No I think a violent insurrection in the Capitol was the tipping point. Up until then, all of the dangers associated with the rhetoric was theoretical.

They arrested a bunch of people in Michigan over a plot on the governor, no? We moved out of the theory a while ago.

I'm still fairly upset that the outrage wasn't louder over that, but recent events have at least pulled that event back in the spotlight.

That's the normalization of deviation in the real world at work. Less than a few weeks ago a suicide bomber blew up half a city block and it's already been forgotten because there is so much other crap happening.

That suicide bombing was really strange. It seems the person might have deliberately chosen a time when there would be no one around and made sure to warn anyone who might be in the area to get away before detonating the bomb. This would seem to indicate the person did not intend to commit mass murder, only property damage.

> Arguably, it took election results. Easier to do what is right when the wind blows the right way.

That's why valor only exists in the presence of opposition.

Facebook, Twitter, Google and AWS had 4-6 years to make the same choice made in the last few days. Yet they refused, again and again.