AM (#25726866)
It is correct to report. My point was that any large crowd of people is likely to spread covid.